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Two months after booting their sitting president over corruption all... . In this May 4, 2017 photo, people wait to cast their preliminary votes for the upcoming presidential election in Seoul, South Korea.
Former U.S. President Barack Obama said Sunday in Boston that "political courage" is needed to preserve progress made in health care reform under his administration. Obama noted in an award ceremony that many members of Congress had to take tough votes to end the debate "about whether a nation as wealthy as the United States of America would finally make health care not a privilege but a right."
Jury selection begins Monday for a Phoenix woman charged with murder in the 2011 death of a girl who was found dead inside a padlocked storage box. State authorities are asking for the public's help in finding out who painted graffiti on rocks within a protected area on Mauna Kea mountain.
Budget Director Mick Mulvaney is insisting the budget deal that will keep the government running until September is a win for the White House, despite complaints from President Trump. "They wanted a shutdown", Mulvaney said of Democrats.
House Speaker Paul Ryan's words are now coming back to haunt him and GOP leadership that rammed American Health Care Act , without procedural safeguards, through the House chamber days ago. "I don't think we should pass bills that we haven't read that we don't know what they cost," said Ryan in a 2009 interview on MSNBC when Congress was debating President Obama's 1990-page Affordable Care Act , or Obamacare.
Saturday was horse racing's biggest day of the year. Yet in the days preceding it, a form of politics, frequently referred to as "horse race politics" which refer to polls and elections, was also heating up.
Working with Clinton on the effort is Dennis Cheng, her campaign finance chair , as well as Judith McHale, who was one of her undersecretaries of state, according to Politico . Sen. Ted Cruz called out FBI Director James Comey for the director's decision that Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin would walk because there was no intent on their part to break the law by their mishandling of classified information.
A graying man - once the baby-faced press wrangler for Sen. Barack Obama's nascent presidential campaign - nursed an absinthe cocktail as he mingled near a former spokesman for President George W. Bush's 2004 reelection bid. Nearby, one of Sen. John McCain's most aggressive public advocates in his 2008 presidential campaign huddled with a man who spent the last several years as former President Bill Clinton's liaison with the public.
This May 23, 2016, file photo, shows the northernmost boundary of the proposed Bears Ears region, along the Colorado River, in southeastern Utah. The re-evaluation of the new Bears Ears National Monument and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is part of President Donald Trump's executive order calling for a review of 27 national monuments established by several former presidents.
Tyrese Gibson, from left, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordan Brewster, and Vin Diesel accept the Generation award for "The Fast and the Furious" at the MTV Movie and TV Awards at the Shrine Auditorium on Sunday, May 7, 2017, in Los Angeles. The MTV Movie & TV Awards at the Shrine Auditorium on Sunday, May 7, 2017 in Los Angeles, Calif.
Team 26 cyclists make their way along Main Street in Newtown as they return from Washington DC. Sunday, May 7, 2017 Team 26 cyclists make their way along Main Street in Newtown as they return from Washington DC.
In this Friday photo, demonstrators hold signs to protest Rep. Jackie Walorski's, R-Ind., vote to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, outside her office in Mishawaka, Ind.
The Salt Lake Tribune) Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke spoke at a brief press conference after having met with members of the Bears Ears Commission Sunday at the Bureau of Land Management office at the Gateway in Salt Lake City, Sunday, May 7, 2017. The Salt Lake Tribune) Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke spoke at a brief press conference after having met with members of the Bears Ears Commission Sunday at the Bureau of Land Management office at the Gateway in Salt Lake City, Sunday, May 7, 2017.
US President Donald Trump congratulated Emmanuel Macron on his victory in France's presidential election today. Trump had backed neither Macron nor his far-right rival Marine Le Pen ahead of the vote's second round.
Twenty-seven national monuments, mostly in the West, face the curtailing or elimination of protections put in place over the past two decades by presidents from both parties, the Interior Department said. President Donald Trump ordered the review last month, saying protections imposed by his three immediate predecessors amounted to "a massive federal land grab" that "should never have happened."
On Wednesday, the House passed a $1.2 trillion spending bill by a lopsided margin of 309 to 118. A majority of both Democrats and Republicans supported the measure, which sailed through the Senate.
Get Boston Globe's Political Happy Hour newsletter , your afternoon shot of politics, sent straight from the desk of Joshua Miller. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is apparently a big fan of the HBO show Ballers - a fact that was noticed Sunday by none other than the show's producer and co-star, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, talks with Face the Nation moderator John Dickerson about a possible government shutdown, the GOP health care bill, the Senate's Russia investigation, and more.
Cutting nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid will give states the freedom to tailor the program to suit their needs, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said Sunday, as he defended a narrowly passed House bill that aims to undo parts of the health care law enacted by the previous administration. The bill's passage buoyed President Donald Trump, but the measure appeared headed for an overhaul in the Senate.