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The latest on Venezuela, where a two-day national strike has been called beginning Wednesday to protest President Nicolas Maduro's plans to rewrite the country's constitution : The Trump administration has hit Venezuela with new sanctions targeting 13 current or former top officials in President Nicolas Maduro's government. It is also threatening more penalties if he goes through with a controversial plan to rewrite the beleaguered country's constitution, with an election scheduled Sunday to elect delegates to a special assembly charged with drafting a new charter.
Sen. John McCain, recently diagnosed with brain cancer, returned to the U.S. Senate Tuesday to cast a key vote to allow health care reform deliberations to begin. He then urged his colleagues to put aside partisanship and "stop spinning our wheels."
Since Day One, Donald Trump's White House has failed where he once had his most success - on television. Anthony Scaramucci intends to turn that around.
Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut expressed criticism of Republicans who were still trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Others railed against President Donald Trump's move to ban transgender people from the military.
The chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee is objecting to the House's decision to include penalties targeting Pyongyang in the bill. Speaking to reporters Wednesday, Sen. Bob Corker says he'd prefer to keep the North Korea sanctions in a separate measure that would be carefully considered by the Senate.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, joined at left by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, leads a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 26, 2017, on attempts to influence American elections, with a focus on Russian meddling in the last presidential race. White House senior adviser Jared Kushner arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, to meet behind closed doors before the House Intelligence Committee on the investigation into possible collusion between Russian officials and the Trump campaign.
In this image from video provided by C-SPAN2, the final Senate vote, with Vice President Mike Pence's vote, to start debate to tear down much of the Obama health care law, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, on the floor of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington. In this image from video provided by C-SPAN2, the final Senate vote, with Vice President Mike Pence's vote, to start debate to tear down much of the Obama health care law, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, on the floor of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Wisconsin has won the fight to build the first U.S. assembly plant for electronics giant Foxconn in a project that's expected to result in billions of dollars in investment in the state and create thousands of jobs in the congressional district of U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan. President Donald Trump plans to announce Wednesday that the Taiwan-based company has chosen Wisconsin for the project, according to an invitation to the White House event obtained by The Associated Press.
Indiana Rep. Luke Messer announced Wednesday that he will challenge Sen. Joe Donnelly, who is considered one of the most vulnerable Democrats up for re-election next year. The GOP congressman, who represents Vice President Mike Pence's former southeastern Indiana district, took to Twitter to make the announcement.
I admit I've never been a big Romney fan, but I thought it would be great if he were in the United States Senate. I was legitimately excited about the prospect of him running in Utah in 2018.
In this July 25, 2016, file photo, Georgia House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams speaks during the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
Steve Jobs' widow and her boyfriend holiday in Croatia on the $100million yacht the late Apple founder built but never got to use Aide to ex-DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz is arrested at DC airport while trying to LEAVE the country for Pakistan and charged with bank fraud What NOT to say in the office if you want to be respected: The most infuriating workplace jargon revealed - including 'touch base' and 'blue sky thinking' President Trump goes after Sen. Lisa Murkowski by name for not voting with other Republicans in favor of starting debate of an Obamacare repeal Go commando, have a 'safe' threesome and SHAVE each other: How to take your sex life from dull to daring without going the full Fifty Shades Chipotle is blaming one sick employee for its $1 billion in value loss after dozens of customers fell ill with norovirus Trump takes a victory lap with Melania after keeping his plan ... (more)
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events Democratic lawmakers join Sen. Charles E. Schumer , the minority leader, in Berryville, Va., on Monday to talk about their economic agenda. Leading Democratic politicians announced their economic agenda for next year's midterm elections on Monday, calling for measures to bring down prices for prescription drugs, control monopolies and help companies pay for training for their workers.
It's looking likely that GOP legislation to revamp Obamacare will undergo a pretty major weight loss program before all is said and done. Expectations are building that Senate leaders will ultimately present Republicans with a " skinny " bill after more aggressive measures fail during some 20 hours of floor debate over the next few days.
This revised iteration of BCRA - which included an amendment by Sen. Ted Cruz to allow non-Obamacare plans back on the market paired with $100 billion in funding to partially offset the Medicaid cuts - was subject, because of the Senate budget rules, to a 60-vote threshold for a procedural vote. It failed handily, 43 to 57, with nine Republicans and all of the Democrats opposing it.
Forty-nine percent of those who cast their ballots for Donald Trump last November say he won the popular vote, while 40 percent say his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton did, according to the results of a new Politico/Morning Consult poll. 59 percent of all those polled believe Clinton won more votes than Trump, compared to 28 percent who believe Trump collected more votes.
President Donald Trump isn't humiliating Attorney General Jeff Sessions with his attacks on Twitter and in public, and he'll most likely meet with him person to hash out their differences, former Trump political adviser and former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said Wednesday. He also told ABC's "Good Morning America" anchor George Stephanopoulos that Sessions had political reasons of his own when he became the first senator to stand behind Trump's presidential campaign.
US senator John McCain has criticised "bombastic loudmouths" who "don't want anything done for the public good" as he cast a crucial vote in the Republican drive to repeal so-called Obamacare. In a speech to his Senate colleagues, Mr McCain condemned the tribal politics gripping the nation as the Republican party attempts to uproot former president Barack Obama's signature healthcare law.
U.S. Muslims say they have experienced widespread suspicion about their faith in the first months of Donald Trump's presidency, but also have received more support from individual Americans, and remain hopeful they can eventually be fully accepted in American society, a new survey finds. Nearly three-quarters of U.S. Muslims view Trump as unfriendly to them, according to a Pew Research Center report released Wednesday.