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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks in a sit-down conversation styled event with Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-La, at Dillard University in New Orleans, Aug. 3, 2018. Warren was among the Democrats appearing at the Netroots Nations gathering.
Three years after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency triggered a massive mine spill that polluted rivers in three states, the federal government still has not repaid any of the victims for the millions of dollars in economic damage they claimed. The EPA said this week it is making progress on reviewing about 380 claims for lost income, fallen property values and other losses from the 2015 spill at the Gold King Mine in southwestern Colorado.
Democrats will try forcing a campaign-season vote on blocking a Trump administration rule letting insurers sell short-term plans that are cheaper but skimpier than allowed under the Obama health care law, party leaders said Thursday. Though the effort has a chance of passing the narrowly divided Senate, it is certain to die in the Republican-controlled House and would never be signed by President Donald Trump.
As part of his effort to trick conservative activists and lawmakers into embarrassing themselves on his Showtime series Who is America? , Sacha Baron Cohen presented a fake pro-Israel award to an array of political figures called "70 at 70." On behalf of a non-existent Israeli outlet called "Yerushalayim Television," Cohen's team told its unsuspecting victims they were being honored for their "significant contributions to the State of Israel." But weeks after the rouse was revealed, it appears that Rep. Scott Perry still doesn't realize he was duped.
People stand during the funeral for 18-year-old Nia Wilson, who was stabbed to death at a train station, in Oakland, Calif., Friday Aug. 3, 2018. Wilson was stabbed to death July 22 on a Bay Area Rapid Transit platform in an unprovoked attack against her and her sister.
Catherine Bell, left, and Cameron Mathison in the made-for-TV romance "A Summer to Remember " on Hallmark. Pink Collar Crimes This new episode profiles a financial planner who allegedly siphoned money from the retirement funds of her relatives and friends to enable herself to live the high life.
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Former Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen and Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn won their party's nominations for the U.S. Senate in Tennessee. People went to the polls on Thursday to vote in both local and statewide elections, and in the gubernatorial race former Nashville Mayor Karl Dean, a Democrat, and businessman Bill Lee, a Republican, captured their party's nominations.
The "Blue Wave" is coming this fall, you may have heard time and time again in the wake of Democratic backlash against Republican President Donald Trump. State and congressional Republican candidates gathered downtown for the "GOP Meet and Rally Fest," making their case for a strong fall election season.
President Trump's itchy Twitter finger made waves yet again this week on a wide range of topics, and one of them hit particularly close to home here in Wichita. Trump's two-Tweet tirade early Tuesday morning lambasting the "globalist Koch Brothers" has generated plenty of press, with leftist pundits looking to fan the flames.
Donald Trump has condemned the media as "fake, fake disgusting news" as he unleashed a torrent of grievances at a campaign rally in which he cast journalists as his true political opponent. Donald Trump has condemned the media as "fake, fake disgusting news" as he unleashed a torrent of grievances at a campaign rally in which he cast journalists as his true political opponent.
President Donald Trump arrives at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport in Avoca, Pa., on Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018. President Donald Trump arrives at a rally, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, at Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes Barre, Pa.
Worried by the prospect of a reconfigured Supreme Court, abortion-rights advocates are intensifying efforts to ensure access to abortion for women who might be affected by a new wave of bans and restrictions. Worried by the prospect of a reconfigured Supreme Court, abortion-rights advocates are intensifying efforts to ensure access to abortion for women who might be affected by a new wave of bans and restrictions.
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa won an election Friday with just over 50 percent of the ballots as the ruling party... . ZANU-PF supporters celebrate the victory of Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the conference center where the results were announced, in Harare, Zimbabwe, Friday Aug. 3, 2018.
Donald Trump has condemned the media as "fake, fake disgusting news" as he unleashed a torrent of grievances at a campaign rally in which he cast journalists as his true political opponent. The president was speaking in Pennsylvania, a state he took from the Democrats in 2016 and that is home to a Senate seat he is trying to place in the Republicans' column this autumn.
Bell-Gardin... . Diane Bell-Gardiner, a registered nurse at Mercy Medical Center, who lost her home in the Carr Fire, works at her job in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Redding, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018.
IRONY: Social Media Mob Comes For Sarah Jeong, Who Cheered Social Media Mobbing Of Others - I've already argued today that Sarah Jeong, the new New York Times editorial board member, shouldn't be fired for her old racist tweets, since social media mobbing has become far too prevalent Statements in Response to Criticism of the Hiring of Sarah Jeong to the Editorial Board in Opinion - Statement from The New York Times - We hired Sarah Jeong because of the exceptional work she has done covering the internet and technology at a range of respected publications.
Blackburn is strongly embracing President Donald Trump as she claims the Republican nomination for Tennessee's open U.S. Sen... . Former Gov. Phil Bredesen, front center, campaigns Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018, in Memphis, Tenn., in his bid for U.S. Senate.
Thundering that the media is the "fake, fake disgusting news," President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of grievances Thursday at a Pennsylvania campaign rally in which he cast journalists as his true political opponent. Trump barnstormed in a state that he swiped from the Democrats in 2016 and that is home to a Senate seat he is trying to place in the Republicans' column this fall.
New Mexico GOP gubernatorial hopeful Steve Pearce speaks to business leaders in Albuquerque, N.M., on Monday, July 30, 2018, about his plan to transform the state's economy. Pearce and New Mexico gubernatorial candidate Democrat Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham are pushing dueling economic plans aimed at tackling poverty in one of the nation's poorest states.