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A top Long Island Democratic leader fears actress Cynthia Nixon could hurt the party's chances of capturing the state Senate if she gets the progressive Working Families Party line for governor. Nassau County Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs said he's heard from multiple state Senate candidates who say they will consider forgoing the WFP line if Nixon is the gubernatorial candidate.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney, one of the richest members of Congress, rakes in cash from a stake in Virginia rental properties that have been quick to evict tenants who fall behind in rent. Linkhorn Place Associates, a limited partnership that owns and operates two Virginia Beach rental complexes, has evicted two dozen tenants since 2013.
A federal spending watchdog agency says the Department of Defense must do better at estimating the cost of military construction projects, some of which have had contracts awarded as much as 30 percent higher than expected.
News selected on topics and regions - oil and gas, business, politics, IT, the South Caucasus, the Caspian Sea region, Central Asia Ranking of the Azerbaijani banking sector President Donald Trump said that there will be no deal to legalize the status of young adult immigrants called Dreamers and he said the U.S.-Mexico border is becoming more dangerous, Reuters reports. After tweeting a "Happy Easter" message on Twitter, he said: "Border Patrol Agents are not allowed to properly do their job at the Border because of ridiculous liberal laws like Catch & Release.
It may be a while before President Donald Trump gets another chance at creating a new, "merit-based" immigration system, a keystone of his four-part plan that Congress rejected last month. In the meantime, his administration is busy making it harder, not easier, for skilled migrants to work in the United States.
Voters in Clarksburg will decide Thursday if they want to start down the path of creating an interstate school district. The single article at the special town meeting at 6:30 p.m. at Clarksburg School on Thursday will allow the town to enter into conversations with Stamford, Vt.
Tens of thousands of public school teachers in Kentucky and Oklahoma plan to attend rallies on Monday at their state capitols in what they hope will be the latest display of muscle by the nation's educators demanding higher wages and better classroom resources. The double demonstrations come less than a month after West Virginia teachers went on a nine-day strike that ended with the governor there signing legislation giving them a 5 percent pay hike - their first raise in four years.
In this March 26, 2018 photo, farmer Jeff Rehder looks over some of his pigs, in Hawarden, Iowa. Rehder stands to lose potential revenue on his hogs after China responded to Trump's announced plans to impose tariffs on products ... President Donald Trump's plan to impose tariffs on a range of Chinese goods has prompted threats from Beijing that it will tag U.S. products, including pork and aluminum, with an equal 25 percent charge.
Republican Rep. Tom Cole admitted that his party faces a difficult midterm election this year, but he insisted to MSNBC on Sunday that the GOP is ready. "I think there's going to be a very challenging election environment," the Oklahoma congressman said, as reported in The Hill.
Voters choose between Carlos Alvarado of th... . Voters stand in line at a polling station during a presidential election in San Jose, Costa Rica, Sunday, April 1, 2018.
President Donald Trump on Sunday declared "NO MORE" to a deal to help "Dreamer" immigrants and threatened to pull out of a free trade agreement with Mexico unless it does more to stop people from crossing into the U.S. He claimed they're coming to take advantage of protections granted certain immigrants. "NO MORE DACA DEAL!" Trump tweeted one hour after he began the day by wishing his followers a "HAPPY EASTER!" He said Mexico must "stop the big drug and people flows, or I will stop their cash cow, NAFTA.
California's attorney general has sued Sutter Health, one of the state's largest hospital systems, alleging anticompetitive business practices that unfairly drove up costs for patients. The Los Angeles Times reports the lawsuit filed Friday claims Sutter charged prices for services that far exceed what the company would have been able to charge in a competitive market.
President Donald Trump shouldn't pardon his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and national security adviser Michael Flynn, said Republican Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina. "Keeping the pardon off the table is a necessary part of the process," Scott said Sunday on CBS News' "Face the Nation."
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said he's glad John Bolton will serve as President Donald Trump's national security adviser going into talks with North Korea because of his ''very healthy skepticism.' ' A U.S.-North Korean summit is slated for May. Hopes have been raised that Kim Jong Un may be willing to discuss his nuclear weapons program and other measures to reduce the threat of war, possibly in exchange for security guarantees and an easing of the international sanctions that have severely pinched the already struggling North Korean economy.
Senator Bernie Sanders said he doesn't believe the official response from Israeli authorities, who say that deadly clashes in Gaza this past week were "violent terror demonstrations," and that Hamas fighters were embedded within a crowd of protesters. "From what my understanding is, you have tens and tens of thousands of people who are engaged in a nonviolent protest.
"Clueless" Stacey Dash has decided to give up her doomed congressional candidacy just a few weeks after she announced she was running. In a statement announcing her withdrawal, Dash complained that we live under a system of "Plantation Politics" which "offers people on the lower end of the economic spectrum little more than symbolic gestures instead of true political empowerment and improvement."
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks while participating in a tour of U.S.-Mexico border wall prototypes near the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in San Diego, California. U.S., March 13, 2018.
In this May 2, 1969 file photo, Rev. Ralph David Abernathy gives the victory sign as he is escorted back to jail from Charleston County Court in Charleston, S.C., wear he and others were taken for hearings on violating an injunction limiting pickets at two hospitals.