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Donald Trump is sparking a "mixture of fear and loathing" in the Senate, Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona said. Flake, who has said he will not support Trump, was critical of the candidate for "appealing to what he called white 'identity politics,'" BuzzFeed says .
Hey Californians, here are your options to replace retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer in the U.S. Senate come the fall: You can vote for a Democratic progressive liberal currently serving as the state's attorney general, Kamala Harris; or you can vote for a Democratic progressive liberal 10-term member of the House of Representatives, Rep. Loretta Sanchez. You can thank California's relatively recent implementation of a top-two primary system.
The discord and unseemliness of this year's presidential campaigns has renewed interest in decentralizing the power of political parties in government. Already this year, a member of Congress has renewed his call for nonpartisan primaries for all congressional races.
Hillary Clinton has celebrated her triumph as the first woman to lead a major party in a race for the White House, scoring big wins in California and New Jersey to cement her grip on the 2016 Democratic Party presidential nomination. The former first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of state spoke to supporters at a raucous event in Brooklyn, New York, and placed her achievement in the context of the long history of the women's rights movement.
Energized by a final batch of primary victories, Hillary Clinton is setting out on the difficult task of uniting her fractured Democratic Party for the five-month presidential battle with Republican Donald Trump. Fellow Democrats urged Bernie Sanders to end his all-but-hopeless challenge to her, but still tried to give him space to make that difficult decision.
Internet legislation proposed Wednesday in the Senate would prohibit the U.S. government from relinquishing its role with respect to overseeing the web's domain name system, or DNS, unless explicitly authorized by Congress. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration , a division of the Commerce Department, currently oversees control of the DNS, a virtual phonebook of sorts that allows internet users to easily browse the web by allocating domain names to websites the world over.
Authorities were seeking a pickup truck due to reports that it was driving erratically minutes before it struck a group of bicyclists on a street in western Michigan, killing five, a local prosecutor said. Police fielded complaints that a pickup truck was being driven erratically just minutes before the vehicle slammed into a group of bicyclists in western Michigan, killing five, authorities said.
Aerospace companies avoided $553 million in tax payments the past two years by taking advantage of generous tax breaks the state offers the industry. Although the Boeing Co.
Ballot counting for the presidential primary ended Tuesday and the results show Democratic voters in Snohomish County evenly split on who should be their party's nominee this fall. Hillary Clinton, the front-running Democrat and likely nominee, collected 52.4 percent of the Democratic vote statewide to beat Bernie Sanders by roughly 40,000 votes.
"I understand the responsibility of carrying the mantle" of the Republican Party, Trump said Tuesday night, reading from a teleprompter to supporters gathered at one of his golf courses. "I will never, ever let you down."
U.S. Rep. Scott Garrett moved past two Republican primary challengers Tuesday to win his party's nomination to seek an eighth term representing the 5th District in northern and western New Jersey. Garrett of Wantage Township, Sussex County, this fall will face Democrat Josh Gottheimer of Wyckoff, Bergen County, a speechwriter for former President Bill Clinton and former Microsoft manager.
As expected, U.S. Rep. Leonard Lance fended off two challengers Tuesday to win the Republican nomination to seek a fifth term representing north-central New Jersey's 7th District. Collecting 15,780 votes with 52 percent counted, he defeated businessman David Larsen of Oldwick, Hunterdon County, for the fourth time in a primary contest and first-time candidate Craig Heard of Succasunna, Morris County, another businessman.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, listens to a question from an 8th grader during her trip to Children's Day School in San Francisco, California, on Tuesday, May 31, 2016. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, listens to a question from an 8th grader during her trip to Children's Day School in San Francisco, California, on Tuesday, May 31, 2016.
2, 2015 file photo, California Attorney General Kamala Harris speaks at a news conference in Los Angeles. California's unusual election rules allow only two U.S. Senate candidates to advance to a November ... .
For the first time in 240 years, a woman - Hillary Clinton - has locked up a major party's nomination for president, and is now within shot of winning the White House itself in November. "I think we're close to that moment where we are finally going to break that glass ceiling," said former Vice President Walter Mondale, who as presidential nominee in 1984 selected the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket.
NCUA Board Chairman Rick Metsger reiterated his commitment to maintaining the safety and soundness of the credit union system, continuing to provide regulatory relief to the industry and the possibility of moving to extended exam cycles in a letter to House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas. In Tuesday's letter , Metsger outlined his priorities for the future of the agency, including ensuring NCUA uses its resources "strategically and efficiently."
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, outlined an alternative to the Dodd-Frank Act that would include regulatory relief - including the repeal of "federal price controls" in the Durbin amendment - during a speech at the Economic Club of New York Tuesday. Hensarling said his bill will "provide much-needed relief to community financial institutions that are being crushed by Washington's 'one-size-fits-all' regulatory approach."
Republican Warren Davidson is assured of being western Ohio's congressman for the next seven months, and is likely to be serving for years after that. Davidson handily won Tuesday's special election to succeed former House Speaker John Boehner in the 8th House District.