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Last week in the Russia investigations: More pressure on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, more details about Russia's personal outreach to Trump campaign aides and more questions about Trump Jr.'s meeting with Russians last year The bad news for Attorney General Jeff Sessions: He is due back on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to talk about the Russia imbroglio, this time before the House Judiciary Committee. Its chairman, retiring Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., wants to talk Russia all right - about the Russian acquisition of the Canadian mining company Uranium One in 2010, which has become the basis for a parallel narrative of "Russian collusion" that Republicans say is the real scandal here.
Days before returning home from a whirlwind trip to Asia Donald Trump has gone back on the defensive over Russian election meddling and taunted the leader of North Korea. The US President said he considers President Vladimir Putin's denials sincere, dismissed former US intelligence officials as "political hacks" and accused Democrats of trying to sabotage relations between the two countries.
U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Vietnam's President Tran Dai Quang attend the welcoming ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017. U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Vietnam's President Tran Dai Quang attend the welcoming ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017.
Ed Perkins balked when a group from Northeast Passage playing sled hockey on the rink at Strawbery Banke asked if he wanted to try it out. “I said 'hell no, I can't do that' and I walked away,” Perkins, 69, recalled this week.
THE ISSUE: Federal legislation would allow people with concealed-carry permits issued from their home states to carry a concealed handgun when visiting a different state. THE IMPACT: Attorneys general in 17 states, including Massachusetts, oppose the bill and say it would undermine local laws.
US embassy hires security firm of former Russian spy who worked with Putin - The US embassy in Moscow is to be guarded by a company owned by a former head of KGB counter-intelligence who worked with British double agent Kim Philby and young Vladimir Putin, after cuts to US staff demanded by Russia. Trump: When will 'haters and fools' realize relationship with Russia is good - President Trump on Saturday hit back at critics of his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the comments he made afterward, asking when "the haters and fools" will realize a strong relationship with Russia is good.
US embassy hires security firm of former Russian spy who worked with Putin - The US embassy in Moscow is to be guarded by a company owned by a former head of KGB counter-intelligence who worked with British double agent Kim Philby and young Vladimir Putin, after cuts to US staff demanded by Russia. Trump: When will 'haters and fools' realize relationship with Russia is good - President Trump on Saturday hit back at critics of his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the comments he made afterward, asking when "the haters and fools" will realize a strong relationship with Russia is good.
While President Donald Trump says he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin is sincere when he denies that Russia sought to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election, the president said he personally believes the conclusion of the U.S. intelligence community - and not Putin - that Russia did in fact meddle in the election. "I believe he believes that," Trump said of Putin's denials during a joint press conference with Vietnam's President Tran Dai Quang at the presidential palace in Hanoi and expressed surprise that there was any confusion about what he meant after previously telling reporters that Putin "means it" when he says he didn't meddle.
PICTURE EXCLUSIVE: Introducing Rumi and Sir! BeyoncA and Jay Z's twins are seen for the first time as the couple relax in Miami Husband shoots dead his wife, nine-month-old baby and three-year-old daughter before killing himself 'over money troubles after his holistic physiotherapy business collapsed' 'I would never call him short and fat': Trump lashes out at Kim for calling him a 'lunatic old man' and says that hopefully one day they will be 'friends' in bizarre rant America braces for MORE freezing weather after record breaking cold-snap sent temperatures plunging over Veterans Day weekend caused by unusual system squatting over GREENLAND Parents find out their runaway daughter is ALIVE and living rough on the streets of Boston after seeing her interviewed on CNN about being homeless on 'Methadone Mile' The Uggly truth: Top surgeon warns Ugg boots are causing SERIOUS harm to ... (more)
PICTURE EXCLUSIVE: Introducing Rumi and Sir! Beyonce and Jay Z's twins are seen for the first time as the couple relax in Miami Husband shoots dead his wife, nine-month-old baby and three-year-old daughter before killing himself 'over money troubles after his holistic physiotherapy business collapsed' 'I would never call him short and fat': Trump lashes out at Kim for calling him a 'lunatic old man' and says that hopefully one day they will be 'friends' in bizarre rant America braces for MORE freezing weather after record breaking cold-snap sent temperatures plunging over Veterans Day weekend caused by unusual system squatting over GREENLAND Parents find out their runaway daughter is ALIVE and living rough on the streets of Boston after seeing her interviewed on CNN about being homeless on 'Methadone Mile' The Uggly truth: Top surgeon warns Ugg boots are causing SERIOUS harm to women's ... (more)
Leave it to the Senate to take a flaming hot Trump economy and throw swamp water on it! The booming stock market speaks for itself. President Trump has our economy rolling and now the Senate comes along with "business as usual" tactics to mess things up.
A defiant Roy Moore on Saturday insisted the allegations of sexual misconduct decades ago were false and voters in Alabama would "see through this charade." The Republican Senate candidate showed no signs of backing down despite the demand of a growing number of Washington Republicans for him to step aside.
On the Fox Business Network on Tuesday, Happening Now host Melissa Francis would not let her Democratic Party guest get away with refusing to answer her question about tax reform. Eventually, she goaded former Clinton adviser Simon Rosenberg into acknowledging that he was refusing to answer her question ; when she wouldn't move on without getting one, he promised that "I'm never coming back on this show ever again."
World War II veteran, Len Erickson has four medals for his time in the service but never realized he earned another one. On Saturday Erickson finally received the recognition he deserved decades ago, a medal was awarded by Senator Ron Johnson.
Days before returning home from a whirlwind trip to Asia, President Donald Trump was back on the defensive over Russian election meddling, saying he considers President Vladimir Putin's denials sincere, dismissing former U.S. intelligence officials as "political hacks" and accusing Democrats of trying to sabotage relations between the two countries. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin had again vehemently insisted - this time on the sidelines of an economic summit in Vietnam - that Moscow had not interfered in the 2016 U.S. elections.
Democrats had a good election across the U.S. last week. In Washington, voters placed the final brick in a so-called West Coast "blue wall" in Washington, Oregon and California.
Louisiana Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy withdrew his support Saturday for GOP candidate Roy Moore, who is facing allegations of sexual misconduct while running in the U.S. Senate race in Alabama, using social media to announce his decision. "Based on the allegations against Roy Moore, his response and what is known, I withdraw support.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a tax code that looked as though it had been designed on purpose? Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., uses charts to contest the Republican version of tax reform, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. Washington a The Republicans' tax bill would somewhat improve the existing revenue system that once caused Mitch Daniels to say: Wouldn't it be nice to have a tax code that looked as though it had been designed on purpose? Today's bill, which is 429 pages and is apt to grow, is an implausible instrument of simplification.
Mourners instead drove around the tiny community of Sutherland Springs before reaching a cemetery on the edge of town, where dozens more vehicles waited along a rural road for the private burial of Therese and Richard Rodriguez. Sheriff's SUVs shielded mourners at the cemetery's three entrances.
Desperation seems to be driving Republicans this grateful season as they seek to trade polar bears for tax cuts, while fervently praying that former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore didn't do what he's alleged to have done, which might give the U.S. Senate another Democratic vote. The race is on to pass tax reform before Dec. 12, when Alabama will select a new senator to fill the seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.