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An explosive new ad by the Trump campaign implying that Democrats would be "complicit" in any murder committed by undocumented immigrants "doesn't work," a leading Democratic senator said. "The American people are not going to accept the premise that immigrants are criminals and that we ought to deport the 'Dreamers,'" Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on This Week Sunday.
The Justice Department has turned over to Congress additional text messages involving an FBI agent who was removed from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigative team following the discovery of derogatory comments about President Donald Trump. But the department also said in a letter to lawmakers that its record of messages sent to and from the agent, Peter Strzok, was incomplete because the FBI, for technical reasons, had been unable to preserve and retrieve about five months' worth of communications.
Restive Senate moderates in both parties searched for a solution to a partisan stalemate as they raced toward a late-night showdown vote and their last chance to reopen the federal government before hundreds of Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, left, and Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., leave a meeting in the office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., as Day 2 of the federal shutdown drags on, at the Capitol in Washington, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018. WASHINGTON - Restive Senate moderates in both parties searched for a solution to a partisan stalemate as they raced toward a late-night showdown vote and their last chance to reopen the federal government before hundreds of thousands of federal workers were forced to stay home Monday.
Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth said the U.S. president's attempts to pin the shutdown on Democrats, especially by using the military, were examples of him failing to take responsibility. Donald Trump's decision to accuse Democrats of not caring about the military is galling, said U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth, who lost both of her legs in the Iraq War.
Michael Wolff and I were talking backstage prior to his gig on Tuesday night at the Free Library of Philadelphia , and he confessed that he never saw it coming. He was convinced that he'd gotten the inside skinny about President Donald Trump's den of dysfunction, but in our info-saturated ecosystem, with Trump under scrutiny 24/7, who could have envisioned 11 printings within 12 days of release? After hanging out in the West Wing for nine months - Wolff concluded in his book that Trump is dangerous, incompetent, ignorant and unfit to serve.
President Donald Trump's re-election campaign released a provocative new ad accusing Democrats of being "complicit" in the slayings of law enforcement officers by people in the U.S. illegally. The 30-second ad was released Saturday on the anniversary of Trump's inauguration and amid a government shutdown.
With all the talk about a possible government shutdown due to an impasse on immigration reform, no one seems to be paying attention to a story of even bigger long-term consequence. Congress is preparing a two-year budget that blows past bipartisan spending caps to the tune of $216 billion through 2019.
Moment a mother who left her daughter, 4, to die in a scalding bath that made her skin 'melt off' is arrested with her boyfriend for the brutal crime Lindsey Graham anticipates a 'breakthrough' in funding negotiations that could end the government shutdown TONIGHT as he claims to have brought five Democrats 'on board' Bitter ex-husband of late New York City sculptor left her work 'to rot at a drab Long Island gas station' after her cancer death in 2016 'There was blood everywhere': Woman dies after falling from her balcony on a Carnival cruise and landing several decks below - a year after man, 24, died when he fell overboard the same ship 'It's all guesswork': Scarlett Johansson under fire for eviscerating James Franco at the LA Women's March after DEFENDING Woody Allen and starring in THREE of his films New Jersey's new first lady, 52, tells Women's March crowd how she was sexually ... (more)
Or at least that's what organizers of the Women's March are hoping after their first ever "#PowertothePolls" activation in Nevada, which was designed to both celebrate and build on the momentum of last year's Inaugural Women's March. Crowds of people flocked to Sam Boyd Stadium as early as 5:30 a.m. in crisp desert temperatures for the event, which officially began at 10 a.m. PT.
Gov. Ralph DLG Torres and Sen. Lisa Murkowski pose in this photo taken in June 2016 in Washington, D.C. as part of the CNMI Senator's 902 consultations. Members of the congressional working group tasked with coming up with legislation to extend the CNMI-Only Transitional Worker program beyond its 2019 expiration date has completed negotiations and introduced a proposed legislation on the U.S. Senate floor.
President Donald Trump's first year was one marked by chaos and controversy, as he cast aside norms and traditions and changed how the presidency is viewed at home and abroad. For anyone thinking year two might be different, think again.
President Donald Trump's budget director is holding out hope that feuding Democrats and Republicans in Congress can reach a short-term spending agreement before the start of the workweek Monday, but he worries that the government shutdown could last for several more days if progress remains elusive. Democratic lawmakers challenged the president to get more involved and to accept bipartisan compromise as a way out of a shutdown that entered its second day Sunday amid finger-pointing from both parties as to who bears primary responsibility.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks to the chamber on the first morning of a government shutdown after a divided Senate rejected a funding measure last night, at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Jan.... . Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., arrives for a meeting of fellow Republicans on the first morning of a government shutdown after a divided Senate rejected a funding measure, at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday,... .
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Sunday said President Trump and the Republicans have "played" the government shutdown to their advantage. Gingrich, a Georgia Republican, said the Democrats erred in opposing a spending bill to keep the government open with their demand to protect the Obama-era program that shields young immigrants brought to the United States by their parents from deportation.
Mick Mulvaney stormed Washington as a tea party lawmaker elected in 2010, and he hasn't mellowed much as director of the Office of Management of Budget at the White House. In both spots, he's been at the center of a government shutdown.
The U.S. government shut down at midnight after Congress failed to resolve a partisan standoff over immigration and spending. In a late-night vote, Senate Democrats blocked a bill that would have kept the government running for four weeks.
A neighbor of Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., intends to plead guilty to a federal felony charge after he tackled the senator in November in an attack set off by the placement of a pile of brush, the man's lawyer said Friday.
A former assistant police chief for a Kentucky police department allegedly instructed a police recruit to shoot black minors if he were to catch them smok... -- Two Americans and two Canadians who were kidnapped by gunmen in northern Nigeria earlier this week have been rescued, police said.The foreigners -- three m... Nebraska Extension will conduct chemigation certification training sessions beginning in February through early April at Scottsbluff, Sidney, Bridgeport, Alliance and Valentin... Kearney, Neb.