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The Latest on the Trump administration considering the use of military bases or other federal facilities to export fossil fuels : Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden says the Trump administration is "trampling" on the rights of West Coast communities as it considers using military bases or other federal facilities for fossil fuel exports. The Democratic Wyden said in statement Monday that the federal government should invest in renewable fuels and not try to prop up dirty energy sources such as coal.
Polling shows Republican Nevada Sen. Dean Heller is pulling ahead of his Democratic rival, Jacky Rosen, indicating a sharp turnaround for the incumbent Republican. A new Emerson College Survey released Monday shows Heller with a commanding seven-point lead over Rosen, a liberal congresswoman vying for his seat, 48 percent to 41 percent.
Former presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton went on CBS' "Sunday Morning" and said something that's upsetting most females in America. She said her husband, ex-President Bill Clinton , did not abuse his power by having an affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky .
President Donald Trump said Monday he had spoken with Saudi Arabia's king, who "denies any knowledge" of what happened to the Saudi journalist who disappeared after entering the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul two weeks ago. Trump said he had dispatched Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to the region.
President Donald Trump suggested Monday that "rogue killers" could be responsible for a Saudi journalist's disappearance after a personal phone call in which Trump said Saudi Arabia's King Salman strongly denied any knowledge of what happened to Jamal Khashoggi.
Rep. Lou Barletta, Pennsylvania's Republican candidate for Senate, criticized Democratic challenger Sen. Bob Casey on Sunday for running a "hurtful" and "insensitive" attack ad using sick children while Barletta's own grandchild is undergoing chemotherapy. "Bob Casey just released an insensitive and personal attack ad accusing Lou Barletta of wanting to rip away health care from twin children with cancer, after Lou personally told Casey of his 18-month-old twin grandson currently undergoing chemo for cancer," Barletta tweeted, with a video response included.
The Trump administration is considering using West Coast military bases or other federal properties as transit points for shipments of U.S. coal and natural gas to Asia, as officials seek to bolster the domestic energy industry and circumvent environmental opposition to fossil fuel exports. It would advance the administration's agenda of establishing American "energy dominance" on the world stage and underscores a willingness to intervene in markets to make that happen.
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez is being called out as a "hypocrite" in an ad released by his Republican opponent Bob Hugin for believing Justice Brett Kavanaugh's sexual assault accuser even though Menendez faced allegations of sexual relations with minors. The ad comes as Menendez was one of the first senators to publicly say he believed Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused Kavanaugh of high school-era sexual assault.
The Florida Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission will interview more than four-dozen candidates who have applied to replace three justices whose retirements coincide with the end of Gov. Rick Scott's term in January.
Hillary Clinton has defended her husband, former President Bill Clinton, over his affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky by directly contradicting her characterization of what happened. Lewinsky, who at 22 had an affair with then-President Clinton, called it in March 2018 a "gross abuse of power."
AS GLOBAL tensions escalate over missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Turkish diplomats have demanded an investigative search of the Saudi Arabian Consulate to find answers. Republican U.S. Senator Marco Rubio said the United States must confront Saudi Arabia or risk losing credibility on human rights, if allegations are proven true that the Saudi government orchestrated the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has released a DNA test that shows "strong evidence" she has Native-American heritage, rebutting President Donald Trump's ridicule of her as "fake Pocahontas" while she signals a possible 2020 presidential run. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren delivers a major policy speech on "Ending corruption in Washington" at the National Press Club, Washington, U.S., August 21, 2018.
When Romney was asked what happened with his efforts to stop Donald Trump from becoming president in 2016, Romney denied being a leader in the so-called "never Trump" movement.
Good Monday Morning, Fellow Seekers. With three weeks to go until Election Day, Pennsylvania's United States Senate race has taken a turn for the very personal.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren made public the results of a DNA test on Monday, which an expert said shows "strong evidence'' that she has a Native American ancestor. Warren provided the test results to The Boston Globe on Sunday, the newspaper said, "in an effort to defuse questions about her ancestry that have persisted for years."
BOSTON Responding to years of derision by President Donald Trump and other critics, Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday released a report on a DNA analysis that provides strong evidence she does, in fact, have Native American heritage.
It's not been a good week for Arizona Democrat Kyrsten Sinema. Sinema, a Democratic congresswoman, is running in the Senate race against Republican Rep. Martha McSally.
Senator Elizabeth Warren , frequently mocked with the name "Pocahontas" by Donald Trump and other conservatives and a possible challenger for his office in 2020, released the results of a DNA test that shows Native American ancestry "in the range of 6-10 generations ago." The Boston Globe reports : 'That timing fits Warren's family lore, passed down during her Oklahoma upbringing, that her great-great-great-grandmother, O.C. Sarah Smith, was at least partially Native American.
The 2018 U.S. midterm elections are shaping up as a dramatic test not only of sentiment about the Trump administration, but also of prevailing gender roles in American society. For much of the past year the #MeToo movement has drawn attention to sexual harassment and discrimination across broad segments of American society, ranging from motion pictures and the mass media to politics, and finally to Supreme Court appointments.
With midterm elections three weeks away, he is claiming a "record" 84 judges confirmed to the federal bench and suggests he will fill 50 percent of the seats in the judiciary. It's not a record, and he's nowhere close to half.