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A woman takes a picture of a plaque in front of the residence where Barack Obama lived during his sophomore year at Occidental College, in Pasadena, California, Dec. 17, 2016. Southern California's Occidental College, where Barack Obama studied from 1979 to 1981, is offering scholarships in honor of the former president.
An Ohio prison inmate is expected to plead guilty to using a restraint chain to strangle a fellow inmate on a corrections transport van. The U.S. federal government has dispatched large numbers of personnel to Puerto Rico to help with the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and local officials have praised the response.
Republican Sen. Susan Collins' decision to oppose the GOP push to repeal President Barack Obama's health care overhaul leaves the effort all but dead. Republican Sen. Susan Collins' decision to oppose the GOP push to repeal President Barack Obama's health care overhaul leaves the effort all but dead.
Democrats and Republicans are poised for a Supreme Court fight about political line-drawing with the potential to alter the balance of power across a country starkly divided between the two parties. The big question at the heart of next week's high court clash is whether there can be too much politics in the inherently political task of drawing electoral districts.
Senate Republicans, short of votes, abandoned their latest and possibly final attempt to kill the health care law Tuesday, just ahead of a critical end-of-the-week deadline. The repeal-and-replace bill's authors promised to try again at a later date, while President Donald Trump railed against "certain so-called Republicans" who opposed the GOP effort.
A United States Senate primary run-off election in the deep red Republican state of Alabama would not, in normal times, be a big deal. This vote was to decide the Republican candidate for the Senate seat left open by the appointment of Jeff Sessions as US President Donald Trump's Attorney-General.
Senate Republicans, short of votes, abandoned their latest and possibly final attempt to kill the health care law Tuesday, just ahead of a critical end-of-the-week deadline.
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A large majority of African-Americans feel negatively about the direction the country is heading and most are pessimistic about their own prospects under the Trump administration, a poll released this week shows. In a nationwide survey of 1,003 African-Americans, taken in July and August of this year, 84 percent said they feel the country is on the wrong track and around two thirds said they feel worried about President Donald Trump and fear his policies will negatively affect black people.
Members of the European Union believe the "spirit" of the Paris agreement could be compromised if President Donald Trump dramatically reduces the U.S.'s obligations under the deal. Some of the poorest nations involved in the Paris agreement are howling about EU climate chief Miguel Arias CaA ete's suggestion that the U.S. might stay in the accord if the country ratchets down its obligations.
The last-gasp Republican drive to tear down President Barack Obama's health care law essentially died Monday as Maine Sen. Susan Collins joined a small but decisive cluster of GOP senators in opposing the push. The Maine moderate said in a statement that the legislation would make "devastating" cuts in the Medicaid program for poor and disabled people, drive up premiums for millions and weaken protections Obama's law gives people with pre-existing medical conditions.
25, 2017, in Washington. Witnesses and police described a chaotic scene as a masked attacker armed with two guns shot seven people, killing one, in a Tennessee church before he was subdued.
Republicans have released a revised version of their legislation dismantling the Obama health care law. It contains added money and newly eased coverage requirements aimed at winning over GOP senators whose opposition could well sink the bill.
The editorial pages are beginning to devote more column space to the election of 2020. It's all about President Trump, of course - specifically, how Democrats smell blood in the water, and how they intend to sell their reconfigured platform to voters.
Wait what? Isn't this former U.S. president Barack Obama 's " best GOP ally ?" An amnesty pimp ? Not to mention the guy who has been driving the progressive narrative in Washington, D.C.? Backed by U.S. president Donald Trump , this measure would repeal Obamacare's individual and employer mandates and replace its current spending framework with a block grant system. Technically it would not repeal Obamacare, though.
As North Korea's Kim Jong Un plays nuclear chicken with the great powers, another dangerous moment is approaching. The world awaits President Trump's decision - due Oct. 15 - on how he will handle the 2015 deal with Tehran that curbed Iran's nuclear program in return for the lifting of international sanctions.
In this Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017, file photo, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, speaks to members of the media while attending an event in Lewiston, Maine. Collins said Sunday, Sept.