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At Tax Day rallies across the nation this weekend, protesters demanded that Donald Trump release his tax returns. In Washington, thousands assembled in front of the Capitol as liberal stalwarts like Senator Ron Wyden told the President to "knock it off."
On Sunday Hillary Clinton's campaign donated her email list, including data on donors and supporters, to the Democratic National Committee. Both the DNC and Clinton's campaign said this included 10 million people that the DNC did not have previously in its database.
A lawyer who represented Florida State University in an explosive sexual assault case and another lawyer who during the 2016 presidential campaign accused Hillary Clinton of enabling sexual predators have been chosen for key roles in the Department of Education, raising fears that the agency could pull back from enforcing civil rights in schools and on college campuses. President Trump will nominate Carlos G. Muniz, a politically connected Florida lawyer who served as deputy general counsel to former Gov. Jeb Bush, to be general counsel to the Education Department.
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad launched a chemical weapons attack in the Idlib Province of his country earlier this month. On April 6, President Trump ordered a massive missile strike against the airbase where the attack was reportedly carried out.
President Trump has a lower approval rating at this point in his administration than any of the five previous presidents, according to a Pew Research Center Bill Clinton Bill Clinton Pew: Trump, GOP dragged down by internal party divisions Democrats welcome Bernie takeover How Congress can reform campaign finance for the American people MORE was below the 50 percent mark in April of his first term, when he came in at 49 percent favorable. Trump is dragged down in the survey by high levels of opposition from Democrats, only 7 percent of whom give him a favorable rating.
As president, Trump has backed off many of his provocative foreign policy promises. As president, Trump has backed off many of his provocative foreign policy promises.
Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky., said he would seek re-election in 2018 . Yarmuth cited the administration of President Donald Trump as a reason for him wanting to stay in Congress during an interview with WHAS-11.
Newswise - SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY Denise Smith, professor of health and exercise sciences at Skidmore College, recently co-authored a study titled, "Firefighting and the Heart: Implications for Prevention." Smith's research, which seeks to improve firefighters' physiological responses during emergency calls, was published in the scientific journal Circulation , as well as in an April 1, 2017 Associated Press report which was carried by more than 30 news organizations, including a US News and World Report article titled " Firefighters Join Study to Help Reduce Line-Of-Duty Deaths ."
In this Friday, July 23, 2010, file photo, Vice President Joe Biden chats with former U.S. Sen. Ernest Fritz Hollings during the dedication ceremony of the new Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library in Columbia, S.C. Hollings is being honored outside the federal courthouse in Charleston that used to bear his name. Biden is the main speaker Monday, April 17, 2017, at the dedication of a Hollings statue outside the J. Waties Waring Judicial Center.
After a week that saw President Donald Trump reverse course on several key campaign pledges, many congressional conservatives are bracing for another harsh reality: The President may soon sign a government spending bill that continues to fund two controversial programs he vowed to end and will lack adequate funding for one of his top campaign promises. Time is ticking on an April 28 deadline when the government runs out of money.
The lamp remains illuminated in the top of the Capitol Dome in Washington before dawn Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, indicating that the Senate was still at work as Democrats remained on the floor overnight to oppose the confirmation of Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos. The Senate is poised to confirm President Donald Trump's controversial nominee by the narrowest possible margin, with Vice President Mike Pence expected to break a 50-50 tie.
Along with Alek Chakroff and Liane Young, I've recently discussed their research suggesting that when we use vague language to talk about own immoral acts, it not only helps us get off the hook -- it might also be part of how we carry on believing we're great people. Sure, a little self-deception probably prevents us from being miserable to the point of humiliating ourselves .
People react as U.S. Rep. Greg Walden speaks at a town hall meeting in The Dalles, Oreg., Wednesday, April 12, 2017. In the auditorium of his old middle school just blocks from where he still lives, the congressman who is a lead author of the stalled House Republican health care bill was treated like the villain in a class play.
Once soft on Russia and hard on China, President Donald Trump rapidly reversed course in the last weeks, concluding there's more business to be done with Beijing than with Moscow. Trump's evolving views on those two world powers have brought the U.S. back into alignment with former President Barack Obama's pattern of "great power" politics.
Kansas is preparing for a new fiscal forecast for state government this week that officials hope is more optimistic and makes fixing serious budget problems easier. The forecasting group plans to meet Thursday to revise a pessimistic forecast issued in November.
Republican Ron Estes defeated Democrat James Thompson in last week's special election in the 4th Congressional District of south-central Kansas The board is the governor, the attorney general and the secretary of state. But they can send substitutes to handle what is often the routine business of reviewing vote totals from counties.
Despite North Korea's failed missile test this weekend , the crisis appears to be speeding up. From The New York Times : All the elements of the North Korean nuclear crisis - the relentless drive by Kim Jong-un to assemble an arsenal, the propaganda and deception swirling around his progress, the hints of a covert war by the United States to undermine the effort, rather than be forced into open confrontation - were on vivid display this weekend.
Since Trump nominated Gorsuch in January, Republicans have praised the 10th circuit court of appeals judge as a mainstream jurist qualified to sit on the high court. The Senate confirmed Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court Friday morning, thrilling conservatives and angering liberals who expect him to be in the mold of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, whose seat he will take.
The Shadow Brokers latest NSA dump indicates that Dubai-based firm EastNets , which oversees SWIFT transfers for various Middle Eastern clients, was hacked by the NSA. Fairfax was not able to verify the authenticity of the files - and the NSA has not commented on the leak.