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Ben Cline, a state delegate and former staffer for retiring Rep. Bob Goodlatte, has been chosen as the Republican nominee for Virginia's 6th Congressional District. News reports indicate Cline received 52 percent of the votes on the first ballot in an eight-person field.
Speaking at the University of California Berkeley in May 2018, Hillary Clinton warned about "Trump deplorables," calling them "the biggest threats to America." On the presidential campaign trail in September 2016, Hillary Clinton handed Donald Trump an easy talking point with her now infamous description of some of his voters as racist, sexist, and homophobic "deplorables."
The 17-year-old student arrested Friday after 10 people were killed and 13 were injured at Santa Fe High School in Texas confessed to authorities, court documents reveal. Dimitrios Pagourtzis was taken into custody after he collapsed in front of an art lab at the school near Houston, according to a probable cause affidavit filed in court.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump, has encouraged graduates of a Massachusetts college to "persist" in the face of "deep challenges." Warren delivered the commencement address to graduates of Lesley University in Boston Saturday.
In this May 3, 2017, file photo, then-FBI Director James Comey testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. In this May 3, 2017, file photo, then-FBI Director James Comey testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Fox News 's Bret Baier: "Did you tell lawmakers that FBI agents didn't believe former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was lying intentionally to investigators?" Former FBI Director James Comey : "No. . . .
Several members of Massachusetts' all-Democratic congressional delegation are getting a run for their money this year - from within their own party. Five of the eight House incumbents seeking re-election face challenges in the September primary, pending final certification of nominating signatures.
On May 22nd, voters go to the polls in primary elections in Arkansas, Georgia and Kentucky. Additionally, runoff elections will be held in Texas in several House seat races.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, an outspoken foe of President Donald Trump, is delivering the commencement address to graduates of Lesley University in Massachusetts.
A Texas official says explosive devices found with the suspected gunman at a high school near Houston weren't capable of detonating. Galveston County Judge Mark Henry said Saturday that authorities found a group of carbon dioxide canisters taped together, and a pressure cooker with an alarm clock and nails inside.
GOP leaders thought they had found a way to make the party's warring conservative and moderate wings happy on an issue that has bedeviled them for years Rep. Dave Brat, R-Va., a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, smiles before the vote on the House farm bill which failed to pass, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, May 18, 2018. The Freedom Caucus opposed the measure, seeking leverage to obtain a vote on a hard-line immigration plan.
The mass shooting at a Texas high school Friday led to promises from the state's top Republicans to look for ways to improve school safety, but none of them suggested that substantial gun restrictions could be on the table. Gov. Greg Abbott, a staunch advocate for gun rights, said at a news conference after authorities say a student killed 10 people and wounded 10 others at a high school in Santa Fe, near Houston, that he will start holding "round table" discussions on guns and school safety issues starting next week.
That was the message Ray LaHood brought to the graduating class of Illinois Central College on Saturday morning during commencement ceremonies at the Peoria Civic Center. "Men and women, singly or as part of larger families, living their lives in decency and love, working hard, being honest, quietly attending to their duties, are the very cornerstone of community life," the former congressman and Cabinet official - himself a former community college student - told the assembled crowd.
He is the Republican Party's most powerful political weapon. Yet as the GOP fights to defend its delicate House and Senate majorities, President Donald Trump is not welcome everywhere.
Minnesota lawmakers are in the homestretch, facing a lengthy to-do list and less than two days to finish their work. Republican leaders who control the House and Senate say they may move fast to pass a $28 million bill for school security upgrades as negations continue with Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton on a host of priorities.
Gina Haspel arrives to her confirmation hearing at the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill, May 9, 2018, in Washington. Haspel's 33-year spy career began as the Cold War was thawing, but she was in the shadows countering Russian intelligence agencies that never stopped trying to penetrate the U.S. government.
NPR's Scott Simon talks to Republican Rep. Mike Coffman of Colorado about the effort to force a vote on the Deffered Action for Childhood Arrivals - people brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
Some Republican candidates fear that the unscripted and relatively unpopular president could do more harm than good should he campaign on their behalf. Leading party strategists want Trump to focus his time and energy on a handful of Senate contests in deep-red states where Democratic incumbents are particularly vulnerable.
President Donald Trump and his supporters are circulating an explosive theory: The FBI, they say, may have planted a mole, or "spy," inside the 2016 campaign to bring him down. The unverified allegation has lit up conservative media and earned space on Trump's Twitter feed just as special counsel Robert Mueller enters his second year in the Russia probe.
Trump did it and he's going down for a host of crimes, and some of them have nothing to do with Russia I've been "covering" the Trump story for over a year now, and I'm sick and tired of stacking up the details of his treachery day after day, week after week. What more do you need to know? He's a lying, thieving, incompetent, ignorant traitor who conspired with the Russian government to steal the election of 2016 and illegally defeat a candidate who won the popular vote by nearly 3 million ballots.
In accordance with a proclamation issued Friday by President Donald Trump, Gov. Mark Dayton directed all United States flags and Minnesota flags to be flown at half-staff at all state and federal buildings in Minnesota.