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At Sunday's Golden Globes, host Seth Meyers mentioned former talk show host Oprah Winfrey in a joke about his role in the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner and how being mocked at that event reportedly helped spur Donald Trump to run for president . "In 2011, I told some jokes about our current president at the White House Correspondents Dinner -- jokes about how he was unqualified to be president -- and some have said that night convinced him to run," Meyers said.
In his Jan. 4 op-ed, " This president will not be silent on Iran ," Vice President Pence charged that President Barack Obama effected "an abdication of American leadership" and "emboldened Iran's tyrannical rulers." Mr. Pence, in contrast, promised that "under President Trump, the United States is standing with" the Iranian people.
Longtime Orange County congressman Ed Royce, chairman of the high-profile Foreign Affairs Committee, announced Monday that he will retire when his current term is completed at the end of the year. The conservative Republican, 66, has repeatedly won reelection by broad margins but has seen the GOP advantage in his district slip to less than 2-percentages.
He went on to give Trump credit for "beat[ing] me like a drum," along with Hillary Clinton and all the other Republicans who ran. The Republican senator noted how he called Trump a "xenophobic, race-baiting religious bigot," but then he won the election.
Oklahoma's Republican gubernatorial candidates have mostly avoided taking a clear stance on whether the state should legalize medical marijuana, though both Democratic candidates support the policy change. Gov. Mary Fallin on Friday set a June 26 election for the medical marijuana legalization question, the Tulsa World reported .
Democrats are shifting to offense on health care, emboldened by successes in defending the Affordable Care Act. They say their ultimate goal is a government guarantee of affordable coverage for all.
President Donald Trump, right, welcomes Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., third from left, to the podium to speak during a news conference after participating in a Congressional Republican Leadership Retreat at Camp David, Md., Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018. Also pictured is House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., left, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, second from left, and Vice President Mike Pence, second from right.
A Democratic candidate for Maryland's 6th Congressional District indicated Monday he would make the opioid crisis a central issue of his campaign, laying out the first detailed policy proposal in the crowded race. David Trone, co-owner of a national liquor retailer, said he would support Congress approving $100 billion in new funding over 10 years to confront the epidemic.
If Oprah Winfrey's stirring Golden Globes acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award sounded like the dress rehearsal for her presidential inauguration, that's because it just might be. CNN now reports that Oprah is "actively thinking" about running for president in 2020, at least according to two anonymous close friends.
For the past week, all of Washington has been chewing over Michael Wolff's new book about President Trump and trying to assess which damning conclusions are actually true. But one of the bleakest scoops about Trump popped up elsewhere on Sunday night.
Sterling K. Brown poses with the award for best performance by an actor in a TV drama at the FOX Golden Globes after-party at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Jan. 7, 2018. The dominant social issue of Sunday's Golden Globes was combating sexual harassment and sexual assault against women in the entertainment industry, an issue that dominated headlines for months following accusations against Hollywood powerhouse Harvey Weinstein.
The prominent cancer researcher and political newcomer said House Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer, a top member of leadership, told him he would like to give Keirstead an "early appointment" on the influential Appropriations Committee, and that leaders wanted to make him chairman of the Science, Space and Technology Committee. "No, neither of those statements is remotely true," the Maryland Democrat's spokeswoman Katie Grant said in a statement."
After her extraordinary speech on Sunday night, it's the big question of Monday morning: Is Oprah Winfrey interested in a presidential bid? "President Winfrey" was the talk of the Beverly Hilton ballroom after Winfrey accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes . And the "Oprah for president?" possibility was a top story on morning TV.
President Donald Trump's staunch defense of his own mental acuity this weekend all but ensured the questions mounting about his fitness will increase in the coming week, which is set to culminate Friday with his first known medical exam since taking office. Coming amid a previously-unheard-of debate over the mental capacity of the country's oldest president at the time of his first election, the yearly presidential physical has attracted renewed attention from a capital now consumed with Trump's mental health.
Top Republican leaders huddled with President Donald Trump over the weekend at Camp David to chart the 2018 legislative agenda and prepare for the challenging midterm elections in November, but more immediately they need to figure out a budget deal before the Jan. 19 deadline, when the government runs out of money. Bipartisan budget talks began last week, but Democrats and Republicans are still restating their long-held positions -- the GOP pressing for a significant uptick in defense spending and Democrats insisting that any increase for the Pentagon be matched with an equal increase for domestic programs.
Auto manufacturers have been working on technology for self-driving cars for several years and are testing these vehicles on the roads. But the bills from the House and the Senate signal the federal government is ready to tackle the issue and modernize federal regulations to address the new technology.
Permanent funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program, a federal program providing health insurance for children in lower income families, ran out in September.
In this Thursday, July 20, 2017 file photo, Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy walks with nine-year-old Hayley Chavarria before speaking at a press conference at Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal Church in New Haven where her mother Nury Chavarria, who was supposed to be deported Thursday to Guatemala, has taken sanctuary. Malloy, said the attempt to deport the housekeeper and mother of four shows President Donald Trump's administration is not being truthful when it says its immigration policies are focused on "the bad guys."
After the failure of Republican led efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act ignominiously failed in mid-2017, most had assumed that efforts to dismantle the ACA would subside as Congress' focus quickly turned to tax reform; however, the Republican-led Senate snuck a repeal of the ACA's individual mandate into their version of tax legislation in ... (more)