Can resilience planning be disentangled from climate politics?

While discussion of climate change remains highly polarized, another topic is getting not just traction, but meaningful action across the political spectrum: resilience planning. Vice President Mike Pence answers a reporter's question on Sept.

Trump signs resolution condemning hate groups

President Trump on Thursday signed a resolution condemning white supremacists and hate groups, hours after reviving his assertion that there were "bad dudes" among the people who assembled to oppose a white nationalist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, last month. "You know, you have some pretty bad dudes on the other side also," the president told reporters aboard Air Force One, sparking another round of criticism that the president has failed to adequately condemn hate speech.

Anthony Weiner’s wife pleads for lenient sentencing for his sex crime conviction

Huma Abedin at the 2017 CFDA Fashion Awards at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York CIty, June 5, 2017. The wife of Anthony Weiner, a disgraced ex-congressman who sent sexual materials to a 15-year-old girl, pleaded with a federal court to show leniency when sentencing her husband, whom she is divorcing.

Democrats demand answers from Betsy DeVos on student loan decision

Two weeks after the Department of Education abruptly cut off the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from student loan data, several congressional Democrats are asking Secretary Betsy DeVos to explain what happened. A total of 39 senators and representatives wrote to DeVos on Thursday asking for an explanation of the decision, and who the agency may have worked with before reaching it.

Trump repeats controversial remarks over Charlottesville violence

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday repeated his controversial remarks that there was "blame on both sides" in the deadly white supremacist demonstrations in August. The remarks came only one day after Trump met with South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, the lone African-American Senate Republican who publicly criticized Trump's position on the Charlottesville incident for giving comfort to white supremacists and the KKK.

The Latest: A few hundred people protest Berkeley speech

14, 2017. Several streets around the University of Calif... . Protesters shout before a speaking engagement by Ben Shapiro on the campus of the University of California Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., Thursday, Sept.

Trump renews talk of ‘bad dudes’ opposing white supremacists

14, 2017, en route to Washington. . Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., the only African-American Republican serving in the Senate, talks to reporters about his plan to meet with President Donald Trump to discuss race and Trump's widely criticized response to last mon... .

One Last ObamaCare Try

Senator Lindsey Graham admits that when a defense specialist like him feels compelled to roll out a health-care bill, something has gone wrong-and that's an understatement for the Republican failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The question is whether a last-ditch effort by Sen. Graham and a few colleagues represents an improvement over the ObamaCare status quo.

Deal or no deal? ‘Dreamers’ wait as Trump, lawmakers joust

The fate of 800,000 young immigrants hung in the balance Thursday as top lawmakers, White House officials and President Donald Trump himself squabbled over whether an agreement had been struck to protect them - and if so, exactly what it was. In the face of an intense backlash from conservatives inside the Capitol and out, Speaker Paul Ryan and other GOP House members adamantly insisted that there was no agreement to enshrine protections for the immigrants brought to America as children and now here illegally.

Hurricane Irma through our eyes: Steve Bisson

Daniel Brown, left, chairman of the trustees at St. Paul CME Church watches as a couple generators are loaded into a truck Friday morning by Desi Byrd, center, and Edgardo Olivieri at Home Depot. He hopes the generators will prevent the problems at the church when power was lost during Hurricane Matthew.

Trump says he was right about Charlottesville

President Donald Trump on Thursday revived his assertions that he thought there were "bad dudes" among the people who assembled to oppose a white nationalist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, last month. Trump latest comments came one day after he met in private with Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the Senate's lone black Republican, at the White House.

President Trump Once Again Says There Were ‘Bad Dudes on the Other Side’ in Charlottesville

President Donald Trump sparked another controversy on Thursday when he reiterated his belief that people resisting white supremacists were just as much to blame for violence as the His comments came when describing a meeting on Wednesday with South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, the lone African American Republican in the Senate, who had sharply criticized the President's response to the events in Charlottesville.

Trump says GOP leaders ‘on board’ in immigration talks

13, 2017, file photo, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., leaves a meeting with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and and members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus at the Capi... . Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., left, and Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., right, listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Wednesday, Sept.

Great Lakes funding included in U.S. House federal budget bill

Funding for Great Lakes restoration was approved by the U.S. House Thursday as part of its $1.2 trillion spending plan for the federal government next year. The $300 million in funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which houses annual spending for Great Lakes toxic sediment removal and invasive species management through the Environmental Protection Agency, was included despite efforts from President Donald Trump's administration to cut funding for the program entirely.

House Republican says tax plan won’t have specific rates

FILE PHOTO: Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady listens to testimony before the committee on tax reform on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 23, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts The top Republican tax law writer in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Thursday that he does not expect an upcoming tax reform framework to contain specific numbers on income tax rates for corporations and individuals.

House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., center, speaks with House Majority…

House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., center, speaks with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., left, as they arrive for a news conference following a GOP caucus meeting on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017, in Washington.

Trump says he is close to a deal with Democrats on immigration

President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was close to a deal with Democratic congressional leaders on protections for illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children, astounding fellow Republicans again while alarming conservative supporters. Trump, who met with the top Democrats in the Senate and House of Representatives, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, at the White House on Wednesday evening, said any final agreement must include significant steps to protect border security including surveillance systems.