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The show's former head writer returned for an episode with some excellent sketches-but also a dire parody of Kanye West's meeting with Donald Trump. The return of a beloved alumnus to Saturday Night Live can sometimes make for a nostalgia-filled episode, stuffed with cameos by former castmates and revived sketches.
Clashes over voting rights in two states this past week have renewed focus on the issue less than four weeks from the midterm elections. In Georgia, a coalition of civil rights groups is suing Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp after an Associated Press report found 53,000 people - nearly 70% of them black - had their registrations put on hold because minor mismatches on documents like their driver's licenses violate the state's new "exact match" requirement.
The national midterm elections are coming up in less than a month. One race getting attention in north Alabama is for the 5th district seat in the U.S. Congress.
President Trump said Wednesday that while he was worried about the fate of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, halting arms sales to Saudi Arabia in response would be a step too far. PICTURED: Michael Beer holds a poster during a rally for Khashoggi, who disappeared after entering the Saudi Consulate in Instanbul.
Members of the far-right Patriot Prayer group and the white nationalist Proud Boys group clashed with Antifa demonstrators in Portland Saturday evening, resulting in several skirmishes during what has turned out to be a weekend of right-wing violence on both coasts. The altercations began Saturday afternoon, when the far-right groups organized a "Flash March for Law and Order" under the leadership of Joey Gibson, a political activist and former Republican candidate for Senate in Washington.
In this Aug. 17, 2018 file photo, candidates for Minnesota governor, Democrat Tim Walz and Republican Jeff Johnson shake hands at the beginning of their first debate at Grand View Lodge, Nisswa, Minn. While Democrat Tim Walz pushes for a public health care option and Republican Jeff Johnson aims to pare back parts of the Affordable Care Act, Minnesota's next governor will face a basic math question next year: How will the state keep paying for its programs? On the first year of the job, Walz or Johnson and a new Legislature will consider the fate of a 2 percent tax on medical providers that expires at the end of the year.
"Look, nobody goes lower than Donald Trump. I mean that's a bottomless pit. No one's competing with that," Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said Sunday during an interview with CBS News' "Face the Nation."
Democrat Walt Maddox's latest TV ad is meant to showcase his relatively conservative views on gun control and abortion. But when it comes to Confederate monuments, Maddox draws a line.
In this Oct. 10, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally at Erie Insurance Arena, in Erie, Pa. President Donald Trump's campaign rallies once had the feel of angry, raucous grievance sessions.
Months after Donald Trump claimed he was abandoning his own policy of separating immigrant asylum seekers and their children, he is now exploring ways to bring the horrific policy back. Asked Saturday about why he would revert to a hugely unpopular and likely illegal approach, Trump incorrectly claimed that it is an effective deterrent.
Margaret Workman, chief justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, made state history by being elected as the first woman justice. She might history again if the Senate takes up the trial on the articles of impeachment adopted by the House of Delegates.
The small plane with three aboard that crashed in the waters off the Hamptons late Saturday morning departed from Danbury Airport. One body has been recovered.
By making a rare second trip this year to Vietnam, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is signaling how intensively the Trump administration is trying to counter China's military assertiveness by cozying up to smaller nations in the region that share American wariness about Chinese intentions. The visit beginning Tuesday also shows how far U.S.-Vietnamese relations have advanced since the tumultuous years of the Vietnam War.
U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez first ran for the U.S. House in 1992 and has been raising money for his campaigns ever since. He has brought in more than $50 million during that time, according to the Center for Responsive Politics , a Washington research group.
The body of a newlywed was discovered in Costa Rica on Saturday, bringing to an end a short search for the groom after he was swept away by floodwaters on his honeymoon in Costa Rica earlier this week. Josh Byrne, a native of Hudson, Massachusetts, was married just last weekend to wife Bianca on a farm in New Hampshire, according to Boston ABC affiliate WCVB.
Financially, we're speeding merrily toward a cliff. Trump and the GOP, notably through tax changes, have significantly exacerbated two major problems This election critical for survival of our democracy Financially, we're speeding merrily toward a cliff.
Mitt Romney came to Arizona to help out a fellow Senate hopeful and he ended up getting in a jam himself. The former presidential candidate and governor headlined a rally for Rep. Martha McSally on Friday in Gilbert, Arizona, to help boost her campaign to fill the Senate seat being left open by Sen. Jeff Flake's departure, but comments Romney made after the event have drawn some criticism.
It's election time in Texas, and many houses have political signs in the yard. Have you noticed all those "Beto" signs? They're for a man named Robert Francis O'Rourke, who wants to be our senator.
Before they were relegated to the domain of children, books with movable mechanisms explained anatomy, astronomy, and more to adults. An Object Lesson .