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U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin talk during the family photo session at the APEC Summit in Danang, Vietnam, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017. MANILA, Philippines - A day after being criticized by President Donald Trump, a former CIA director questioned whether Russian President Vladimir Putin was manipulating Trump with flattery during the president's lengthy trip to Asia.
Stephen Hope pulls a cross through town followed by other worshipers after leaving Sunday service at the temporary First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs on November 12, 2017 in Sutherland Springs, Texas. The service was held in a tent on the site of the town's baseball field.
Republican Sen. Pat Toomey urged Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore on Sunday to drop out of the race, adding to the party's growing disavowal of the controversial judge in a pivotal election following allegations that he initiated sexual contact with a 14-year old girl decades ago. Toomey said Moore's explanations have been inadequate so far in response to The Washington Post report last week and that Republicans should consider current Sen. Luther Strange as a write-in candidate to run against Moore.
Our two Alaska senators recently joined a majority in the U.S. Senate in voting to repeal a rule issued this summer by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Following Tapper's interview with Treasure Secretary Steve Mnuchin this morning in which the CNN anchor pressed Mnuchin on Trump's false claims about the GOP tax plan representing the biggest tax cut in history, TVOne's Roland Martin took to Twitter to inform Tapper that the "media needs to stop with the false claims." Because @jaketapper , media needs to stop with the "false claims."
Jake Tapper lit into TVOne's Roland Martin after Martin took to Twitter to tell Tapper that the media needs to stop using the term "false claims" and instead should be using the word "lie" when calling out President Donald Trump . Martin had taken issue with Tapper telling Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin that Trump had falsely claimed that the latest GOP tax plan was the biggest tax cut in history.
Shu-Yi Oei and Diane Ring have just posted on Tax Prof Blog The Senate Tax Bill and the Battles Over Worker Classification . Their post is extensive and detailed and well worth a full read.
As usual, Saturday Night Live opened last night's show by mocking President Donald Trump's administration and the Republican Party. But the show saved its most derisive political critique for the opposing party.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, left, joined by Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., the ranking member, and Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., offers his manager's amendment as the GOP tax bill debate enters the final stage, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017.
Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, said Sunday that if bombshell allegations against Republican candidate for Senate, Roy Moore of Alabama, are true, "there's no doubt that he should step aside, and not for the party, but for the American people." "Certainly, the allegations are very, very strong.
A senior aide to President Donald Trump said Sunday that Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore needs to be given time to defend himself against allegations that he pursued sexual or romantic relationships with teenage girls when he was in his 30s and that Trump would look more closely at the issue after returning from a trip to Asia. ''There's no Senate seat more important than the notion of child pedophilia,'' Marc Short, the White House director of legislative affairs, said on NBC's ''Meet the Press.'
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer says continued lapses in airport screening procedures are "highly concerning and a major threat we must neutralize." The New York Democrat said Sunday that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Inspector General's office should undertake a thorough review of the Transportation Security Administration's employee training procedures.
President Donald Trump tried to have it both ways Sunday on the issue of Russian interference in last year's presidential race, saying he believes the U.S. intelligence agencies when they say Russia meddled and Russian President Vladimir Putin's sincerity in claiming that his country did not. "I believe that he feels that he and Russia did not meddle in the election," Trump said of Putin at a news conference in Hanoi with Vietnam's president.
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Tiffany Haddish made her Saturday Night Live hosting debut this weekend - but was she ready? The Girls Trip breakout star returned to NBC on Saturday and brought with her an infectious energy that was felt throughout the broadcast. She probably gained quite a few fans with her humble, apolitical monologue, which spoke about what SNL meant to her while growing up in the foster care system.
Following the accusations by four women that Roy Moore dated and had sexual relations with them when they were in their teens and he was a 30-year-old lawyer, Moore's supporters in Alabama are - for the moment - remaining at the side of their man while national Republicans are fleeing the scene. According to Politico , the timing of the accusations - along with fear that a Democrat may take the seat once held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions - has local conservatives hardening their position supporting the controversial ex-judge.
"For the last week on the road, President Trump had been measured, disciplined and studiously scripted as he picked his way through the geopolitical minefields of Asia," the New York Times reports.
By JULIE CARR SMYTH, Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Republican U.S. Senate primary in Ohio that's barely registered with the public suddenly has a dividing line: Roy Moore. Josh Mandel, the 40-year-old state treasurer considered the front runner, declined to state a position on whether Moore should quit the Alabama Senate race if allegations of sexual misconduct with minors prove true.
The Ohio attorney general's office has awarded nearly $1 million to veterans groups from money seized during investigation of a multi-state Navy veterans charity fraud. Republican Mike DeWine says the grants are part of efforts to spend the funds as intended, to help veterans.