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In this Feb. 26, 2016, file photo, the supports for a 1,600-foot-viaduct to carry high-speed rail trains across the Fresno River stand under construction near Madera, Calif. It can't be good news for high-speed rail in California that the U.S. government has initiated an audit of the state's over-budget, behind-schedule bullet train project.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives at the Queen Alia International Airport in Amman, Jordan, April 29, 2018. Photo - Reuters US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives at the Queen Alia International Airport in Amman, Jordan, April 29, 2018.
Mobile and Sprint announced an agreement Sunday to combine into a new company, a deal that would reshape the U.S. wireless landscape by reducing it to three major cellphone providers. The merger would help the companies slash costs and could make them a stronger competitor to larger AT&T and Verizon.
Former FBI Director James Comey is in Boston to promote his new book, in which he pronounces President Donald Trump as "morally unfit" for office. Harvard Book Store is hosting the sold-out presentation of his new book, "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership," at the Back Bay Events Center at 4 p.m. Sunday.
President Donald Trump is distorting some of the reasons why his pick to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, White House physician Ronny Jackson, abruptly withdrew his nomination. Trump casts late-surfacing allegations against Jackson as entirely partisan.
The lawyer for adult-film actress Stormy Daniels says President Trump's longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen will betray him, and the president's team knows it. Michael Avenatti said in an appearance Sunday on CNN that because Mr. Cohen paid off his porn-star client, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, he could end up in jail and has thus become a prime target for prosecutorial pressure and White House distrust.
President Donald Trump took aim at familiar political targets and added a few fresh ones during a campaign-style rally in Michigan, an Upper Midwest state so crucial in sending him to the White House. Trump has been urging voters to support Republicans for Congress as a way of advancing his agenda.
One of the weirdest aspects of writing a memoir based on a 16-year-old relationship with a pit bull is the requests Eileen Myles gets at author talks. The punk poet and essayist, the inspiration for a new generation of feminist writers like Lena Dunham for her writings around sexuality and gender, is often called to dedicate copies of ''I sign books to a lot of dead dogs,'' Myles says.
Ray "Skip" Sandman, the Independence Party of Minnesota candidate for District 8, was not shy with his criticism for his opponents in both the DFL and GOP. Steve Kohls / Brainerd Dispatch As is often the case, U.S. representatives have to think more in the short term than other positions in national government on account of their two-year terms-an election cycle leading to constant campaigning and fundraising and a focus on pertinent, immediate legislation.
George Scott got the inevitable question a half-hour into a meet-the-candidate house party in the rolling hills of south-central Pennsylvania: How will you inspire all those people in the congressional district who put up Donald Trump signs in 2016? Motivating the nearly 30 people who came to see Scott was that they actually have a choice in this year's congressional race: a four-way Democratic primary contest in a stretch of Pennsylvania that has been represented in Congress by a Republican for 50 years. On May 15, Pennsylvanians will settle 21 congressional primary contests, the state's most since 1984.
President Donald Trump took aim at familiar political targets and added a few fresh ones during a campaign-style rally in Michigan, an Upper Midwest state so crucial in sending him to the White House. Trump has been urging voters to support Republicans for Congress as a way of advancing his agenda.
President Donald Trump took aim at familiar political targets and added a few fresh ones during a campaign-style rally Saturday night in the county that helped give him a surprising victory in the 2016 election. Trump, in an 80-minute speech, has been urging voters to support Republicans for Congress as a way of advancing his agenda.
Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla,. was co-chairing a school safety forum on Capitol Hill recently just as Florida GOP Gov. Rick Scott - the man hoping to oust Nelson in November - was across town raising money for his Senate campaign this fall.
Some conservative House allies of President Trump have recently threatened to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein - invoking an extreme punishment that has not been carried out against an executive branch employee in 122 years. The Republicans who have raised the specter of impeachment - including Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes , Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows and Rep. Jim Jordan - are threatening to use a remedy that the Constitution says is for "treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors."
GOP Sen. Marco Rubio's cozy relationship with Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson may be issue in Nelson re-election campaign. Sen. Marco Rubio's cozy relationship with Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson could sway Nelson's re-election bid GOP Sen. Marco Rubio's cozy relationship with Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson may be issue in Nelson re-election campaign.
But after 15 months in the White House , Donald Trump has shown that his use of military force may be the most conventional aspect of his presidency. To date, Trump has launched two limited military strikes against Syria and increased the use of airstrikes and special operations raids in Somalia and Yemen to kill Islamic extremists, killing more civilians as well.
Gov, Paul LePage, Sens. Angus King and Susan Collins, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree and Knox County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Tim Carroll -- a former president of the Maine Lobster Festival -- are among those people who will not be allowed to march in this year's Festival parade. The Festival Board voted Tuesday to exclude all political organizations and candidates from the annual parade held on the first Saturday of August.
Trey Gowdy's emotions sometimes bubble disconcertingly close to the surface, but unlike many members of the political class, he is not all surface. At a breakfast four years ago, the South Carolina Republican had tears in his eyes as he explained when he would leave Congress: after Tim Scott, a Republican congressman who had been appointed to the Senate in 2013 when Jim DeMint resigned, had been elected in his own right.
President Donald Trump is sharpening his aim at familiar political targets who face elections this year. He struck that theme in a campaign-style rally Saturday night in an Upper Midwest state of Michigan that gave him a surprising victory in the 2016 election.