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Eric Bauman, who is running to head the California Democratic Party, addresses the California Democratic Party annual convention Saturday, May 20, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. Bauman is running against Kimberly Ellis to succeed current party chairman John Burton.
A black Texas congressman said Saturday that he's been threatened with lynching by callers infuriated over him seeking impeachment of President Donald Trump. Representative Al Green held a town hall meeting and played recordings of several threatening voicemails left at his offices in Houston and Washington, the Houston Chronicle reported .
House Speaker Paul Ryan dismissed talk of a Democratic takeover of Congress in 2018 Friday morning in an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. "It's clearly my hope that he does.
Does Rep. Maxine Waters have a verbal diarrhea problem? Apparently, yes, considering that it was Democrats in her home state of California who had to yank the microphone on her when she ignored her alloted time, wrecked the local Democratic Party convention speaker schedule, and just wouldn't shut up . Naturally, this has created a brouhaha among her loyal supporters, who - give it time - will undoubtedly be calling it racism.
In this Monday, May 15, 2017 photo, Congressman Al Green speaks to media during a press conference in which he called for the impeachment of President Donald Trump at the Houston Congressional District Office in Houston. The black Texas congressman said Saturday, May 20, that he's been threatened with lynching by callers infuriated over him seeking impeachment of President Trump.
As Utah Republicans met for their annual state convention Saturday, delegates broke from routine debates about party platforms to give Rep. Jason Chaffetz a warm send-off. Some said they were disappointed about his abrupt announcement this week that he's stepping down from Congress, leaving his key role investigating the White House.
Here's your open line. For amusement: the hits just keep on coming from Donald Trump, who regularly does things he once found objectionable when done by Barack Obama.
A new partnership between the Chicago Department of Public Health and community providers has already served 3,600 people living with HIV. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the total Saturday.
The Alabama senate passed a bill Friday which would prevent the changing of the names of Confederate memorials and removing of historic Confederate monuments. The bill "would prohibit the relocation, removal, alteration, renaming, or other disturbance of any architecturally significant building, memorial building, memorial street, or monument that has stood on public property for 40 or more years," reads the text of the bill, reported Yahoo News .
Some 1,000 people have joi... As Utah Republicans met for their annual state convention Saturday, delegates broke from routine debates about party platforms to give Rep. Jason Chaffetz a warm send-off. As Utah Republicans met for their annual state convention Saturday, delegates broke from routine debates about party platforms to give Rep. Jason Chaffetz a warm send-off.
House Speaker Paul Ryan just successfully pushed the American Health Care Act the chamber. And though the bill still needed to be handled by the Senate, Trump and House Republicans took a victory lap of sorts after the much maligned legislation finally made it through its brutally tough initial battle.
An exhibition of the New Mexico History Museum on New Mexican Crypto-Jews in the late 20th Century. May 18, 2017, IMPORTANT MESSAGE: This is the final week to view our exhibition Fluid Identities: New Mexico Crypto-Jews in the Late 20th Century... Read more NOTE: Public hours for the Jewish History Museum will conclude on Sunday, May 28 and resume on Continue Reading The Consulate of Mexico is hosting an art exhibition "United by Art".
EXCLUSIVE: Huma Abedin surfaces with her son in New York for the first time since filing for divorce from Anthony Weiner on the same day he pleaded guilty to sexting 15-year-old girl Melania and Ivanka forgo head scarves in Saudi Arabia two years after Trump slammed Michelle Obama for 'insulting' the Islamic country when she decided not to cover her head Comey is 'convinced Trump WAS trying to influence him' over Russia probe as the fired FBI director agrees to testify in front of Senate intel committee Trumps on tour: Donald and Melania are greeted by the Saudi king as they land in Riyadh for his crucial first test abroad 'A lot of money! Big dollars!' and 'jobs, jobs, jobs!' Trump team delivers $350 BILLION in new long-term business for US companies as Saudis snap up defense equipment Tillerson says he doesn't have 'any information' about 'person of interest' in FBI Russia probe - but ... (more)
President Donald Trump has made himself "very vulnerable personally" amid investigations of his campaign ties with Russia, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Friday. She pointed to Trump's reported request to now-fired FBI Director James Comey to lay off an investigation of Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser.
Joyful voters cast their ballots for the presidential election at a polling station in Tehran, Iran, Friday, May 19, 2017. Millions of Iranians voted late into the night Friday to decide whether incumbent President Hassan Rouha... .
Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton declared Americans "ready for that new beginning" in Iowa Friday, walking a delicate path by raising his national political profile at a time of turmoil for Donald Trump's White House. The 40-year-old freshman Republican senator sounded national themes as the guest at the Pottawattamie County Republican Party's annual fundraiser in Council Bluffs in conservative western Iowa.
Democrats' reluctance to recruit pro-life candidates could hinder them as they try to win enough seats to retake the U.S. House next year, according to a pro-life party leader. Kristen Day, executive chairwoman of Democrats for Life of America, said the national party's stance has almost certainly cost it the chance to make a run at the seat that covers Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and said there are likely other places as well where a Democrat would be more competitive if he or she held pro-life views.
Regarding the just reported statement by Trump's close ally, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, which was first denied and then, when the audio came out, explained as a joke, let me cite journalist Michael Kinsey: In today's political landscape, the most common way of explaining away a true statement that wasn't supposed to be said or heard is to call it a joke. For instance, when Trump, with all sincerity, asked Russia to intervene in the election, he later explained he was joking The McCarthy quip, which he denied saying, is now being described as a joke, was reported by the Washinton Post, which had obtained copies of the audio.
Vice President Mike Pence is standing by a March statement that he first learned of now-fired national security adviser Michael Flynn's ties to Turkey from media reports, despite renewed scrutiny and revelations President Donald Trump's transition team was made aware far earlier. "The vice president stands by his comments in March upon first hearing the news regarding General Flynn's ties to Turkey and fully supports the President's decision to ask for General Flynn's resignation," said an aide to Pence, who declined to be named.