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Arizona radio talk show host and Power Line friend Seth Leibsohn has decided to run for Congress in Arizona's 9th district. The Democratic incumbent, Krysten Sinema, is stepping down to run against Jeff Flake for the Senate, so it is an open seat.
Washington: The alleged mastermind of the 2012 attacks on a US outpost in Benghazi, Libya, despises America and when his hatred "boiled over," he organised the strike that killed four Americans, including ambassador Chris Stevens, a government prosecutor told the jury yesterday. Opening statements began in the case against Ahmed Abu Khattala, whom prosecutors describe as the ringleader of the attacks at a diplomatic compound - an attack that became a political flashpoint given its timing weeks before President Barack Obama's re-election.
In this July 18, 2017 file photo, Chief Justice Lawton Nuss, third from left, lead justices to their seats to hear arguments on a school funding case before the Kansas Supreme Court in Topeka, Kan. The Court ruled Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, that legislators did not increase spending on the state's public schools enough this year, hinting in its opinion that lawmakers fell hundreds of millions of dollars short a year of providing a suitable education for every child.
Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly said Monday that the Las Vegas massacre, which unfolded Sunday night, was "the big downside of American freedom" on "gruesome display." "This is the price of freedom," O'Reilly wrote on his website Monday after suspect Stephen Paddock killed at least 58 people and injured another 500 when he opened fire on the Las Vegas Strip during the Route 91 Harvest festival.
Republicans praised Pai ahead of the vote as someone who promoted market-based, pro-growth policy decisions who improved openness and transparency in the FCC. Trump named Pai as chairman of the FCC in January, and renominated him to a new five-year term in March.
Casey Wooten and Alex Rogers join Adam Wollner to discuss congressional Republicans moving on to tax reform after failing to repeal Obamacare. Josh Kraushaar also stops by to break down what Roy Moore's victory in the Alabama GOP Senate primary and Sen. Bob Corker's retirement mean for the direction of the Republican Party.
President Donald Trump on Monday condemned the largest mass shooting in modern U.S. history as an "act of pure evil" and said the nation was "joined together in sadness, shock and grief" after more than 50 people were gunned down in Las Vegas. He said he would be going to Las Vegas on Wednesday "on a very, very sad moment for me for everybody no matter where you are, no matter what your thought process."
Social media giant Facebook is expected to provide Congress on Monday with more than 3,000 ads that ran around the time of the 2016 presidential election and are linked to a Russian ad agency. Company officials will meet with the House and Senate intelligence committees and the Senate Judiciary Committee to hand over the ads, a Facebook official said.
Hartford - Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy has ordered flags lowered to half-staff until Friday to honor the victims of the shooting in Las Vegas. Democratic Sens. Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal on Monday both criticized their colleagues in Congress for failing to act to prevent gun violence, while also expressing their sorrow.
An east-side privacy fence that for years bared the words "Obama for America" in faded red spray paint has covered the statement with a new political endorsement. This election season, the fence on Elmwood Street at E. Forest wants you to vote "State Senator Coleman A. Young" for mayor, which is sort of the name that the underdog candidate goes by.
In this Sept. 5, 2017, file photo, Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha attends the Dialogue of Emerging Market and Developing Countries on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Xiamen, China.
The CIA is advising caution on "jumping to conclusions" after the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the Las Vegas shooting. Agency spokesman Jonathan Liu says U.S. intelligence agencies are aware of the claim of responsibility.
Three members of Congress are demanding answers after a St. Louis scholar's book revealed details of how the U.S. government sprayed, injected and fed radiation and other dangerous materials to countless people in secret Cold War-era testing. St. Louis sociologist Lisa Martino-Taylor wrote "Behind the Fog: How the U.S. Cold War Radiological Weapons Program Exposed Innocent Americans."
After months of speculation a group of Republican leaders referred to as the "Big Six" this week released a nine-page summary of tax reform objectives titled the "Unified Framework for Fixing Our Broken Tax Code." The framework includes broad descriptions of objectives and does not contain detailed or specific proposals.
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner sold out conservatives in this state on September 28 when he signed the controversial HB 40, which guarantees that abortion will remain available and legal in the state of Illinois.
Intellectual Property practitioners from across the world will join together with their peers in the creative and legal communities at the American Intellectual Property Law Association's 2017 Annual Meeting. AIPLA's Annual Meeting, which gathers thought-leaders from all areas of patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret law, expects hundreds of attendees to descend upon Washington, DC this fall.
The gunman in the mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip on October 2, 2017, has been identified as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, Las Vegas Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said Monday morning. WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump has been briefed on the shooting in Las Vegas, which has left at least 50 dead and 200 injured, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement Monday morning.
President Trump and other members of the administration offered support and condolences to those in Las Vegas after the deadliest mass shooting in history devastated the city on Sunday night. "My warmest condolences and sympathies to the victims and families of the terrible Las Vegas shooting.
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price resigned Friday, amid controversy over his use of private jets for official and personal business. He promised a day earlier to pay back some of the $400,000 spent on those flights, but the offer came too late for the Trump White House.