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FEW people beyond Texas's seventh district had heard of Laura Moser before her own party tried to discredit her. Late last month, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee took the rare step of publishing embarrassing opposition research on the journalist and activist who wants to take on John Culberson, a Republican, in the mid-terms in November.
In the midst of a speech to boost Democrat Conor Lamb ahead of next week's special election, the former "It makes me angry when we're not respected - when you're not respected," Biden tells scores of carpenters who packed into a suburban Pittsburgh union hall on Tuesday. "Everything unions do is done well."
Former Trump aide Sam Nunberg called before grand jury, says he will refuse to go Former Trump aide Sam Nunberg said Monday that he has been subpoenaed to appear in front of a federal grand jury investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election but that he will refuse to go. Ex-Trump aide says he'll likely cooperate with Mueller - WASHINGTON - A former Trump campaign aide spent much of Monday promising to defy a subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller, even throwing down the challenge to "arrest me," then backed off his defiance by saying he would probably cooperate in the end.
As the saying goes, you don't miss the water until the well runs dry: This deeply aberrant presidency threatens to cost the nation much more than even some of Donald Trump's harshest critics may realize. From 1988-1992, I was The Washington Post's correspondent in Buenos Aires, covering all of South America.
President Donald Trump has had no bigger international backer than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Trump's policies, particularly where it comes to moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem and recognizing that city as Israel's capital -- and also where it comes to drawing a hard line on Iran's nuclear program -- are in alignment with Netanyahu's.
President Trump vowed not to back down Monday from plans for tariffs on steel and aluminum that sent shock waves across America's political landscape, deepening a rift with Congress' Republican leaders. Republican opposition to the plan intensified, with House Speaker Paul D. Ryan saying the president risked undermining the economic gains from tax cuts.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller departs after a closed-door meeting with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee about Russian meddling in the election and possible connection to the Trump campaign, at the Capitol in Washington, June 21, 2017. Sam Nunberg, a former political aide to U.S. President Donald Trump, said on Monday he would refuse to comply with a subpoena to testify before a grand jury in U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election campaign.
FiveThirtyEight Editor-in-Chief Nate Silver picked apart a theory that Democrats have already won the House majority in 2018, arguing Monday that many pollsters predicted former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would beat President Donald Trump in a landslide in 2016. "Seems like people haven't learned too much from 2016," Silver tweeted Monday.
Robert Mueller's investigation shows no signs of being over "shortly after the first of the year" as indicated by Ty Cobb last year. After all, it's March 5, which is not exactly "shortly after" the first of the year.
We didn't fully realize just how hard it is to be president until we had one with no idea of what it takes to do the job. We didn't appreciate having a government that was relatively honest and free of venality until we had one riddled with corruption.
ABC says it will air a special interview with James Comey in April before the former FBI director's book is released. The network announced the interview will air on a "20/20" special on April 15. The interview will be conducted by "ABC News" anchor George Stephanopoulous.
Illinois Democratic gubernatorial candidates Robert Marshall Tio Hardiman, Chris Kennedy, J.B. Pritzker, Bob Daiber and Sen. Daniel Biss participate in a debate Friday in Chicago. The nominee will face either Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner or his conservative challenger, state Rep. Jeanne Ives, in November.
The bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee will be releasing a report in the coming weeks on Russia's attempts to infiltrate state election systems, according to one panel member. Sen. Angus King said the committee's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election and is "pretty well done."
Across Colorado, Republican and Democratic voters will convene at 7 p.m. sharp on Tuesday in schools, churches, community centers and other neighborhood gathering places, marking the parties' first official step toward picking candidates. This year, Republicans are grappling with what party officials are calling a "hangover" from the party's 2016 caucuses, when the state party decided against holding a presidential preference poll and eventually drew the wrath of then-candidate Donald Trump, who blasted Colorado's system as "rigged" against him when he didn't wind up with any of the state's delegates to the Republican National Convention.
This comes on the heels of her nine-hour testimony during a House Intelligence Committee meeting. At one point during the meeting the question was put forth if she was ever asked to lie for the president.
President Donald Trump bemoaned a decision not to investigate Hillary Clinton after the 2016 presidential election, decrying a "rigged system" that still doesn't have the "right people" in place to fix it, during a freewheeling speech to Republican donors in Florida on Saturday. In the closed-door remarks, a recording of which was obtained by CNN, Trump also praised China's President Xi Jinping for recently consolidating power and extending his potential tenure, musing he wouldn't mind making such a maneuver himself.
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk across the South Lawn upon arrival on Marine One at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Saturday following a trip to Florida. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk across the South Lawn upon arrival on Marine One at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Saturday following a trip to Florida.
President Donald Trump has engaged in a good-natured duel of one-liners with political rivals and the press at the annual Gridiron Dinner. The president dished out sharp one-liners throughout his comments on Saturday night, occasionally lapsing into recurring themes about the 2016 election and media bias.
Trump on China's Xi consolidating power: 'Maybe we'll give that a shot some day' - President Donald Trump bemoaned a decision not to investigate Hillary Clinton after the 2016 presidential election, decrying a "rigged system" that still doesn't have the "right people" in place to fix it Mueller's Focus on Adviser to United Arab Emirates Indicates Widening of Inquiry - WASHINGTON - George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman, has hovered on the fringes of international diplomacy for three decades.
Long the subject of barbed tweets from President Donald Trump, members of the Washington press corps sharpened their wits for musical and rhetorical takedowns of the president, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and others Saturday night at the annual dinner of the Gridiron Club and Foundation. Trump accepted an invitation to the 133rd anniversary dinner, his first given that he declined to attend last year.