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The U.S. readied a plan Tuesday to send billions in emergency aid to farmers who have been hurt by President Donald Trump's trade disputes with China and other American trading partners. The Agriculture Department was expected to announce the proposal that would include direct assistance and other temporary relief for farmers, according to two people briefed on the plan, who were not authorized to speak on the record.
President Donald Trump is addressing the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Tuesday, pointing to his support for the nation's veterans as his new VA secretary begins his work. Trump was speaking at the annual VFW convention in Kansas City and was expected to highlight efforts to help more veterans see private doctors.
Two key senators are joining forces on bipartisan legislation to protect NATO and impose new sanctions on Russia after President Donald Trump's recent foreign trip, which included a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
It was so persuasive that legislation - the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act - was passed in 2011 to address it. Congressman Thomas Massie , an award-winning inventor and successful entrepreneur, began his term the year after Congress passed the AIA.
Accompanied by his wife Nita Cagle, left, and political supporters, Georgia Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle speaks during a rally in Evans, Ga., Monday, July 23, 2018, as he continues his campaign for Georgia governor, a day before the Republican runoff election against his rival, Brian Kemp, Georgia's secretary of state.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi speaks at a press conference at the U.S. Capitol July 23, 2018 in Washington, D.C.. Pelosi, Rep. Adam Schiff and Rep. Eliot Engel have introduced a resolution condemning U.S. President Donald Trump's statements during the recent summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki.
Vice President Mike Pence, center left, and Georgia's Secretary of State Brian Kemp, center right, gesture during a rally in Macon, Ga., Saturday, July 21, 2018. Pence endorsed Kemp for governor during the event.
In this July 13, 2018 photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivers remarks in Portland, Maine. Sessions laughed off and repeated a "Lock Her Up" chant at a speech at a high school leadership summit.
During a Tuesday panel discussion on NBC's Megyn Kelly Today about left-wing comedian Sacha Baron Cohen tricking and humiliating Republicans for his new Showtime series, NBC reporter Jacob Soboroff praised the deceptive entertainer as a "genius" who was "exposing the fault lines of our society" and "providing a service." Following a full report promoting Cohen's program, Who is America? which also aired on the Today show earlier that morning anchor Megyn Kelly hammered the comedian: "It makes me feel uncomfortable.
White House readies plan to extend about $12 billion in emergency aid to farmers caught in Trump's escalating trade war - An announcement could come as soon as Tuesday, according to two people briefed on the matter. This is the latest sign that growing tensions between the United States and other countries will not end soon.
House Speaker Paul Ryan dismissed President Donald Trump's plan to revoke security clearances from top former national security officials as just a mild form of "trolling," rather than a serious attack on dissent. Graphic shows six individuals from whom Donald Trump is considering revoking security clearances; 2c x 5 inches; 96.3 mm x 127 mm; White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders points to a reporter to take a question as she speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House, Monday, July 23, 2018, in Washington.
Anyone who thinks elections in the U.S. can't be bought needs to take a closer look at campaign contributions and expenditures in last May's West Virginia Senate primary elections. If they weren't bought, it was not for a lack of trying.
President Donald Trump would agree to an interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigators if it's limited to questions on whether his presidential campaign colluded with Russia in the 2016 election, lawyer Rudy Giuliani said on Monday night. Trump is demanding in return that he isn't asked questions about obstruction of justice in the probe into election interference, under a proposal the president's legal team submitted to Mueller, Giuliani said.
Senator Orrin Hatch tweeted at Google that he wasn't dead after search results suggested he had died last September. It's the third time in recent months that Wikipedia vandals have attacked Hatch's page after they renamed him "Sheev Palpatine" and claimed he had a flatulence problem.
National Corn Growers Association President Kevin Skunes presented NCGA's 2018 President's Award to North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven. The President's Award is given annually at NCGA's Corn Congress meeting in Washington to a leader who has worked to advance issues important to corn growers and agriculture.
Stan Collender : "The deadline for Congress and President Donald Trump to come to an agreement that will avoid a government shutdown this fall - which may be a much more frequent threat and occurrence these days than it used to be but would still be anything but routine - is approaching quickly and neither the White House, House Speaker Paul Ryan or Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have done anything to make it less likely."
Is Elizabeth Warren having an extramarital affair with New York Magazine? I ask only because NYM just published a 7,200-word opus that reads like a deranged love letter to the American Native senator from Massachusetts, seeking to turn an old, wrinkled leftist with even older, more wrinkled leftist ideas into the fresh young face for America in 2020. So you donA t have to read the article for yourself, I have summarized the lowlights: 1. The article opens with a giant photo of Elizabeth WarrenA s geriatric fist raised proudly into the air.
FILE PHOTO: Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp speaks with visitors to the state capitol about the "SEC primary" involving a group of sou - Republican voters in Georgia on Tuesday will choose their party's nominee for governor in a two-man faceoff that has become a proxy battle between U.S. President Donald Trump and the state's popular Republican governor, Nathan Deal. In May, Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle, who has Deal's endorsement, finished ahead of Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp.
On July 24, 1959, during a visit to Moscow, Vice President Richard Nixon engaged in his famous "Kitchen Debate" with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. In 1862, Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States, and the first to have been born a U.S. citizen, died at age 79 in Kinderhook, New York, the town where he was born in 1782.