Dems accuse Trump of unsavory insinuations about Gillibrand

President Donald Trump laced into Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Tuesday, tweeting that she would come to his office "begging" for campaign contributions and "do anything" to get them. Democrats accused the president of making unsavory insinuations about the New York senator.

Gillibrand to Trump: ‘You cannot silence me’

Here's the latest for Tuesday, December 12th: Alabama votes in Senate special election; NY bomb suspect claimed Islamic State allegiance; Some Congressional Democrats say Trump must resign; California fire moving towards Santa Barbara. U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY, speaks during a news conference on health care Sept.

Increase in lawsuits on sex-based workplace harassment

More than 3,500 federal civil lawsuits related to harassment in the workplace have been filed so far this year, an increase over 2016, according to Lex Machina, a Menlo Park analytics firm that tracks litigation. Federal data show that the number of sex-based-harassment complaints filed in 2016 increased from the prior year.

Mark Shields: Francisco Franco and the 2018 Republicans

To understand the discouraging plight for Republicans heading into the 2018 midterm elections, it might help to recall a joke popular in Spain in 1975, when Generalissimo Francisco Franco, that nation's long-ruling and ruthless dictator, lingered for endless weeks on his deathbed. As of today, there are no brave souls in President Donald Trump's inner, or even outer, circle volunteering to mention to him that the most recent four times that majority control of the House of Representatives switched from one party to the other - 1954, 1994, 2006 and 2010 - were after midterm elections.

FIRST: All eyes on Alabama special election; Attempted NYC…

Alabama voters go to the polls today and decide the special election between Senate candidates Democrat Doug Jones and Republican Roy Moore Attempted suicide bombing in New York City brings the chain migration and the immigration debate back into the spotlight Fox News Exclusive: Man who acted as "go-between" reveals how British spy released Trump "dossier" to FBI, media and Capitol Hill Questions surround sudden rescheduling of FBI deputy director's closed-door testimony on agency's integrity in the Clinton email investigation, Russia probe and other cases THE LEAD STORY: All eyes are on Alabama today as voters will decide the special election between Senate candidates Roy Moore and Democrat Doug Jones ... After months of campaigning and reports of sexual misconduct rocked the state, Moore and Jones held competing rallies Monday night , firing their final shots ahead of today's ... (more)

‘Alternative facts’ remark tops 2017 list of notable quotes

The statement Conway made when asked why Trump's then-Press Secretary Sean Spicer mischaracterized the size of inauguration crowds is one of many Trump-related quotations on the list, assembled by Fred Shapiro, an associate director at the library. "I actually had to limit the amount of Trump-related quotations on the list so as not to have the list overwhelmed by him," Shapiro said.

Schiff: Criticisms of Mueller probe meant to discredit potential future charges

Rep. Adam Schiff is dismissing the GOP's accusations of bias in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, saying they're partisan efforts to discredit the significance of the investigation's potential findings. On CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday morning, host Jake Tapper asked the California Democrat about the GOP's accusations of bias within the investigation into allegations of collusion by the Trump campaign in Russia's efforts to influence last year's election.

Trump Pokes Fun At ‘Resistance’: You Know What Happened When Hillary Resisted?

President Donald Trump took a swipe at his former opponent in the 2016 election by poking fun at "The Resistance" during a Friday night rally in Pensacola, Fla. Trump, speaking about his administration's accomplishments, made fun of the "resistance" by pointing out that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to "resist" and ended up losing the 2016 presidential election.

CNN corrects report about Trump campaign and WikiLeaks tip

CNN had to correct a story on Friday that suggested the Trump campaign had been tipped off early about WikiLeaks documents damaging to Hillary Clinton when it later learned the alert was about material already publicly available. It's the second mistake in a week by a major news organization on a story that initially had been damaging to the president but didn't live up to scrutiny, giving Trump ammunition for his campaign against "fake news."