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As the House finished work this past week on next year's funding for the federal government, approving a package of eight different different spending bills, one thing noticeably absent from the debate on the House floor was a successful push to make new cuts in next year's budget, as efforts to make deeper spending reductions were routinely rejected by a coalition of both parties.
From left, Louisiana House Speaker Taylor Barras, Gov. John Bel Edwards and Senate President John Alario will be involved in upcoming budget and tax negotiations. From left, Louisiana House Speaker Taylor Barras, Gov. John Bel Edwards and Senate President John Alario will be involved in upcoming budget and tax negotiations.
A week after Hurricane Irma devastated Big Pine Key near Marathon, Florida residents return and start to rebuild their homes on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017.
In recent weeks I read more about the high heels that Melania Trump wore on a trip to Texas than I did about the positive developments in a war that was at the center of the foreign-policy debate in last year's presidential election. In that debate, you may recall, Donald Trump went against most of the candidates from his own party in welcoming the Russian military into the war against ISIS as an ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Former White House strategist Stephen Bannon, shown in Indianapolis in December, is backing former judge Roy Moore in Alabama's Republican Senate runoff race against current Sen. Luther Strange. The winner will face Democrat Doug Jones during the Dec. 12 general election.
16, 2017, in University City, Mo. Earlier, protesters marched peacefully in response to a not guilty verdict in the trial of former St. Louis police offi... .
The writer is a leading American pro-Israel activist who sponsors and coordinates many Zionist events. He is clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine at the Einstein School of Medicine as well as a practicing physician.
From the presidential campaign of Ross Perot , to the lackluster launch of the vapid " No Labels " campaign, to the equally yawn-worthy " Reformocon " movement, the romantic ideal of Americans putting aside their differences and coming together to develop real, pragmatic solutions to the country's biggest problems enchants the commentariat class. These panegyrics to moderation usually emerge after congressional congestion gets in the way of ambitious legislation.
Hillary Clinton has recently been a strong proponent of something she called Alternate Nostril Breathing . But I think the technique she has really been advocating her whole life could better be described as Alternate Reality Thinking.
This week, the sorest loser since Dickens' Miss Havisham in Great Expectations , Hillary Clinton, began peddling her latest book What Happened . On Twitter, the actor James Wood offers a visual of the reasons she proffers, feigning regret that he was not included.
Who could have known that one horrendous weather event after another would strike America and cause so much human tragedy and economic loss? Well, those who study the changing environment. They are called climate scientists, who for several decades have been warning that a warming planet causes the sea to rise in temperature.
President Donald J. Trump is working with the same Democrats he vilified in the past and embracing a more moderate stance on certain key public policy issues. I am not complaining; he is getting stuff done after all, and that means something in times like these.
On her book tour this week 2016 Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton said she would not be a candidate for office again, including another run at the White House. 2020 is still some ways away, so she always has the chance to change her mind.
The endless and exhausting Bernie-Hillary social media wars have produced an array of dumb attacks and bad faith arguments on both sides. The War of the Roses and the Donuts tends to generate far more heat than light at a time when both sides need to be trying far harder to understand one another and address one another's concerns.
Several groups rallied at Colorado Mesa University in support of immigrants no longer shielded from deportation due to President Donald Trump announcing the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. "It's hard to live in the shadows, or go back to square one," she said, not wanting to share her last name.
The Pentagon has confirmed that transgender troops currently serving in the military are able to re-enlist in the next several months as a ban on their service is under review. In a memo to military leaders on Friday, Defense Secretary James Mattis said the Pentagon would convene a high-level panel to determine how to carry out the ban ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump on transgender individuals in the military.
A Federal judge on Friday block the Justice Department from withholding funds from public-safety programs to deter the sanctuary city policies aimed at protecting immigrants. U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber ruled that the Justice Department could not impose those requirements, addressing that if the city was forced to carry them out before settling the lawsuit, there would be irreparable damage to the immigrant community.
From the Associated Press - One of nine Michigan insurers planning to sell health insurance on the federal marketplace in 2018 no longer will do so. Health Alliance Plan said Friday the move affects about 9,100 people.
Well, the controversial congressional maps in the Lone Star state that were struck own by two lower court decisions were given the green light by the Supreme Court on Tuesday. In issue at hand involves the congressional districts of Republicans Lloyd Doggett and Blake Farenthold, which the lower courts said were drawn illegally.