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With dogged determination and an affable style, J.D. Scholten might just be in with a chance against the infamous GOP congressman. J.D. Scholten, Democratic candidate for Iowa's 4th congressional district, is gaining ground on his opponent, Republican Rep. Steve King.
U.S. Sen. Doug Jones on Thursday released a statement on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court: "The Kavanaugh nomination process has been flawed from the beginning and incomplete at the end," the Alabama Democrat said in the statement. "Dr. Ford was credible and courageous and I am concerned about the message our vote will be sending to our sons and daughters, as well as victims of sexual assault.
Brett Kavanaugh looked in desperate need of a fighter on his behalf at about the time Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham offered a fiery defense. Kavanaugh alternated from anger to tears during fiery testimony.
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faced a crucial vote Friday as a Senate panel decides whether to move his nomination on to the full Senate a day after he adamantly denied sexually assaulting Christine Blasey Ford, who insisted she's "100 percent" certain he did.
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford , who has accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault when they were teenagers, both testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. Ford said during her testimony that she was "100 percent" sure that Kavanaugh assaulted her, while Kavanaugh said that he was "100 percent" sure he had not done anything of the kind.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, focusing on allegations of sexual assault by Kavanaugh against Christine Blasey Ford in the early 1980s. In an 11th-hour letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, the American Bar Association called on senators to delay a committee vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh until the FBI can complete an investigation into claims he sexually assaulted women in high school and college.
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote Friday on whether to recommend to the full Senate that Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court be confirmed. The committee heard compelling testimony Thursday from Kavanaugh and Professor Christine Blasey Ford, who accuses him of sexually assaulting her in 1982, when the two were in high school.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a vote this morning on the Supreme Court nominee, a day after emotional testimony that riveted the nation. Read our Two accounts unfolded on Thursday: Christine Blasey Ford, her voice shaking at times, said a drunken Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers.
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A university professor on Thursday said she was "100 percent" certain Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, sexually assaulted her 36 years ago, telling a dramatic U.S. Senate hearing she feared he would rape and accidentally kill her. In his testimony, Kavanaugh made angry denial.
The House voted Wednesday to direct the federal government to set a minimum size for airline seats, bar passengers from being kicked off overbooked planes, and consider whether to restrict animals on planes. Those and other passenger-related provisions were included in a bill to authorize Federal Aviation Administration programs for five years.
In an emotional day like few others in Senate history, California psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford quietly but firmly recounted her "100 percent" certainty Thursday that President Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court had sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers - and then Brett Kavanaugh defiantly testified he was "100 percent certain" he did no such thing. That left senators to decide whether the long day tipped their confirmation votes for or against Trump's nominee in a deeply partisan fight with the future of the high court and possibly control of Congress in the balance.
Senate Republicans are plowing forward with a committee vote Friday on Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to Supreme Court after an extraordinary and emotional day of testimony where he denied accusations of sexual assault as "unequivocally" false. His accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, testified that she was "100 percent" certain Kavanaugh attacked her.
Congress has approved a bill keeping the government open through Dec. 7, as lawmakers move to avert a government shutdown looming next week. Trump's signature would avert a partial government shutdown set to begin Monday, weeks ahead of the Nov. 6 elections that will determine control of Congress.
The revival season of 1990s newsroom sitcom Murphy Brown kicked off Thursday with a surprise guest: Hillary Clinton, who made an appearance as a job candidate for a "secretarial position." Clinton appeared in the Candice Bergen-led sitcom's premier Thursday as "Hilary," an applicant for a secretary opening on the star's cable news show "Murphy in the Morning," Variety reports.
The political became personal for many this week, as Christine Blasey Ford's testimony of sexual assault reopened old wounds for other victims - including two women who dramatically confronted a key US senator Friday in a Capitol elevator. The two pressed Senator Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, about the message he'd be sending victims like themselves if he voted to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh after hearing Ford's claim that he sexually assaulted her.
A North Dakota man was acquitted Friday of helping to kill a pregnant neighbor by tightening a rope around the woman's neck after his girlfriend cut the baby from her womb. William Hoehn, 33, was charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the August 2017 death of 22-year-old Savanna Greywind of Fargo.