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Hillary Clinton is blaming the FBI's decision to revive its examination of her email accounts for her devastating defeat in the presidential election. On a call Saturday with top campaign donors, Clinton said her campaign was winning until FBI director James Comey sent a letter to Congress on Oct. 28 announcing that the FBI had uncovered emails possibly related to its earlier probe into her use of a private server as secretary of state.
Washington's carbon tax initiative was billed as a bipartisan approach to curbing carbon emissions, but voters rejected the measure, which drew opposition from the fossil fuel industry and environmental groups alike. The proposed tax on carbon emissions from fossil fuels such as coal and gasoline would have been the first in the U.S., and sponsors hoped it would serve as a model for actions across the country.
Despite her last name and her long ties to the state, White House hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton found few allies in Arkansas on Tuesday. Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, won in eight of the state's 75 counties, capturing just 33.7 percent of the vote.
President Barack Obama greets audience members after he spoke about immigration reform at Chamizal National Memorial Park in El Paso, Texas, Tuesday, May 10, 2011. Courtesy of AP Photo/Charles Dharapak What: Two-part, four-hour documentary that examines the last 50 years of African American history from Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Perhaps it's fortunate that PBS's “Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise” - a four-hour documentary that examines the past 50 years of African American history - is airing a week after the presidential election.
In front of four generations of family and friends, a WWII veteran from San Diego received a Bronze Star Saturday. Richard Chase, a resident of Allied Gardens, was awarded the medal for his heroic service in the U.S. military at a special ceremony at the Allied Gardens Recreation Center & Park.
Advice from an ex-Capitol Hill staffer on how to get a Congress member's attention has gone viral in the aftermath of the close and divisive 2016 election. Emily Ellsworth, a writer and editor from Salt Lake City, worked for both Utah Reps.
Donald Trump's plan for sweeping tax cuts and deregulation will spur a US economic boom that could "last for generations" if the president-elect resists a lurch towards protectionism, according to an architect of "Reaganomics". Arthur Laffer, who advised Republican president Ronald Reagan in the 1980's and UK Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher, said lower, broader-based taxes, together with "minimal regulation" and free trade would "recreate the pre-conditions" for "enormous economic growth" in the world's largest economy.
New Hampshire's new U.S. Senator, Gov. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., talks during an interview with the Associated Press in her office Friday, Nov. 11, 2016, in Concord, N.H. New Hampshire's new U.S. Senator, Gov. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., talks during an interview with the Associated Press in her office Friday, Nov. 11, 2016, in Concord, N.H. CONCORD, N.H. - Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan chose to run for U.S. Senate to help protect and advance New Hampshire's work on Medicaid expansion, women's health care and a slew of other issues. "I am sure I can find common ground with members of the other party in the Senate as well as President Trump," she told The Associated Press on Friday.
Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan chose to run for U.S. Senate to help protect and advance New Hampshire's work on Medicaid expansion, women's health care and a slew of other issues. "I am sure I can find common ground with members of the other party in the Senate as well as President Trump," she told The Associated Press on Friday.
Evan Wolfson, the founder of Freedom to Marry and considered by many to be the father of the same-sex marriage movement, responded on Friday to Donald Trump's election. President-elect Trump and his running mate, Mike Pence, oppose marriage equality.
In this Nov. 10, 2016, photo, President-elect Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., pose for photographers after a meeting in the Speaker's office on Capitol Hill in Washington. Washington's new power trio consists of a bombastic billionaire, a telegenic policy wonk, and a taciturn political tactician.
President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is rich with lobbyists and includes a climate change-denier and an ex-federal prosecutor involved in the mass firings of U.S. attorneys. Some of the individuals listed in an organizational chart of Trump's top transition personnel, obtained by The Associated Press: Retired Lt.
President-elect Donald Trump is shaking up his transition team as he plunges into setting up his administration. It's an enormous undertaking that likely requires him to alter his hands-on management style and consider going outside his small, insular group of loyalists.
As stunning as Donald Trump's Tuesday victory was for many in America, the shock was double-fold for Cobb citizens as results showed a Hillary Clinton victory in this county regarded as a haven of conservatism.
U.S. President Barack Obama stands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during an arrival ceremony at the White House in Washington September 25, 2015. U.S. President Barack Obama's administration has suspended its efforts to win congressional approval for his Asian free-trade deal before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, saying on Friday that TPP's fate was up to Trump and Republican lawmakers.
President-elect Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan converse about Trump's transition to the White House. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-WI, is giddy about a Republican-controlled White House because it will let him and the Republican majority in Congress wield legislative influence that was previously denied by President Barack Obama's veto pen.
The president of the five-campus University of Massachusetts system has purchased a $975,000 condo on the Boston waterfront, records show. Martin T. Meehan recently closed on a unit in the luxury Harbor Towers complex at 65 E. India Row, according to the Suffolk Registry of Deeds online database.
On "With All Due Respect," Republican Congressman Tom Cole of Oklahoma discusses replacing Obamacare, GOP priorities in the new Congress and Paul Ryan's job security.
Yesterday we were all fretting about Chris Christie being in control of the transition team. What ghoulish gang would he assemble? Giuliani? Gingrich? Santorum? Seems like it makes total sense to put your VP in charge of something important like that.