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In this Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, file photo, Cadet Simone Askew, of Fairfax, Va., who has been selected first captain of the U.S. Military Academy Corps of Cadets for the upcoming academic year, answers questions during a news conference, in West Point, NY. Askew earned another prestigious honor Sunday, Nov. 19, when she was one of 32 Americans awarded Rhodes scholarships to study at Oxford University in England.
The 2017 citywide elections were indeed a watershed moment in New Orleans politics, just as I predicted in my column posted on Election Eve . We not only got our first woman mayor, which was a foregone conclusion, but we also got our first Asian and Hispanic council members .
President Donald Trump says he should have left three American basketball players who had been detained in China on suspicion of shoplifting in jail, after the father of one of the players questioned the President's role in their release. "Now that the three basketball players are out of China and saved from years in jail, LaVar Ball, the father of LiAngelo, is unaccepting of what I did for his son and that shoplifting is no big deal," Mr Trump wrote.
Our view: Alabama voters must reject Roy Moore; we endorse Doug Jones for U.S. Senate - There is only one candidate left in this race who has proven worthy of the task of representing Alabama. He is Doug Jones.
Nebraska regulators are set to decide Monday whether to approve or deny an in-state route for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. It's the last major regulatory hurdle facing project operator TransCanada Corp. The Nebraska Public Service Commission's ruling is on the Nebraska route TransCanada has proposed to complete the $8 billion, 1,179-mile pipeline to deliver oil from Alberta, Canada, to Texas Gulf Coast refineries.
A 33-year-old former federal prosecutor from a political family is the Democratic nominee for next year's special election to complete the term of an anti-abortion lawmaker who resigned after his hometown newspaper reported that he had suggested a mistress get an abortion. Democrats on Sunday chose Conor Lamb, a first-time candidate and Marine veteran, as their nominee for the March 13 balloting.
Left-leaning Americans who are rightfully repulsed by Roy Moore , and who were similarly steamed in 2016 about President Donald Trump's gropey braggadocio, need to acknowledge that President Bill Clinton also rates a place in that Hall of Infamy. Lest we forget, feminists and Democratic activists in the late 1990s mostly stayed mute, defended, or excused Clinton's notorious workplace behavior .
Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier said Sunday on "Face the Nation" that former President Bill Clinton's accusers "were not treated as they should have been" and that "they should have been believed." Speier was responding to CBS host John Dickerson who asked about her stance on the argument of a reevaluation of Bill Clinton's presidency.
Biden, while speaking about his upcoming book at the Miami Book Fair in Florida, paused to discuss the Trump administration. He accused the president of not caring about the working class voters that put him in the White House and said he and his advisors take advantage of "change and pain."
Both on the left and the right, prominent donors and strategists are building new organizations to promote female candidates in the lead-up to the 2018 midterm elections. On the left, a new initiative led by Sen. Bernie Sanders' former deputies and surrogates will focus on electing working class women and women of color.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey pauses as she speaks to the media on Nov. 17 in Montgomery, Ala. If you want to see the state of the GOP these days take a gander at Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey.
Rep. Jackie Speier, D-California, joined "Face the Nation" Sunday to discuss the fallout from the flood of sexual assault and harassment allegations across the U.S., and sexual harassment in Congress.
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, a strong supporter of the Trump administration , joined "Face the Nation" Sunday and helped us dive into the political dynamics of the GOP amid the push for tax reform and the Roy Moore controversy in the Alabama special election.
This undated illustration depicts President Abraham Lincoln making his Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery on the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pa., Nov. 19, 1863. The cemetery commemorates soldiers who died in the American Civil War Battle of Gettysburg in July.
November 17, 2017, Washington, DC - The National Council of Jewish Women today expressed disgust at Senator Charles Grassley's decision to disregard the blue slip process that has been in place for a century. NCJW CEO Nancy K. Kaufman released the following statement: "Yesterday, Senator Grassley decided to disregard a practice he has insisted upon for years: the blue slip.
Little more than a week ago I posted on the effort by Tennessee Senator Bob Corker to troll Donald Trump by holding a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Trump's authority to order a nuclear strike. Never mind that there is no nuclear war looming.
Marc Short, White House director of legislative affairs, won't say whether Trump believes the women accusing Alabama Senate nominee Roy Moore of sexual misconduct. WASHINGTON - A top White House official on Sunday avoided answering the question - 15 times - as to whether President Donald Trump supports Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore , who has been accused of sexual misconduct by seven women.
Two of President Donald Trump's top economic advisers sent mixed signals Sunday on the fate of a health care provision in the Senate version of a $1.5 trillion measure to overhaul business and personal income taxes that is expected to be voted on after Thanksgiving. The provision to repeal a requirement that everyone in the U.S. have insurance has emerged as a major sticking point for Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who has said that issue should be dealt with separately from the push by Trump and fellow Republicans to overhaul the tax code.
Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez 's political fate in next year's crucial midterms after the mistrial in his federal bribery case may hinge on whether prosecutors retry him and whether attacks from Republicans based on the indictment convince voters to keep him from a third term. Fresh off a victory lap at the courthouse, where Menendez thanked those who stood by him and promised to remember those who opposed him during his darkest hours, the two-term incumbent wasted no time jumping back into his Senate schedule.
An hour and a half sit down with a legendary political couple, celebrating a successful campaign near the end of the 20th century, and celebrating the thousands of people in the crowd who helped back in 1992. "If it weren't for the people of Arkansas, there weren't enough of us to go around, we wouldn't have made it."