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Republican PAC sends Clinton birthday greetings Republican super PAC sending tens of thousands of Clinton birthday cards to voters in Kentucky state House districts Check out this story on cincinnati.com: http://cjky.it/2fcJtsM October 26 is Hillary Clinton's 69th birthday and to celebrate it, a Republican super PAC is sending tens of thousands of birthday cards to voters in several Kentucky state House districts. The front of the card notes her birthday and says, "Let's send her a present on Tuesday, Nov. 8th."
Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Barr and Democratic challenger Nancy Jo Kemper sparred Monday night over issues from health care to Donald Trump 's fitness to lead America's foreign policy in a hard-hitting televised debate, two weeks from Election Day. Kemper, a pastor, went on the offensive at the start of the hour-long debate, accusing the two-term Republican congressman of running a TV ad in Kentucky's 6th District that took her words from a television interview out of context.
With a mix of euphoria, relief and disbelief, long-suffering Chicago Cubs fans are setting their sights on the team's first World Series in 71 years - and some are remembering departed loved ones who stuck with the... Come Election Day, California could legalize pot. Its new U.S. senator will be black or Hispanic - a first for the state.
The mother of Etan Patz has testified about the "total horror and panic" she felt when the 6-year-old disappeared in 1979. When her 6-year-old son was late getting home from school, his mother called a classmate's mom and got the news that would launch one of the nation's most infamous missing-child cases.
In this Jan. 11, 2016 photo, Kentucky Democrat House Speaker Greg Stumbo speaks with reporters in Frankfort, Ky. Democrats in Kentucky are worried Donald Trump's appeal in Appalachia could topple their majority in the state House of Representatives.
New poll numbers are out saying that Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump is losing ground in Kentucky, but that Republican Senator Rand Paul is gaining ground. The controversies over alleged sex scandals, Wall Street speeches and the use of email haven't gone unnoticed, according to a poll conducted by LEX 18 Political Commentator Bob Babbage.
Canadian diplomats are fanning out across the United States to talk up the benefits of trade with state and local leaders and counter what senior officials see as a worrying mood of protectionism swirling through the U.S. election campaign. Amid voter anger about the supposed harm done by international trade deals, both Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton have talked about altering the three-nation North American Free Trade Agreement.
Kentucky is the home of thoroughbred horse racing, well-regarded bourbon and politicians fighting over some of the most vexing problems facing U.S. public pensions. Democratic House Speaker Greg Stumbo called 100 adjourned members of the state House of Representatives back to Frankfort on Tuesday to discuss pension investment losses, more than $171 million of fees paid to money managers and potentially budget-decimating shortfalls.
Days after Matt Bevin took office in December, the Republican governor went to work on an ambitious project: persuading some Democratic state representatives from conservative districts to switch parties, giving Republicans control of the state House for the first time since 1920. Two representatives did switch parties, while two more resigned to take other jobs.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., right, speaks with Kentucky House Minority Whip Jim DeCesare during the Graves County GOP Breakfast, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2016 in Mayfield Ky. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., right, speaks with Kentucky House Minority Whip Jim DeCesare during the Graves County GOP Breakfast, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2016 in Mayfield Ky.
A major rating agency on Tuesday downgraded Kansas' credit rating for the second time in two years because of the state's budget problems. S&P Global Ratings dropped its rating for Kansas to "AA-," from AA, three months after putting the state on a negative credit watch.
P.J. O'Rourke once called Hillary Clinton "a chowder-skull" and "a bossy little rich snoot of a goody-two-shoes." So it surprised a lot of people when the political humorist announced that he's voting for her.
While folklore about Davy Crockett is filled with stories of courage and daring, it's Horatio Bunce, a respectable farmer in the Tennessee district represented by Crockett in Congress - at least in the version found in Edward S. Ellis' biography about the larger-than-life "King of the Wild Frontier" - who's the hero of this story. Ellis recounts how Crockett and several congressmen in their sympathy for victims of a fire that occurred near Washington on a cold winter's night not only scurried to the scene and helped extinguish the blaze but also supported rushing a $20,000 appropriation through Congress the following morning to aid the victims.
Now that the FBI has decided not to recommend criminal charges against Clinton, emotions for Sanders' supporters are running high. "The catharsis will come," said Kat Brezler, a Sanders' delegate from Bronx, New York and a founding member of the "People for Bernie" grassroots group.
When President Harry S. Truman was personally negotiating with labor leader John L. Lewis to avert an economically crippling coal strike in 1946, the miners' top priority was not higher wages or more vacation but to improve the deplorable state of health care in the coalfields. They succeeded when Truman signed an agreement promising lifelong health and retirement benefits, paid for by a royalty on coal production.
Thousands of retired coal miners rallied Tuesday in Kentucky to call on Congress to protect their benefits as the industry struggles and operators seek bankruptcy protection from debts.
In a stunning bit of punditry television, McConnell was confronted on Sunday by Chuck Todd of Meet the Press about Trump's declaration that Gonzalo Curiel, the federal judge presiding over a case against the now-defunct Trump University, should be disqualified because of the judge's Mexican heritage, seeing as how the Republican standard-bearer has called for the building of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Todd read McConnell words recently penned by the right-wing blogger and Red State website founder Erick Erickson, who on June 4 at The Resurgent wrote the following about Trump's repeated claims regarding Judge Curiel: The attacks are racist.