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Two years ago, President Barack Obama marked the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act with a White House summit on protecting and expanding the right to vote. As California's chief elections officer, I was invited to this significant event.
If so, you may have taken interest in a new mythical creature that appeared during the 2016 election: the Trump Democrat. It has become an article of faith that an unusually large number of people who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 or 2012 switched sides and voted for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton.
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President Donald Trump's administration has reversed the government's position on a voter roll case before the U.S. Supreme Court and is now backing Ohio's method for purging voters. Ohio's system for removing inactive voters from the rolls does not violate the National Voter Registration Act, the Justice Department said Monday.
It was clear days before he put pen to paper on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump would sign the latest round of sanctions against Russia. Both houses of Congress had voted overwhelmingly in favor of the legislation, and the White House signaled the president would write the measures into law.
During an interview on NBC's Meet the Press , Flake said one of his regrets over the past few years is that the GOP didn't do enough to stem the tide of birtherism. Regarding the conspiracy theory that former President Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States, Flake told host Chuck Todd that this was an example of Republicans placing party over country.
While former President Barack Obama was celebrating his birthday on Friday, Republican Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner was signing a measure that will make his birthday, Aug. 4, a new state holiday beginning in 2018, The Hill reported. "Barack Obama Day" will be "observed throughout the state as a day set apart to honor the 44th President of the United States of America who began his career serving the People of Illinois in both the Illinois State Senate and the United States Senate, and dedicated his life to protecting the rights of Americans and building bridges across communities," the article explained.
Otibehia Allen is a single mother who lives in a rented mobile home in the same isolated, poor community where she grew up among the cotton and soybean fields of the Mississippi Delta. During a summer that feels like a sauna, the trailer's air conditioner has conked out.
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed a plan honoring the 44th president's birthday on Aug. 4. It won't be an official state holiday, rather a day to honor Obama. The law notes Obama's efforts to protect Americans' rights and build "bridges across communities."
The Trump administration is sending its envoy for Ukraine negotiations to Moscow in a bid to make progress on the diplomatic crisis, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Sunday. After his first meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson since new American sanctions, Lavrov emerged with an upbeat assessment about the potential for finding common ground on Ukraine, Syria and other issues.
Hey, isn't that a former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama, celebrating the ex-prez's 56th birthday on Friday at the chic West End Indian restaurant Rasika? The couple, who have a long history of b-day dinners at Washington's trendier establishments, sat in a private dining room, says a spy. Heels and a dress for her and "smart casual" for him, we're told.
President Trump can finally say his administration has added 1 million jobs, thanks to a jobs report released by the Department of Labor on Friday. But while Trump and his surrogates were quick to present this as a huge accomplishment, it is less than meets the eye.
Republicans have little to show for their first seven months of controlling the White House and Capitol Hill. The Senate sent Justice Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, and Congress passed bills bolstering veterans' health programs and financing the Food and Drug Administration.
Karla Estrada Sanchez, of Los Angeles, gazes outward in Los Angeles on Thursday, Aug 03, 2017. “Unjust and outdated immigration laws will not dictate who I am as a person and a professional.
Source tells Israeli paper that security figures are 'constantly impressed by how pro-Israeli' the US national security adviser is despite criticism in US Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman meets with US National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster on May 22, 2017. Israeli officials responded to mounting allegations that US National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster is anti-Israel, saying that these were blatantly false and he was a staunch supporter of the Jewish state.
Adolfo Guerra, a landscaper in this port city on the Gulf of Mexico , remembers panicking as his co-worker vomited and convulsed after hours of mowing lawns in stifling heat. Other workers rushed to cover him with ice, and the man recovered.
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama arrive at the Inaugural Ball at the Walter Washington Convention Center, Jan. 21, 2013, in Washington. Former President Barack Obama turned 56 years old on Friday, and among the sea of birthday greetings posted on social media, two stood out: Tweets by former first lady Michelle Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden .
Barack Obama and his family may have left the White House, but their new digs aren't too shabby. The Obamas relocated into a multi-million dollar home in Washington, D.C., which is currently being renovated.