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President Donald Trump made calls to fellow Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Friday to mobilise support for their party's healthcare overhaul while acknowledging the legislation is on a "very, very narrow path" to passage. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks as he hosts a Congressional picnic event, accompanied by First Lady Melania Trump, at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 22, 2017.
A live Asian carp has been discovered in a Chicago waterway about nine miles from Lake Michigan - well beyond an electric barrier network designed to prevent the invasive fish that have infested the Mississippi River system from reaching the Great Lakes, officials said Friday.
The Republican lawmaker who was shot last week in an apparent politically motivated attack on a charity baseball practice has been upgraded to fair condition, hospital officials said Friday. Rep. Steve Scalise , R-La., was transferred out of the intensive care unit Thursday at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, the medical facility said in a statement Friday.
Nevada Republican Dean Heller became the fifth GOP senator to declare his opposition to the party's banner legislation to scuttle much of Barack Obama's health care overhaul on Friday, more than enough to sink the measure and deliver a stinging rebuke to President Donald Trump unless some of them can be brought aboard. Echoing the other four, Heller said he opposes the measure "in this form" but does not rule out backing a version that is changed to his liking.
Rain bands reeling away from Tropical Depression Cindy spread drenching rains from the Southeast to the Midwest, triggering flash flood warnings over several states including West Virginia, whose residents on Friday marked the anniversary of deadly floods last June.
"Forget death panels. If Republicans pass this bill, they're the death party," the former Democratic presidential nominee tweeted Friday afternoon. She was responding to an article citing Harvard research which found that the Senate bill "could result" in between 18,000 and 28,000 deaths in 2026.
GOP Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin said Friday that he doesn't think lawmakers have had enough time to review the Senate Republicans' Obamacare repeal bill. House Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that he hopes to bring the bill - which was unveiled Thursday - to the floor for a vote as early as next week.
An Alabama high school has pulled a teacher's summer reading list after people complained it only contained conservative and right-leaning texts. Gene Ponder, a teacher of AP Government/Economics at Spanish Fort High School, assigned a virtually partisan summer reading list that included books from Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Ron Paul and other conservative and libertarian authors, Gulf Coast News Today reported .
I had the great misfortune to begin my career as a physician practicing in Louisiana without the initial expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Although many hundreds of thousands of people would have benefited significantly from the expansion, the gubernatorial politics of the time were firmly set against it.
President Donald Trump reiterated his emphasis on rebuilding the military in a Friday visit to Boeing in South Carolina, a day after he made the same promises in a White House news conference. "We are looking seriously at a big order," he said.
A former Obama official said the previous administration "sort of choked" in its effort to punish Russian President Vladimir Putin over his attempts to influence the U.S. presidential election in Donald Trump's favor, The Washington Post reported Friday. "It is the hardest thing about my entire time in government to defend," the former senior Obama administration official told the Post.
Now, the president wants us to know the real reason he use tapes to threaten the former FBI director - who claims he was fired after refusing to drop the Michael Flynn investigation . It was to keep Comey from changing his story! In an interview with Fox News , Trump said it "wasn't very stupid" to paint himself as the moral authority by threatening the FBI head with recordings he didn't actually make.
In case you missed the kerfuffle over the past few hours, it was at Glastonbury where he asked the crowd to "bring Trump here?" Eesh! He even knew he was going to get in trouble, saying afterward "this is going to be in the press and it'll be horrible." Well, it isn't good, Johnny.
The Washington Post has an important story today about how the Obama administration handled the intelligence they were receiving on Russian attempts to influence the 2016 election. This has been a source of concern for many over the last few months and, with the publication of this story, people like Charles Pierce have let loose their frustrations and accused Obama of "choking."
Saying that a new Texas law allowing child welfare providers to deny adoptions to parents based on "sincerely held religious beliefs" is discriminatory, California's attorney general on Thursday banned state-funded travel to Texas. The attorney general's office said in a news release that Texas' House Bill 3859 "allows foster care agencies to discriminate against children in foster care and potentially disqualify LGBT families from the state's foster and adoption system."
Barack Obama came out against the health care bill Senate Republicans announced on Thursday. In a Facebook post on Thursday, the former president claimed that it would be "a massive transfer of wealth from middle-class and poor families to the richest people in America."
Responding to Barack Obama, who appealed to his Facebook followers with the claim that the bill unveiled by Senate Republicans on Thursday is "not a health care bill," White House press secretary Sean Spicer reminded the former president on Friday that Obama's signature legislation is "dead." Obama claimed that the GOP bill betrays a "fundamental meanness at the core of the legislation," and urged senators to oppose it.
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 is facing criticisms for the Democratic loss in Georgia's special House election. In the wake of Democrat Jon Ossoff's loss in Georgia's special House election this week, the well-exercised pointing fingers of Democratic politicians and voters got a workout once again.
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events Ted Cruz leaves the Senate floor after a vote yesterday. The Texas senator is one of the holdouts on the health care bill, but he's widely expected to come around.