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It's not the first time that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has faced the threat of extinction from federal and Congressional budget proposals, and perhaps not the last. But as CPB's chief executive officer told television critics at a recent meeting in Beverly Hills, anything is possible in the climate currently gripping Washington.
In this June 2, 2017, file photo, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt looks back after speaking to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to provide records he contends could show conflicts of interest by Pruitt on Friday, Aug. 11, 2017.
Trump's rhetoric toward North Korea splits Senate candidates Republicans support president, try to downplay war threats; Democrats sharply critical Check out this story on montgomeryadvertiser.com: President Donald Trump has sent out another warning against North Korea saying that American weapons are "locked and loaded." As is customary for Trump, he tweeted this out also saying: " Hopefully Kim Jong Un will find another path!" These comments come after threats North Korea made and after his very own defense secretary said that they were ready to counter any threat.
Congress is out and the Iowa State Fair is in - which means 2020 prospects are beginning to beat a path to the Hawkeye State. Maryland Rep. John Delaney, who's actually already running for president, is spending a few days with the Butter Cow.
Gov. Bill Walker was back in Ketchikan on Thursday, signing two bills into law, one of which Sen. Lisa Murkowski excitedly called "a win-win-win situation!" The governor, who was in town on Saturday for the Blueberry Arts Festival, was already back on Thursday with a whirlwind of handshakes, photo-ops and signatures.
Several key Republican senators are leaping to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's defense as the Kentucky lawmaker's relationship with President Donald Trump continues to deteriorate. Sen. John Cornyn, the second-highest ranking Republican in the Senate, voiced support for McConnell on Twitter Friday, saying that "no one is more qualified" than the Senate majority leader to advance the President's legislative agenda.
Adam Levine , Paul McCartney , OneRepublic 's Ryan Tedder and U2 's Bono are among the stars featured in a new video promoting the film An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power , the follow-up to former Vice President Al Gore 's environmentally-themed 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth . In the clip, posted on Paramount Pictures' official YouTube channel , celebrities explain why they're "inconvenient" when it comes to supporting the fight against global warming.
The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. John Conyers knows a good deal more than Donald Trump does about the Korea Peninsula-and a lot more about the Constitution.
As President Donald Trump's policies and rhetoric have put him increasingly at odds with the national Republican party, a leading progressive organization is kicking off a new grassroots campaign to link vulnerable GOP House members to Trump's troubled brand. Organizing for Action, the group spawned by former President Barack Obama's national campaigns, is beginning the program by focusing on 34 seats in GOP-held congressional districts around the country where Trump received less than 50% of the vote last November.
Those attending the ribbon cutting at the new ADS plant in Harrisonville, Missouri included ADS Chairman and CEO Joe Chlapaty, Senator Ed Emery - District 31 state senator; Adam Timmerman - U.S. Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler's District Representative; Mayor Brian Hasek - Harrisonville, MO; Obie Carl - Executive Director of the Harrisonville Chamber of Commerce; Eric Hughes - Strickland Construction; and representatives from ADS. )--Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. , the leading manufacturer of water management products and solutions for commercial, residential, infrastructure and agricultural applications, hosted a grand opening event for its new Harrisonville, Missouri manufacturing plant on Wednesday, August 9, 2017.
President Donald Trump has spent much of the week feuding with his top Senate partner, suggesting that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell might have to rethink his future if he doesn't deliver on the president's agenda of health care, taxes and infrastructure. Trump on Thursday called McConnell's failure to pass an "Obamacare" repeal last month "a disgrace."
The GOP's bid to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act has crashed and burned about as badly as the imploding Obamacare insurance market, but Republicans seem much more optimistic about the coming effort this fall to reform the U.S tax code. President Trump is ramping up support, and House speaker Paul Ryan this week touted a poll showing the effort has broad public support.
The Young Turks are so far left, even liberals call them "left-leaning," and they're on a quest to become the "largest news network period." "Left-leaning political video network The Young Turks has raised $20 million in its latest and biggest funding round," The Huffington Post reported on Aug. 8 .
The deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee realized he'd fumbled his response, as he quickly retracted his assertion after the session. Atlanta, GA-Representative Keith Ellison , who also serves as the deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee, cautioned against President Trump's rhetoric on North Korea at the Netroots Nation conference on Friday, initially saying that the foreign leader was acting more responsibly than Trump.
For Tail-Gunner Joe, it was liberals and communists; for the fired NSC staffer-and for Steve Bannon and others-it's the left and Islamists. But the attack is exactly the same.
President Trump doubled down on his inflammatory 'fire and fury' warning to North Korea Thursday, saying maybe he had not been tough enough in the face of the rising threat. Tom Rowe reports.
Estonian Foreign Minister Sven Mikser met with a member of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator Elizabeth Warren, on August 10th in Tallinn, and discussed cooperation in the fields of cyber defense and security as well as trade relations between the European Union and the U.S., reports LETA/BNS.... Read more...
First on CNN: The email Hillary Clinton's pastor sent her the day after the election - (CNN)This is the email Hillary Clinton's pastor, the Rev. Bill Shillady, sent her on the morning of November 9, 2016, the day after she lost the presidential election to Donald Trump.
Multiple news outlets are reporting the suspect police say drove over multiple people at a white-nationalist rally is James Alex Fields Jr., of Maumee, Ohio and he is facing multiple charges including second-degree murder. Video of the incident shows the car driving at a high rate of speed over multiple counter-protesters at the rally.