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We're just six days away from the first day of the 2018 legislative session in Tallahassee, where snow fell this morning. If we were the superstitious sorts, we would debate whether this augurs a frosty legislative session.
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is calling a 2016 meeting between senior Trump campaign aides and a Russian lawyer they believed had dirt on Hillary Clinton "treasonous." In an interview for a coming book by Michael Wolff, Bannon slammed Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort .
The news that longtime Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch will retire, rather than seek another term, not only is drawing attention to a possible Mitt Romney run to replace Hatch; it's also focusing attention on Senate seniority dominoes and chairmanships. Hatch chairs the Senate Finance Committee, which oversees taxes, trade, health care and entitlements.
In a key moment of the final Trump-Clinton presidential debate, Donald Trump turned to a question regarding Russian president Vladimir Putin: "He has no respect for her," Trump said, pointing at Hillary Clinton. "Putin, from everything I see, has no respect for this person."
On Jan. 3, 1868, Japan's Meiji Restoration re-established the authority of the emperor and heralded the fall of the military rulers known as shoguns; the upheaval paved the way for Japan's drive toward becoming a modern power. In 1911, the first postal savings banks were opened by the U.S. Post Office.
'I went into his bedroom and she was asleep in his bed': Woman, 30, reveals how she broke up with her boyfriend due to his unusual relationship with his sister One person is killed and 12 others are injured after 75 vehicle pileup caused by Buffalo snowstorm as the US battles record-low temperatures and the east coast braces itself for a 'bomb cyclone' Roy Moore's Jewish attorney, who politician's wife used as 'proof' he wasn't anti-Semitic, voted for his Democrat rival Doug Jones in Alabama Senate election Spot the difference: Trump foe Mitt Romney changes his location on Twitter, hours after Utah Senator Orrin Hatch announced his retirement U.S. withholds $255 million in aid to Pakistan over ties to terrorism and promises it 'won't forget' United Nations betrayal on Jerusalem Hoda Kotb 'to make $18million LESS than disgraced Matt Lauer': New Today co-anchor on same $7million salary as ... (more)
Nuclear button on my desk is 'much bigger' than yours: Trump warns Kim about the size of his arsenal and how it is vastly 'more powerful' than North Korea's after despot's New Year's threat Canadian father who was held hostage by the Taliban for five years in Afghanistan with his wife and three children is arrested on 15 charges including sexual assault Woman, 67, who battled blood cancer for five years 'recovers after treating it with TURMERIC' in the first recorded case of its kind Kim Jong-un reopens hotline with South Korea after nearly two years in olive branch ahead of the Winter Olympics Republicans claim to have found written evidence that proves the FBI found 'criminality' during the probe of Hillary Clinton's email server Trump warns he could end hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Palestinians, saying they show 'no appreciation' for payments and 'don't even want to ... (more)
Most of the largest U.S. public universities do not track suicides among their students, despite making investments in prevention at a time of surging demand for mental health services. Tabulating student suicides comes with its own set of challenges and problems.
Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah said Tuesday he will not seek re-election after serving more than 40 years in the Senate, opening the door for former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney to run for his seat. Hatch, 83, said he's always been a fighter, "but every good fighter knows when to hang up the gloves."
There will be two fresh Senate faces and some familiar but stubborn clashes facing lawmakers Wednesday as Congress begins its 2018 session staring at the year's first potential calamity -- an election-year government shutdown unless there's a bipartisan spending pact by Jan. 19. Looking to prevent a closure of federal agencies, top White House officials planned to meet at the Capitol on Wednesday with House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and each chamber's top Democrat. Their goal is to find a compromise on raising limits on defense and domestic spending that eluded lawmakers before they left Washington for the holidays.
Reversing guidelines put in place under former President Barack Obama, the Trump administration is scaling back the use of fines against nursing homes that harm residents or place them in grave risk of injury. The shift in the Medicare program's penalty protocols was requested by the nursing home industry.
The former Republican 2012 presidential nominee, 70, changed his location from Massachusetts - where he served as governor from 2003 to 2007 - to Holladay, Utah, where he owns a home. The change in location, which may appear seemingly benign, comes as speculation swirls that Romney may be interested in filling Republican Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch's Senate seat.
The most interesting Senate race in 2018 might have nothing to do with whether Republicans or Democrats control the chamber after this year's midterm elections. The decision Tuesday by Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah to retire teed up Mitt Romney - the 2012 Republican presidential nominee turned leading intra-party critic of President Donald Trump - to run for a job that would give him major influence over the remainder of Trump's presidency.
When Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones went before his cheering supporters the night of his improbable election in deeply Republican Alabama last month, he smiled widely and then hesitated. "I have been waiting my whole life and now I don't know what the hell to say," he said with a laugh.
Leaders of Congress will sit down with key White House staff on Wednesday, and negotiations on immigration policy could hang in the balance. As the Senate comes back Wednesday and the House is set to follow next week, lawmakers are returning to their unfinished business that was punted at the end of last year -- including a potential deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy.
Nuclear button on my desk is 'much bigger' than yours: Trump warns Kim about the size of his arsenal and how it is vastly 'more powerful' than North Korea's after despot's New Year's threat Canadian father who was held hostage by the Taliban for five years in Afghanistan with his wife and three children is arrested on 15 charges including sexual assault Woman, 67, who battled blood cancer for five years 'recovers after treating it with TURMERIC' in the first recorded case of its kind Republicans claim to have found written evidence that proves the FBI found 'criminality' during the probe of Hillary Clinton's email server Trump warns he could end hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Palestinians, saying they show 'no appreciation' for payments and 'don't even want to negotiate peace' U.S. withholds $255 million in aid to Pakistan over ties to terrorism and promises it 'won't forget' ... (more)
After almost a year in office, President Donald Trump still hasn't appointed a director for the White House Office of National AIDS Policy. He's proposed cutting millions of dollars from HIV and AIDS prevention programs.
Donald Trump admirer Susan Hutchison gave notice today that she intends to stand down as Chairman of the Washington State Republican Party effective February 4th, 2018, having spent about five years in the position. "The Washington State Republican Party is in a robust financial position with a bright future," Hutchison said in a statement, confidently declaring the party would do well despite evidence that a Democratic wave is building and despite the party's disastrous performance in the 45th District special election last year.
Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch's announcement Tuesday that he would not seek an eighth term cleared the way for an all-but-certain run by the former Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican presidential nominee, who now lives in Utah and is enormously popular among voters there. But that popularity doesn't necessarily extend to Trump's White House, where establishment Republicans such as Romney are often viewed with deep skepticism.
Recently we noted Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly had urged President Trump to follow through on his promise to declare the ongoing opioid crisis a national emergency and direct federal resources to address the epidemic. Like Donnelly, we believe this insidious issue constitutes immediate attention.