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In this April 7, 2017, photo, a large display stands in the lawn of the main Josephine County library branch in Grants Pass, Ore. The library system in Josephine County has been operating as a nonprofit on donations and volunteer hours since it lost public funding, but a measure on the May 16 ballot could restore limited tax dollars by creating a special library tax district.
In this April 5, 2017 file photo, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner-designate Dr. Scott Gottlieb testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. The Senate is on track to confirm Gottlieb as the head of the Food and Drug Administration.
" The Senate Leadership Fund on Monday reserved a $2.6 million television ad buy on behalf of U.S. Sen. Luther Strange of Alabama, bidding to ward off challengers for the seat previously held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The super political action committee, which has ties to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, made the show of fiscal force ahead of the August Republican primary in which Strange will face several challengers, including former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore.
Gov. Terry Branstad laughs at a joke last week during a hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on his nomination to become U.S. ambassador to China. Gov. Terry Branstad laughs at a joke last week during a hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on his nomination to become U.S. ambassador to China.
Sally Yates didn't bring a smoking gun to the latest episode of the long-running political melodrama entwining the White House and Russia. But in a Senate hearing on Monday, the former acting attorney general produced just enough fresh intrigue to offer Democrats a new opening in the war of attrition they are waging against Donald Trump's presidency.
State Sen. Bill Cowsert, R-Athens, left, speaks during a Monday forum hosted by the Athens-Clarke County Federation of Neighborhoods at Cine in downtown Athens. The Republican contingent of the local legislative delegation, comprising Sen. Frank Ginn, R-Danielsville, second from left, Rep. Regina Quick, R-Athens, and Rep. Chuck Williams, R-Watkinsville, addressed issues ranging from climate change to redistricting.
Jimmy Kimmel returned to his late-night TV show Monday a week after an emotional monologue about his newborn son's heart condition and surgery. Last week he proclaimed to his " Jimmy Kimmel Live " audience, through tears, that all children in this country deserve affordable healthcare.
Former U.S. President Barack Obama says he's "confident that the United States will continue to move in the right direction" on climate change despite his successor's pledges to undo many of his policies. On his first foreign foray since leaving office, Obama told an audience Tuesday at a Milan conference on food innovation in Italy that businesses in the United States are already committed to clean energy, in part due to cost-savings, which would help counteract moves by Donald Trump 's administration.
In this April 7, 2017, photo, a large display stands in the lawn of the main Josephine County library branch in Grants Pass, Ore. The library system in Josephine County has been operating as a nonprofit on donations and volunteer hours since it lost public funding, but a measure on the May 16 ballot could restore limited tax dollars by creating a special library tax district.
California Sen. Kamala Harris had some heated words this week for an Idaho congressman's assertion at a town hall that "nobody dies because they don't have access to healthcare." "Like this guy, this congressman, you might as well say, 'People don't starve because they don't have food.'
The Podesta Group is run by Tony Podesta, whose brother, John, was chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and senior counselor to President Barack Obama in 2014. The Podesta Group is run by Tony Podesta, whose brother, John, was chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and senior counselor to President Barack Obama in 2014.
Almost one-third of new drugs approved by FDA from 2001-2010, including Humira, ended up years later with warnings about unexpected, ... State-funded adoption agencies backing Texas legislation that would sanction the rejection of prospective parents on religious grounds already routinely deny non-Christian, gay, and unmarried applicants. Almost one-third of new U.S. prescription drugs later get safety warnings about unexpected and sometimes serious side effects.
In this March 14, 2017 file photo, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer of N.Y. speaks with reporters at the Capitol in Washington. Senate Democrats asked Republicans Tuesday, May 9, 2017, to drop their bid to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law, offering to help improve the nation's health care system if they did.
I'm speaking particularly to the anti-Trump crowd on the left. Before Donald Trump became the official Republican nominee for President in the summer of 2016, I know a good number of y'all were secretly hoping for him to be the GOP's presidential candidate.
Senate Democrats asked Republicans Tuesday to drop their bid to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law, offering to help improve the nation's health care system if they did. On television talk shows and congressional town hall meetings, the GOP drive showed no signs of fading from public view.
Kimmel also highlighted a highly criticized comment made by Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, last week at a town hall. Labrador said no one has died because they don't have access to health care , prompting boos from the crowd.
The fourth-term congressman quietly filed the paperwork to run as a Republican gubernatorial candidate Tuesday, ending prolonged speculation the conservative politician was eyeing the top Idaho seat. Labrador is a founding member of the House Freedom Caucus, who unsuccessfully ran for majority leader in 2014.
Former U.S. President Barack Obama will make a keynote address on food security and climate change Tuesday, just as the Trump administration struggles with an internal rift over whether to pull out of the global Paris climate accord. President Donald Trump vowed during his campaign to "cancel" U.S. participation in the Paris Agreement, which obliges countries to slash their greenhouse gas emissions to keep global temperatures from rising to catastrophic levels.
Actor Antonio Sabato Jr., an actor best known "General Hospital" and "Melrose Place" and who rose to political prominence after he spoke at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland last year, is running for Congress in California, according to the Republican operative who will act as his top fundraiser in the 2018 race.
Former President Jimmy Carter and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., discuss human rights during the Human Rights Defenders Forum at the Carter Center on Monday. Carter said he voted for Sanders in the Democratic primary.