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A photo of a 2-year-old girl gazing at former first lady Michelle Obama's portrait in the Smithsonian warmed hearts across the internet last week. On Tuesday, the subject of the inspirational photo got to meet Obama herself.
The government said non-fatal overdoses visits to hospit... . From left, kindergarten teacher Terra Triggs, first grade teacher Andrea Mason, kindergarten teacher Lisa Taylor, reading specialist Shelly Sexton, Brynn Triggs, Nikki Sexton relax and talk as they wait fo... West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice says a tentative agreement has been reached to end a nine-day statewide teachers' strike by giving them the 5 percent raises he negotiated to end their walkout.
File - In this Jan. 20, 2016, file photo, Ali Muhammad Brown, of Seattle, is escorted into court in Newark, N.J. The prosecutor's office in Essex County, N.J., said Tuesday, March 6, 2018, that Brown... A man who prosecutors said wanted to avenge U.S. policy in the Middle East admits killing 4 in cross-country binge. . From left, kindergarten teacher Terra Triggs, first grade teacher Andrea Mason, kindergarten teacher Lisa Taylor, reading specialist Shelly Sexton, Brynn Triggs, Nikki Sexton relax and talk as they wait fo... West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice says a tentative agreement has been reached to end a nine-day statewide teachers' strike by giving them the 5 percent raises he negotiated to end their walkout.
The world's largest generic drug maker, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, has refused to fully cooperate with a Senate investigation into whether major opioid manufacturers contributed to the deadly drug epidemic, according to Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., who is leading the Senate probe. Teva has answered some of McCaskill's questions, providing the Senate committee with general information about its efforts to track and report suspicious orders for its opioid prescriptions, according to a series of letters between McCaskill and the company.
In this Jan. 30, 2018, file photo, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, second from left, arrives with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, right, at the Senate Banking Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Sen. Robert Menendez received a hero's welcome at AIPAC, where the New Jersey Democrat thanked the lobby for its support during his corruption trial. Menendez, who returned recently to the top Democratic spot on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee after his trial ended in a mistrial, was among the few speakers to the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference to receive a standing ovation just for walking on the stage.
Republicans in Congress are frantically lobbying President Trump to water down his proposal to slap steep new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, fearing the move would spark a trade war and damage the U.S. economy just eight months before the 2018 elections. Republican Speaker of the House from Wisconsin Paul Ryan speaks to the media about President Trump's planned steel and aluminum tariffs during a press conference in the US Capitol in Washington, DC, March 6, 2018.
Senate Democrats are pressing Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt on whether a key member of his taxpayer-funded security team improperly steered a government contract to a personal business associate. The Associated Press reported in December that EPA paid $3,000 to Edwin Steinmetz Associates to have Pruitt's office swept for hidden listening devices.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, center, speaks before signing a bill Monday, March 5, 2018, in Olympia, Wash., that makes Washington the first state to set up its own net-neutrality requirements in response to the Federal Communications Commission's recent repeal of Obama-era rules. The FCC voted in December to gut U.S. rules that meant to prevent broadband companies such as Comcast, AT&T and Verizon from exercising more control over what people watch and see on the internet.
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted 67-32 in favor of beginning to debate a bipartisan bill that would ease rules for mid-sized and small lenders introduced following the 2007-2009 financial crisis. FILE PHOTO: Chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Mike Crapo hearing listens to testimony from Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen on the "Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress" on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., February 14, 2017.
The Latest on President Donald Trump's new tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum : House Speaker Paul Ryan says he's encouraged the White House may reconsider blanket tariffs on steel and aluminum as he urges President Donald Trump take a more "surgical" approach on China and other countries. Ryan told reporters Tuesday, "I'm encouraged" as a result of ongoing talks with the White House over the tariffs.
Scrambling to head off what some GOP lawmakers fear would be economically counter-productive tariffs backed by President Donald Trump on imported steel and aluminum, House Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday publicly called on the White House to focus such trade duties on specific countries, not on all nations sending those products to the United States. "I think the smarter way to go is to make it more surgical and more targeted," Speaker Ryan told reporters at a Tuesday news conference when asked about his differences with the President on trade.
As we likely all are aware, Ajit Pai's FCC voted a few months ago to undo federal Net Neutrality laws, and in that process the FCC also prohibited states from making their own "local" Net Neutrality laws. Washington state has stepped up to become the first to fully thumb its nose to the FCC by passing its own Net Neutrality protections .
From left, President Donald Trump, chief economic director Gary Cohn and budget director Mick Mulvaney sit for a radio interview last year. From left, President Donald Trump, chief economic director Gary Cohn and budget director Mick Mulvaney sit for a radio interview last year.
A group of more than 100 pastors will visit the South Carolina State House this week, visiting with top statewide officials and meeting members of the legislature as part of " Pastor's Day 2018 ." The visit - organized by Palmetto Family - comes amid a contentious debate over this year's personhood legislation, which has tied the State Senate in knots for several weeks.
It's a success story state lawmakers and advocacy groups are trying to replicate by targeting perhaps the biggest challenge faced by the homeless: rejection. Woods, 52, slept on friends' couches for eight months and had eight property owners turn her down before she found a landlord willing to accept her Section 8 voucher, a federal subsidy that helps low-income people pay their rent.
This news site has zero use for fiscal liberals who masquerade as "Republicans." Nor do we have any use for "Republicans" who get elected by Democrats .
In a remarkably public confrontation, House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republican allies of President Donald Trump pleaded with him Monday to back away from his threatened international tariffs, which they fear could spark a dangerous trade war. Trump retorted: "We're not backing down."
In this Jan. 10, 2018, file photo Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., returns to the Capitol for a vote in Washington. Cochran tells The Associated Press he will resign April 1 because of health problems.
The resiliency of the status quo is again on display. After much chin wagging and finger pointing after the Italian elections and the modest decline in Italian assets, they have bounced back today.