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U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Tucson, was arrested in New York Tuesday afternoon on a charge of civil disobedience while leading a protest against President Trump's immigration policies with two other members of Congress. The Associated Press reported Grijalva was arrested, along with Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y. and Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., after they and the protesters sat in the middle of Fifth Avenue, in front of Trump Tower, and refused to move.
Sen. Lindsey Graham says he has a disparate trio of supporters for his last-gasp attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act. "And so I've got Alan Greenspan, Jeb Bush, and Steve Bannon," Graham said.
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Forget waterboarding, enduring 41 minutes of Donald Trump's vision of the world, punctuated by incessant hand gestures, smug self-congratulatory approval of the fact that he can read off a teleprompter, and sophomoric depictions of foreign leaders, is pure unadulterated torture. It is also an embarrassing exercise that tests forbearance and begs forgiveness from our allies.
Pat Miles, a former U.S. attorney for the Western District of Michigan, has filed paperwork with the Michigan Secretary of State to run for state Attorney General's Office. He was appointed the top federal prosecutor for the region by President Barack Obama, was confirmed in July 2012 and held the job through Jan. 20, 2017 - Obama's last day in office.
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Hillary Clinton said first lady Melania Trump is not doing enough to fullfill her pledge during the campaign to initiate a movement to oppose cyberbullying. "No, no, and, look, I don't think anybody is doing enough on cyberbullying," Clinton said when Mic asked if Trump was making progress combating online bullying.
A bellicose President Donald Trump used his maiden address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday to warn "Rocket Man" Kim Jong-Un that he will "totally destroy" North Korea if it threatens the United States or its allies. Appearing before the 193-member body that emerged from the ashes of World War II, Trump boasted of America's military strength, signaled he is ready to rip up a nuclear accord with the "murderous regime" in Tehran, and berated US foes from Pyongyang to Caracas.
So far, I have refrained from weighing in on Hillary Clinton's post-mortem, What Happened , even though, as one of the few pundits who predicted that Donald Trump would win the presidential election, I perhaps can claim at least some insight into what happened. Why did I foresee that Trump would win? Not because I anticipated or understood what became the Trump phenomenon.
But in a startling reversal of fortune over the last week, Republicans lawmakers have resuscitated a new effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. The bill in question, Graham-Cassidy, named for its co-sponsors Sen. Lindsey Graham and Rep. Bill Cassidy, has earned the White House's backing, and received tacit support on Tuesday from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Hillary Clinton walked back her controversial comments on Tuesday after floating the idea of the possibility of contesting the 2016 election in wake of mounting evidence showing Russian interference. "I think no one, including me, is saying we will contest the election," Clinton clarified speaking at a Mic roundtable in New York on Tuesday.
Hillary Clinton late Tuesday tore into President TrumpA s "very dark" and "dangerous" speech at the United Nations General Assembly earlier in the day, arguing he took the wrong tact in condemning North KoreaA s nuclear pursuits. "When you face dangerous situations like what is happening in North Korea, to make it clear, your first approach should always be diplomatic," Clinton said during an appearance on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert."
Illustration by Joan Wong; Obama photo by Stephen Crowley/The New York Times and Trump photo by Chang W. Lee, via The New York Times The United Nations isn't the venue one would expect for threatening war. Yet that's what President Trump did in his first address to the General Assembly.
When scandal-plagued former Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley appointed his state's then-attorney general Luther Strange to the U.S. Senate, Bentley apparently considered it a good thing that he would get to name a new attorney general. Strange's appointment to fill Sen. Jeff Sessions' seat came as Bentley faced an impeachment investigation by state lawmakers for the fallout of an alleged affair with a staffer.
Right-wing and fringe media are claiming yet again that President Donald Trump was correct when he accused former President Barack Obama of wiretapping in Trump Tower, now arguing that a legal wiretap targeted at former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is proof of Trump's claim. However, said wiretap was pursuant to a warrant and targeted at Manafort, not Trump.
U.S. environmental groups opposed to the Pacific Northwest becoming an international fossil fuels gateway scored a major victory when a Washington state board invalidated two permits for a $2 billion project to manufacture methanol from natural gas and export it to China.
Regulators approved a deal in which Walgreens will buy 1,932 Rite Aid stores, fewer than the companies had planned. The Medicaid program administrator slumped as Senate Republicans sought votes on a bill that would roll back President Barack Obama's health care law.
Top Republicans on a key Senate panel have reached a tentative agreement on a tax plan that would add about $1.5 trillion to the government's $20 trillion debt over 10 years, according to congressional officials. Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, a member of the chamber's dwindling band of deficit hawks, said on Tuesday that Republicans have "potentially gotten to a very good place" on agreeing to how much the upcoming tax measure might cost, once the Senate's tax writers have blended together rate cuts, additional revenue raised through curbing tax breaks, and the beneficial effects of what he called "pro-growth tax reform."
Minnesota is at risk of losing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding for the state's health care program for the working poor as it pursues a waiver aimed at lowering premiums for people buying insurance through the state exchange. Gov. Mark Dayton wrote Tuesday to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price urging President Donald Trump's administration to "reverse this very destructive financial penalty" to MinnesotaCare, the state's program that covers those who make too much to qualify for Medicaid but can't afford private coverage.
Mayor Bill de Blasio proclaimed that cities like New York City that are inclusive of immigrant communities have the opportunity to define a "good, new normal" that demonstrates why inclusive cities succeed and thrive. On Monday, de Blasio gave the keynote address at his New York City Global Mayors Summit at the Grand Hyatt on how cities can and are executing policies that encourage migrant and refugee integration, protection of their rights and civic engagement.