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The college roommate of the second woman who accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct said she never saw him do anything sexually aggressive - but did say he was a heavy drinker - during an appearance on CNN's "Cuomo Primetime" on Friday night. Deborah Ramirez was in Kavanaugh's class at Yale and earlier this week, she accused him of thrusting his penis in her face at a dorm party.
In this June 30, 2018, file photo, aw enforcement officers stand guard in front of the Trump Hotel in Washington. A federal district judge in Washington says a group of nearly 200 Democratic senators and representatives has legal standing to sue President Donald Trump to prove he violated the U.S. Constitution's emoluments provision.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, is joined by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., right, as the Republican-led House pushes ahead on legislation to crack down on illegal immigration, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington. The Republican chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Friday subpoenaed a U.S. research firm founder to give a deposition on his hiring of a former British spy to compile a dossier on alleged links between U.S. President Donald Trump's associates and Russia.
The passage of tax reform 2.0 blows a huge hole in the budget, and a much-touted opioid bill might just make the crisis worse. While much attention was diverted by the political circus surrounding Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday and Friday, Congress passed a massive spending bill and another round of tax cuts that will combine to blow an even bigger hole in the federal budget.
Committee Democrats have been clamoring for the release of the Russia investigation documents for months, but it was only in recent weeks that Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., also began to opine that the transcripts should be made public - adding that it should be done before the midterm elections. That has not resolved political tensions, however, as Republicans and Democrats on the already fractured committee argued over why the panel had omitted five interview transcripts from the release.
Paying smuggling rings between $25,000-$50,000 per person, a growing number of Indians are illegally crossing the US-Mexico border and claiming asylum for persecution. has nearly tripled so far in 2018, making them one of the largest groups of illegal aliens apprehended, US Customs and Border Protection said on Friday.
Rosalynn Carter, former first lady of the United States, is an advocate for mental-health care through the Carter Center. Patrick J. Kennedy, former U.S. representative from 1995 to 2011, is the founder of the Kennedy Forum and author of "A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction."
U.S. Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp on Friday backed Senator Jeff Flake's call for an FBI investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's pick for the Supreme Court. FILE PHOTO: Sen. Heidi Heitkamp speaks with reporters ahead of the weekly policy luncheons on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 24, 2018.
The second most-powerful Republican in the U.S. Senate, John Cornyn, on Friday said the chamber would meet on Saturday at noon to vote on a procedural motion on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Sen. John Cornyn, R-TX reacts to Sen. Jeff Flake's R-AZ remarks during Senate Judiciary Committee meeting to vote on the nomination of Brett M. Kavanaugh to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.in Washington, U.S., September 28, 2018.
President Donald Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court will hinge on the votes of a handful of senators, including Arizona's Jeff Flake, who was at the center of complex Senate maneuvering over Kavanaugh on Friday. Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Jeff Flake speaks during a Judiciary Committee meeting to vote on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to be a U.S. Supreme Court associate justice on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 28, 2018.
The White House expressed confidence Friday it has the votes in the Senate to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders says President Trump found Kavanaugh's testimony "powerful, honest and riveting."
A lawsuit filed by a Democratic senator from Oregon aiming to compel the Trump administration to release 100,000 pages of documents on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is inching forward in federal court, with an Obama nominee assigned to hear it. Sen. Jeff Merkley's lawsuit, filed Wednesday in federal court in the nation's capital, has been overshadowed by sexual harassment accusations against the nominee, but the case remains alive, with summonses prepared for U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and others, court documents show.
Under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, the Naval Air Systems Command's Fleet Readiness Center Southwest Advance Technologies Team is working on a blockchain project to track aviation parts throughout their lifecycles. NAVAIR has partnered with Indiana Technology and Manufacturing Companies , the developers of SIMBA Chain.
Soon after Republican Senator Jeff Flake announced he'd vote to confirm Kavanaugh, two women cornered him in an elevator as he headed back to the Senate Judiciary Committee. The confrontation could be seen in TV footage blocking the Arizona senator from closing the elevator door.
A U.S. appeals court on Friday ordered a new trial in a lawsuit accusing Led Zeppelin of copying an obscure 1960s instrumental for the intro to its classic 1971 rock anthem "Stairway to Heaven."
Indiana's chief elections official said Friday that some voters who applied for an absentee ballot through the Indiana Democratic Party are at risk of not receiving one. Republican Secretary of State Connie Lawson says that's because the party mailed out absentee applications that were missing instructions that must be included under state law unless special dispensation is granted.
But Republican senator Jeff Flake said he could not promise to vote for Mr Kavanaugh on the Senate floor and called for a delay of up to a week. The Senate Judiciary Committee has voted along party lines to advance Brett Kavanaugh's US Supreme Court nomination to the Senate floor.
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Dels. Chris Jones, R-Suffolk and Steven Landes, R-Augusta listen during the House Privileges and Elections Committee meeting on redistricting plans on Thursday. Dels.