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A vast expanse of shifting white sand dunes in southern New Mexico would be elevated from a national monument to a national park under legislation proposed Friday by one of the state's senators. U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, a Democrat, made the announcement while visiting the state as part of a multiday tour that also included looking at the potential for more outdoor recreation elsewhere as New Mexico and other western states promote their wide open spaces in hopes of attracting more tourists and more money.
Black Cube, which dug up dirt on accusers of alleged sex abuser, also worked to discredit Iran nuclear deal, The New Yorker reports; intelligence agency denies any ties to Trump The Israeli private intelligence agency allegedly hired to dig up dirt on Obama officials in order to discredit the Iran nuclear deal negotiated during his tenure is the same firm hired by disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, according to a report in The New Yorker magazine.
U.S. Sen Joe Manchin told the West Virginia University at Parkersburg Class of 2018 they hit the jackpot living in the United States, but to maintain what lies before them will take work Manchin, D-W.Va., told the graduates they, like many others before them, probably had times when they thought they would not reach their goals of graduating. "How many times did you think you were not going to make it, how many times did you think you could not afford it," "Thinking about those in the back of the room, how many of them made the extra effort, how many of them made a sacrifice and how many times did you take it for granted."
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that House Democrats have the fundraising, the issues and the political atmosphere on their side to win back the majority in November. These factors, and an activated party base that's helped Democrats win in special elections across the country this year are the "small droplets of water" that create a wave, Pelosi said headlining a county Democratic Party banquet in Des Moines.
Israeli Operatives Who Aided Harvey Weinstein Collected Information on Former Obama Administration Officials - In June, 2017, Ann Norris, a former State Department official, received an e-mail containing an unusual proposal.
A politician who can straddle the cultures of South Carolina and the Subcontinent knows a thing or two about winning popular support. She may have even more in India than the U.S. That Indian-American Nikki Haley is the most popular member of the Trump administration in her own country has now been demonstrated by reliable polling.
We are so distracted every day by the latest Trump scandal that it becomes hard to recognize the collective damage being done by his presidency. It's not just the breaking of the norms.
Control of the House and Senate won't be determined until November, but this week will point to where both parties go from here. In West Virginia, one Republican primary candidate has waged an all-out racist assault against the Senate leader of his own party.
President Donald Trump isn't on the state's June 5 primary ballot, but his presence will loom over the candidates who are. Thanks in part to Trump's unpopularity in the Garden State , Democrats have a shot at winning all five Republican-held House districts, while their one possibly endangered incumbent appears to be safe.
President Trump and Vice President Pence are moving their post-primary Indiana visit to a venue with more seats, all the bigger to begin their campaign attacks on Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly. The rally is being moved from South Bend to Elkhart to "accommodate more Hoosiers," according to a news release from the Trump-Pence re-election campaign.
The University of Florida is forced to apologize after black and minority graduates were SHOVED off stage by an 'inappropriately aggressive' white faculty member as they celebrated Man, 36, is arrested after he 'dressed as a woman and sexually assaulted a 14-year-old boy at gunpoint while his friend watched' John McCain reveals he regrets choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate and wishes he went with Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman instead Are you drinking yourself FAT? The surprising amount of sugar in your favourite beverages revealed - and why you should only have THREE ingredients in your smoothies Fountains of lava from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano spew up to 230 FEET high, destroying 21 homes after 2,000 residents were forced to evacuate and toxic fumes fill the air Judge who sentenced Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner to just six months for sexual assault faces recall ... (more)
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern shares the the details of what happened during her hour-long meeting with former US Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton. Ardern will also talk about the appointment of her new chief press secretary Andrew Campbell, who has come over from the Green Party.
Much has been said and written about President Donald Trump's liberal use of exaggeration and metaphor, and the questionable relationship between what he says and what most people consider the truth. From a philosophical point of view it might be said that he is our first post-modern president, using the term to denote the Nietzschean school of thought that holds that all truth is relative and metaphorical.
Two of those policies have had divergent fortunes in the courts. The Supreme Court, which just heard arguments about Trump's ban on the entry of people from several countries to the U.S., is widely expected to uphold it.
And there are the races for federal office. Three Republicans are running for their party's nomination to run for U.S. Senate in what the Associated Press called the nastiest race in the country.
Todd Cox, policy director at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, has this notable new commentary in The Hill headlined "Sentencing reform is moving in the wrong direction." Here are excerpts with a bit of additional commentary to follow: In 2015, Senator Chuck Grassley introduced a long awaited bi-partisan criminal justice reform bill designed to address inequities in federal sentencing and promote rehabilitation and re-entry for persons who are incarcerated.
Giuliani: I'm 'focused on the law more than the facts right now' - President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that he is still getting up to speed on the facts of the President's legal situation, but the payment to Stormy Daniels did not require him to have a full accounting of the details at hand. Giuliani suggests it's possible Michael Cohen paid off other women to stay silent about alleged affairs with Trump - President Donald Trump's new lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, didn't rule out the possibility that Michael Cohen paid other women during the 2016 campaign to stay quiet about alleged affairs with his client.
Ald. Wilson Frost, right, attends a City Council meeting with Aldermen Richard Mell, from left, Eugene Schulter and Roman Pucinski on Dec. 4, 1978. Frost has died, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office said.
The ex-fiancee of Benjamin Sparks, the Nevada political consultant facing battery charges after he allegedly assaulted the woman and made her his sex slave, has hired attorney Gloria Allred a week before the case heads to a Las Vegas courtroom. The ex-fiancee of Benjamin Sparks, the Nevada political consultant facing battery charges after he allegedly assaulted the woman and made her his sex slave, has hired attorney Gloria Allred a week before the case heads to a Las Vegas courtroom.