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President Donald Trump on Friday said he believes an attack on police officers this week in Paris will help Marine Le Pen, the far-right presidential candidate, in upcoming elections in France. In an interview with The Associated Press, Mr. Trump said that while he is not explicitly endorsing Ms.
The Trump administration has rejected a request from Exxon Mobil to waive U.S. sanctions against Russia to allow the company to resume oil drilling around the Black Sea. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Friday in a brief statement that the administration "will not be issuing waivers to U.S. companies, including Exxon, authorizing drilling prohibited by current Russian sanctions."
During his visit he went on a tour of the area with more than a dozen people to highlight the changes underway. "I'm definitely noticing changes because I can see the marsh at the end of McKinley Street and I've had the impression that it is getting smaller," said resident Marty Tarr.
Retired teachers in Ohio will not see a cost of living raise for the next five years. The State Teachers Retirement System board has voted to stop the payment increases after they re-assessed their assets and liabilities.
Young immigrants protected by executive action from deportation say they won't ''rest easy,'' even if President Donald Trump says they should. Several ''dreamers'' told The Associated Press on Friday that they were not comforted by Trump's pledge, in an AP interview, that he wouldn't target the almost 800,000 people brought to the U.S. as children and living in the country illegally under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program enacted by his predecessor, Barack Obama.
A new poll revealed that former independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin would defeat incumbent Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch in a potential matchup in a US Senate race, Salt Lake City's KSL-TV reported . The poll by JMC Analytics and commissioned by The Centrist Project, an organization that is recruiting candidates for public office in 2018, found that 33 percent of Utah residents would vote for McMullin and 29 percent would vote for Hatch, while 11 percent would vote for a Democrat if the election were held today.
A hearing in Johnson's case was held today in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, insisting that the Debate Commission in collusion with the major parties are violating antitrust law when it comes to "political markets." Electoral politics is like a market, argues Bruce Fein, the lawyer for Gary Johnson and other plaintiffs in an ongoing lawsuit against the Commission on Presidential Debates , the Republican and Democratic Parties, and 2012 major party candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
The U.S. Homeland Security Department's inspector general said on Friday he was investigating possible abuse of authority in a case that triggered a lawsuit against the department by Twitter Inc. Inspector General John Roth described the probe in a letter to Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat who had asked for an investigation due to concerns about free speech protections. In a lawsuit on April 6, Twitter disclosed that it received a summons in March from the U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, an agency within Homeland Security, demanding records about an account on the social media platform identified by the handle @ALT_uscis .
The Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security has launched an internal investigation into federal efforts to "unmask" the owner of a Twitter account critical of immigration policies. Inspector General John Roth informed Sen. Ron Wyden in a letter Friday that his office is conducting a probe to determine whether behavior by federal officials concerning the Twitter account was "improper in any way" or if there was an "abuse of authority."
California cities are mobilizing to fight the Trump administration's effort to strip federal funding from so-called sanctuary cities, which do not enforce federal immigration policy. Even as the Justice Department on Friday advised eight local governments and the state of California that they were at risk of losing federal dollars if they don't cooperate, several cities had already directed their lobbyists to oppose such efforts.
House Majority Leader Matt Lehman, R-Berne, looks at a bill during a session at the Statehouse Friday, April 21, 2017, in Indianapolis. House Majority Leader Matt Lehman, R-Berne, looks at a bill during a session at the Statehouse Friday, April 21, 2017, in Indianapolis.
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Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff was the top vote-getter last Tuesday in Georgia's 6th Congressional District in a special election to replace Tom Price, who is now the secretary of health and human services. A wave of first-time candidates eager to fight President Trump and his young administration plan to challenge House Republican incumbents, giving Democratic Party leaders hope that they can capiA talA ize on the anger and intensity at grass-roots protests and town hall meetings across the country this year.
At his Senate confirmation hearing, Attorney General Jeff Sessions lied under oath that he had never had contact with the... Despite promising to release his tax returns in a televised debate with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump continues to show that... Jeff Sessions is really all in on calling one of the 50 United States an "island in the Pacific" as a way to attack the legitimacy of a duly appointed and confirmed federal judge who sits in Hawaii. In an interview with MSNBC's Ali Velshi, Sessions did not back down from defending that indefensible position.
"No one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it," observed George Orwell in his prescient novel "1984." However, until Donald Trump came along most U.S. presidents were at least subtle about their eagerness to retain power - especially during the first 100 days.
The leader of a bipartisan good-government group, Zach Wamp, headed to the White House last week to ask whether President Donald Trump's "drain the swamp" slogan would ever be more than a throwaway campaign slogan. One of the president's closest aides, Steve Bannon, assured him it's a priority.
Jon Ossoff, the young liberal running to replace Tom Price in Georgia's traditionally-Republican but Trump-skeptical Sixth Congressional District, has been the beneficiary of millions of dollars in contributions from out-of-state donors . Many of them are liberals who want to deal President Trump a clear electoral blow, which will help shape the media narrative in advance of the 2018 midterm elections.
We are in the midst of an unprecedented assault on science and evidence-based policy which will have profound impacts in Oregon and beyond. The White House has proposed a massive 31 percent cut to the Environmental Protection Agency budget, which could reduce Oregonians' access to clean air and water.
Bernie Sanders Sanders endorses Ossoff, but won't call him a progressive The Hill's 12:30 Report Cummings: Democrats need to be 'big tent' party MORE endorsed Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff on Friday after he took criticism for refusing to call the candidate in the high-profile House election "progressive." "Let me be very clear.