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WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Friday his own Justice Department may be fair game for criticism amid Republican complaints of anti-Trump bias in the FBI. Sessions, speaking to law enforcement officials in Norfolk, Virginia, said the department's mission is to identify and correct "mistakes of the past" and eliminate political bias "in either direction" from its investigations and prosecutions, a suggestion that that has not always been the case.
Drawing clever political districts is one way politicians in Texas and elsewhere avoid accountability - by protecting themselves from voters who disagree with them. They do this by stuffing weirdly shaped geographic districts with voters who agree with them.
What a remarkable contrast: President Donald Trump was in command at Davos talking about economic growth and prosperity, while House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and disgraced former Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.. were babbling and belittling thousand-dollar bonuses and increased take-home pay for American workers.
Former President Barack Obama called himself "basically a liberal Jew" when speaking this week about his relationship with Israel and the Jewish community, Haaretz reported Friday . Speaking at Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan, Obama's remarks were the first public statements he's made about Israel since leaving office.
Eric Schultz, an aide and deputy press secretary for former President Barack Obama, said "we would have been impeached" if that administration had spent millions replacing refrigerators on Air Force One, The Hill reported Friday . Replacing the plane's aging refrigerators will cost nearly $24 million, due to equipment requirements put in place by the White House Military Office and the Air Force, Defense One reported Wednesday .
Hillary Clinton refused to fire top 2008 campaign aide accused of rubbing and kissing female colleague and then reassigned his alleged victim instead - then invited 'abuser' to her 2017 birthday party Hillary Clinton protected a campaign adviser's job during the 2008 presidential race after he was accused of sexually harassing a 30-year-old female subordinate. Burns Strider, then 42 and married, was Clinton's 'Director of Faith-Based Outreach' and frequently appeared on religious-themed broadcasts to promote her candidacy.
Billionaire Steve Wynn 'paid $7.5MILLION to employee he forced into sex, told spa staff to massage his penis or provide oral pleasure and exposed his genitals during trips to casino salon' One hundred pounds of fentanyl - enough to kill more than a MILLION people - is found by Mexican cops stuffed into the back of an SUV alongside cocaine, heroin and meth just 90 minutes from the California border FBI killed off plan to appoint US attorney who jailed corrupt politicians as special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton's emails, lovers' texts reveal Scientists discover the 'Kiss hormone' that fuels sex drive and helps women orgasm paving the way for a new libido treatment Lawyers for the NFL Network say former stylist 'consented' to being 'groped and sexually harassed' by on-air talent and executives as they try to get her wrongful termination lawsuit thrown out 'America First does ... (more)
New York will continue to provide Medicaid benefits to people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children - no matter what officials in Washington do with the program that protected them from deportation, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced this week. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program created by former Democratic President Barack Obama protected certain immigrants who entered the country as children from deportation.
During the 2008 race for the White House, a senior adviser to Hillary Clinton's campaign was accused of sexually harassing a subordinate but the adviser was kept on staff, according to The New York Times . The report also stated that it was Clinton's campaign manager at the time recommended that she fire the advice, Burns Strider but she did not.
Trump has been a boon for comedians, and Colbert's nightly jokes about the president on CBS's Late Show have helped vault him above Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show , which has a softer touch with its political humor. On Comedy Central, The President Show satirizes Trump with Anthony Atamanuik's impression.
Concerned about Bank of America's phase-out of a program that provided free checking, two Democratic members of Congress on Friday sought information about the banking giant's action. File photo taken in 2014 shows the corporate sign in front of a Bank of America branch office in Oakland, California.
With his five years on the Ohio Supreme Court at an end, Bill O'Neill says the time has come to talk of many things. Of long-illegal school funding, solar panels and his tenure as the only Democrat amid six Republicans on the Ohio Supreme Court.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley urged President Donald Trump Friday to let Robert Mueller's investigation "work its course," adding that he was "open" to considering bipartisan legislation aimed at protecting the special counsel. In an interview with CNN, Grassley said he did not believe Trump would actually fire Mueller, despite reports Thursday night that the President took steps last June to dismiss the special counsel and later backed off after White House Counsel Don McGahn threatened to quit.
Michigan State University's governing board plans its first meeting since the resignation of President Lou Anna Simon amid an outcry over the school's handling of disgraced gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar. Michigan State University's governing board plans its first meeting since the resignation of President Lou Anna Simon amid an outcry over the school's handling of disgraced gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.
His rightward slide during his run for president and his centrist slide in the past weeks have been well documented. The Salt Lake Tribune) Mitt Romney speaks at the Tech Summit at the Salt Palace Convention Center, Friday, January 19, 2018.
The Trump administration will curtail a detailed review of how cordoning off 230,000 acres of U.S. Forest Service land in Minnesota from mining development will affect a neighboring wilderness area, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. The decision to convert the study launched in the final days of the Obama administration into a less-stringent environmental assessment could have major policy implications.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, speaks with reporters following a vote, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018. The Senate Judiciary Committee is finishing its investigation into the meeting between Russians and President Donald Trump's campaign in June 2016 - and Grassley wants to release transcripts from closed-door interviews with Trump's son and others.
He's running for U.S. Senate but as the Sunday morning sun rose over a park near the Texas-Mexico border, Democratic Congressman Beto O'Rourke had another run in mind. Wearing well-worn shorts and sneakers, the onetime punk rock guitarist was leading a group of supporters on a jog around a duck-dotted pond.