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President Donald Trump is open to visiting Moscow - if he gets a formal invitation from Vladimir Putin, the White House said. Russian President Putin said he's game for a trip to Washington - but his answer came only after Trump retracted his invitation for a fall sit-down.
Each week, USA TODAY's OnPolitics blog takes a look at how media from the left and the right reacted to a political news story, giving liberals and conservatives a peek into the other's media bubble. This week, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney and fixer Michael Cohen sparked debate.
With the primary elections almost exactly a month away, a poll released Friday shows Democrat Gwen Graham and Republican Ron DeSantis as the front-runners in the race to replace Gov. Rick Scott.
The top executive of engine maker Cummins has one description for the tariffs the United States has imposed on steel, aluminum and other imports. "Let's be clear: a tariff is a tax, plain and simple," CEO Tom Linebarger wrote in an opinion piece published in The New York Times Wednesday.
Corey Stewart, the Virginia Republican seeking to unseat Sen. Tim Kaine, D, in November, went to Danville on Friday to try to soften the backlash he's received after he depicted the Southside city as a dystopian failure. Standing in front of the former site of the Dan River Mills textile factory, he acknowledged the city has made strides since losing about 15,000 jobs when that business closed in 2005, amid a simultaneous collapse of tobacco companies.
In this July 13, 2018 file photo, Florida Gov. Rick Scott, speaks to Cuban-American supporters at a campaign stop, in Hialeah, Fla. Scott, a multi-millionaire businessman who is likely the richest person to ever serve as the state's governor, is giving a more complete look at his wealth, and it shows that his family is much richer than the Republican governor has been reporting to state authorities.
It's been a few years since the last media scare about prediction markets. So we were overdue for this week's handwringing about Augur, digital currencies, and assassinations.
On July 27, 2016, Donald Trump shouted out for the Russians to please hack Hillary's emails and find those 30,000 missing ones. On that same day, Russians made their first hack attampt into Hillary Clinton's office servers and a domain she used, after already breaching the DNC's email servers.
President Donald Trump on Friday declared his support for Republican candidates in Tennessee, Michigan and Ohio, wading into a pair of races in Midwestern states he won in 2016 and a conservative state in which he remains popular. Trump also said he would ramp up his campaigning for House and Senate Republicans in the coming weeks, noting he has asked White House chief of staff John Kelly and other aides to draft a list of the 25 most competitive congressional races so he can get more involved.
A Minnesota congressman locked in a tight re-election battle is finding it difficult to escape his past remarks as a conservative talk-radio host, but he won tentative support this week from House Speaker Paul Ryan as Democrats attack him for those utterances. CNN, delving into a trove of old recordings, has surfaced numerous controversial statements from Republican Rep. Jason Lewis, who is in his first term representing a suburban district south of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Representatives of the oldest profession were on Capitol Hill fighting FOSTA and SESTA, with our online freedoms hanging in the balance. The corridors of power opened to the world's oldest profession last month.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott is running for U.S. Senate against Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson. Scott's midyear campaign report shows at least $880,000 in contributions from oil, gas and energy executives and employees to his campaign and from the industry to a pro-Scott super PAC.
Rosenstein impeachment push by GOP, Congress goes on recess, Jordan runs for speaker and the latest on the Kavanaugh nomination. Ryan, McCarthy and Pelosi have a full slate of fundraisers planned for the summer recess, which begins Thursday - With control of the House up for grabs this fall - and their own political futures on the line - GOP and Democratic leaders will be frantically crisscrossing the country in August to raise money and rally the faithful.
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., who is up for re-election this year, says Russian hackers tried unsuccessfully to infiltrate her Senate computer network. She says she will not be intimidated.
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, claims that then-candidate Trump knew in advance about the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower in which Russians were expected to offer his campaign dirt on Hillary Clinton, sources with knowledge tell CNN. Cohen is willing to make that assertion to special counsel Robert Mueller, the sources said.
The Latest on a dispute over records associated with the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court : The Senate's top Democrat is appealing to former President George W. Bush in a fight over documents related to Supreme Court nominee and former Bush aide Brett Kavanaugh. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer on Friday released a letter to Bush urging him to make public "the complete record of Judge Kavanaugh's service."
Michael Cohen can testify to Robert Mueller that Donald Trump was aware of the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting during which Russian officials promised dirt on Hillary Clinton, reports CNN . The question then becomes whether Cohen's testimony is reliable, and whether Mueller can prove it.
Republican U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers is sharply attacking her presumed Democratic opponent in the run-up to August's primary, calling Lisa Brown "dangerously liberal" as the incumbent heads into what is expected to be a tough re-election campaign. A television ad on behalf of McMorris Rodgers, the highest-ranking woman in House leadership, said Brown was soft on sex offenders while in the state Legislature.
US president Donald Trump has denied that he knew in advance about a Trump Tower meeting in June 2016 between a Russian lawyer, his eldest son and other aides which had been convened to uncover dirt on his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. .,the only Collusion with Russia was with the Democrats, so now they are looking at my Tweets the rigged Witch Hunt continues! How stupid and unfair to our Country.And so the Fake News doesn't waste my time with dumb questions, NO,.