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The Rensselaer County Courthouse was packed Monday, Jan. 1, 2018, for the swearing in of County Executive Steve McLaughlin, county legislators, Troy City Council members and others. The Rensselaer County Courthouse was packed Monday, Jan. 1, 2018, for the swearing in of County Executive Steve McLaughlin, county legislators, Troy City Council members and others.
Congress faces a jam-packed to-do list when it returns this week, with deadlines looming on difficult issues - including how to fund the government and avoid a shutdown, stabilizing the nation's health-insurance program for poor children, and whether to shield young undocumented immigrants from deportation. Fresh off a party-line vote to overhaul the tax code, the negotiations will test whether Congress and the White House still have the potential to craft any form of bipartisan agreement.
President Trump arrives for a New Year's Eve gala at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. He is expected to present an infrastructure plan this month.
Both President Trump and UN Ambassador Nikki Haley are proclaiming that America is standing with the Iranian people after 12 protesters have been killed in violent protests against the mullahs there. Trump stated his support for "the great Iranian people" on Monday morning.
Costa Rican officials are investigating what caused a charter aircraft carrying 10 U.S. citizens and two local crewmembers to crash in a wooded area in the country's northwest soon after takeover, killing everyone... Costa Rican officials are investigating what caused a charter aircraft carrying 10 U.S. citizens and two local crewmembers to crash in a wooded area in the country's northwest soon after takeover, killing everyone on board. On the last day of the calendar year, "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" has surpassed "Beauty and the Beast" as the top grossing film in North America in 2017.
Iran unrest: 'Ten dead' in further protests overnight - Ten people have been killed overnight in anti-government protests sweeping Iran, according to state TV. - "In the events of last night, unfortunately a total of about 10 people were killed in several cities," it said.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., seen in March, appears poised to challenge special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian officials. Washington Post photo by Jabin Botsford House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., seen in March, appears poised to challenge special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.
Ai Weiwei may be the best-known artist alive today. Years of beatings, detention, and house arrest by the Chinese government only fueled his fame in the West.
Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman and Emanuel Cleaver have warned Twitter officials that if the company does not do more to stop "racially divisive communications," Congress will regulate the service. The ethics committee at Bath Spa University, a public university in England, barred a graduate student in psychotherapy from studying transgender people who regret having reassignment surgery.
Oregon resident Kim Sordyl had a hunch. The outspoken education activist thought Portland Public Schools might be using lengthy and expensive paid leaves to avoid firing problem employees.
There's actually very little chance humanity won't make it to this magazine's publication date, but news consumers could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. An October poll found 65 percent of Americans thought President Donald Trump was making the situation between the U.S. and North Korea worse.
Minnesota Lt. Gov. Tina Smith is set to join the U.S. Senate next year, taking the seat left open by the resignation of former Sen. Alan Stuart Franken Democrats turn on Al Franken Schumer called, met with Franken and told him to resign Overnight Finance: Trump says shutdown 'could happen' Many assumed that Smith would only hold the seat temporarily until the 2018 special election, where voters would choose her successor.
Protesters voice their opposition to an immigration ban imposed by President Donald Trump at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Credit: Matt Mills McKnight This week Crosscut is running some of our best stories of the year, as selected both by our editors and by popularity with readers.
SEPTEMBER 20: Former U.S. President Barack Obama answers questions at the Gates Foundation Inaugural Goalkeepers event on September 20, 2017 in New York City. NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 20: Former U.S. President Barack Obama answers questions at the Gates Foundation Inaugural Goalkeepers event on September 20, 2017 in New York City.
PALM BEACH, Fla. - President Donald Trump predicted a "fantastic 2018" as he arrived at Mar-a-Lago on Sunday night for a pricey New Year's Eve party with hundreds of his supporters.
On this first day of 2018, many of us wish we had crystal balls so that we could see the future. But it's impossible for any of us to know where we will be 365 days from now.
You could be forgiven for losing count of the candidates running to succeed U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas in the 3rd Congressional District. Since Tsongas announced in mid-August that she would not seek another term in 2018, it has seemed as if a new Democrat has declared candidacy every other week -- and with a field that now stands at 13, a new face has, on average, entered the arena every 11 days.
The campaign to discredit Special Counsel Robert Mueller has reached a shrill and desperate phase, as some believe it is more important to protect Donald Trump's interests than to establish how and why an adversarial government influenced a presidential election. The goal is to dismiss any findings damaging to the president as political bias; to invent corruption in the highest echelons of law enforcement, notably in the FBI; and to preempt any discovery of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia with distractions.
President Trump may have big policy plans for 2018, but political distractions are likely to shadow prospects of big legislative achievements. White House officials said Trump wants to rein in the threat from North Korea and list four top domestic priorities on his 2018 agenda: Repealing and replacing President Obama's 2010 health care law, welfare reform, immigration, and a new infrastructure plan.
Washington Times reporter Christian Toto points out the remarkable failure of a whole series of Hollywood climate disaster movies - and the cognitive dissonance of producers and critics who keep pushing out movies nobody wants to watch. Climate change got its close-up in 2017.