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Former President Barack Obama makes his first post-presidential public appearance at the University of Chicago to discuss civic engagement and community organizing. - Scheduled for 11 a.m. CDT
By Eric Francis, Standard Correspondent WHITE RIVER JUNCTION - Warning that the proposed federal budget making the rounds in Washington D.C. looks to be "absolutely catastrophic" for social service agencies, Vermont's lone congressman sat down at the beginning of this week to listen to local organizations which are likely to be impacted. Meeting Monday at the Upper Valley Haven homeless shelter in Wilder, in a conference room that now fills up each night with cots, U.S. Rep. Peter Welch said that the best hope is that "red states" like Oklahoma and Tennessee will find they have as much, if not more, to lose from the so-called "Trump Budget" than Vermont does and a broad backlash will build.
Few jurists have managed to capture the attention and imagination of American society like Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the "odd couple" who built a lasting friendship despite their diametrically-opposed legal views. Because of their dedication to finding common ground across an ideological chasm, the two were honored earlier this month with the annual Allegheny College Prize for Civility in Public Life .
On 21 April 2017, McCain Foods, USA announced they were recalling some of their hash browns due to "extraneous golf ball materials" found in some packages. The company has issued a press release detailing the scope of the recall, which affects hash browns manufactured on 19 January 2017 that apparently harvested and packaged fragments of golf balls along with potatoes.
In this Wednesday, April 19, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office in Washington. With a budget deadline looming, he plans a whirlwind of activities seeking to highlight accomplishments while putting fresh pressure on congressional Democrats to pay for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, even if that pressure risks a government shutdown.
He's startled world leaders with his unpredictability and tough talk, but won their praise for a surprise strike on Syria. "It's a different kind of a presidency," Trump said in an Oval Office interview with The Associated Press, an hour-long conversation as he approached Saturday's key presidential benchmark.
The 100-day milestone has become a landmark for US presidents, a moment to measure the impact of the new administration - and a yardstick for things to come. On 29 May, it will be 100 days since Donald Trump shocked the US and the world by defeating Hillary Clinton to become the 45th President of the United States.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday aimed at overturning environmental regulations and reviving the coal industry. Trump also railed against a so-called "War on Coal" as well as general federal regulations in his speech prior to signing the order, promising to strike down regulations in every industry by the "thousands."
Multiple committee investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign will continue to push forward as Congress returns this week. Members of the House Intelligence Committee are hoping to get back to work after chairman Devin Nunes withdrew himself from the panel's Russia investigation amid ethics complaints.
Former President Bill Clinton's warnings to speak to swing voters fell upon deaf ears during Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, according to the authors of Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign , a new book about purported dysfunction inside the campaign team. Political journalists Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen spoke with ABC News' Political Director Rick Klein and Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl on the newest episode of the Powerhouse Politics podcast about the findings they detailed in their book and the backlash they're getting from the staffers at the center of it all.
He's startled world leaders with his unpredictability and tough talk, but won their praise for a surprise strike on Syria. "It's a different kind of a presidency," Trump said in an Oval Office interview with The Associated Press, an hour-long conversation as he approached Saturday's key presidential benchmark.
With a budget deadline looming, President Donald Trump plans a whirlwind of activities seeking to highlight accomplishments while putting fresh pressure on congressional Democrats to pay for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, even if that pressure risks a possible government shutdown. Trump approaches the symbolic 100-day mark for his administration this coming week juggling a renewed health care push and his demands that a must-pass government funding bill should include money for the wall.
He's startled world leaders with his unpredictability and tough talk, but won their praise for a surprise strike on Syria. "It's a different kind of a presidency," Trump said in an Oval Office interview with The Associated Press, an hour-long conversation as he approached Saturday's key presidential benchmark.
While his peers in other states are also holding town hall meetings, Rep. Welch has gone the extra mile of pulling together small groups in a variety of fields to discuss how Vermonters would be affected by the sweeping cuts proposed in the most recent federal budget. I took part in one such meeting last week that included representatives from a selection of arts and humanities organizations, public broadcasting companies, libraries and museums.
The jury selection process is expected to last two days, starting Monday, in the trial of former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown. The Florida Times-Union reports that prosecutors and defense attorneys hope to seat 12 jurors by Wednesday when opening arguments are set to begin in federal court in Jacksonville.
Landmarks Illinois , a nonprofit group dedicated to preserving history, has selected Route 66 as one of this year's most endangered historic place in the state. "One of the tools that some communities had to use was within the National Park Service there is a Route 66 corridor preservation program and that had been around since 1999 and was renewed in 2009 for another 10 years and this provides some cost share grants," Butterfield said.
At his Senate confirmation hearing, Attorney General Jeff Sessions lied under oath that he had never had contact with the... While New York is a heavily Democratic state, the GOP has run the state Senate almost nonstop for decades. Democrats actually won a nominal 32-31 majority in 2016, but the eight-member Independent Democratic Conference continues to keep the Republican leadership in power, while a ninth Democrat, Simcha Felder, outright caucuses with the GOP.
President Donald Trump is set to introduce a massive tax cut soon that will disproportionately favor the affluent as he hints. That's right; at a time when income inequality is equivalent to that of the Great Depression, and income mobility is stagnant; the Trump administration will shower the already well-off with even more cash.
Farmers around the U.S. are worried that the Trump administration crackdown on immigrants will deprive them of the workers they need. New Orleans will begin taking down Confederate statutes, becoming the latest Southern body to divorce itself from what some say are symbols of racism and intolerance.
Don't you just love it when the Libs eat their own? It saves us the trouble! In this case, a lefty Vanity Fair author really creamed Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, in a new column lashing out over the mainstream media's demanding to keep the former first daughter front and center in Americas mind, following her mommies second loss at a Presidential run. The column hits at a time when multiple media outlets are non-stop pushing out Clinton stories, profiles and photo shoots.