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Driven by a desire to free up endangered lawmakers to campaign, congressional negotiators are working to quickly complete a spending bill to prevent an election-season government shutdown and finally provide money to battle the threat of the Zika virus. The stopgap measure would keep the government running past the end of the budget year this month.
U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte and Gov. Maggie Hassan are pointing fingers at each other over a pledge to limit third-party spending in their Senate race. Five months ago, Planned Parenthood's political arm targeted Sen. Kelly Ayotte with its first television ad of any of the U.S. Senate races across the country.
The debate over debates is rarely a productive piece of any campaign. In the U.S. Senate race between Sen. Kelly Ayotte and Gov. Maggie Hassan, the two candidates have already agreed to six debates, five of which will be broadcast on radio or TV.
It's hard to imagine someone like Melissa Crews of Bedford, New Hampshire, voting for Donald Trump in the presidential election. But the former Democratic voter says that's what she intends to do.
For the first time in recent memory, two members of the state's Executive Council will face off in the race for governor - Republican Chris Sununu and Democrat Colin Van Ostern. The matchup wasn't set until Wednesday afternoon, when Sununu was declared the winner in a tight Republican primary race against political newcomer Frank Edelblut.
CONCORD, N.H. >> New Hampshire candidates for governor and Congress are squaring off Tuesday in primary contests for a chance to represent their parties in the November election. The September primary is among the latest in the country, with voters in Delaware, New York and Rhode Island also heading to the polls that day.
When the House and Senate get back to work tomorrow, the GOP majorities on both sides of Capitol Hill will be up against a September 30 deadline to pass a spending bill to keep the federal government open. That means funding the military, keeping Social Security checks going out and assuring global investors that the world's leading economic power is not about to grind to a halt.
A U.S. senator from New Hampshire says she's returning a campaign donation from the company that increased the price of an emergency allergy treatment drug from $50 to more than $600 for a two-pack. The Telegraph in Nashua reports Republican U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services saying Mylan, the company that makes the EpiPen, isn't doing enough to "solve the problem" and hasn't said why it hiked the price.
Republicans have a chance to build on their majorities and win a record number of governors' seats in 2016 . Democrats are doing everything they can to stop them.
His latest-telling African Americans that they are doing lousy so "what the hell have you got to lose?" is his way to promisea nothing. He has no legitimate policy changes he swears he will implement to change black youth employment numbers Trump will do very well with uneducated white voters in former slave states, supposedly.
Former Republican presidential candidate Ohio Gov.John Kasich, left, endorses Chris Sununu, right, for New Hampshire's governor during a news conference Monday, Aug. 29, 2016, in Concord, N.H. . Former Republican presidential candidate Ohio Gov. John Kasich, right, endorses Chris Sununu, left, for New Hampshire's governor during a news conference Monday, Aug. 29, 2016, in Concord, N.H. The former presidential candidate and chief Donald Trump critic is the first of 2016's failed GOP hopefuls to return to the state since the February primary.
The surging Kansas City Royals exploded for eight runs in the sixth inning and blew past the Boston Red Sox for a 10-4 win in the rubber game of a three-game series Sunday night.
A key question looms for vulnerable Republican senators this election: If Donald Trump loses and loses big, can they still survive? With 11 weeks until Election Day, Trump's declining standing in the polls has GOP Senate candidates preparing for the worst, and they're maneuvering now to put as big a margin as they can between themselves and the top of the ticket. Some strategists foresee a historic Trump loss and the need to outrun the presidential nominee by at least five to 10 percentage points in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Hampshire and Florida, if Senate incumbents are to prevail in November.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally in Akron, Ohio, Monday, Aug. 22, 2016. Trump portrays himself as an indispensable cash resource for fellow Republicans up and down the ballot.
During day five of Katlyn Marin's murder trial, the judge listened to numerous phone calls secretly recorded between Marin and her ex-boyfriend, including the first phone call he made to her after... Red Sox starter David Price threw eight innings of shutout baseball, getting his first win as a visitor at Tropicana Field and leading Boston to a 6-2 ... (more)
At a rally here last week, Mike Pence showed the crowd a clip of Gov. Maggie Hassan awkwardly trying to defend Hillary Clinton's honesty. "Gov. Hassan, let me help you out - the answer's no," the Republican vice presidential nominee riffed on Hassan's non-answer to whether Clinton was honest, drawing applause and laughs from the crowd.
Donald Trump's struggling candidacy has become a direct threat to Republican control of Congress, significantly increasing the likelihood that Democrats will take control of the Senate and cut substantially into the House Republican majority next year. Trump's string of inflammatory statements in the weeks since his nominating convention last month has sent him tumbling in nearly every state with a contested Senate race, raising Republican fears that their own demoralized voters will not show up to vote, independents will abandon the entire Republican ticket and energized Democrats will flock to the polls.
The federal government's refusal Thursday to allow marijuana for medical treatment caused both sides of the New Hampshire debate over pot use to dig in and prepare for continued warfare at the State... An antique store is already moving into a former nail salon on Broadway near Manning Street, and a home improvement store could also possibly be ... (more)
The federal government's refusal Thursday to allow marijuana for medical treatment caused both sides of the New Hampshire debate over pot use to dig in and prepare for continued warfare at the State... An antique store is already moving into a former nail salon on Broadway near Manning Street, and a home improvement store could also possibly be ... (more)