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Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events President Trump announced that transgender troops won't be allowed to serve in the military on July 26, reversing the Pentagon's 2016 decision to lift the ban. President Trump's tweets announcing his new policy to ban transgender people from service in the U.S. military came with a justification that will sound familiar to several other groups: that allowing transgender people to serve would disrupt unit cohesion, a fundamental building block of combat effectiveness.
NAACP: The NAACP issued a "travel advisory" last week to people of color, women, LGBT, and disabled that driving thru Missouri may not be safe for them. Smoking: Missouri Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler has filed legislation to ban smoking in all developments that receive low-income housing tax credits.
U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., is calling for the resignation of special counsel Robert Mueller, The Hill is reporting. Mueller is directing the Department of Justice's Russia probe and Franks claimed he is violating a law prohibiting him from serving if he has a "conflict of interest," according to the website.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday that President Donald Trump has "100 percent confidence" in all of his Cabinet members, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, whose performance Trump has repeatedly publicly criticized . Sanders was asked during a White House briefing about rumors that Trump could move Sessions to lead the Department of Homeland Security, where there is now a vacancy after Trump's appointment of Secretary John Kelly as his new White House chief of staff.
Longtime critics of former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio say his conviction of a criminal charge for disobeying a court order to stop traffic patrols that targeted immigrants is a long-awaited comeuppance. Longtime critics of former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio say his conviction of a criminal charge for disobeying a court order to stop traffic patrols that targeted immigrants is a long-awaited comeuppance.
In this Tuesday, July 25, 2017, photo, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine is surrounded by reporters as she arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, before a test vote on the Republican health care bill. Collins, who was one of three Republican senators voting against the GOP health bill on Friday, July 28, said she's troubled by Trump's suggestions that the insurance payments are a "bailout."
16, 2007, file photo, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio shows off vehicles advertising a hotline to report undocumented immigrants in Phoenix, Ariz. Arpaio has been convicted of a ... .
Phoenix residents who live in City Council Districts 4 and 6 have the opportunity to vote in the regularly scheduled Council Election on Tuesday, Aug. 29. And while incumbent Laura Pastor, who represents District 4, faces no challengers, the same cannot be said for District 6 Councilman Sal DiCiccio. District 6 includes the Biltmore area, Arcadia and Ahwatukee.
When last we wrote about next year's U.S. Senate race, we were warning Hoosier Republicans not to take the seat for granted. Incumbent Joe Donnelly is not just a lucky Democrat who drew a bad candidate in Richard Mourdock in 2012.
As the United States and its allies grapple with complex issues in Asia -- a short list includes North Korea's quest for nuclear weapons and China's grab for territory in the South China Sea -- much attention has been given to the uneasy alliances between the United States and other geopolitical heavyweights. News headlines proclaim new leaders of the free world; alleged may have led to four Arab nations, all U.S. allies, severing diplomatic relations with Qatar, which hosts the largest U.S. military base in the Mideast, over suspected support of terrorism.
Audrey R. Chavez, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, Louis M. Vasquez, Lewis A. Martinez, Tia Coronado and William K. Kim, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
On the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Germany last month, President Trump's advisers discussed how to respond to a new revelation that Trump's oldest son had met with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign - a disclosure the advisers knew carried political and potentially legal peril.  The strategy, the advisers agreed, should be for Donald Trump Jr. to release a statement to get ahead of the story.
President Donald Trump personally dictated a misleading statement in which his son Donald Trump Jr said a meeting with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 election was focused on adoptions, The Washington Post reported Monday. It later emerged that during that fateful June 2016 meeting, Trump's eldest son, his son-in-law Jared Kushner and then campaign manager Paul Manafort met with a Russian government attorney who an intermediary claimed had incriminating information about Trump's rival Hillary Clinton.
Democrats are worried President Donald Trump wants to remove the nation's top lawyer, Attorney General Jeff Sessions , during the August recess to make way for someone who would be willing to fire the special prosecutor leading the charge into the 2016 election hacking investigation without first being confirmed by the Senate. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer , D- New York , said Monday on the Senate floor that "if such a scenario were to pass, we would have a constitutional crisis on our hands."
Republican Sen. Jeff Flake takes his own party to task as well as Democrats, blaming both in a new book for the political gridlock that led to Donald Trump's presidency and its current chaos. The debut of the Arizona lawmaker's book "Conscience of a Conservative" comes amid turmoil in the White House marked by Anthony Scaramucci's rocky 11 days as communications director and the replacement of the chief of staff.
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events "I do want to be clear the president was not involved in the drafting of the statement" -- Jay Sekulow, Trump's lawyer, apparently lying pic.twitter.com/DMukqu6uIU The Washington Post reported Monday night that the president himself was responsible for the drafting of Donald Trump Jr.'s misleading statement after the New York Times revealed the younger Trump had arranged a meeting with a Russian lawyer in June 2016. Sources say White House advisers had decided to be transparent about the meeting, but the president changed the game plan at the last minute to misleadingly suggest the meeting was about adoption .
From left and clockwise, Sheila Harmes, of Winona; Marilyn Morem, of Rochester; Ruthann Yaeger, of Rochester and Marie Kovecsi, of Winona participate in a breakout session during the Southeast Minnesota Water Town Hall held at Rochester Community and Technical College Heintz Commons Monday evening. Gov. Mark Dayton participates in a breakout session during the Southeast Minnesota Water Town Hall held at Rochester Community and Technical College Heintz Commons Monday evening.
On July 11, Donald Trump Jr. admitted the subject of the meeting was for him to receive dirt on Hillary Clinton The president dictated a misleading statement issued by Donald Trump Jr. about his ill-fated meeting with Russian lawyers last year, it has been claimed. The Washington Post reports that it was the president who told Donald Jr. to claim in his statement that the subject of the June 2016 meeting was the ban on US adoptions in Russia.
Jr. said a meeting he had with a Russian lawyer in June 2016 was not related to his father's presidential campaign, the Washington Post reported on Monday. Jr. released emails earlier in July that showed he eagerly agreed last year to meet a woman he was told was a Russian government lawyer who might have damaging information about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as part of Moscow's official support for his father.