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There are plenty of reasons to be grateful that Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election. But one of the biggest is almost certainly on First Street, NE in Washington, D.C. At least one justice working inside that Supreme Court would be different.
Legislation headed to President Donald Trump's desk could help thousands of Louisiana flood victims by fixing the he so-called duplication of benefits trap Federal policies have kept thousands of victims of the 2016 Louisiana floods from being able to access a federally-financed homeowner grant program because they already received Small Business Administration loans. The U.S. Senate gave final passage today to a package of federal disaster policy changes, included in a bill authorizing spending for federal aviation programs.
Facebook, which briefed the Department of Homeland Security and FBI last week, is slated to meet with more lawmakers this week, including members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, according to The Wall Street Journal , which first reported the meetings. The move appears to be part of the Silicon Valley giant's efforts to try to get ahead of a breach that could hurt the company and result in undesirable regulations.
The average cost of employer health coverage offered to workers rose to nearly $20,000 for a family plan this year, according to a new survey, capping years of increases that experts said are chiefly tied to rising prices paid for health services. Annual premiums rose 5% to $19,616 for an employer-provided family plan in 2018, according to the yearly poll of employers by the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation.
Senate Democrats facing tough re-election fights this year are turning to their own constituents to describe their health struggles and addiction battles in starkly personal advertisements at a time when many voters say health care is a top concern. Many of the emotionally-charged advertisements attack Republican efforts scrap the Affordable Care Act, or highlight the opioid epidemic that has claimed so many thousands of lives.
For four years, Sen. Tammy Baldwin sat around doing nothing during her Senate term, and now in the last two years, she's trying to tell us what a great asset she is for the state of Wisconsin. An obstructionist is an asset? She voted against the tax cuts, which, as all can see, has been a blessing to our economy.
Senators nervously awaited the arrival of a new FBI report on sexual allegations that could make or break Brett Kavanaugh's tottering Supreme Court nomination Wednesday as aggressive protesters and an unusually strong security response added to a feeling of high anxiety inside the U.S. Capitol. As lawmakers anticipated the report, expected as early as Wednesday evening, three moderate GOP senators who could decide the conservative jurist's fate rebuked President Donald Trump for mocking one accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, by mimicking her responses to questions at last week's dramatic Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
First Selectman Mike Tetreau spent time Saturday afternoon visiting homes in the Lewis Drive and Lynbrook Road area, as homeowners continued to clean up after last week's torrential rains. The neighborhood abuts the Rooster River, and many homeowners found themselves flooded out when the river went over its banks in a storm that saw more than five inches of rainfall in about a two-hour time span.
In response to a U.N. court order that the U.S. lift sanctions on Iran, the Trump administration said Wednesday it was terminating a decades-old treaty affirming friendly relations between the two countries. The largely symbolic gesture highlights deteriorating relations between Washington and Tehran.
Connie Chung reveals she was sexually assaulted in college by the 'trusted' family doctor who delivered her as a baby, recalling how she had her first orgasm while he molested her Democrats claim Kavanaugh's FBI background check ALREADY included warnings about allegations of sexual misconduct - as farcical secrecy surrounds Thursday's release of new probe One police officer is shot dead and five others are injured in South Carolina as a gunman goes on the rampage but surrenders after talking with a negotiator Is the White House blocking FBI from quizzing Kavanaugh and Ford? Dems furious at claim neither will be re-interviewed by new probe because they have already given evidence Mayor de Blasio warns Trump NYC will come after him for back taxes after revelation he got $413 million from late father Fred partly through tax 'dodges' 'Let's all play together': Pedo surgeon's horror texts to ... (more)
Borough officials announced Tuesday that Belmar will not have to repay a $4.4 million federal loan it received in 2013 to help offset the costs of Superstorm Sandy. According to Robbin Kirk, the borough's chief financial officer, the loan received through the federal Community Disaster Loan [CDL] Program is being forgiven because of Belmar's satisfaction of criteria designed to assure that the money was used to keep municipal taxes or fees from rising as a result of the 2012 storm.
Bridgeport City Councilman Ernie Newton makes a point to the crowd gathered at a roundtable discussion at the Kinsella Treatment Center in Bridgeport, Conn. on Friday, Aug. 24, 2018.
"THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed," the "presidential alert," managed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency , appeared on smartphones at 2:18 p.m. EDT.
John Oliver discusses the ongoing controversy surrounding Brett Kavanaugh, the sexual assault allegations against him, his Supreme Court nomination, and what that could all mean for the highest (mostly-dog) court in the land.
Sources say Republican leadership plans a tight lid on the FBI report's access with only a single copy to be available on request to senators and secured in a combination safe. A Democratic congressional staffer was arrested Wednesday and accused of posting the personal information of at least one Republican senator during last week's hearing about sexual assault claims against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, authorities said.
But in blaming "revenge on behalf of the Clintons" for the sexual misconduct allegations against him, the Supreme Court nominee is drawing new attention to his time on the Kenneth Starr team investigating Bill Clinton. And in doing so, he's shown he can deliver a Trump-like broadside against detractors even if it casts him in a potentially partisan light.
NEW BEDFORD - V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai doesn't have much use for the two-party political system in Massachusetts. He's running an energetic campaign as an independent for U.S. Senate to topple incumbent Democrat Elizabeth Warren, complete with a campaign bus bearing the slogan “Only a real Indian can beat a fake Indian.” Ayyadurai, 54, was born in Bombay, India, into the bottom rung of that county's caste system.
Attorneys for Christine Blasey Ford just informed the Senate Judiciary Committee that they won't be turning over evidence concerning her allegations that Brett Kavanaugh tried to rape her in high school. They will, they say, give the FBI copies of her therapist's notes and recordings of her polygraph test.
Undermining the narrative President Donald Trump has aggressively promoted of his success as a "self-made" billionaire-the platform upon which he has built his success as a business mogul as well as his campaign for president in 2016-the New York Times released an explosive in-depth report on Tuesday detailing schemes which allowed Trump to avoid paying taxes on wealth that was transferred from his parents to himself and his siblings. Trump has for years been fond of telling audiences that through hard work and financial know-how he was able to transform a single $1 million loan from his father, Fred Trump, into a $10 billion fortune-a tale that made him a popular figure with those who voted for him in 2016.
Case in point: Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind. Donnelly is running in deep-red Indiana meaning that Donnelly needs to inspire the nascent liberal electorate while placating his opponent's conservative base.