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A new study indicates that President Trump's Twitter rants may be having a negative impact on the very people he's going to need to continue staying loyal to him: Ten months into his presidency, the failure of any one single scandal to sink his administration has led some in the media to suggest that Trump is like "Teflon," with the grime that would stick to other politicians simply slipping right off. But the numbers show that nothing could be further from the truth - Trump's scandals aren't just damaging him, they're causing swing voters to reevaluate both his priorities and the very health of the economy.
The inexorable workings of the political marketplace seem to be enforcing some discipline over hitherto fissiparous Republican politicians. The question is whether this is happening too late to save the party's declining prospects in the 2018 midterm elections.
This state's story, which lately has been depressing, soon will acquire a riveting new chapter. In 2018 Illinois will have the nation's most important, expensive and strange election.
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said Thursday he's going ahead with confirmation hearings for two appellate court nominees, Davis Straus of Minnesota and Kyle Duncan of Louisiana, even though they have not received the support of both of their home-state senators. In each case, a senator declined to return a so-called blue slip marking their support for the judicial nominee from their state.
A Fox News poll released Thursday has Republican Roy Moore, left, trailing Democrat Doug Jones among likely voters by a 50 percent to 42 percent margin. A Fox News poll released Thursday has Republican Roy Moore, left, trailing Democrat Doug Jones among likely voters by a 50 percent to 42 percent margin.
Richard Cordray, the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said Wednesday that he will leave the agency by the end of the month. Cordray was a holdover from President Barack Obama's administration, appointed to his position in 2013 for a five-year term.
With Democrats claiming victory in the 2017 elections and Donald Trump's approval ratings mired in the mid-30s, political chatter has turned predictably to 2020 and who could, or should, be the Democrats' presidential nominee. The chatter has intensified with Joe Biden's book tour; in Massachusetts, the buzz hovers over U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton.
Cuba has rejected outright new US restrictions that took effect on November 8, describing them as confirming an "upsurge" of the blockade imposed by Washington since 1962. Cuba's top diplomat for the Americas, Josefina Vidal, said during a press conference on November 7 that the new measures to prevent US trade with and travel to the Caribbean island were "arbitrary."
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin took a tour of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing on Wednesday to see firsthand the production of new $1 bills, the first currency that will bear his signature. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and U.S. Treasurer Jovita Carranza were on hand at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Wednesday to see the production of the new dollar bill bearing their signatures.
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops decried what he said were "the forces of division" in the country, as he called Monday for immigration policies that keep families together and a "humane" approach to policing the border. Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, Texas, affirmed the government's authority to protect national security.
Congress gets its newest member on Monday when Republican John Curtis of Utah is sworn in amid an intense push by GOP leadership to score a major legislative victory before the end of the year. Curtis, 57, is the mayor of the Mormon stronghold of Provo.
Seven years ago, I was proud to stand behind President Barack Obama as he signed into law the Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act. The bill, which I named in honor of former Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, placed press freedom at the center of promoting human rights and democracy -- where it belongs.
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to sit down for a formal meeting with Rodrigo Duterte on Monday as ties warm a year after the Philippine leader cursed out Barack Obama and publicly pivoted toward China. Trump and Duterte shook hands Monday morning before a ceremony to open two days of meetings in Manila hosted by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
In Hillary Clinton's dreams, the former secretary of state is a decade younger and many of the errors from her failed 2016 presidential run have long been forgotten. Then what? She launches a third and final bid for the White House - and wins! There's just one problem, a big one, actually - Former DNC boss Donna Brazile appears to have put the final nail in Clinton's political coffin.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke says Senate Democrats are holding the department's nominees "hostage" to a political agenda that includes opposition to his review of presidentially designated monuments. In a sharply worded letter to Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the Senate's No.
After last year's Presidential election, then President Barack Obama met face to face with Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook. Although the minutes of their meeting are not publicly available, far-left publications shared that Obama warned Zuckerberg about 'fake news' - Former president Barack Obama personally warned Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a post-2016 election meeting to check the spread of fake news on the site, but he was told there was no easy fix, according to a Washington Post report on Sunday.
Hope you caught this: Oops! Podesta brothers are getting attention they don't like. Don't forget that they remain friends with convicted child molestor Dennis Hastert and that may tell you all you need to know.