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Ari Fleischer, the former press secretary to President George W. Bush, said Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., should not have resigned. Fleischer's comments came in a tweet posted shortly after Franken said on Thursday he would be quitting in the coming weeks.
Billionaire hedge fund manager Leon Coopermancontends that U.S. would be mired in an economic recession today if Hillary Clinton had won the 2016 presidential election. The nation is better off with President Donald Trump in the White House than it would have been under Clinton or her 2016 rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Cooperman told CNBC.
Let's get one thing out of the way: Very few Americans want or even understand the sweeping tax bill Republicans are right now conspiring to ram through Congress. The bill has never polled particularly well and it's not getting better Just shy of 3 in 10 Americans said they supported the legislation in a new poll by Quinnipiac University.
A bill co-sponsored by Nevada County's Congressman Doug LaMalfa to ease gun restrictions has passed the House. H-R 38, also known as the 'Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act', would allow a qualified individual to possess a concealed handgun in another state that allows individuals to carry concealed firearms.
On Thursday morning, FBI Director Christopher Wray was grilled by the House Judiciary Committee on the merits of a recent Trump tweet, where he declared the FBI in tatters. This was in response to news that an FBI agent working with Robert Mueller's investigatory team addressing Russian interference in the 2016 election had sent anti-Trump tweets to a girlfriend.
Sen. Al Franken, under fire and lots of pressure from Democrats and Republicans to resign because of his misogynistic male chauvinist pig treatment of women, took to the Senate floor today allegedly to resign. Franken, pulled a fast one.
U.S. Rep John Lewis says he won't speak at the opening of Mississippi civil rights and history museums, calling it intolerable that President Donald Trump will attend. Lewis made the announcement Thursday.
North Dakota's U.S. senators voted with a bipartisan majority to confirm Kirstjen Nielsen as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Tuesday. "During Kirstjen Nielsen's nomination process, she committed to me that she would prioritize security improvements along our Northern Border - including quickly implementing the new Northern Border Strategy that came as a result of my bipartisan bill being signed into law," "Nielsen also brings important expertise on cybersecurity to her new position.
ST. PAUL, Minn. - A resignation by Sen. Al Franken amid a growing cloud of sexual misconduct allegations would trigger a short-term appointment to replace him and a mad-dash special election in 2018 to finish the Minnesota Democrat's term.
This isn't complicated. The rich only want their fair share. Since their view is that they create all of the wealth, the fairness issue is quite simple to them.
An artist's conception of the most distant supermassive black hole ever discovered, which is part of a quasar from just 690 million years after the Big Bang. Eduardo BaA ados had three nights to spot something that might not even exist: a supermassive black hole close to the beginning of time.
On Thursday, Al Franken will announce that, in light of the growing number of sexual-harassment allegations against him , he has decided to resign from the Senate. Unless he announces that he's actually comfortable staying on as a pariah - or else, that he's decided to leave the Democratic caucus, and join a party that takes a more nuanced view of sexual predation.
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas will lead a delegation of lawmakers in a meeting with President Donald Trump on Thursday to argue for changes to the nation's biofuels policy to protect oil refining jobs. U.S. President Donald Trump announces that the United States recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and will move its embassy there, during an address from the White House in Washington, U.S., December 6, 2017.
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced a $227 million project to rehabilitate Arlington Memorial Bridge, a historic and critical transportation link in the nation's capital. As awarded, the project will save American taxpayers $35 million and 1.5 years of estimated construction time.
Wray testified Thursday that "there is no finer institution than the FBI, and no finer people than the men and women who work there and are its very beating heart." The comments come days after Trump took to Twitter to slam the FBI as a biased institution whose reputation is in "tatters."
China is more of a problem than a partner for the United States on dealing with nuclear-armed North Korea, a leading Republican senator and ally of President Donald Trump told the Associated Press during a wide-ranging interview Thursday. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said China has been "lying for 25 years" about wanting to eliminate North Korea's nuclear capability.
Minnesota Democrat Al Franken, facing fresh allegations of sexual misconduct and vanishing support from fellow Democrats, appears on the brink of resigning from the Senate. Franken's office said he will make an announcement at 11:45 a.m. Thursday in a speech on the Senate floor.
Samantha Bee examined how misogyny in the media worked against Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election after numerous powerful journalists face sexual harassment and misconduct allegations. On Full Frontal , Bee played a damning edit montage from the disgraced bunch – including Charlie Rose , Matt Lauer and Mark Halperin – where they disparaged, interrupted or condescended to Clinton, other women and a muppet.
The Chicago Transit Authority took the next major step in Mayor Rahm Emanuel's transformational Red and Purple Modernization Program by selecting three qualified contracting teams to develop proposals to design and build the first phase of the project, which will significantly modernize, improve and increase rail service in Chicago for decades to come. The first phase of RPM will rebuild four of the oldest Red Line stations and make them fully accessible to people with disabilities and completely reconstruct 1.3 miles of adjacent track structure.