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White House Communications Director Hope Hicks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington on Feb. 21, 2018. White House Communications Director Hope Hicks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington on Feb. 21, 2018.
Sex-related and campaign funding allegations involving several top candidates have captured much of the attention in the Republican primary to replace a U.S. congressman from Arizona who quit amid charges of sexual misconduct last year. Because the state relies heavily on mail-in ballots completed before the revelations against two of the lead contenders surfaced, it's unknown how much of an impact they will have on Tuesday's special contest to replace Rep. Trent Franks in the 8th Congressional District.
On Tuesday, December 12, 2017, the state of Alabama held a special election for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Democrat Doug Jones defeated Republican Roy Moore by 1.5 points in a state that has not elected a Democrat senator since 1992.
More than 40 congressmen have signed a letter calling on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to investigate its handling of sexual assault reports in its detention facilities. The letter released Monday is based on the case of Laura Monterrosa, a detainee at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Central Texas.
"Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., promised that a memo drafted by Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee would refute charges raised in an earlier Republican memo about FBI and DOJ abuses in the Trump/Russia investigation. Instead, the Democrats' memo ended up confirming several key accusations.
Widespread displeasure with Donald Trump and his party bodes well for Democrats in November. They have a good chance of retaking the House and a decent one of winning a Senate majority.
Actress Stacey Dash, an outspoken conservative, has filed papers with the Federal Election Commission to run for Congress this year in a deep-blue House district just south of Los Angeles. Dash, best known for her role in "Clueless" as the fashion-savvy Dee, registered her campaign committee "Dash to DC" on Monday to run in California's 44th Congressional District.
The National Labor Relations Board vacated a ruling Monday after an Inspector General memo called for William Emanuel to recuse himself over a conflict of interest in the case, The National Law Review reported. President Donald Trump appointed Emanuel to the NLRB in September, creating the board's first Republican majority in a decade.
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 The US Transportation Security Administration will test new bomb detection technology at New York City's Penn Station on Tuesday, US Senator Chuck Schumer announced in a press release, Sputnik reported. "At long last and at not a moment too soon, the TSA has agreed to bring this new, potentially life-saving technology to New York City and Penn Station for testing, and so we thank the TSA for heeding the call," Schumer said on Monday.
Nearly two dozen House Republicans are pushing Speaker Paul D. Ryan for a quick vote on a bill to get more records into the national instant check system, as lawmakers search for a legislative response to the most recent mass shooting that has a realistic shot at passing Congress . The Republicans pushing for the vote say Sen. John Cornyn's "Fix NICS" bill could help the system flag more people who show signs of violent mental behavior, without infringing on Second Amendment rights.
The Latest on a possible U.S. Senate bid by a Mississippi candidate who ran in 2014 : McDaniel said in a live presentation Monday night on Facebook that he will hold a political event Wednesday in his hometown of Ellisville. He says: "We're looking for a fight."
President Donald Trump says he would have rushed, unarmed, into the Florida high school where a mass shooting was happening, if he had been there. Trump says, "You don't know until you're tested, but I think I really believe I'd run in there even if I didn't have a weapon, and I think most of the people in this room would have done that, too."
Sen. Dianne Feinstein wields instant name recognition and a sizable campaign war chest in her push to extend a 25-year career on Capitol Hill this November - but a chunk of her own party appears to be through with her. The California Democratic Party declined this weekend to endorse Mrs. Feinstein , delivering a huge boost to state Senate leader Kevin de Leon, her chief challenger who's running to her left.
En esta fotografA a del 10 de octubre de 2017 se muestra a la Corte Suprema en Washington. FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2017, file photo, the Supreme Court in Washington, at sunset.
The Governor of Washington directly challenged Donald Trump 's proposal to arm teachers, telling the President educators had urged against the idea. "I just think this is a circumstance where we need to listen that educators should educate and they should not be foisted upon this responsibility of packing heat", Governor Jay Inslee told the President during a White House gathering.
But we're now talking allegations of not one, not two, but three porn actresses, in one room, at the same time, in a Lake Tahoe golf resort hotel, with Donald Trump in his pajamas. The details come from Ronan Farrow in The New Yorker , the journalist who also broke much of the Harvey Weinstein story.
Chicago would spend $8.5 billion over eight years to expand its O'Hare International Airport under a plan Mayor Rahm Emanuel is expected to introduce to the city council on Wednesday, the Chicago Tribune reported on Monday. Molly Poppe, a spokeswoman for Chicago's finance department, said the city would use "traditional airport financing mechanisms," adding that details would be released soon.
The Transportation Security Administration will begin testing new suicide vest-detection technology at New York City's Penn Station starting Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer said. Schumer, a Democrat, pushed for the technology to be tested in New York City after a Bangladeshi immigrant injured himself setting off a crude pipe bomb strapped to his chest in December in a subway passageway near Times Square, a few blocks from Penn Station, the nation's busiest train station.
As divisions flared at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday, Democratic activists in California issued a surprising rebuke of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a longtime fixture of both their state and their party. After serving for a decade as the mayor of San Francisco, Feinstein was elected to the Senate in 1992, where she's remained for more than a quarter of a century.