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In a speech in Cedar Rapids, IA, Republican vice presidential Mike Pence called for the Clinton Foundation to be closed, saying, "It's just time for Hillary Clinton to come clean." (Source: KCRG/CNN)
A hearing is set on two lawyers' request to withdraw from the corruption case against U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown. A Jacksonville, Florida, federal judge is scheduled Tuesday to consider the request by attorneys Mark NeJame and David Haas.
Assistant Fire Chief Lenny Sanders told the City Council Monday that he learned Friday that the grant had been approved. The $444,594 grant is from the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Staffing Adequately for Fire and Emergency Response program.
From Boston to San Francisco and New York to Tokyo, traditional bike lanes running alongside vehicle traffic are being replaced in favor of "protected" lanes or "cycletracks," where physical barriers like concrete curbs, planters or fences separate cyclists from vehicle traffic. "For 50 years, we've just been putting down a stripe of white paint, and that was how you accommodated bikes on busy streets," says Martha Roskowski, director of People for Bikes, a Boulder, Colorado-based advocacy group that's calling for better designed bike lanes.
Close to 4 percent of public school teacher positions in Oklahoma were eliminated last year as districts across the state dealt with budget cuts and a shortage of trained teachers. A survey of school districts by the Oklahoma State School Boards Association found 1,530 teaching positions were removed over the past school year, according to results made public Monday.
The Donald Trump campaign has gained a reputation for its less-than-traditional approach to grassroots engagement, and that includes its offices in Jefferson County, Colorado, where one of the operation's most prominent leaders is 12-year-old Weston Imer. Weston, who helps coordinate volunteers and the office's get-out-the-vote operation, told CNN Colorado affiliate KDVR he hoped his experience would lead other young people to follow in his footsteps.
At right is Jovita Carranza, former Small Business Administration Deputy Administrator. . Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally in Fredericksburg, Va., Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016.
Voters have long seen women as more honest than men. As more women hold high political offices, that dual standard is changing - as the recent legal troubles of female politicians in Pennsylvania and Florida show.
From local residents collecting donations for flood victims in Louisiana to a large donation of school supply kits to a local school, there was no shortage of good news throughout Northeast Mississippi last week. Before we prepare for the week ahead, let's take a look back at some of the highlights from last week: a Several groups and individuals in Northeast Mississippi worked to collect and deliver donations to the victims of flooding in Louisiana and south Mississippi.
U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine say more federal resources are needed to combat the spread of the Zika virus in South Florida. They're holding a news conference Monday at a popular Miami Beach cafe in an effort to urge Congress to return from its summer break to deal with the virus outbreak.
At a rally here last week, Mike Pence showed the crowd a clip of Gov. Maggie Hassan awkwardly trying to defend Hillary Clinton's honesty. "Gov. Hassan, let me help you out - the answer's no," the Republican vice presidential nominee riffed on Hassan's non-answer to whether Clinton was honest, drawing applause and laughs from the crowd.
Outside the small town of Walker, Louisiana, the rural B... . Lisa Dupuy, 41, left, prays with pastor Mark Carroll during church services at South Walker Baptist Church in Walker, La., Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016.
I met Steve Bannon-the executive director of Breitbart.com who's now become the chief executive of the Trump campaign , replacing the newly resigned Paul Manafort -at a book party held in his Capitol Hill townhouse in early 2014. We were standing next to a picture of his daughter, a West Point graduate, who at the time was a lieutenant in the 101 Airborne Division serving in Iraq.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton held a fundraiser in Provincetown, Massachusetts Sunday afternoon attended by a reported 1000 supporters that featured celebrities Cher and Billie Jean King as well as current and former elected officials including Sen. Ed Markey and former Rep. Barney Frank. The event was held at the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum.
Hot on the heels of another major Trump campaign shakeup, former GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann revealed that she has been giving advice to nominee Donald Trump on foreign affairs including the looming threat of Islamic terrorism in the world - and not just in her home state of Minnesota. Trump made a campaign stop in Minnesota Friday night for a private event for campaign contributors only in a state where Nate Silver's 538 gives him a 13 percent chance of winning - less than his national odds of 15 percent.
Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk criticized President Barack Obama for delivering money to the Iranian government in coordination with the release of Americans being held prisoner there -- saying he was "acting like the drug dealer in chief." The comments came in a sit-down last week with the editorial board of The State Journal-Register, according to the Illinois paper's political writer.
The former Minnesota congresswoman attended a fundraiser in the state for Trump on Saturday, where she revealed to the press that she has his ear on foreign policy. "He also recognizes there is a threat around the world, not just here in Minnesota, of radical Islam," she said, according to MPR News.
Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson insists he won't be a "volunteer apologist" for Donald Trump or anyone else who utters something stupid, but that defiant independence is being sorely tested by the GOP presidential nominee's sinking support and Democrat Hillary Clinton's push into surprisingly competitive Georgia. The down-ballot Senate race involving the affable, two-term Isakson wasn't ranked as poachable for Democrats despite the changing demographics in the southern state and the higher, diverse turnout of a presidential election year.
President Barack Obama is returning from vacation rested and ready for a busy fall, including pressing Congress for money to protect against the Zika virus and fending off lawmakers' attacks over the administration's $400 million "leverage" payment to Iran. Obama was due at the White House late Sunday after a 16-day getaway to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, with his wife, Michelle, and daughters Malia and Sasha.
President Barack Obama returns from vacation rested and ready for a busy fall, including pressing Congres... . President Barack Obama is seated in the presidential vehicle as his motorcade leaves his family's rented vacation home in Chilmark, Mass., on Martha's Vineyard, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016.