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A group of nearly 200 Democratic lawmakers filed a federal lawsuit challenging profits that President Donald Trump's global businesses have taken in from foreign entities. Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Michigan Rep. John Conyers are filing a complaint in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
House Speaker Paul Ryan has told his fellow lawmakers that "an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us." Ryan addressed the House in the wake of Wednesday's shooting at a practice of lawmakers for the annual charity congressional baseball game.
"Authorities are continuing to investigate the crime and the assailant has now died from his injuries," Trump said from the White House. Scalise, a congressional staffer and two law enforcement officials suffered gunshot wounds after the shooter opened fire on Republican members of Congress on the baseball field in Alexandria, Virginia.
The shooting at a GOP congressional baseball practice Wednesday could have been motivated by heightened partisanship, a Republican congressman who survived the attack told CNN. "This could be the first political rhetorical terrorist attack and that has to stop," Rep. Rodney Davis told CNN's Brianna Keilar.
A man who shot top Republican politician Steve Scalise at a congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia has died from his injuries. A man who shot top Republican politician Steve Scalise at a congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia has died from his injuries.
At least 20 Republican members of Congress were in attendance at this morning's baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, when a gunman began firing, injuring House Majority Whip Steve Scalise , R-La, and at least four other people. The GOP lawmakers that make up a 34-member team had been practicing for Thursday's annual charity congressional baseball game.
Rex Tillerson, the Trumpinator's Secretary of State dropped a cartload of hints Tuesday about the new Cuba policy that his boss will announce on Friday. Ay! Instead, it looks as if the only thing anyone could call "new" about Trump's policy will be slightly smaller tents for the Obama Circus.
Alexandria police announced in a tweet that the suspect in a "multiple shooting" is believed to be in police custody. ALERT: APD investigating multiple shooting 400 block E Monroe St. Suspect believed in custody.
House of Representatives Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana was shot Wednesday at a congressional baseball practice, congressional officials say. We are unable to send your welcome email at this time.
Rep. Mo Brooks said at least five people, including Rep. Steve Scalise , were shot at a baseball field in Alexandria, Va. on Thursday morning, by a gunman who was shot at the scene by Capitol Police.
It's unclear how many people were hit, but multiple reports said those injured include Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., and two Capitol police officers. "Scalise was on second base, and was crawling out, leaving trail of blood," said Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., in an interview on CNN.
Multiple media outlets are reporting that House of Representatives Majority Whip Steve Scalise and aides have been hit by gunfire early Wednesday morning during a GOP morning baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia.
In this May 17, 2017 photo, Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., speaks with the media on Capitol Hill in Washington. Several people were reportedly struck in a shooting at a Congressional baseball practice in Virginia, including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise.
On Tuesday, U.S. Representative Richard Hudson , the representative of Fort Bragg and author of bipartisan legislation to allow service connected veterans to choose care from private providers in their local communities, released the following statement after the House passed S. 1094, legislation to make it easier to fire Veterans Affairs employees for poor performance or misconduct and to establish whistle blower protections: "I recognize there are many good, hard-working people at our local VA hospitals many of them are veterans themselves. It's the unaccountable bureaucracy that hurts veterans and makes it impossible for them to get the timely care and benefits they deserve.
"What I think is more telling is what Jeff Sessions would not say. If he wrote a memoir, I think it would be called 'I don't recall,' " Mr. Swalwell, California Democrat, said on MSNBC.
Sen. Tom Cotton speculated Wednesday that former FBI Director James B. Comey may have set a precedent by requesting a private meeting with President Trump prior to his inauguration. "I understand that Jim Comey expressed his misgivings about being in that meeting alone.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions , a close adviser to President Donald Trump during his battle for the presidency, heatedly defended himself before his former Senate colleagues as he denied having an undisclosed meeting with Russia's ambassador to the United States and rejected any misconduct in the ouster of FBI Director James Comey . In a dramatic and packed Senate hearing, Sessions vowed to defend his honor "against scurrilous and false allegations" and declared it a "detestable and appalling lie" to suggest he was aware of or took part in any collusion between Russia and the election campaign that sent Trump to the White House.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official told AFP that Pentagon chief Jim Mattis can now directly adjust troop numbers, though the official would not confirm whether a new "force management level" -- currently at around 8,400 -- had been finalized. "The White House has done the same that it did with Iraq and Syria, which is to grant the secretary of defense the authority to set troop levels," the official said, referring to recent adjustments Trump has approved for the fight against the Islamic State group in those two countries.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee Tuesday, fiercely maintaining he did nothing wrong in meeting twice with the Russian ambassador to the US during President Trump's 2016 campaign and also infuriating Democrats by refusing to detail any conversations he has had with the president. Defiantly adding this: "I recused myself from any investigation into the campaigns for president, but I did not recuse myself from defending my honor against scurrilous and false accusations".
Ahead of the hearing there had been suggestions that Sessions might have had a third, unreported, encounter with Kislyak, at the Mayflower Hotel in April 2016, where candidate Trump was giving his first major foreign policy speech. "I recused myself not because of any assertive wrongdoing or any belief that I may have been involved in any wrongdoing in the campaign but because of a Department of Justice regulation ... that regulation states in effect that a Department employee should not participate in investigations of a campaign if they served as a campaign advisor", Sessions told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence during a hearing on Tuesday.