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Police in Connecticut say a father who was moving a vehicle ran over and killed a toddler in the driveway of a Bristol Massachusetts Senate President Stanley Rosenberg of Amherst was saluted as the Democrat of the Year. Congressman Richard Neal, of Springfield, was honored as the 2017 Democrat of Distinction.
Joe Biden has been saying yes to nearly all the political invitations coming his way, with new ones arriving almost daily. Privately, the former vice president and his staff have started talking about how to begin planning a strategy with a roughly 18-month timeline so that if he decides on another presidential run, he'll be best positioned to get it off the ground.
President Trump appeared to suggest on Sunday that the GOP's new iteration of its healthcare bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act would cover pre-existing conditions for all Americans. Trump, seeming to break from House Republicans' latest proposal that states could opt out of an Affordable Care Act requirement on covering pre-existing conditions, told CBS' John Dickerson on "Face the Nation" that congressional leaders were making changes to the newest bill to provide for nationwide pre-existing conditions coverage.
Homelessness is dangerous, especially for kids. They are more vulnerable to become victims of crime; they're more vulnerable to disease, and they're more likely to become victims of human trafficking.
Over the course of his 100 days in office, President Donald Trump has been startlingly candid about his public education in the ways of Washington and the world. He's been blocked by the courts and befuddled by a divided Republican Party that's running Congress, and his first months on the job have left the long-time reality-TV and real estate tycoon struggling for major governing victories and searching for a new approach to many of his campaign promises.
Former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi looks set to emerge victorious in Sunday's Democratic Party election, representing a remarkable comeback for the 42-year-old politician. Polling stations in Italy closed at 4 p.m. Eastern time, with Renzi expected to win the primary election decisively against Justice Minister Andrea Orlando and Michele Emiliano, who heads Italy's Apulia region, according to reports from The Telegraph.
Barack Obama will forever be known as a resident of the White House, but let's not forget the New York City homes where he resided during his formative years. It's known that during his junior year at Columbia University, Obama lived in a two-bedroom, one-bathroom unit at 142 W. 109th St. But after graduating from that famed Morningside Heights institution in 1983, Obama - who still had a handful of years to go until he met Michelle - lived on the top floor of a Park Slope townhouse in the mid-1980s.
"Alternative facts" are bad enough, but we're facing something far more serious: Alternative worldviews in which up is down, future is past and all bets are off. Simply reacting to the most outrageous lies is not strategically smart enough.
Former Vice President Joe Biden is returning to New Hampshire to honor the nation's first all-female, all-Democratic congressional delegation. Biden is speaking Sunday night at the state Democratic Party's annual McIntyre Shaheen 100 Club Dinner.
By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. - President Donald Trump on Saturday marked his 100th day in office by claiming historic action on his agenda, renewing promises on health care and taxes and attacking the news media that he says is misleading Americans.
In this Sept. 4, 2014, file photo, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio visits the Inner Force Early Tots Childhood Learning Center, a community-based organization that's part of the pre-K program, in the Brooklyn borough of New York on the first day of the mayor's expansion of early childhood education.
The fiery Republican jurist, who was... . Roy Moore smiles before announcing his Alabama Junior Senate race candidacy on April 26, 2017, in Montgomery, Ala.
President Donald Trump waves as he walks across the south lawn of the White House in Washington late Saturday night, April 29, 2017, on this return from a rally in Harrisburg, Pa. President Donald Trump waves as he walks across the south lawn of the White House in Washington late Saturday night, April 29, 2017, on this return from a rally in Harrisburg, Pa.
At 100 days in, Trump seems both outsider and insider - KXXV-TV News Channel 25 - Central Texas News and Weather for Waco, Temple, Killeen . President Donald Trump speaks at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center in Harrisburg, Pa., Saturday, April 29, 2017, on the 100th day of his presidency.
Lawmakers will have a full plate when they return to Topeka this week to wrap up the legislative session. Resolving these issues will take strong leadership, particularly by Senate President Susan Wagle, R-Wichita, who needs to decide if she is siding with the public and the bipartisan majority of lawmakers or with Gov. Sam Brownback.
If you designed a tax plan intended to enrich President Trump and his family, you could hardly do better than the monster he dropped on Wednesday. Real estate partners could pay the new corporate rate of 15 percent, rather than the top personal rate of 39 percent.
Judges, doctors and lawmakers on the front lines of the opioid addiction crisis have a problem: Three types of medications are available to help the estimated 200,000 Ohioans struggling to recover from addiction and yet there are no clear answers as to which, if any, drug works best. The skyrocketing demand for treatment has spurred competition among drugmakers for a piece of the growing market, which in Ohio is worth well over $100 million a year in public money alone.
"It's just the epitome of broken," former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said of the Bureau of Indian Education's abysmal track record with Native American students. "Just utterly bankrupt."
Wyoming residents this weekend found a creative way to protest the anti-LGBT remarks made by one of their U.S. senators - holding tutu-wearing parties at bars and other venues. Sen. Mike Enzi infamously told students at a Wyoming high school recently that he knows a man who wears a tutu to bars and gets into fights because of it - and "he kind of asks for it."