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A congressional committee that oversees the Federal Emergency Management Agency in December wrote the agency's director demanding answers about the mistaken use of a deadly toxin at the Center for Domestic Preparedness in Anniston. In that Dec. 23 letter, a copy of which was forwarded to The Star on Tuesday, bipartisan committee leaders ask FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate to respond to several questions about the agency's handling and knowledge of the problem that resulted in almost 9,600 civilian firefighters, nurses and emergency medical personnel being exposed to the deadly toxin.
The city of Chicago is conducting a long, bloody experiment in what happens to a gang-ridden municipality in the absence of effective policing. It is keeping the morgue depressingly busy : 762 people were murdered in the city in 2016, a nearly unheard-of 50 percent increase over the year before.
Pent-up frustration with the Office of Congressional Ethics led to a revolt against GOP leaders, followed by a hasty retreat in the face of public pressure. House Republicans voted Monday night to gut Congress's independent ethics watchdog, but by Tuesday afternoon it was House Republicans who were left gutted, caving to an extraordinary amount of public pressure and reversing their decision.
If you believe liberal writers and pundits apocalyptic post-election musings, "Donald Trump's America" is no place to raise a child. The latest of these was in Elle magazine last week .
Despite the hue and cry over President-elect Donald J. Trump and his use of social media to make pronouncements that might be, or might not be, new public policy, DJT's use of 140 characters or less is getting the kind of attention that customary and longwinded political orations rarely attract. “With all that Congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the Independent Ethics Watchdog, as unfair as it may be, their number one act and priority ...” - @realDonaldTrump.
Bill and Hillary Clinton plan to attend Donald Trump's inauguration, putting the 2016 presidential rivals on the same platform only weeks after their tough campaign. Aides to the former president and former secretary of state say the Clintons will attend the Jan. 20 inauguration.
Vice President Joe Biden has sworn in Tammy Duckworth as Illinois' new U.S. senator at a ceremony in Washington. Duckworth's press secretary, Sean Savett, says U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois escorted Duckworth to the Tuesday afternoon ceremony.
Members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People say they won't stand for Senator Jeff Sessions being confirmed as the United States Attorney General. Several leaders held news conferences in major Alabama cities to voice there concerns.
Committee chairman Senator Chuck Grassley arrives for a hearing with Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Sarah Saldana before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill December 2, 2015 in Washington, DC. AFP PHOTO/BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP / BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI Grassley anticipates one of his first orders of business will be the nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama as the new Attorney General.
The NAACP is staging a sit-in at the Alabama office of U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions to protest his nomination to be the nation's next attorney general. NAACP President Cornell William Brooks said in a statement that Sessions "can't be trusted to be the chief law enforcement officer for voting rights."
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, left, is joined by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, center, and Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York William C. Thompson, as he speaks during an event at LaGuardia Community College, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, in New York.
In the last 24 hours, House Republicans unveiled a plan Monday to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics and then reversed its plans Tuesday - and that's how the whole holiday season has been. President Barack Obama on Dec. 29 announced sanctions against Russia for meddling in the U.S. presidential election, though the next day, President-elect Donald Trump praised Vladimir Putin for not retaliating.
Julian Assange has accused the Obama administration of trying to "delegitimise" Donald Trump's impending US presidency over the alleged hacking of election emails. Australian, Assange, who has been living at the Ecuadorian embassy in London since the summer of 2012 for fear of being extradited to the US, was speaking to the Fox News channel's Sean Hannity after Barack Obama identified Russia as almost certainly being responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committee .
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday announced a new plan to give free tuition to SUNY and CUNY students whose families make less than $125,000 a year. Cuomo announced the so-called "Excelsior Scholarship" at LaGuardia Community College in Queens on Tuesday morning.
This poll is worth highlighting for a few reasons: It presents an ideal opportunity to reiterate an important factual claim about our electoral process, it allows us to puncture liberals' self-righteousness about conspiracy theories and anti-empiricism being the province of the Right, and it adds useful perspective to the panic over "fake news." Let's start with the data point itself, which comes via YouGov. PPP is famous for asking trollish questions designed to embarrass Republican voters, but as we'll see, neither side is immune from this sort of thing.
President-elect Trump Tuesday criticized House Republicans for moving to gut the independent Office of Congressional Ethics in a closed-door vote Monday night, saying their attention should be focused elsewhere and hinting they had violated the spirit of his campaign slogan, "drain the swamp." "With all that Congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the Independent Ethics Watchdog, as unfair as it may be, their number one act and priority," the incoming Republican president wrote in a pair of tweets.
At 12:01 today, a few dozen men and women will become former congressmen and former senators. If you know how Washington works, you know that "former lawmaker" can safely be translated as "lobbyist."
In this Nov. 7, 2016, file photo Bruce Springsteen performs during a Hillary Clinton campaign event at Independence Mall in Philadelphia. During an interview on Marc Maron's "WTF" podcast released Monday, Jan. 2, 2016, Bruce Springsteen questioned whether President-elect Donald Trump "is simply competent enough to do this particular this particular job."