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The National Weather Service says a winter weather advisory remains in effect until 2 p.m. Monday, with several inches of sprin... . FILE - In this March 4, 2015, file photo, Rep. Elizabeth Esty, D-Conn.
Democrats in Congress are expressing deep concern over proposed changes at the Department of Housing and Urban Development that would see the words "free from discrimination" removed from its mission statement a move they say would "erase decades worth of progress" in housing anti-discrimination efforts. In a letter addressed to embattled HUD Secretary Ben Carson, lawmakers are asking the department to not remove the words, saying it would change the mission statement from one that promotes inclusion and discrimination-free communities to "one that does not strive to offer the same protections."
A bipartisan group of senators asked the head of a pharmaceutical company why the cost of a 40-year-old, cancer-fighting drug has spiked 1,400 percent over the last four years. A letter released Monday by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., is the first step toward a Senate probe into Tri-Source Pharma and its subsidiary NextSource Biotechnology.
The Trump administration opened the door to a potential White House meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, raising the possibility of an Oval Office welcome for Putin for the first time in more than a decade even as relations between the two powers have deteriorated. The Kremlin said Monday that Trump had invited the Russian leader to the White House when they spoke by telephone last month.
In this Nov. 11, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump, right, and Russia President Vladimir Putin talk during the family photo session at the APEC Summit in Danang. The Trump administration is opening the door to a potential White House meeting between Trump and Putin.
U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty announced on Monday she will not seek re-election this year amid calls for her resignation over her handling of the firing of a former chief of staff accused of harassment, threats and violence against female staffers in her congressional office. Esty, a Democrat from Connecticut and an outspoken #MeToo advocate, made the announcement not to seek a fourth term in the November election days after apologizing for not protecting her employees from the male ex-chief of staff.
U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty announced Monday she will not seek re-election this year amid calls for her resignation over her handling of the firing of a former chief of staff accused of harassment, threats and violence against female staffers in her congressional office. Esty, a Democrat from Connecticut and an outspoken #MeToo advocate, was accused of not protecting female staffers from the ex-chief of staff.
The Latest on U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty's handling of a sexual harassment case in her office : Connecticut U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty says in announcing her decision not to seek re-election amid questions about her handling of a sexual harassment case in her office that she "should have done better." There had been growing calls for the Democrat to resign because of her handling of a case involving her former chief of staff.
Gov. Ralph Northam has signed legislation to provide nearly $3.5 million in compensation to the "Norfolk Four," the U.S. Navy sailors who were wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for a 1997 rape and murder. Northam last week signed identical House and Senate bills to compensate Danial Williams, Joseph Dick, Derek Tice and Eric Wilson, who were wrongly convicted in 1999 of raping and killing 18-year-old Michelle Bosko.
U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, right, in a 2014 file photo in the State Capitol. U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, right, in a 2014 file photo in the State Capitol.
The Trump administration is suing Cal... . FILE - In this March 7, 2018, file photo, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions addresses the California Peace Officers' Association at the 26th annual Law Enforcement Legislative Day in Sacramento, Calif.
Ted Cruz is visited Central Texas Monday as part of a three-day tour through 12 Texas cities to kick off the Republican Senator's 2018 reelection campaign. Sen. Cruz began the day in Beaumont, which is still recovering from Hurricane Harvey.
Classes were canceled Monday for hundreds of thousands of students across two states as striking teachers rallied at Capitols in Oklahoma and Kentucky to demand improved funding for education. The walkouts come less than a month after teachers in West Virginia ended a nine-day strike that shuttered schools there.
Puerto Rico's governor on Monday fiercely defended his administration's right to help steer the insolvent, storm-ravaged island out of bankruptcy after a U.S. congressman said the process should be led by the island's creditors and federally appointed oversight board. Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello speaks during a Facebook live broadcast in the library of the governor's mansion, in San Juan, Puerto Rico January 24, 2018.
Democratic Rep. Elizabeth Esty will not run for reelection in 2018 after a report detailed her failure to act after her chief of staff threatened and harassed another female staffer.
Environmental regulators announced on Monday they will ease emissions standards for cars and trucks, saying that a timeline put in place by President Obama was not appropriate and set standards "too high." The Environmental Protection Agency said it completed a review that will affect vehicles for model years 2022-2025.
At a London bar in May 2016, after numerous drinks, Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos bragged to an Australian diplomat the Russians had obtained damaging information on Hillary Clinton. The diplomat reported the conversation to American officials, which prompted the FBI to launch their investigation of the Trump campaign and its connections to Russia.
President Trump is jumping to the defense of the Sinclair Broadcast Group, which is under fire following the rapid spread of a video showing anchors at its stations across the country reading a script criticizing "fake" news stories. Trump tweeted Monday, April 2, 2018, that it was funny to watch "Fake News Networks" criticizing Sinclair for being biased.
This June 2014 photo shows Devonte Hart with his family at the annual celebration of "The Goonies" movie in Astoria, Ore. Authorities in Northern California say they believe all six children from a family were in a vehicle that plunged off a coastal cliff.