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The top proponent in Congress for privatizing the nation's air traffic control system says the idea won't fly this year. That's a setback for airlines, many of which lobbied to take the air-traffic system away from the Federal Aviation Administration and put it in the hands of a private, non-profit company run by aviation interests, including airlines.
President Donald Trump was convening a bipartisan group of lawmakers Wednesday to discuss school safety, as Republican leaders showed little interest in pursuing stricter gun control laws and Democrats pushed new restrictions following the Florida shooting.
Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin made a strange sports car analogy Wednesday on MSNBC when asked about his position on banning the sales of AR-15s. Co-host of "Morning Joe" Willie Giest asked Manchin what his position was on making the AR-15 illegal for civilians - Manchin didn't have an answer.
Top House and Senate Democrats warned Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke on Tuesday night to not cut the royalty rate oil and gas companies pay for offshore drilling in federal waters. The Interior Department's Royalty Policy Committee on Wednesday is holding a meeting in Houston to evaluate a proposal to lower the royalty rate companies pay on offshore drilling from 18.75 percent to 12.5 percent to promote more U.S. energy production in federal waters.
Days after the California Democratic Party decided not to endorse Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the senior senator from the Golden State seems barely to have noticed the insult. It's hard to take offense when you've won statewide five times, and maintain a double-digit lead in the polls for a sixth.
Less than two weeks ago, Harris T. Jaffe spent two-and-a-half hours hiding in a closet during the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., wondering if the shooter, Nikolas Cruz, 19, would find him. On Sunday, the 16-year-old was behind a podium at Temple B'nai Abraham in Livingston, calling for legislative action and telling more than 2,300 people his story of survival in a massacre that left 17 of his classmates and teachers dead.
A TRIP around Miran Shah with an escort of heavily armed soldiers is a surreal experience. The town is the administrative centre of the northern half of Waziristan, a lawless region once controlled by jihadists that Barack Obama called "the most dangerous place in the world".
U.S. Senate Democrats launched efforts on Tuesday to win a vote to reinstate Obama-era rules guaranteeing an open internet, suggesting it would be a major issue in the 2018 mid-term elections. Democrats remain one Republican senator shy of winning a majority in the Senate to reverse the Federal Communications Commission's order to undo the 2015 open internet rules.
Hope Hicks, a close aide to President Donald Trump, declined to answer questions about the administration on Tuesday from members of the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee investigating Russia and the 2016 U.S. election, lawmakers said. The president seemed to defend her shortly before her House appearance, taking to Twitter early on Tuesday to say: "WITCH HUNT," a phrase he has used in the past to describe the Russia investigations.
Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, has been stripped of his high-level security clearance after months of delays in completing an exhaustive background check, limiting his ability to view highly classified information. - With all due respect, General, why are you such a doc-blocker? I am the Ethan Hunt of the Hamptons set and the President's second most trusted advisor-with-an-"O" .
President Donald Trump has backed off his call on raising the minimum age for rifle purchases, or at least that's what Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., believes. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., meanwhile, thinks the administration is seriously weighing expanding background checks for gun purchases.
Republicans got a wake-up call regarding the perils of anti-incumbent primaries last year, when Alabama Sen. Luther Strange lost a runoff to Roy Moore, who in turn lost to Democrat Doug Jones at one time an unthinkable outcome. But not everyone sees danger.
A Ukrainian woman named Anna says Joseph Mifsud asked her to marry him in a restaurant overlooking the Kremlin. Later, he allegedly told a Trump campaign aide that Russia had "dirt" on Hillary Clinton. She hasn't heard from him since that news broke in October.
Bernie Sanders may or may not have defeated Donald Trump if he received the Democratic Party's nomination, but even here in California, his campaign against Hillary Clinton has inspired lasting political activity. The latest effort is a campaign to gain enough signatures to put making college tuition free for all on the ballot.
With a more than $5,000 contribution to his daughter-in-law's District Court Judge campaign this month, former United States Representative Mike McIntyre spent the final dollars of a once burgeoning campaign war chest built over years in southeastern North Carolina. McIntyre represented the 7th Congressional District from 1997 to the beginning of 2015.
Current polls show Governor Edwards ahead of Senator John Kennedy, although Kennedy is not officially running. Current polls show Governor Edwards ahead of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, although Scalise is not officially running.
The Mason Dixon polling group just released new numbers showing what voters think of the governor's job performance, and if they'd like to see a change. The results could be encouraging for current Governor John Bel Edwards as well as the republicans who could run against him.
Schaaf warned over the weekend of Feb, 24, 2018, that federal agents were plan... Federal immigrations agents have arrested more than 150 people in Northern California after Oakland's mayor gave early warning of the raids. Federal immigrations agents have arrested more than 150 people in Northern California after Oakland's mayor gave early warning of the raids.