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Former president Barack Obama recorded a robo-call for Alabama Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones who is facing Republican Roy Moore in a special election on Tuesday. Democratic officials said that Obama had recorded the message the same time President Donald Trump recorded a message supporting Moore.
Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn leaves federal court Dec. 1, 2017, in Washington. A whistleblower has told House Democrats that during President Donald Trump's inauguration speech, Flynn texted a former business associate to say a private nuclear proposal Flynn had lobbied for would have his support in the White House.
Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., right, discusses the GOP agenda for tax reform on Capitol Hill on Oct. 24, 2017. Curbelo on Dec. 11 accused leaders of a bipartisan House caucus of withholding details of a bipartisan compromise on immigration policy that could lead to a breakthrough in a major spending bill.
Now the national #MeToo spotlight is turning back to Trump and his past conduct. Several of his accusers are urging Congress to investigate his behavior, and a number of Democratic lawmakers are demanding his resignation.
Solar arrays line the desert floor of the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone as part of the 179 megawatt Switch Station 1 and Switch Station 2 Solar Projects north of Las Vegas that were commissioned on Monday, Dec. 11, 2017. Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal @Vegass88s Solar arrays line the desert floor of the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone as part of the 179 megawatt Switch Station 1 and Switch Station 2 Solar Projects north of Las Vegas that were commissioned on Monday, Dec. 11, 2017.
Two large solar-powered generating plants built near Las Vegas to power the operations of commercial data company Switch in northern and southern Nevada were dedicated Monday by elected, company and business officials. The industrial-sized power plants at an industrial park in North Las Vegas are designed to generate the equivalent amount of electricity to meet the needs of 46,000 Nevada homes, according to a company statement.
A group of Democratic congresswomen is calling Monday on the House Oversight Committee to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct against Donald Trump, adding to a growing drumbeat of voices drawing fresh attention to accusations leveled against the President by numerous women. In a letter to the panel's chairman, GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy, and the committee's top Democrat, Rep. Elijah Cummings, 54 female House lawmakers write that "the American people deserve a full inquiry in to the truth of these allegations."
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand told CNN that President Trump "should resign" over the many sexual assault allegations made about him. Said Gillibrand: "These allegations are credible; they are numerous.
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Robert L. Walker, an attorney with the D.C. firm Wiley Rein, is a former chief counsel and staff director of the Senate and House ethics committees. If Roy Moore wins Tuesday's special election for U.S. Senate in Alabama, after he takes the oath of office the Senate will have the authority to begin an ethics investigation into multiple allegations that Moore engaged in unwanted or assaultive sexual conduct going back to the 1960s.
Alabama's U.S. Senate campaign entered its last day Monday with the candidates making final appeals for votes and a war of robocalls between President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama. There was a flurry of bogus news as well.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said Sunday the city reached its goal to provide the cameras to more than 7,000 officers one year earlier than originally planned. They say it's the largest deployment of the technology in the U.S. Emanuel says the cameras are "an essential tool" in the city's efforts to rebuild trust between police and the community.
A whistleblower has told House Democrats that during President Donald Trump's inauguration speech, Flynn texte... . Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the ranking member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, leaves a secure area at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017.
Negotiations related to the future of the Columbia River Treaty will start early next year between the United States and Canada. The 1964 treaty governs hydropower and flood control operations along the Columbia, whose headwaters are in British Columbia and which flows more than 1,200 miles to the ocean.
President Donald Trump speaks at at a campaign-style rally at the Pensacola Bay Center, in Pensacola, Fla., Friday, Dec. 8, 2017. CREDIT: AP Photo/Susan Walsh President Trump called Jessica Leeds a "c**t" after allegedly groping her on an airplane in the late 1970's, Leeds said on Megyn Kelly Today Monday morning.
Sen. Lindsey Graham said Monday that if Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore is elected, he will be a useful campaign tool for Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections. " Moore will be the gift that keeps on giving for Democrats.
A member of the Republican National Committee resigned Monday over the committee's support for Roy Moore, the Alabama GOP Senate candidate who faces multiple accusations of preying on teenage girls decades ago. In an email addressed to her fellow RNC members, Nebraska committeewoman Joyce Simmons said she "strongly" disagrees with the RNC's recent decision to reinstate its financial support for the controversial Senate nominee after initially cutting off funding in the wake of the allegations.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said any woman who has felt violated or mistreated by a man has every right to speak up, even if it is President Donald Trump they are accusing. Veuer's Maria Mercedes Galuppo has more.