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Maine's U.S. senators say the federal government is awarding $400,000 to a Lewiston nutrition center to develop local food systems. Republican Sen. Susan Collins and independent Sen. Angus King say the grant is going to St. Mary's Regional Nutrition Center.
The crush of unfinished business facing lawmakers when they return to the Capitol would be daunting even if Washington were functioning at peak efficiency. It's an agenda whose core items - tax cuts, a potential government shutdown, lots of leftover spending bills - could unravel just as easily as advance in factionalism, gamesmanship and a toxic political environment.
More than 2,000 conservatives in tuxedos and gowns recently filled Union Station's main hall for a steak dinner and the chance to cheer the man who saved the Supreme Court from liberal control. Justice Neil Gorsuch didn't disappoint them, just as he hasn't in his first seven months on the Supreme Court.
Arizona State University is revoking an award bestowed on journalist Charlie Rose, who was fired this week by CBS News and PBS in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations from multiple women. Arizona State University is revoking an award bestowed on journalist Charlie Rose, who was fired this week by CBS News and PBS in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations from multiple women.
Rep. Bruce Poliquin is showing his true colors with his vote in favor of the House tax cut for the rich. Poliquin ran as a so-called deficit hawk for two elections but that was merely cover for voting against anything while Barack Obama was the president.
It is already well known that former President Bill Clinton was right in the middle of the now widely reported criminal Uranium One deal. What isn't well known is that this was the second of two criminal uranium deals involving the former President and the Clinton Foundation.
Diplomats Sound the Alarm as They Are Pushed Out in Droves - WASHINGTON - Of all the State Department employees who might have been vulnerable in the staff reductions that Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson has initiated as he reshapes the department, the one person who seemed least likely Trump visits his West Palm Beach golf club - President Trump traveled to his West Palm Beach, Florida golf club Saturday, marking the fourth consecutive day he's visited one of his golf properties.
Diplomats Sound the Alarm as They Are Pushed Out in Droves - WASHINGTON - Of all the State Department employees who might have been vulnerable in the staff reductions that Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson has initiated as he reshapes the department, the one person who seemed least likely Trump visits his West Palm Beach golf club - President Trump traveled to his West Palm Beach, Florida golf club Saturday, marking the fourth consecutive day he's visited one of his golf properties.
Two more women have come forward to accuse Senator Al Franken of inappropriate touching, the Huffington Post reports . The women, who spoke anonymously out of fear of retribution, allege that Franken grabbed their butts, at two separate events.
President Donald Trump named an interim head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau shortly after the outgoing director appointed his own successor, signaling a potential showdown over who's in charge of the federal agency. Trump named Mick Mulvaney, the current director of the Office of Management and Budget, as interim director of the consumer watchdog agency.
Sitting in a classroom one day in September, a police officer studied a passage from James Baldwin's 1966 essay on policing in Harlem, "A Report from Occupied Territory," and read a few lines out loud: "Some school children overturned a fruit stand in Harlem. This would have been a mere childish prank if the children had been white a but these children were black, and the police chased them and beat them."
It seems like every time you open the morning paper, more powerful men are being accused of groping, raping and generally treating their female colleagues in inappropriate and degrading ways. But it's not just the political, corporate and entertainment titans of today who are being called out; many sins of the past are being re-examined in the context of our new sensitivities regarding gender relations.
Vehicle-1 was traveling southbound on US75 and struck Pedestrian-1 who was standing in the outside lane of the highway," Oklahoma Highway Patrol said. We have another beautiful day ahead of us in the Tulsa area on Saturday.
The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote next week on a resolution requiring anti-harassment training for lawmakers and staff. The U.S. House of Representatives plans to vote next week on requiring anti-harassment and anti-discrimination training for all members and their staffs.
Militan... . Abdallah Abdel Nasser, 14, receives medical treatment at Suez Canal University hospital in Ismailia, Egypt, Friday, Nov. 24, 2017, after he was in injured during an attack on a mosque.
Last year, when these families gatherered for Thanksgiving, politics threatened the holiday harmony. Who knew Donald Trump's election would unify us a year later? Last year, when these families gatherered for Thanksgiving, politics threatened the holiday harmony.
A Washington lawyer says Rep. John Conyers verbally abused her and acted inappropriately when she worked for him on Capitol Hill in the 1990s. Melanie Sloan told The Washington Post on Wednesday that she did not believe she was sexually harassed by the Michigan Democrat, though she said one time she showed up to a meeting at his office and he was in his underwear.
Franken: "Democratic Sen. Al Franken issued a Thanksgiving explanation and apology in the wake of four women alleging that he had touched them inappropriately, a message that ended with a promise to regain constituents' trust and suggested no resignation was being contemplated. Franken, elected to one of Minnesota's Senate seats in 2008, faces a Senate ethics investigation for improper conduct.
Many conservatives would scoff at the idea that Attorney Jeff Sessions is President Trump's most effective cabinet member. They would cite his decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation , his refusal to appoint a special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton , and his failure to remember various obscure meetings with Russians, etc.
For decades, an idiosyncrasy in the mail delivery system has forced some rural northern Missouri residents to have Iowa mailing addresses, which has created roadblocks and red tape for residents when they vote or pay taxes - even when they die.