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After violent protests rocked Charlottesville, Va., last month, Republican Sen. John McCain took to Twitter to condemn hatred and bigotry and urge President Donald Trump to speak out more forcefully. Within hours, an online campaign attacking McCain - a frequent Trump critic - began circulating, amplified with the help of automated and human-coordinated networks known as bots and cyborgs linking to blogs on "Traitor McCain" and the hashtag #ExplainMcCain.
A federal judge has rejected Senator Robert Menendez's request to allow breaks in his corruption trial beginning next Wednesday so the New Jersey Democrat could travel to Washington to cast critical Senate votes. In a decision made public on Friday, U.S. District Judge William Walls in Newark, New Jersey, rejected Menendez's claim that he deserved special treatment because he had a "constitutional duty" to be in Washington for his constituents.
In this July 31, 2017 photo, President Donald Trump talks with new White House Chief of Staff John Kelly after he was privately sworn in during a ceremony in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump in Washington. After a summer of staff shake-ups and self-made crises, President Trump is emerging politically damaged, personally agitated and continuing to buck at the confines of his office, according to some of his close allies.
Rep. Tom Cole said people should not worry about the heavy legislative agenda Congress faces upon its return to session in September because the members are all "grown-up." "People need to know there's some stability here," Cole told the Associated Press .
During his time in the White House, President Barack Obama engaged in a ritual highly scrutinized by the publishing community and book-lovers: The release of his summer vacation reading list, usually a mix of critically-acclaimed fiction and historical non-fiction. But while August came and went without a list of big-name novels that President Donald Trump could've read in between rounds at his New Jersey golf club, Americans didn't need to wait until summer for him to share his recommended reads.
Residents in Kogelo, Kenya, say students have had to drop out of school and donor-funded health clinics have closed due to lack of funding. Obama's struggling ancestral Kenya village misses him - and cashing in on his presidency Residents in Kogelo, Kenya, say students have had to drop out of school and donor-funded health clinics have closed due to lack of funding.
The Justice Department has reportedly given special counsel Robert Mueller the original letter that President Trump wanted to use as grounds for firing FBI Director James Comey, as part of Mueller's investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 White House race. The letter was written in the days before the May 9 firing of Comey but was never sent after objections from the president's lawyer and others, The Associated Press reported, citing two people familiar with the process but not authorized to discuss it publicly and who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Hurricane Harvey has devastated Texas. Now board your windows, evacuate the low ground and watch the damage it is poised to unleash on the nation's finances.
US President Donald Trump announced on Friday he plans to appoint James Bridenstine, a former navy pilot and Republican congressman, to head the US space agency NASA. Bridenstine, 42, who backed Trump during the US presidential campaign, had long been considered the favourite for the job of NASA administrator.
President Trump has issued an executive pardon to former Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona. President Trump has issued an executive pardon to former Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona.
President Donald Trump has sent lawmakers an initial request for a $7.9 billion down payment toward Harvey relief and recovery efforts. The request, expected to be swiftly approved by Congress, would add $7.4 billion to rapidly dwindling Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster aid coffers and $450 million to finance disaster loans for small businesses.
The Aug. 12 Charlottesville riot and its aftermath constitute a dereliction of duty by Virginia authorities and the corporate media. Gov. Terry McAuliffe , Mayor Michael Singer and Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy erred in issuing the demonstration permit to Jason Kessler.
The controversial trip Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin took with his wife Louise Linton last week is being reviewed by the U.S. Treasury's Office of Inspector General. Mnuchin flew to Kentucky with Linton, who came under fire for her condescending tirade after a woman criticized the Scottish-born actress for posting an Instagram photo of herself disembarking a government plane.
Floodwaters are receding from the Gulf Coast, giving up their dead and laying bare the full scope of destruction. "This is going to be a multiyear project for Texas to be able to dig out of this catastrophe," Governor Greg Abbott said Friday.
Arcata resident Karla Sanchez was 2 years old when she crossed the border with her mother and grandmother into the United States from Mexico in search of a better life. Sanchez, now 23, said the only life she has known has been in the U.S. where she has lived for 21 years and is now finishing up her last semester at Humboldt State University where she studies psychology.
Russia's Foreign Ministry said that U.S. law enforcement officials intend to search its San Francisco consulate and some diplomatic residences, and it complained the U.S. demands were posing a "direct threat" to its citizens. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement posted September 1 that unnamed U.S. agencies plan to conduct the search on September 2, following the State Department's announcement this week ordering the consulate and two other trade annexes in New York and Washington closed.
President Donald Trump has sent lawmakers an initial request for a $7.9 billion down payment toward Harvey relief and recovery efforts. The request, expected to be swiftly approved by Congress, would add $7.4 billion to rapidly dwindling Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster aid coffers and $450 million to finance disaster loans for small businesses.
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U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa has announced her intention to establish a gubernatorial campaign committee. She is shown here taking an oath after officially filing for the U.S. Congress District 1 seat on June 2, 2016, at the Office of Elections in Honolulu.
Corporate executives, Roman Catholic bishops, celebrities and immigrants have become unlikely companions in an effort to pressure national leaders to save an Obama-era program that shields young immigrants from deportation. Immigrant groups have been staging daily protests in the scorching Phoenix heat, mobilizing people through phone banks in California, and demonstrating outside House Speaker Paul Ryan's church and office.