Jon Ossoff may have won Georgia’s 6th District this past week

Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events The Georgia 6th Congressional District special election to replace now-Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price was already looking like a referendum on President Trump. With millions of dollars pouring into the race on both sides, the contest between Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel seemed tailor-made to measure the demographic shifts in wealthy suburbs and the staying power of the Trump message.

Price defends cutting nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, after the House pushed through a health care bill. BRANCHBURG, N.J.>> Cutting nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid will give states the freedom to tailor the program to suit their needs, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said Sunday, as he defended a narrowly passed House bill that aims to undo parts of the health care law enacted by the previous administration.

More Cities Are Using Taxpayer Funds To Provide Legal Defense For Illegal Aliens

It's not like cities and counties and states have an issue with the "crumbling infrastructure" or anything. Remember this ? Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and County Supervisor Hilda Solis in December announced the creation of a $10-million legal aid fund to "hire lawyers to defend local immigrants without legal status."

‘SNL’ Mocks ‘Morning Joe’ Awkward Tension, Kellyanne Conway

Kate McKinnon and Alex Moffat turned up the heat -and awkward tension- as "Morning Joe" stars Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough for this week's cold open of "Saturday Night Live." The real co-hosts of the morning show announced their engagement earlier this week.

Trump tells the truth – the job is hard

President Donald Trump talks with House Speaker Paul Ryan in the Rose Garden of the White House Thursday after the House pushed through a health care bill. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana is at left, and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, is at right.

James Comey Says Confidential Hillary Clinton Emails Were Sent to Anthony Weiner

There was a particularly significant moment Wednesday as FBI Director James Comey forcefully defended his decision to disclose, just days before the election, that he'd reopened the investigation of Hillary Clinton's e-mails. He said not speaking up about the discovery of new emails possibly related to the investigation would have been a "catastrophic" act of concealment but added that "it makes me mildly nauseous to think we had an impact on the election".

Even CNN Criticized Democrats’ Jeering of Republicans after ObamaCare Repeal Vote

Earlier in the day, the House of Representatives voted on the American Health Care Act . The bill still has to go through the Senate, where it will surely see changes, and therefore go back to the House, before going back to the Senate and then to the Oval Office where President Donald Trump would sign it.

Rep. Tim Ryan Proposes Bill to Decentralize Federal Government

"We have a lot more employees in the federal government than we ever imagined as a country, and we are in a position where a good number of these jobs don't necessarily need to be in Washington, D.C.," the Ohio Democrat told the Washington Examiner. Ryan's plan would set up a commission to recommend federal employees to relocate outside of Washington, D.C. by the fall of 2019.

Trump Weighing 95 Percent Cut to Drug Office, Chief Warns

The Trump administration is weighing a cut of almost 95 percent of the budget for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy at a time the president has pledged to aggressively combat opioid addiction, according to an internal memo. The office, which coordinates much of U.S. drug strategy, including responses to trafficking, could see several grant programs for drug prevention discontinued under the proposal, which was decried by prevention advocates and members of Congress from both parties when it was reported on Friday.

Letters: Protect Cumberland from development

This letter is in reply to Sam Candler's response to your editorial of April 19. His arguments for seeking to develop Cumberland Island are based upon the fact that his family has lived on the north end at Highpoint for many years. Now that his Highpoint property is reverting to the Park Service, he seeks to build private houses on the south of the island, on land that he purchased under the shield of Lumar, LLC in 1998.

New school superintendent:Dr. Levett a solid choice

Board members had gone to great lengths to hide the identities of the four people who were vying for the position being vacated by 12-year Superintendent Thomas Lockamy, who is retiring next month. State law allows the board to legally withhold identities in such matters until only three names are on the short list.

Gov. Browna s views on a oesanctuary statesa has varied

SACRAMENTO >> If Gov. Jerry Brown ends up signing a pending bill to make California a “sanctuary state” for undocumented immigrants, it will be an about-face for the governor, who publicly opposed the idea of sanctuary cities several years ago. While it's often difficult to predict Brown's actions, many Capitol observers expect him to approve it, given both California's political landscape and strong Democratic antipathy toward President Donald Trump.

A special House race in Georgia is officially the most…

The race to fill Health and Human Services secretary Tom Price's former congressional seat in Georgia's 6th district is officially the most expensive House race in US history, Politico reported on Saturday. A total of over $29.7 million worth of TV ads have been reserved or aired during the campaign, which breaks a 5-year-old record, the report said.

As GOP Health Care Push Moves To Senate, White House Questions Value of CBO Analysis

President Donald Trump celebrates with House Speaker Paul Ryan in the White House Rose Garden Thursday after the House voted to pass the American Health Care Act. After the GOP-controlled House passed a Republican-drafted health care bill Thursday without waiting for an analysis of the bill's costs and impacts by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the White House is signaling that Washington's official legislative scorekeeper could be its next political foil.

Trump questions whether key funding source for historically black colleges is constitutional

President Trump talks with leaders of historically black universities and colleges before posing for a group photo in the Oval Office in February. In February, President Trump invited leaders from historically black colleges and universities to the White House, a move they hoped signaled his support for the institutions and showed an effort to give them more clout in his administration.

The President Donald Trump Wants Corporate Tax Rate of 15%

The plan also called for almost doubling the personal exemption for individuals but eliminating deductions for state and local taxes . Republican lawmakers will be open-minded, but "they're going to likely start off from a skeptical point of view", said David Winston, a GOP consultant who has advised congressional leaders.

Paul Ryan obliviously poses with protester wearing anti-Trumpcare…

Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan was photographed on Saturday posing next to an anti-Trumpcare protester wearing a T-shirt that said, "Repeal and go f*ck yourself" and signed "GOP." The T-shirts are from the team at liberal podcast "Pod Save America," which features former Obama administration speechwriters Jon Favreau and Jon Lovett, Obama White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer and former National Security Council Spokesman Tommy Vietor.