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Ohio's U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown is planning to introduce a bill to reward American businesses that keep jobs in the country and pay workers well. The Democrat announced the Patriot Employers Tax Credit during a news conference today.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. accompanied by members of the House and Senate Democrats, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday.
Fifteen states and Washington, D.C., are suing the Trump administration to stop plans to end the program that keeps young undocumented immigrants from deportation. They argue that the decision to scrap the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals is unconstitutional because it would deny those affected the due process of law against arbitrary punishment.
The current state of conservatism is bleak. With Donald Trump dragging the GOP into an abyss bearing the lowest approval numbers a president has had in any first year, a series of racist attacks in the name of conservatism, and cable news going the way of MSNBC, there appears to be a political natural disaster ready to take a final blow at the Republicans; and it's Typhoon Trump.
In deciding to phase out the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which protected the children of immigrants who came to the United States illegally, Trump built in a six-month grace period before deportations could begin. He has called on Congress to act on a replacement before that happens.
President Donald Trump pauses during a meeting with, from left, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other Congressional leaders in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017, in Washington.
The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed $7.9 billion in Hurricane Harvey disaster relief as warring Republicans and Democrats united behind help for victims of that storm, as an ever more powerful new hurricane bore down on Florida. The 419-3 vote sent the aid package - likely the first of several - to the Senate in hopes of sending the bill to President Donald Trump before dwindling federal disaster reserves run out at the end of this week.
SEPTEMBER 06: Alexis Ramos looks out to sea at Luquillo Beach prior to the passing of Hurricane Irma on September 6, 2017 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The category 5 storm is expected to pass over Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands today, and make landfall in Florida by the weekend.
Activists from RefuseFascism.org project anti-Trump administration messages onto the side of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, where many undocumented people are jailed, on Tuesday. At President Donald Trump's rallies, he's usually flanked by a pair of big blue placards displaying his administration's proudest boast.
This sign, posted outside Facebook headquarters in 2011, depicts the symbol with which users give their approval to each others' posts. Now Facebook has disclosed that a Russian company linked to a Kremlin intelligence operation bought sponsored ads targeting voters during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Space Systems, left, Rep. Mike Coffman, Jay Lindell and Don Rosier break ground on the Gateway Center. Employees of Lockheed Martin, government officials and other community members gathered to celebrate the 266,000-square-foot facility.
Hurricane Irma sent farmers and food companies scrambling to protect processing facilities, farm fields and animal herds in the South and Southeastern parts of the United States on Wednesday. Florida sugar and citrus processors rushed to secure rail cars and equipment that could be crushed, blocked or turned into flying projectiles.
U.S. officials say they have busted a shoplifting ring that stole more than $20 million in goods from popular clothing stores across the country. U.S. officials say they have busted a shoplifting ring that stole more than $20 million in goods from popular clothing stores across the country.
Ohio's two U.S. senators say Congress should act on DACA, now that the Trump administration announced it would end the program shielding undocumented young people from deportation. Still up in the air is how both parties might strike a deal.
Congressman Blake Farenthold supported the funding and said FEMA would have run out of money this week and is glad the bill was passed. "This will primarily be used for emergency individual assistance and the things that FEMA is doing right now," Farenthold said by phone Wednesday.
6, 2017 in New York. . Brooke Shields attends the 2017 Couture Council Award Luncheon honoring Fashion Designer Thom Browne at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center on Wednesday, Sept.
The most powerful Atlantic Ocean hurricane in recorded history has made its first landfall in the islands of the northeast Caribbean. Future of Kentucky's last abortion clinic is at stake as federal trial opens in lawsuit stemming from the state's attempts to revoke the facility's license.
Sen. Robert Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey, center, and his daughter Alicia Menendez, left, exit federal court in Newark, New Jersey, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017.
6, 2017 at 7:15 a.m. EDT, and released by NASA/NOAA GOES Project, Hurricane Irma tracks over Saint Martin and the Leeward Islands. Hurricane Irma roared into the Ca... The most powerful Atlantic Ocean hurricane in recorded history has made its first landfall in the islands of the northeast Caribbean.
Both Democratic and Republican leaders roundly denounced President Donald Trump's statement last month putting "blame on both sides" about the violence at the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. However, while I personally find reprehensible various forms of white nationalism, racism, and neo-Nazism, Trump's statements that both sides deserve a degree of blame have some validity.