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The standoff over the North Dakota pipeline is typically portrayed as a the Standing Rock Sioux' attempting to protect their tribe's cultural heritage against energy industry encroachments. North Dakota Congressman Kevin Cramer says that is not the issue at all.
The reconstituted Board of Supervisors voted 4-0 Tuesday to explore strategies to protect county residents from any potential changes in federal immigration policy. Supervisor Hilda Solis recommended the analysis, saying many of her constituents are worried about President-elect Donald Trump's statements about illegal immigration.
For years, Republicans in Congress have been eyeing an overhaul of the federal workforce -by reducing the number of workers and curtailing benefits and pay while making it easier to fire bad employees.
Vice President-elect Mike Pence is acknowledging that the son of Donald Trump's incoming national security adviser was helping his father with scheduling and administrative items. But Pence says "that's no longer the case."
Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 10, 2016. The House on Tuesday voted to bottle up articles of impeachment filed against Koskinen by hard-line conservatives upset about the agency's targeting of political groups.
Donald Trump's new luxury hotel in Washington D.C. has been attracting foreign envoys, special interest groups - and a bit of controversy. One of the latest groups to book the hotel is the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank whose big donors will gather there Tuesday night for a speech from Vice-President-elect Mike Pence.
Gov. Nathan Deal has declared this week Winter Weather Preparedness Week, and Georgia agencies encourage residents to get ready for the challenges that come with winter in the region.
Gov. Nikki Haley will be on Capitol Hill later this week to meet with many of the senators who will determine whether she gets to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Haley's deputy chief of staff and spokesman, Rob Godfrey, told The Post and Courier that Haley would "meet some senators as a part of the confirmation process."
South Carolina's first African American U.S. senator has asked the Smithsonian Institution to reconsider their omission of Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas from the exhibits in the new National Museum of African American History and Culture. I was saddened and extremely disappointed to learn that the museum excluded the celebration of one of the nation's most influential African Americans and preeminent legal minds Smithsonian officials did not have any immediate comment on the request for Sen. Tim Scott .
A bill to strengthen protections for employees who blow the whistle on fraud, waste and mismanagement in government contracts has gained congressional approval and now will head to the president's desk to be signed into law. The bill, sponsored by Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, permanently expands whistleblower protections to nearly all contractors and subcontractors for the federal government, except for those who work in the intelligence community.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill, said Tuesday that conspiracy theory tweets from the son of Michael Flynn, President-elect Trump's pick for national security adviser, are troublesome. Michael Flynn Jr., who has served as his father's chief of staff, has promoted a false story claiming Hillary Clinton ran a child sex ring out of a Washington D.C. pizza shop.
House conservatives intend to re-launch an effort Tuesday afternoon to force a vote to impeach Internal Revenue Service commissioner John Koskinen this week in the final days of this congressional session. The impeachment drive, confirmed by Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio and his office, comes after he and other members of the House Freedom Caucus had agreed to delay such action in September, at the urging of Speaker Paul Ryan and other party leaders.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks during a vigil at the Center on Halsted in the Boystown neighborhood held to honor the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting on June 13, 2016 in Chicago, Illinois. Mayor Rahm Emanuel sponsored a resolution that calls on Gov. Bruce Rauner to publicly support his efforts to promote Chicago as a sanctuary city for immigrants, according to the Chicago Tribune .
Nowhere will political power evaporate more dramatically at noon on Jan. 20 than in the third-largest U.S. city, a bastion of Democratic power that's enjoyed special access to Washington during President Barack Obama's eight years in the White House. When Donald Trump becomes the 45th president, Chicago will trade a first family and top advisers with deep ties to the city for a chief executive who has repeatedly called it a violent mess embodying the failed policies of his predecessor and the Democratic Party.
In this Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, photo, President-elect Donald Trump arrives at Carrier Corp in Indianapolis. Trump is slated to hold the second stop of this "thank you" tour Tuesday, Dec. 6, in North Carolina, less than a we... Vice President-elect Mike Pence says the conspiracy-minded son of a key adviser to Donald Trump has no role in the president-elect's transition.
Outgoing Rep. Scott Garrett says his office has been furiously working to clear every constituent with an open casework file before Democrat Josh Gottheimer takes over his seat. The Record reports the 5th District Republican said Monday that he hasn't responded to correspondence from his challenger because he has nothing to tell him yet.
Nearly a month after the GOP won the presidential election, Vice President-elect Mike Pence is back on the campaign trail helping Republicans try to increase its U.S. Senate majority. The Indiana governor appeared in New Orleans on Saturday with Republican Senate candidate John Kennedy to urge GOP voters to turn out for the last day of early voting prior to Louisiana's Dec. 10 runoff between Kennedy and Democrat Foster Campbell.
With their vow to repeal and replace Obamacare, President-elect Donald Trump and the Republicans have ventured onto thin ice. The dismal fate of the Democrats who preceded them onto the ice, and breaking through it, is a cautionary tale about the consequences of not keeping promises.
U.S. Senator Tom Cotton smiles after he was ceremonially sworn-in by Vice President Joseph Biden in the Old Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington GOP Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton urged the Obama administration Monday to stop the transfer of any more detainees from Guantanamo Bay to foreign countries. The Obama administration transferred yet another detainee out of the facility to Cape Verde over the weekend, leaving just 59 behind.