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A Dallas man angry over the removal of Confederate monuments has pledged to call 100,000 Texas households in the next few weeks urging them to contact their elected officials. Dallas businessman and GOP donor Christopher Ekstrom said the Conservative Response Team , a politically active nonprofit he leads, plans to make the robocalls before Jan. 12. The calls will urge registered Republicans to call Rep. Dennis Bonnen, the Angleton Republican assumed to become the next speaker of the Texas House, who recently joined Gov. Greg Abbott in calling for the removal of a controversial Confederate plaque at the state Capitol.
One of Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's duties when she deployed to Iraq with the Hawaii Army National Guard in 2005 was to scan a list of U.S. combat casualties for names of her unit's soldiers. This daily confrontation with the cost of war helped propel the 37-year-old Hawaii Democrat on a path to Congress and now, potentially, a run for president.
Several major firms are resisting calls from director Judd Apatow and other Twitter liberals to boycott Tucker Carlson's TV show because he opposes illegal immigration. Pacific Life, Indeed.com, IHOP and several other companies did pull their ads from the Fox News Channel show "Tucker Carlson Tonight," but the resisters include such major firms as Farmer's Insurance, Mitsubishi and John Deere.
The Hill reports that House Democrats are making plans for a prolonged shutdown that could start Saturday and last until Jan. 3. Chris Matthews predicts Trump may resign in the coming weeks: MSNBC's Chris Matthews has suggested that President Donald Trump could resign as part of a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller. "What if [Mueller] were to say he would let the children walk if the old man does the same?" Matthews said Monday, according to a Huffington Post report .
I write to thank U.S. Senate Committee Chairman Pat Roberts for his terrific work for mainstream animal welfare reforms in the recent Farm Bill that passed the Congress overwhelmingly.
Not only has former Broward County elections chief Brenda Snipes rescinded her resignation from the post, she is now suing the governor who suspended her. In a lawsuit filed this week with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Ms.
President Donald Trump talks about drug prices during a visit to the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 25. He's pictured with HHS Secretary Alex Azar. On Friday, members of the GOP hailed a ruling by U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor striking down the Affordable Care Act as unconstitutional.
Washington - President Donald Trump's former national security chief on Tuesday received a delay in sentencing for lying over Russian contacts, after a judge threatened him with stiff jail time and said: "You sold your country out." Russia collusion investigation head Robert Mueller had proposed Michael Flynn receive no jail time for lying to investigators about his Moscow ties -- and in his own pitch to the court last week, Flynn had requested the same.
In this Nov. 4, 2018, file photo, Tom Perez, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, waits to speak during an early voting campaign event in Cincinnati. Democratic National Committee officials and a group of state party leaders are set Tuesday to hash out an increasingly ugly fight over how the party manages and pays for the voter data used in campaigns.
Police investigate the scene where two officers were killed after they were struck by a South Shore train near 103rd Street and Dauphin Avenue on Monday, Dec. 17, 2018, in Chicago. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi posted on Twitter that the "devastating tragedy" occurred when the officers were investigating a shots-fired call.
Two more of Gov. Susana Martinez's political appointees - a Gaming Control Board member and the director of adult prisons - have slid into civil service jobs as Martinez prepares to leave office Dec. 31, state government personnel records show. The job changes make it possible - but don't guarantee - that the Martinez appointees will remain employed with the state under the administration of Gov.-elect Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat.
An Iowa congressman likely violated a host of ethics rules in his private business dealings, including his ownership in a company that used false claims and House resources to promote itself, according to an independent report released Monday. The Office of Congressional Ethics launched the review into Republican Rod Blum and his internet marketing business, Tin Moon Corp., following an investigation by The Associated Press earlier this year.
Republicans, in the waning hours of their eight-year reign in the House, are using this precious time to do what they love best: investigating Hillary Clinton's emails.
Royal Caribbean is not responsible for the death of a 22-year-old man who went overboard on one of its cruises in 2016, a federal jury found Monday, despite skipping a step in the line's own search protocol. Lisa and Todd Skokan sued Royal Caribbean after their son Nathan went overboard on Royal Caribbean's Independence of the Seas on Dec. 22, 2016 and was never found.
Former FBI Director James Comey speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill Washington, Monday, Dec. 17, 2018, after a second closed-door interview with two Republican-led committees investigating what they say was bias at the Justice Department before the 2016 presidential election. WASHINGTON Former FBI Director James Comey was back on Capitol Hill Monday for the second round of closed door questioning in as many weeks.
The fight over President Donald Trump's $5 billion wall funds deepened Monday, threatening a partial government shutdown in a standoff that has become increasingly common in Washington. It wasn't always like this, with Congress and the White House at a crisis over government funding.
A major agriculture bill passed by the U.S. Congress last week could legalize hemp at the federal level, allowing farmers across the country to cultivate hemp, but that doesn't necessarily spell good news for Humboldt County. The bill, which now awaits President Donald Trump's signature, includes a provision that lifts hemp off of a list of federally criminalized drugs.