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Bernie Sanders Sanders and Perez plan cross-country tour 'SNL' alum: 'Moron' Trump 'didn't get the jokes' Senate Dems offer bill to restore internet privacy rules MORE will join Democratic National Committee chair Tom Perez in a cross-country outreach tour to states where Democrats lost in 2016. The trip will begin in Maine in mid-April and will reach several states, including Kentucky, Florida, Nevada and Arizona, according to the Washington Post .
Yesterday, the Senate voted to end the first ever successful partisan filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee by the so-called "constitutional," "Reid" or "nuclear" option. In other words, democracy was restored because simple majority rule was restored.
A national tour of Trump country by the new Democratic National Committee chairman and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders will apparently kick off April 17 in Maine. The weeklong, multi-state tour is intended to begin to mend fences between the party and its grass roots in areas that voted for Republican President Donald Trump last year.
The U.S. missile strikes Thursday on a Syrian air base were conducted without formal congressional approval. Some questions and answers about how and why presidents can conduct military action without permission from the 535 representatives of the American people.
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Mitt Romney is far from done with politics. As he's apparently considering a Senate run in Utah. Susana Victoria Perez (@susana_vp) has more. Media: Buzz60
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers an statement about missile strikes on a Syrian airbase, at his Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida . It happened again.
Some celebrities have made their opinions known on President Trump's decision to launch airstrikes on Syria. So far, the response has been less than positive.
Thomas Vranas asked a judge Thursday to sentence him to probation for his role in a bribery scandal that enmeshed the Chicago Public Schools and cost former CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett her job and led to her corruption conviction, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting. Even though his former business partner, Gary Solomon, has already been hit with a seven-year prison sentence - and Byrd-Bennett faces her own lengthy stay behind bars - Vranas' attorney claims he was basically taken along for a ride.
The United States fired cruise missiles on Friday at a Syrian airbase from which it said a deadly chemical weapons attack had been launched this week, the first direct U.S. assault on the government of Bashar al-Assad in six years of civil war. U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the step his predecessor Barack Obama never took: directly targeting Assad's military with air strikes in punishment for the chemical weapons attack, which killed at least 70 people, many of them children.
In his search for common ground with the new U.S. administration, federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau has been drawing parallels between the underlying forces that elected Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump. Morneau, whose most recent U.S. visit took him to New York and Indiana this week, said he's been telling American political leaders that the same middle-class angst that fuelled Trump's victory also helped propel the Trudeau government to power.
In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter launches a tomahawk land attack missile in the Mediterranean Sea, Friday, April 7, 2017. The United States blasted a Syrian air base with a barrage of cruise missiles in fiery retaliation for this week's gruesome chemical weapons attack against civilians.
Trump fires 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Homs airfield where Assad launched his horrifying chemical attack, prompting Syria to declare the US a 'partner of ISIS and terrorist organisations' Furious Putin calls US airstrikes an 'illegal act of aggression' and halts agreement to avoid clashes with American fighter jets over Syria Republicans including John McCain and Ted Cruz praise Trump for Syrian airstrikes but Democrats say any further military action needs to be run past Congress Netanyahu leads worldwide praise of Trump's airstrikes on Syria and says he hopes they will be heard from Iran to North Korea 'No child of God should ever suffer such horror': Trump explains why he launched air strikes on Syria in the wake of chemical gas attack US alerted Russian military 30 minutes before Syria airstrike but made NO direct contact with Putin as Tillerson accuses Moscow of being ... (more)
Trump fires 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Homs airfield where Assad launched his horrifying chemical attack, prompting Syria to declare the US a 'partner of ISIS and terrorist organisations' Furious Putin calls US airstrikes an 'illegal act of aggression' and halts agreement to avoid clashes with American fighter jets over Syria Republicans including John McCain and Ted Cruz praise Trump for Syrian airstrikes but Democrats say any further military action needs to be run past Congress Netanyahu leads worldwide praise of Trump's airstrikes on Syria and says he hopes they will be heard from Iran to North Korea How Trump unleashed awesome arsenal on Assad: Tomahawk missiles launched from US destroyers 150 miles away with pinpoint accuracy without endangering American pilots or enraging neighbouring allies US alerted Russian military 30 minutes before Syria airstrike but made NO direct ... (more)
With conflicting interests and competing global powers, the international community remains at an impasse over Syria's six-year conflict. On Friday morning local time, the US military struck a Syrian airbase in response to a chemical weapons attack, bringing mixed reaction from global players.
The marketing brochure for the Florida hotel redevelopment project showed developer Robert Matthews in a photo with Bill and Hillary Clinton, and another one with Donald Trump. Trump and the Clintons had nothing to do with the project.
The U.S. missile strikes Thursday on a Syrian air base were conducted without formal congressional approval. Some questions and answers about how and why presidents can conduct military action without permission from the 535 representatives of the American people.
A proxy battle with Russia in Syria and multiple Russia-related investigations in the U.S. will follow Secretary of State Rex to Moscow next week on a trip designed to test the Trump administration's hopes for closer ties to the former Cold War foe. will make the first visit to Russia by a Trump administration official just days after the U.S. launched cruise missiles against an air base in Syria, where Russia's military is on the ground propping up its ally, President Bashar Assad.
The Senate is unique among American political bodies in that its very rules and traditions have often been the basis for consequential oratory. Such was the case on Thursday, when South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham delivered a 3,000-word speech on the nuclear option and its devastating effect on the Senate.
Lawmakers are sounding the alarm over the vulnerability of sensitive taxpayer data as the Internal Revenue Service's deadline for the 2017 tax filing season looms. Cyber criminals have increasingly turned to hacking and phishing email schemes to obtain sensitive taxpayer information, which can be used to commit tax fraud or identity theft.