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What's better than finding out that Larry David and Sen. Bernie Sanders are distantly related? Watching the two men find out they're distantly related. PBS' "Finding Your Roots" released a clip of its Season 4 premiere on Tuesday, showcasing the remarkable moment David and Sanders discovered they were distant cousins.
"We have to use different tools and different tactics for the right situations," said Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Calif. "I just don't think it's going to be as impactful as it was the first time."
"If we're going to be in the minority again, we might as well have a minority who are with us as opposed to a minority who helped us become a minority," Ayers said. Republicans in Congress were seething Wednesday after a top aide to Vice President Mike Pence suggested to a gathering of GOP donors that the party's congressional majorities should be jettisoned in 2018 if that's what it takes to weed out members disloyal to President Trump.
The leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday largely endorsed the findings of the intelligence community that Russia sought to sway the 2016 U.S. elections through a hacking and influence campaign, and they called for a "more aggressive, whole-of-government approach" to ensure future elections are not similarly compromised.
4. DEBATE BEGINS ON US TAX OVERHAUL Capitol Hill Republicans are advancing budget plans integral to the overhaul of the tax code that would add up to $1.5 trillion to U.S. debt. 5. WHAT'S SOURCE OF REVENUE FOR PYONGYANG At a time when North Korea is banned from selling almost anything, seafood prepared by the country's workers has gone U.S. stores and homes, the AP determines.
A top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee warned former Equifax CEO Richard Smith not to hide anything from lawmakers after exposing as many as 145 million Americans' sensitive data. "Equifax has forfeited its right to corporate secrets," said Senator Sherrod Brown at a hearing.
Republican congressman Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania announced Wednesday that he would not run for a ninth term, amid tawdry revelations of an extramarital affair in which the anti-abortion lawmaker urged his mistress to get an abortion when he thought she was pregnant. Murphy said in a brief statement through his office that he will "take personal time to seek help as my family and I continue to work through our personal difficulties."
Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation is looking at a controversial dossier on President Trump compiled by a former British intelligence officer, according to a report on Wednesday. Three sources with knowledge of the probe told Reuters that Mueller's investigators have assumed control of multiple inquiries into allegations by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia interfered in the election to benefit Trump.
The embattled pro-life Republican congressman who urged his mistress to get an abortion announced Wednesday he's retiring from office instead of seeking re-electon. Rep. Tim Murphy said in a statement that he wants to take time off "to seek help as my family and I continue to work through our personal difficulties."
* You might remember that a few weeks ago Sen. Bob Corker told reporters that Trump "has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability, nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful." Today, while not naming the president specifically, he indicated who he thinks is responsible for the chaos.
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk with surgeon John Fildes at the University Medical Center after meeting with survivors of the shooting. President Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk with surgeon John Fildes at the University Medical Center after meeting with survivors of the shooting.
Former White House senior adviser and conservative firebrand Steve Bannon may once again shakeup the Republican Party by supporting and functioning as an outside adviser for a controversial candidate to defeat an establishment Republican congressman in a district that covers the New York City borough of Staten Island, FOX Business has learned. Bannon met Wednesday in Washington, D.C., with former Rep. Michael Grimm, a Republican who held the New York's 11 congressional district seat that covers most of Staten Island until 2015, when he was sentenced to seven months in federal prison on tax evasion charges.
The nation's five surviving former presidents will attend an Oct. 21 benefit concert for the victims of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation said Wednesday. The concert - "Deep From the Heart: The One America Appeal" - will be held at Texas A&M University and will be attended by former Presidents Bush 41, along with Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter.
U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher says White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is preventing him from getting information to President Donald Trump. The California Republican told Business Insider that Kelly and "a coalition of people in the White House" are keeping him from talking to the president about information that could clear WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the Russian government in meddling in the U.S. presidential election.
The spirit of the Obama administration lives - only Barack Obama is gone - in the bureaucracies that imagine they were established to harass taxpayers. One of these is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau , or the CFPB , one of the toxic vegetables in Washington's alphabet soup.
The Texas Tribune asked all 38 members of the state's congressional delegation whether they would consider a ban on "bump stocks," the type of gun attachment used by the Las Vegas mass shooter. WASHINGTON - Over several hours on Wednesday afternoon, something quite unusual happened on Capitol Hill: A small gun-control measure began to pick up public consideration from a half-dozen or so congressional Republicans.
The White House asked Congress on Wednesday to approve $29 billion in additional hurricane relief and debt forgiveness, seeking to help Puerto Rico and other battered areas and to shore up the troubled federal program that provides flood insurance to homes and small businesses. The request came nearly a month after lawmakers approved a first installment of $15 billion in disaster relief, taking action after Hurricane Harvey caused devastation in Texas and while Hurricane Irma was heading toward Florida.
U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump step from Air Force One as they arrive in Las Vegas Declaring it a "very, very sad day" for himself and the nation, President Donald Trump has arrived in Las Vegas where a gunman killed 59 people at a concert. Declaring it a "very, very sad day" for himself and the nation, President Donald Trump has arrived in Las Vegas where a gunman killed 59 people at a concert.
Samuel Brownback, governor of Kansas and a former U.S. senator, appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as the nominee to be the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017.