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After delivering a blistering speech critiquing Donald Trump's performance as president at a recent conference, I was challenged by an audience member to say something nice about our commander in chief. I answered without a second's hesitation.
We've grown accustomed to hearing a lot of silly things from Representative Maxine Waters. She's like the aunt who embarrasses you in every family meeting or like the grandmother who keeps calling your wife by your ex-wife's name.
Fiery Democratic U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters was welcomed like a contemporary rock star when she entered the 2017 Black Girls Rock Awards, as the audience screamed loudly and gave her the night's rowdiest and wildest applause. Waters was one of the honorees Saturday at the annual event honoring black women in fields such as entertainment, politics, science and social justice.
A week after an attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act failed, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he'd consider a bipartisan effort to continue payments to insurers to avert a costly rattling of health insurance markets. McConnell told reporters Saturday there is "still a chance" the Senate could revive the measure to repeal and replace "Obamacare," but he acknowledged the window for that is rapidly closing.
Vice President Mike Pence looks on as President Donald Trump speaks at the White House in March. Pence appears to be cementing his status as Trump's heir apparent, promoting himself as the conduit between Republican donors and the administration.
The event is hosted by the River Alliance of Wisconsin, to get a closer look at invasive species. 27 News caught up with people learning what to look for at the Token Creek Conservancy in DeForest, before they headed out to identify invasive species on the water.
Republicans have little to show for their first seven months of controlling the White House and Capitol Hill. The Senate sent Justice Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, and Congress passed bills bolstering veterans' health programs and financing the Food and Drug Administration.
Enough, already, with all the takeouts and think pieces about how President Trump's loyal base continues to support him. That's neither surprising nor impressive - and it's certainly not the point about this shameful and appalling presidency.
In this June 21, 2017 file photo, special counsel Robert Mueller departs after a closed-door meeting with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee about Russian meddling in the election and possible connection to the Trump campaign, on Capitol Hill in Washington. In populist tones, President Donald Trump is trying to turn the investigation into his campaign's ties to Russia into a rallying cry, labeling it as an existential threat to the loyal base that fueled his surprise 2016 election triumph.
Fox News said Saturday that it has suspended Eric Bolling, the co-host of its late-afternoon news program "The Specialists," while it investigates allegations he sent a lewd photo to co-workers. News of the suspension came one day after a Huff Post report relying on anonymous sources stated Bolling had sent a lewd photo to at least three female colleagues at Fox New and Fox Business.
Those show the range of reactions in New Hampshire to President Donald Trump's characterization of the state as a "drug-infested den" while speaking to Mexican President Enrique Pea Nieto in January. Trump's remarks came to light this week when The Washington Post published a transcript of the phone conversation between the two leaders.
Karla Estrada Sanchez, of Los Angeles, gazes outward in Los Angeles on Thursday, Aug 03, 2017. “Unjust and outdated immigration laws will not dictate who I am as a person and a professional.
Democrats have "no reason" to try to make bipartisan legislative deals with President Trump and should instead wait until next year when outspoken Democrat Maxine Waters leads the House and Chuck Schumer leads the Senate, Democratic strategist Robert Patillo said Saturday. "Democrats looking at a president hovering around a 30 percent approval rating have no reason to run into a burning building and try to put it out, when they should instead just wait for 2018 when they have Speaker of the House Maxine Waters and Senate leader Chuck Schumer," Patillo told Fox News' "America's News Headquarters."
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi at a May 4 news conference on Capitol Hill. Last week saw the Democratic Party save the Affordable Care Act, a remarkable victory for an out-of-power party.
The former Russian ambassador to the United States on Saturday strongly denied the accusations of meddling in the U.S. presidential election. Sergei Kislyak, who has just returned from Washington, said on Russian state Rossiya 24 television that he was merely doing his job as a diplomat when he met with members of President Trump's team.
Many conservatives, myself included, find President Trump's personality off-putting, but that does not mean that we don't support much of what he is trying to accomplish. Congress would do well to remember, as they go into their undeserved August recess, that they are still less-popular than the President.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., flanked by, Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J.,and Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 20, 2017. There is apparent discord within the U.S. Democratic Party over how vigorously it should emphasize allegations of collusion between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia, according to Politico.
OPINION: In an episode to be filed under "inappropriate questions heard around the world", The New York Times late this week reported on the handful of Kiwi journalists asking new Labour leader Jacinda Ardern about balancing career and family. But the questions directed at her this week sent a shiver down the spine of many politics watchers, including those of us in the US who observed, with anger, the utterly sexist attacks against Hillary Clinton from opponents and the press.