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A bill imposing sanctions on Russia and Iran that in theory has broad support from both parties has been has been stalled by convoluted fights over substance and process that are threatening to derail the measure, even after it passed 98-2 in the Senate and seemed to be on a path toward quickly becoming law. The battle has Democrats charging that Republicans are looking to make it easier for President Trump to waive sanctions against Russia, while the GOP charges that Democrats are needlessly delaying the bill's passage.
Former President Barack Obama will officially step back into the political realm for the first time since leaving office in January when he attends a fundraiser on Thursday to help raise funds for the Democrats' efforts to draw new district lines. Obama will be the main attraction at a small fundraising event being hosted by former Attorney General Eric Holder, who is leading the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, at a private home in Washington, D.C. Obama and Holder have spoken about redistricting, which is focused on winning state legislative seats and court battles, numerous times, even before the former president left office.
Linda Bell, a beekeeper and farmer who makes about $11,000 a year, feels Washington power brokers have no intention of making health care affordable. Three-quarters of Americans agree that people like themselves have too little influence in Washington, rare unanimity across political, economic, racial and geographical lines and including both those who approve and disapprove of President Donald Trump, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Donald Trump's pick to lead the FBI broke with the president in key areas Wednesday, rejecting the idea that an investigation into possible coordination between Russia and the Trump election campaign is a "witch hunt" and promising not to cave to any pressure from a White House that has challenged boundaries with the nation's top law enforcement agency. Christopher Wray, the former high-ranking Justice Department official whom Trump nominated last month, told senators at his confirmation hearing that he would never let politics get in the way of the bureau's mission.
President Donald Trump's top immigration official warned Hispanic members of Congress Wednesday that more than a million people living in the United States under a special protected status could soon be placed in line for deportation. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly told members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus that the fate of deferred action program known as DACA - Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals - will likely be determined by the courts, perhaps as soon as September, and that attorneys he's consulted with do not think the program is legally sustainable.
The momentum against the Trump administration is building, and it should come as no surprise that it comes via the least original of avenues: the Russians did it, and someone must pay. For decades, the feared Russian has played a vital role in shaping US paranoia and a domestic landscape famous for its reactionary bursts and fearful lurches.
In an interview with Sean Hannity on Wednesday, counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway brought along some very important visual aides to "help all the people at home" dissect what's really going on with Donald Trump and the Russian government. To recap: On Tuesday, Donald Trump Jr. released a series of emails that showed he willingly accepted a meeting with a Russian emissary after being promised information detrimental to then-Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
In this Aug. 17, 2016, file photo, U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., attends a forum with South Dakota's congressional delegation in Mitchell, S.D. Rounds said Wednesday, July 12, 2017, that changes expected to be unveiled in a revised Senate Republican health care bill will help improve the proposal.
FBI Director nominee Christopher Wray told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he would protect the bureau's independence and resist pressure from the White House. FBI Director nominee Christopher Wray told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he would protect the bureau's independence and resist pressure from the White House.
To save his presidency from ending in epic disaster, save the nation from a constitutional crisis, and defend America from warfare against democracy waged by Russia, President Trump needs to tell the nation the whole truth about everything he knows regarding the Putingate scandal. Paul Ryan Hispanic caucus member challenges Kelly on 'Dreamers' Budowsky: What Trump must confess House passes bill to curb human trafficking MORE Lawmakers propose .1B NIH funding boost Trump: I'll be 'very angry' if Senate doesn't pass ObamaCare repeal bill MORE should meet alone with the president, close the door, and speak the truth about what Trump must do to purge his presidency of the poison that is caused by this sordid affair.
U.S. President Donald Trump listens as South Korean President Moon Jae-in delivers a statement from the Rose Garden after meetings at the White House in Washington, U.S. June 30, 2017. REUTERS/Jim Bourg U.S. President Donald Trump listens as South Korean President Moon Jae-in delivers a statement from the Rose Garden after meetings at the White House in Washington, U.S. June 30, 2017.
President Donald Trump's visit to Paris on Thursday will take him to a city he has repeatedly derided - and at the side of a French leader best known to Americans as the earnest young man with the endless handshake. "Paris isn't Paris any longer," Trump declared in February, implying the city had been ruined by jihadi attacks.
In this April 23, 2014 file photo, a man smokes an electronic cigarette in Chicago. A House panel is again trying to exempt increasingly popular e-cigarettes from new Food and Drug Administration rules.
Don Trump Jr., with back pats from his dad , ludicrously pretends that a few tweets and a sit-down with Fox News' Sean Hannity settle the matter of his meeting with a Kremlin-linked Russian lawyer whose offer of dirt on Hillary Clinton he gleefully accepted. For crying out loud: Their tale, told Tuesday afternoon in the name of "transparency," contradicted the account given just Sunday night, that the meeting only concerned "adoptions."
Senate Republicans are still moving ahead with a vote on their health care bill next week, but barring some sudden changes of hearts, it looks like they will fall short of the votes - and no one seems to have a real idea of what to do then. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is expected to release the text of a revised bill Thursday, along with an amendment drafted by Sen. Ted Cruz that would dramatically undermine protections for people with pre-existing conditions in the name of lowering costs for healthy people.
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Despite the trickle of details about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting last year with a Russian lawyer during his father's presidential campaign, there are still a number of unanswered questions. Trump Jr. and others have addressed some of the particulars, but the information is based only on the accounts given by those in the room during that June 9, 2016, meeting in Trump Tower in New York City, leaving many details unknown.
Chris Cuomo interviewed Sen. Angus King this morning about Mitch McConnell's plan to push through a health care bill in the next two weeks. "What do you make of the urgency and what do you make of the talk of what this bill will be comprised of?" Cuomo asked.
Activists and internet companies are protesting Wednesday a proposed quash of net neutrality protections by the FCC. Here's what the likes of Amazon, Netflix and internet users say would happen to your internet access with the rollback.