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Illinois legislators are facing increasing pressure from law enforcement to crack down on repeat gun offenders who are blamed for the surge in Chicago's violence this year. Mayor Rahm Emanuel, police Superintendent Eddie Johnson and others have urged lawmakers for months to pass a bill that increases prison sentences for defendants who previously committed a gun-related crime.
In a secure meeting room under the Capitol last week, lawmakers held in their hands a classified letter written by colleagues in the Senate summing up a secret, new CIA assessment of Russia's role in the 2016 presidential election. Sitting before the House Intelligence Committee was a senior FBI counterintelligence official.
Clear Creek senior Hannah Froeschl began her high school volleyball career not knowing what a one set was, and is ending it being called the No. 1 middle blocker in the state, as well as the 2016 all-county volleyball player of the year.
After a voter recount was launched and halted by a federal judge on Wednesday, state officials are now admitting that most of the voting machines in Detroit were broken on Election Day, reports the International Business Times . According to officials, over 80 machines were deemed faulty on November 8 which may have caused electronic vote tallies to be off in over half of the precincts in Detroit as well as one-third of the precincts in Wayne County.
Grief is the emotion that defines the last five weeks for some of us. Watching the US Presidential election results threw thousands into a depression - across the board because of what it said about how Americans really felt about issues that were thought to be history, but for many of us, because Hillary Clinton came so very close to shattering the last glass ceiling in her country's political system.
Prince George was in his pyjamas when he met Barack Obama in one of the more uplifting moments of a turbulent 2016 With Brexit dividing the nation, an American election result that shocked the world, and showbiz bidding farewell to a host of stars, 2016 has been a dramatic and turbulent year. It has seen political earthquakes, the murder of an MP, dozens killed in terror attacks, a high number of celebrity deaths, and was so eventful it will surely go down in history as one of the most significant and memorable years of modern times.
President-elect Donald Trump greets Army Cadets before the Army-Navy NCAA college football game in Baltimore on Saturday. Army won, 21-17, snapping a 14-year losing streak.
A view of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's former home in Searchlight, Nev. Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016. Reid sold the home and 110 acres to Nevada Milling & Mining LLC in 2014.
"Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony." A month after Election Day, and we're past parody and into Kakfa, who wrote that one-sentence story, as the President-elect moonlights as an executive producer of "Celebrity Apprentice."
Trump has had precious few endorsements from the entertainment industry but a report in The New York Daily News suggests that Brooks is in talks to perform at the the new president's swearing in ceremony on January 20. On Friday the singer's publicist Nancy Seltzer told Reuters: "Garth has performed for the five living presidents.... While rumor has it that he has been asked to perform for President-elect Trump, he has not been able to commit yet." Brooks did not publicly endorse either candidate in the recent US election.
Retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer was expecting to score one final legislative victory with a major water resources package just before the holidays. But the California Democrat instead got what she would consider a lump of coal: a last-minute policy rider that is now causing her to block her own bill.
GSV Capital Chief Executive Michael Moe is having the last laugh as a Silicon Valley insider who dared not vote for Hillary Clinton. Call it a real belly laugh for this influential tech investor, who has emerged unbowed - and predicts President-elect Donald Trump may very well pull this economy out of the doldrums with opportunities galore for investors.
U.S. Senators Cory Booker and Bob Menendez Dec. 10, 2016 praised Senate passage of the bipartisan Water Resources Development Ac By Al Campbell, editor - Oh, to have met Francis Pharcellus Church. He authored the immortal editorial in reply to little Virginia O'Hanlon in WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Senators Cory Booker and Bob Menendez Dec. 10, 2016 praised Senate passage of the bipartisan Water Resources Development Act of 2016 which includes provisions they have fought for to authorize and expedite Army Corps of Engineers projects, improve the nation's drinking water infrastructure, enhance ecosystem protection, and make investments in the nation's ports and inland waterways.
WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton may have lost the race for Arkansas electoral votes, but she won the race for Arkansas pocketbooks, according to postelection campaign filings with the Federal Election Commission.
A historic wharf in Connecticut that was used as a gangway for wagons to unload 19th-century schooners is moving closer toward having a new, more modern purpose. The U.S. Senate on Friday was expected to consider legislation that transfers control of the massive stone wharf from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to the town of Stonington.
Federal homeland security officials should move faster to require rail and transit agencies across the nation to screen their employees using federal terrorism watch lists, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer said. The New York Democrat told The Associated Press on Saturday that the Department of Homeland Security should immediately step in to enforce a recommendation made nearly a decade ago that mass transit employees be crosschecked with the federal watch lists.
For years the White House has pushed U.S. regulators to finish writing tough new rules that would restrict bonuses for Wall Street executives, one of the most contentious parts of the Dodd-Frank banking reform law. The chances of that actually happening are becoming slimmer by the day.
Dec. 11, 2006 - KENAI - Fifth-graders at Mountain View Elementary School in Kenai used music as a vehicle to take fellow students and parents on a journey across North America's American Indian cultures recently.
Clear Creek senior Hannah Froeschl began her high school volleyball career not knowing what a one set was, and is ending it being called the No. 1 middle blocker in the state, as well as the 2016 all-county volleyball player of the year.
Douglas Rapp, advisor for cybersecurity and national security initiatives with the Indiana Economic Development Corp., held a town hall meeting at Columbus City Hall on Nov. 2 focusing on cybersecurity. The town hall was held to obtain feedback so state officials can better allocate resources from the state secretary of commerce for cybersecurity needs, Rapp said.