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It's hard to believe that it was ten years ago tonight that Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination , putting him on the path to make - and change the course of - history. Just a decade ago, it seemed as though every dream could come true.
At a time of broken politics and polarization, the impulse to seek out reforms to the political process is understandable. California, which will hold important primary elections Tuesday, offers a cautionary tale about how good intentions alone are not enough.
To these eyes, the harder one looks, the more the Papadopoulos case appears to be much ado about nothing. That is no small thing: The "much ado" here is a purported Trump-Russia conspiracy to subvert a presidential election.
The Secret Service spent about $4 million too much for seats on campaign planes during the 2016 presidential election after misinterpreting the rules for calculating fares, according to a congressional watchdog report. The Secret Service spent $17.1 million to include agents on flights chartered by the campaigns of Republicans Donald Trump and Ben Carson, and Democratic candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
Former President Bill Clinton has said he disagrees with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's view that he should have resigned because of the Monica Lewinsky affair. 'You have to - really ignore what the context was,' Clinton told CBS Sunday Morning in an interview that will air this Sunday at 9:00am Eastern Time.
When President Donald Trump recently tweeted his demand that the Justice Department determine whether his campaign was improperly "infiltrated or surveilled," the task of conducting that inquiry fell to the agency's inspector general, Michael Horowitz. Horowitz is the man in Washington who investigates the investigators and is now assigned to determine whether there is any truth to Trump's allegation of a spy being planted in his campaign, which he dubbed "spygate," or to many other allegations the president and his lawyers have leveled against the Department of Justice and FBI leadership.
Valerie Jarrett, the former Obama aide targeted by Roseanne Barr, says the comedienne's train wreck should be a "teaching moment." And so it should - about the poisonous kookery of Roseanne Barr.
President Donald Trump is again pushing the narrative that he did not fire former FBI Director James Comey over the Russia investigation -- despite saying exactly that days after the dismissal. "Not that it matters but I never fired James Comey because of Russia!" Trump claimed on Twitter Thursday morning.
President Donald Trump declared Thursday that he didn't fire FBI Director James Comey over the Russia investigation, despite previously citing that as the reason. His lawyer, meanwhile, blasted federal investigators as "a lynching mob" the Trump team will "knock the heck out of" in the end.
U.S. election officials responsible for managing more than a dozen close races this November share a fear: Outdated voting machines in their districts could undermine confidence in election results that will determine which party controls the U.S. Congress. In 14 of the 40 most competitive races, Americans will cast ballots on voting machines that do not provide a paper trail to audit voters' intentions if a close election is questioned, according to a Reuters analysis of data from six states and the Verified Voting Foundation, a non-political group concerned about verifiable elections.
When Roseanne returned to prime-time television in March, it was only natural that the title character would be a Trump voter . The Republican won the presidency on the hopes of the small towns and working-class families the iconic ABC series brought to such warm and funny life through nine seasons that ended, the first time, in 1997.
In this June 7, 2017, file photo, FBI acting director Andrew McCabe listens during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, on Capitol Hill in Washington. McCabe drafted a memo on the firing of his onetime boss, ex-director James Comey.
The 37-year-old reality star organised a meeting with the US President at the White House in Washington D.C. on Wednesday , in a quest to free great-grandmother Alice Marie Johnson from prison.
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe drafted a memo on circumstances leading up to the firing of his onetime boss, James Comey, a person familiar with the situation said Wednesday night. The person spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press to discuss a secret document that has been turned over to special counsel Robert Mueller.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Hucakbee Sanders said Wednesday President Donald Trump is "not defending" the comments made by actress Roseanne Barr, but pointing out a media bias on free speech. WASHINGTON - There is no evidence that the FBI planted a "spy" on President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, a senior House Republican said Wednesday, contradicting Trump's repeated insistence that the agency inserted a "spy for political reasons and to help Crooked Hillary win."
This combination photo shows President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Moon Township, Pa., on March 10, 2018, left, and Kim Kardashian West at the NBCUniversal Network 2017 Upfront in New York on May 15, 2017. Kardashian West arrived at the White House for a meeting with presidential senior adviser Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law.
Rudy Giuliani, a member of President Donald Trump 's personal legal team, told reporters Wednesday that special counsel Robert Mueller would be "doing a Comey" - in other words, he suggested, meddling in an election - if he does not file a report on his special counsel investigation by September. Add Russia Investigation as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Russia Investigation news, video, and analysis from ABC News.
Trump-Kim summit! President shares photo of 'great meeting' with Kim Kardashian in the Oval Office to discuss prison reform and the pardon of a first-time drug offender Capitol Hill holds its breath as inspector general report on FBI's probe of Hillary Clinton's email scandal is expected in less than a week A highly anticipated report by the Justice Department's Inspector General could be made public within days, as a pair of congressional panels prepare for hearings on how the FBI handled the Hillary Clinton probe. The Senate Judiciary on Tuesday gave notice that on June 5, it will hold a hearing titled: 'Examining the Inspector General's First Report on Justice Department Decisions Regarding the 2016 Presidential Election.'
Voters choosing no party affiliation have overtaken Republicans in Democrat-dominated California, marking a troubling slide for the GOP in the nation's most populous state that a generation ago was home to the Reagan Revolution. Political Data Inc., which compiles figures from county election offices, reported this week that 4.84 million of California's 19 million voters declared they had no party preference while 4.77 million registered as Republican at the close of registration for the June 5 primary.
Former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe wrote a confidential memo last spring recounting a conversation that provided "significant behind-the-scenes" details on the firing of former FBI director James Comey, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. FILE PHOTO: Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe testifies before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, U.S., June 7, 2017.