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Cartons of eggs are displayed on a shelf at the Marina Supermarket on July 17, 2015 in San Francisco, California. From the kitchen to the driveway, there were some significant recalls this past week that you may have missed.
An aviation bill was signed into law Friday that included four amendments geared toward preventing runway accidents following a series of close calls at San Francisco International Airport last year. Sparked by a series of reports by the Bay Area News Group, Congressman Mark DeSaulnier authored four amendments to the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018.
The Senate vote on confirming Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court is certain to be close, even if the outcome is no longer suspenseful. Enough senators have indicated they will support him Saturday to put him over the edge, with a likely margin of two votes.
THESE HAVE BEEN hard times for American institutions. Over the past four to five decades, confidence in nearly every institution of American life has declined.
Kagan, Sotomayor: Viewing the Supreme Court as politically divided hurts its legitimacy Two females justice avoid discussion of the Kavanaugh nomination but worry about court being viewed as politically divided.
Assistant U.S. Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, left, speaks as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania Scott W. Brady, 3rd from left, FBI Deputy Assistant Director for Cyber Division Eric Welling, 2nd from left, and Director General Mark Flynn, right, for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police listen during a news conference to announce criminal charges Thursday.
The Senate is expected to vote Saturday on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh and - barring a major unforeseen development - in all likelihood, he will be confirmed by the narrowest of margins. Friday, after the nomination cleared a key procedural hurdle with a 51-49 vote, two previously undecided senators, Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., announced they would support Kavanaugh .
State Sen. Lindsey Tippins, R-west Cobb, left, and his Democratic challenger, Andy Clark, at Thursday's candidate forum put on by the League of Women Voters of Marietta/Cobb.
Brett Kavanaugh, the embattled U.S. Supreme Court nominee put forward by President Donald Trump, looked likely to win final Senate confirmation on Saturday, weathering sexual misconduct allegations and attacks on his character and temperament. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh arrives for his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, U.S., September 27, 2018.
Banks are going to bat for Democrats in the U.S. November midterm congressional elections as part of an ambitious strategy to rebuild the bipartisan support they enjoyed before the 2007-2009 financial crisis. Senator Heidi Heitkamp walks at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., August 22, 2018.
This article was updated Oct. 5 at 10:37 p.m. with corrected information on Alex Kaufman's volunteer and employment experience and Josh McLaurin's legal battle with the Fulton County Republican Party.
Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam said Tuesday that he wants federal judges to redraw the state's legislative map and will veto a GOP-drawn map advancing the state House.
Palestinian farmers are only given four days to tend to hundreds of trees and harvest their crops, while settlers are free to access the land at their will A group of settlers have been filmed stealing olives from Palestinian farms near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus. In the video, the pair can be seen working together to cut and bag the olives from the groves which lie in an area which leaves them inaccessible to their Palestinian owners without Israeli permission.
Democrats got what they wanted -- an FBI supplemental background investigation into Christine Blasey Ford's sexual allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh -- and now it's time to vote. According to Senate Judiciary Committee members who have seen the FBI report, nothing new has turned up to corroborate Ford's claims that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her 36 years ago at a house party in Maryland.
On October 4, Senator Heidi Heitkamp announced that she was going to vote "no" on the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Unlike her colleague Jeff Flake who is quitting the Senate, Heitkamp is taking a grave political risk.
If the allegations of Professor Christine Blasey Ford against Brett Kavanaugh are true, then he was a juvenile criminal. He and a friend plotted out how to get girls inebriated, force them into an upstairs side room, turn up the music to drown out screams, jump on top of them, and have their way with them.
The decision by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley to have Arizona sex crimes prosecutor Rachel Mitchell question Christine Blasey Ford may well be remembered as a brilliant -- and quite possibly pivotal -- choice. No doubt, allowing Mitchell to ask questions instead of Republican senators served a defensive purpose, avoiding the spectacle of a bunch of old, white men publicly questioning a woman who says she was a victim of sexual abuse.