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The 24-year-old beauty on Friday was snapped walking the red carpet at the 2017 MusiCares Person of the Year in Los Angeles, California, where rock n' roll icon Tom Petty was honored in front of a room full of luminaries to kick off Grammys weekend. The Other Woman actress was a vision of glamour and beauty at the swanky party, as she wore an elegant golden gown with a creme top that wrapped around her neck, revealed her shapely shoulders.
Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump and one of the most visible figures in the administration, is expanding her operation inside the White House by hiring a veteran congressional staffer as her chief of staff. Conway has recruited Renee Hudson, who has been serving as chief of staff to Rep. Todd Rokita, R-Ind., to work for her in the West Wing as her chief of staff, according to two Republican officials.
The Weiser River in Weiser, Idaho, overflowed early Friday, Feb. 10, 2017, flooding areas south of the river near Cove and Couper roads with ice and water. The Weiser River overflowed early Friday, Feb. 10, 2017, flooding areas south of the river near Cove and Couper roads with ice and water.
A Chicago man who spent more than eight years in prison for a wrongful conviction said Friday he's angry that his name wasn't cleared by Vice President Mike Pence during his time as Indiana governor. Keith Cooper was surrounded by his wife, daughter, stepchildren, mother and other supporters as he told reporters that he was grateful to new Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, who granted his pardon request on Thursday.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is pressing the Trump administration on how they plan to pay for a wall on the U.S. and Mexico border. The Massachusetts Democrat and five other Democratic senators have sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly raising concerns about what they said was the potential diversion of funds from key agency priorities.
This July 16, 1945 file photo shows an aerial view after the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site, N.M. A report is scheduled to be released Friday, Feb. 10, 2017, on the health effects of the people who lived near the site of the world's first atomic bomb test. The Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium will release the health assessment report, on residents of a historic Hispanic village of Tularosa near the Trinity Test in the New Mexico desert.
President Donald Trump set off yet another political firestorm when he promised to "totally destroy" the Johnson Amendment, which bars ministers from endorsing candidates from the pulpit. Doing so risks their churches' tax exemption.
President Donald Trump's new health secretary took office Friday after becoming the latest Cabinet nominee to eke out a confirmation victory in the bitterly divided Senate. Vice President Mike Pence administered the oath of office to Tom Price, of Georgia, at the White House hours after the Senate confirmed him 52-47 in a party-line vote.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price has officially taken the helm of his department. The former congressman and orthopedic surgeon will soon find that our healthcare system today is a very sick patient.
U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop says he wants to reign in presidential executive orders but stopped short of criticizing any issued by President Donald Trump. The Republican congressman declined to comment on the specifics of Trump's controversial ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations, saying he didn't want to speak about it while it was being challenged in court.
A man who served ten years in prison after being wrongly convicted of armed robbery thanked Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb on Friday for granting him a pardon that had been denied to him by former governor and current Vice President Mike Pence. Rough Cut .
Recently-retired Congressman Charles Rangel led the honorees Friday at a Black History Month event where the Harlem politician urged America to remember its immigrant past. "The one problem we do have ... is how quickly people forget where they used to be," Rangel told the crowd - including ex-Mayor Dinkins - at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square.
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Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have rallied behind the case that the Affordable Care Act needs to be amended and not repealed, using the prospects of coverage disappearing as a cudgel against Republicans, including newly installed Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price. But the real action has been in the districts, where constituents and activists alike have overwhelmed phone lines and town halls demanding that Republicans put the brakes on their repeal efforts.
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson smiles at a news conference about a federal appeals court's refusal to reinstate President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, in Seattle. The ruling dealt another legal setback to the new administration's immigration policy.
How interesting to read in Thursday's Orlando Sentinel a guest column by U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis about congressional ethics. Good-government advocates can find common ground in efforts to make Congress a more ethical body.
Rep. Tom Price, President Donald Trump's choice to be health secretary, is the latest of a handful of Cabinet nominees to eke out a confirmation victory in a bitterly divided Senate. Following the pattern of strictly party-line votes on two previous nominees - Attorney General-designate Sen. Jeff Sessions and Betsy DeVos for Education secretary - the Georgia congressman was approved early Friday on a 52-47 vote.
Nine senators from his own Republican party urged President Donald Trump on Thursday to take a "tough-minded" approach to Russia, joining a growing chorus of lawmakers addressing concerns that he might be too conciliatory toward Moscow. The nine senators, including the Senate's number two Republican, John Cornyn, wrote in a letter to Trump that cooperation with Moscow is essential in many areas, but calling for tough action on Ukraine, Syria and cyber security.
The legal fight over President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations could shift to the U.S. Supreme Court. President Donald Trump's choice for health secretary, Rep. Tom Price, is the latest of a handful of Cabinet nominees to squeeze through to confirmation by a bitterly-divided, partisan U.S. Senate.
COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS, Utah-A crowd of about a thousand people, dominated by opponents of President Donald Trump's agenda, packed a raucous town-hall event here in the latest example of increased activism targeting Republican members of Congress. Five-term Rep. Jason Chaffetz won his most recent race by nearly 50 points, but returned to his home district to find himself confronted by a sign-waving, heckling and booing chorus.