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Governor Charlie Baker was in Westfield Friday night to mark a multi-million dollar improvement at Barnes Air National Guard base. The state's highest ranking Massachusetts National Guard officer was also on hand to celebrate the renovation and the reopening of the 104th Fighter Group's main hangar.
State legislators are debating proposals to change how members of the University of Minnesota's governing body are picked, a system critics say has sometimes favored the politically connected over the most qualified. The process has drawn fresh attention after the surprise resignation of Regent Patricia Simmons on Wednesday.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is making national headlines in light of President Donald Trump's planned meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. As a former U.N. ambassador, Richardson has negotiated with North Korea in the past and has extensive knowledge of the hermit kingdom.
U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita has decided to skip a televised debate planned for next month with the two other candidates seeking the Republican U.S. Senate nomination. The nonprofit Indiana Debate Commission announced Friday that U.S. Rep. Luke Messer and former state Rep. Mike Braun had agreed to the April 30 debate that will be made available to TV stations throughout the state.
SENATE AG COMMITTEE CHAIR ROBERTS ISSUES STATEMENT ON TARIFFS Mar. 9, 2018 Source: office of Senator Pat Roberts U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts , a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, today released the following statement on President Trump's announcement of a 25 percent tariff on steel and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum: "This proposal is not a tariff on steel and aluminum imports; it is a tax on consumers," said Roberts. "As we have seen in past cases of increased tariffs, higher manufacturing costs will inevitably be passed down the supply chain, forcing consumers to bear these costs.
Indiana's governor has asked legislators to approve a $5 million boost for a state grant program aimed at helping improve school security. Gov. Eric Holcomb's office released a letter Friday seeking the money for the Indiana Secured Safety Grant Program, which was started in 2013 after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut.
The Trump Organization has donated $151,470 in foreign government profits at its hotels and similar businesses last year to the U.S. Treasury, an executive said in a statement Friday. George Sorial, the executive vice president and chief compliance counsel, said the Feb. 22 voluntary donation fulfills the company's pledge to donate profits from foreign government patronage while Donald Trump is president.
As he blitzed through the industrial Midwest as a presidential candidate, Donald Trump pitched himself as the savior of the "forgotten" men and women in communities where factories had been shuttered and jobs were moved overseas. Now, Trump is risking a trade war to fulfill a political promise to the voters who helped put him in the White House.
Three and a half weeks ago, Marco Rubio walked into an arena of 7,000 grieving Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students, parents, teachers and alumni with a message: Young adults should not be able to buy rifles. "I absolutely believe that in this country if you are 18 years of age, you should not be able to buy a rifle and I will support a law that takes that right away," the Florida Republican said at the town hall event in response to a question from Fred Guttenberg, a Parkland father whose 14-year-old daughter, Jaime, was killed in the shooting.
Ohio Supreme Court Justice Patrick DeWine is seeking the dismissal of a judicial ethics charge alleging his improperly used the influence of his office in asking a county prosecutor to hire his son for a summer job. DeWine is not required to respond to another charge - that he has improperly failed to recuse himself from hearing cases involving the office of his father, Attorney General Mike DeWine - until his motion to dismiss receives a ruling from a three-judge panel.
New Zealanders call their seat of power the Beehive, a sparkle of Kiwi humor for a spiraling concrete building that looks exactly as it sounds. On the ninth floor, the country's leader greets visitors in an unassuming office with posters of women in wartime and a view of the Wellington harbor.
Choose your news! Select the text alerts you want to receive: breaking news, prep sports scores, school closings, weather, and more. Members of the Northern Illinois University campus male mentoring organization Black Male Initiative said their final goodbye in January 2016 to fellow NIU student and BMI member Quintonio LeGrier.
The White House announced Friday that President Donald Trump has pardoned a Navy sailor who took photos of classified areas inside a submarine and served a year in federal prison. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Kristian Saucier was pardoned by Trump and the president was "appreciative" of his service to the nation.
The Republican National Committee is demanding that Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez address DNC deputy chairman Keith Ellison's decades-long association with infamous anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan. "Keith Ellison's long pattern of lies about his ongoing relationship with Louis Farrakhan, who the Anti-Defamation League calls 'America's leading anti-Semite,' has put a stain on the Democrat Party," RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel said in a statement .
"It's insane," Kyle Kashuv said Wednesday at a Cosi in downtown Washington, D.C. "This has never been my dream. I never really wanted to get into politics.
Nate Cohn : "After Donald J. Trump's upset victory in the 2016 presidential election, one data point from the network exit polls jumped out at analysts: his two-point win among college-educated white voters. Many pre-election polls had suggested they would favor Hillary Clinton.
The Republican chairman of a Senate oversight committee is launching a review of the president's decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin is asking Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to answer several questions about the move.
Managers at 150 biofuel production centers across the heartland sent a letter to President Donald Trump, urging the White House to "stand strong in defense of the Renewable Fuel Standard." Growth Energy joined the plant managers in calling for Reid Vapor Pressure relief and asking the administration to reject Sen. Ted Cruz's proposals.
Former national security advisor Susan Rice issued a stand down order to national security council officials developing aggressive options to respond to Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, a new excerpt from Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump reveals. NSC officials were reportedly alarmed by Russia's attempts to meddle in the 2016 presidential election, including the hacking of Democratic National Committee officials' emails, and those belonging to Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
The White House is ignoring a bipartisan congressional inquiry regarding documents about the Rob Porter scandal, prompting the House Oversight Committee's top Democrat to request that the White House be subpoenaed over the matter. The committee's investigation into White House security clearances began after Porter, a former staff secretary, resigned amid domestic abuse allegations, which he denies.