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Michigan Sen. Gary Peters toured the Aspirus Ontonagon Hospital in Ontonagon, Mich., on his bike ride. The senator visited a rural airport to talk about President Donald Trump 's budget cuts to Essential Air Service , a government program enacted to guarantee that small communities maintain commercial airline service.
Intelligence officers sometimes talk about "blowback," when covert actions go bad and end up damaging the country that initiated them. A year later, that is surely the case with Russia's secret attempt to meddle in the U.S. presidential election, which has brought a string of adverse unintended consequences for Moscow.
Concord grape growers in New York are getting a boost from the federal government, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture planning to buy juice for nutrition programs. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand say the USDA will use up to $18 million to purchase surplus grape juice, which will help stabilize prices farmers receive.
Violent police encounters in California last year led to the deaths of 157 people and six officers, the state attorney general's office said Thursday in a report that provides the first statewide tally on police use-of-force incidents . All of the state's 800 police departments supplied detailed data from 2016, including demographic information on the civilians and officers, the type of call that led to the violence and the officers' justification for using force.
President Donald Trump isn't backing away from the racially charged debate over Confederate memorials, even lashing out at members of his own party. Trump tweeted his defense of monuments to Confederate icons - bemoaning rising efforts to remove them as an attack on America's "history and culture."
A gun charge against a former NFL linebacker has been dropped after his lawyer says the man who said he gave him a weapon admitted he lied. A gun charge against a former NFL linebacker has been dropped after his lawyer says the man who said he gave him a weapon admitted he lied.
Prominent Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee is calling for "radical changes" at the White House and calling into question President Trump's capability to do his job. Margaret Brennan has the latest.
Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, a Republican and the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is publicly questioning the president's stability and competence. CBS News chief Washington correspondent and anchor of "Face The Nation" John Dickerson weighs in on what this criticism means.
The funds will be used to cover employee salaries for a therapist, resident supervisor and children's coordinator. The First, A National Banking Association, BancorpSouth Bank and FHLB Dallas awarded $20,000 in Partnership Grant Program funds to The Lighthouse Rescue Mission today in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
The New Hampshire Republican Party says "malcontents" are responsible for spraying the word "Nazis" inside a hand-drawn heart on the rear of his headquarters building in Concord. The vandalism happened sometime after 6 p.m. Wednesday and was discovered early Thursday when staff came to open the office, party adviser Patrick Hynes said.
Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker on Thursday lambasted Donald Trump, saying the president is driving the United States toward "great peril" because he lacks the "stability" and "competence" for the country's highest office. In this July 27, 2017 file photo, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. is surrounded by reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington.
A Democratic super PAC that sank nearly $20 million into the 2016 presidential race is already gearing up for a potential bid by Vice President Mike Pence. American Bridge 21st Century, a Democratic opposition super PAC funded by liberal mega donors, is seizing on reports that Pence's team has set up a "shadow campaign" to begin compiling opposition research against the vice president.
Michigan State University says it's denied a request to rent space to a group headed by white nationalist Richard Spencer. Michigan State University says it's denied a request to rent space to a group headed by white nationalist Richard Spencer.
A Missouri lawmaker acknowledged Thursday that she posted and later deleted a comment on Facebook about hoping for President Donald Trump's assassination, saying she was frustrated with the president's response to the white supremacist rally and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. Democratic Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal said she was wrong for writing the post and didn't mean what she said, but she refused calls to resign.
A Missouri state lawmaker is being urged to resign Thursday after posting on Facebook that she hoped President Trump "is assassinated," according to reports. Democratic Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal acknowledged that she made the now-deleted comment in a thread on her private Facebook page in response to her and another commenter's frustration with Trump's response in the aftermath of the Charlottesville violence, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Members of Alabama's congressional delegation weren't bashful about criticizing white supremacist protesters this week - but Republican lawmakers have been much more reluctant to call out President Donald Trump's reaction to the violence in Charlottesville. "I do defend the president in condemning racism and condemning the horrible acts in Charlottesville," U.S. Sen. Luther Strange told Fox Business News Thursday morning.
The U.S. and Japanese defense chiefs and top diplomats are meeting in Washington to discuss North Korea amid mixed messages from the Trump administration on how to deal with the threat. The U.S. and Japanese defense chiefs and top diplomats are meeting in Washington to discuss North Korea amid mixed messages from the Trump administration on how to deal with the threat.
One-time Republican candidate for New York governor Carl Paladino, whose published insults of former President Barack Obama provoked a public uproar, was removed from Buffalo's school board Thursday for improperly discussing teacher contract negotiations. State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia announced her decision Thursday, a day after Paladino protesters disrupted the school board's latest meeting with calls for his ouster.
The Aug. 4 commentary "Met Council actually serves Twin Cities area quite well" by former Met Council staffer Steven Dornfeld makes an impassioned defense of the Met Council's good works in light of perceived Republican attacks. Dornfeld was half right.
Almost ten years ago, not long after Al Gore's first entry into the slasher/horror film genre , I had occasion to ask a straight-shooting "mainstream" climate scientist I know slightly what he thought of Gore's film. I was fishing to see whether he'd comment on some of the more obvious howlers that Gore included in the film, but instead after a long pause he said, "I wish he'd made the film with John McCain."