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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.
In this Nov. 8, 2016, file photo, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. waves to supporters as he arrives for his victory party prior to officially announcing his victory over Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick in Phoenix.
The latest Republican effort to repeal former U.S. President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law faced possible defeat this week as several senators in the party voiced concerns about the bill under consideration. The U.S. Senate is up against a Saturday deadline for deciding the fate of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, because of an expiring rule that lets the Republican healthcare legislation pass with just a simple 51-vote majority, instead of the 60-vote threshold needed for most measures.
When Barack Obama was president, congressional Republicans were deficit hawks. They opposed almost everything Obama wanted to do by arguing it would increase the federal budget deficit.
President Donald Trump met with members of the Congressional Black Caucus in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington in March. WASHINGTON - On the campaign trail last year, then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump sought the support of black voters by asking them, ''What the hell do you have to lose?'' ''We are losing essential freedoms,'' said Brittany Packnett, who became an advocate for criminal justice reform after the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown and subsequent protests in Ferguson, Missouri.
The nation's doctors, hospitals and health insurance plans are unified in their opposition to the latest Republican bill to dismantle Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act. In a joint statement on Saturday, major groups such as the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association, America's Health Insurance Plans and the BlueCross BlueShield Association called on the Senate to reject the bill sponsored by GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy.
"I'm not a different guy. I had a different job" Bharara, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and a CNN contributor, told CNN's Bill Weir.
In this Sept. 21, 2017, photo, Lonnie Bunch, director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, talks about the museum's first year and his vision for the future of the exhibits, in Washington.
In its first year, the Smithsonian's new black museum has become the nation's top temple to blackness, an Afrocentric shrine on the National Mall where people of all races, colors and creed are flocking to experience - and leave behind for posterity - the highs and lows of African-American life in the United States. "This has become more than a museum.
Arkansas universities are reviewing campus policies after the U.S. Department of Education released temporary guidelines Friday on how colleges should respond to sexual misconduct. The federal agency's interim guidance followed through on a pledge Education Secretary Betsy DeVos made Sept.
Evan Barnes has covered sports since 2006 for various publications, including the Los Angeles Sentinel and Daily Breeze. While he's mainly focused on high school sports in Los Angeles, he has covered college and pro sports ranging from UCLA, USC, the LA Dodgers and CSU Northridge.
The Trump administration on Friday scrapped Obama-era guidance on investigating campus sexual assault, replacing it with new instructions that allow universities to require higher standards of evidence when handling complaints. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has said that President Barack Obama's policy had been unfairly skewed against those accused of assault and had "weaponized" the Education Department to "work against schools and against students."
A students walk by an emergency code blue phone on the campus of Cal St. San Bernardino, Friday afternoon in San Bernardino, Ca., September 22, 2017. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has rescinded Obama administration guidelines that urges colleges and universities to more aggressively investigate campus sexual assaults.
The Trump administration on Friday scrapped Obama-era guidance on investigating campus sexual assault, replacing it with new instructions that allow universities to require higher standards of evidence when handling complaints. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has said that President Barack Obama's policy had been unfairly skewed against those accused of assault and had "weaponized" the Education Department to "work against schools and against students."
Russia's foreign minister said Friday the downturn in relations with the United States began with the Obama administration's "small-hearted" and "revengeful" actions and has plummeted further because of "Russo-phobic hysteria." Sergey Lavrov told a news conference there has been a lengthy campaign claiming Russia interfered in the U.S. election to ensure victory for President Donald Trump - "but we do not see any facts."
Two essays this week, by two very different authors, take us deep into the tribalism that marks our politics. Both should serve as a wake-up call for what we risk losing as a culture - as a nation - if we fail to reconcile our differences and heal long-festering national wounds.
CNN analyst Douglas Brinkley showed he loves Barack Obama just a little bit more than every other liberal in the media. The historian on Thursday night beat out tough competeition to win the "Last Gasp Obamagasm Award" at the 2017 Media Research Center's 30th Anniversary Gala featuring the 2017 DisHonors Awards.
Philadelphia elections commissioner Al Schmidt admitted that non-US citizens were registered to vote in the City of Brotherly Love. He said that they were legal immigrants but not eligible to vote and nearly half of them cast ballots they were not authorized to cast.