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AP file photo John Conyers III poses July 16, 2011, with his father, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., in Detroit. John Conyers' resignation from the U.S. House amid sexual harassment allegations unlocks the seat he's held for more than a half-century.
President Trump stumped for Alabama's Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore during a packed rally in nearby Pensacola, Fla., last night, where he said the GOP needs the controversial former judge to keep its "Make American Great Again" agenda on track. "We want jobs, jobs, jobs, so get out and vote for Roy Moore," Trump said about 30 miles from Florida's state line with Alabama, where voters Tuesday will choose between Moore or Democrat former prosecutor Doug Jones.
U.S. Sen. Edward J. Markey is slamming the Republican tax plan as a measure that would disproportionately hurt Bay State residents and is sounding off on calls to go after entitlement programs next year. "This Republican tax plan is a direct assault on Massachusetts families and their way of life," Markey said.
U.S. President Donald Trump gave his most full-throated endorsement yet of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, casting aside calls for to shun the former judge who's been accused of sexual misconduct while seizing on reports that questioned the credibility of his accuser. Trump, speaking to a crowd of supporters in Northern Florida about 30 miles from Alabama, highlighted reports Friday that Beverly Young Nelson acknowledged she had written some of the words in her high-school yearbook that she had attributed to Moore. Referring to the woman's attorney, Gloria Allred, Trump said "anytime you see her you know something's wrong."
President Donald Trump responded to chants of "lock her up" by citing the "rigged system," while speaking at a rally in Pensacola, Florida, on Friday night. "Look, it's being proven we have a rigged system," Trump said to the crowd of supporters.
A Democratic senator is calling for the investigation into Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's travel to include his use of government helicopters. Zinke's use of Interior Department and other helicopters was revealed earlier this year when the department released his office and travel schedules in response to Freedom of Information Act requests.
Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra, D-Pacoima, right, discusses a bill with Assemblyman Matt Dababneh, D-Van Nuys at the Capitol in Sacramento,. On Monday, lobbyist Pamela Lopez accused Dababneh of forcing her into a bathroom and masturbating in front of her at a party in 2016.
President Donald Trump on Friday touted his efforts to secure the homeland, telling a raucous rally crowd in the Florida panhandle that his administration is "taking care of our citizens at home" by defeating the Islamic State abroad and expelling violent street gang members from the U.S. "Not only are we defeating these killers, these savage killers, horrible, horrible," Trump told hundreds of supports at a rally in Pensacola, Florida, a region a White House spokesman called "Trump country." Florida helped Trump win the White House.
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.
Two looming questions threaten to snag the seemingly smooth trajectory of the Republicans ' massive tax legislation now in its final leg in Congress. How to satisfy demands of the rebellious GOP lawmakers from high-tax states who demand concessions over a cherished deduction? And how to pay for those concessions? Even President Donald Trump has dropped his stubborn resistance to a smaller cut in the corporate tax rate as Republican leaders consider it as a way to pay for the House GOP rebels' demands.
Attorney Gloria Allred and Beverly Young Nelson hold up a picture showing a message and a signature of Roy Moore during a press conference on November 13, 2017, in New York, alledging that Roy Moore sexually assaulted Nelson when she was a minor in Alabama without her consent. The US Senate's top Republican on Monday urged scandal-hit conservative Roy Moore to end his Senate campaign, saying he believes the women who have accused the Christian evangelical candidate of sexual misconduct.
Former President Barack Obama says Americans must be vigilant in their defense of democracy or risk following the path of Nazi Germany in the 1930s. At a speech earlier this week, the former president told the Economic Club of Chicago that "things can fall apart fairly quickly" if Americans don't "tend to this garden of democracy."
North Korea believes the outbreak of a war on the Korean Peninsula is inevitable because of continual provocations from the U.S., including ongoing military drills with South Korea and statements from high-ranking U.S. politicians and officials. In an article published by state-controlled news agency KCNA on Wednesday, a spokesperson for North Korea's Foreign Ministry called the start of war "an established fact."
President Donald Trump has an approval rating lower than any of his modern predecessors had at the same point in their presidencies, but the crowd at his campaign rally in northwest Florida offers adoring praise. Jason Kimball calls him "phenomenal."
The Trump administration plans to install a political appointee at the State Department to a key position managing policy on Iran and Iraq, a move that will replace a career diplomat with a loyal supporter of the president. Andrew L. Peek, a former captain in the U.S. Army Reserve and member of the president's State Department transition team, will become the new deputy assistant secretary of state covering Iran and Iraq, according to three State Department officials familiar with the matter.
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."
WATCH: Republican Rep. Trent Franks of Arizona refused to comment to reporters on Capitol Hill Thursday night after announcing his resignation. This comes following news of an investigation into potential sexual misconduct.