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By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press WASHINGTON - Republicans powered a $4 trillion budget through the House on Thursday by a razor-thin margin, a close vote underscoring the difficulties that lie ahead in delivering President Donald Trump's promise to cut taxes.
The American people are not interested in partisanship. They want real solutions that fulfill the promises that were made to them, including addressing the national debt.
Erie County Executive Kathy Dahlkemper went on the defense during Thursday's debate at Erie's East Middle School. Her opponent -- Republican businessman Art Oligeri, blasting the Democrat for a pair of tax hikes during her first term.
Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a fundraising event for the Republican Party on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017, in Greenwood Village, Colo. Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday told a ballroom full of Republicans in Greenwood Village that a unified GOP will fulfill a key campaign pledge of President Donald Trump by enacting tax reform legislation.
President Donald Trump made it clear he wanted the gag order lifted on an undercover informant who played a critical role in an FBI investigation into Russian efforts to gain influence in the uranium industry in the United States during the Obama administration, according to two sources familiar with the President's actions. The President directed his senior staff "to facilitate the Justice Department's full cooperation with Congress to lift the gag order," one of the sources said.
Economic development officials across Tennessee shared virtual high-fives Thursday as unemployment rates in all 95 counties dropped below 5 percent for the first time. Many of them were in Gatlinburg for the 64th annual Governor's Conference on Economic and Community Development.
During a sometimes-heated discussion with other legislators on KET's "Kentucky Tonight," state Rep. Chris Harris said he strongly opposed the changes Governor Matt Bevin is proposing for the state's public retirement systems.
The Orange County deputy sheriffs' union president, in a recent interview with the Orange County Register , made a shockingly cynical statement about the men and women he represents. His words probably were meant as a rhetorical device to muscle county taxpayers into paying some controversial workers' compensation claims, but I was nonetheless floored by what Tom Dominguez was quoted saying.
Sen. Deb Fischer said Thursday she does not share concerns about the character and conduct of President Donald Trump that were expressed earlier this week by Republican Sens. Bob Corker and Jeff Flake.
We're less than two weeks away from the November election, and one of the big issues still making waves in Virginia is where the candidates NEW YORK - Former Vice President Joe Biden hasn't decided to run for president in 2020. But he's decided that he's "not going to decide not to run."
The Government Accountability Office has accepted a request by a group of U.S. senators to investigate the activities of President Donald Trump's commission on voter fraud. Democratic Sens. Michael Bennet of Colorado, Cory Booker of New Jersey and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota wrote to the watchdog agency last week to request the probe, citing a lack of transparency surrounding the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity .
Hillary Clinton's campaign didn't just pay for the Kremlin-aided smear job on Donald Trump before the election; she continued to use the dirt after the election to frame her humiliating loss as a Russian conspiracy to steal the election. Bitter to the core, she and her campaign aides hatched a scheme, just 24 hours after conceding the race, to spoon-feed the dirty rumors to an eager liberal media and manufacture the narrative Russia secretly colluded with her neophyte foe to sabotage her coronation.
After hearing that some eligible applicants are going without federal assistance in the wake of October's wildfire disaster because of concerns they might expose family members and others to deportation, Rep. Jared Huffman led a letter to the Federal Emergency Management Agency asking for clarification on the agency's immigration policies.
26, 2017 photo, Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, right, listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with members of the House Ways and Means committee in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. ... The commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police says the extremely close relationship between her department and the New York Police Department is vital to keeping people safe in a time of global terrorism threats.
Contractors have completed eight prototypes of President Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico, triggering a period of rigorous testing to determine if they can repel sledgehammers, torches, pickaxes and battery-operated tools. Contractors have completed eight prototypes of President Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico, triggering a period of rigorous testing to determine if they can repel sledgehammers, torches, pickaxes and battery-operated tools.
John Kapoor, a billionaire whose company developed a liquid version of the opioid painkiller fentanyl, was arrested in Phoenix on Thursday on charges that he spearheaded a scheme to bribe doctors and pharmacists across the nation to boost sales - largely to patients who did not need the medication. The scheme was first described in December in an indictment against six executives at the company, Insys Therapeutics in Chandler, Ariz.
His tweets have the power to shape international relations, send stock prices up - or down - and galvanize the American public. We're watching how Donald Trump is using this platform of unfettered communication now that he's commander in chief.
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has approved the first of President Donald Trump's judicial nominees in Texas, including Karen Gren Scholer. who, if confirmed by the full Senate, would be the first Asian-American to sit on a federal district court bench in the state.