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This undated photo provided by Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence shows Deborah Ramirez. Ramirez went public with allegations that while in his first year at Yale University, Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh placed his penis in front of her and caused her to involuntarily touch it during a drunken dormitory party.
President Donald Trump has long argued that the United States has been taken advantage of by other nations - a "laughing stock to the entire World" he said on Twitter in 2014 - and his political rise was countenanced on the premise that he had the strength and resolve to change that. But at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, Trump got a comeuppance on the world's biggest stage.
One of the largest business organizations in the U.S. is endorsing Republican Mike Braun in the Indiana Senate race. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced Tuesday that it was backing the businessman and former state lawmaker, who is challenging Sen. Joe Donnelly, one of the most vulnerable Democrats up for re-election.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley leads Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the witness table at the beginning of Kavanaugh's second day of his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill September 5, 2018 in Washington, DC. The word " chickenshit " became one of the operative adjectives and "sham" a widely-used noun overnight after it was learned late Tuesday that Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee had hired an outside female prosecutor to grill Dr. Christine Blasey Ford during a hearing scheduled for Thursday and then proceed to a committee vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Friday morning, less than a day later.
Independent candidate Oz Griebel, left, speaks as Republican candidate Bob Stefanowski, center, and Democratic candidate Ned Lamont, right, listen during a gubernatorial debate at the University of Connecticut In a debate Wednesday at the University of Connecticut, Griebel, who was barred from the first two debates between Republican Bob Stefanowski and Democrat Ned Lamont because of low polling numbers, shared a stage with the two major party candidates in front of an audience made up, primarily, of millennials. But adding a third candidate to the mix changed the dynamic only slightly - Lamont often addressed Griebel, quoting him on certain issues and even calling him a Republican at one point.
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, is scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. (Photo: "I am here today not because I want to be.
An agitated President Donald Trump acknowledged Wednesday that past accusations of sexual misconduct against him have influenced the way he views similar charges against other men, including his Supreme Court nominee. Wading into the #MeToo moment, Trump said he views such accusations "differently" because he's "had a lot of false charges made against me."
Brett Kavanaugh denies TWO MORE sex attack claims - including anonymous allegation he drunkenly pushed woman against a wall when he was investigating Bill Clinton Two new cases surfaced Wednesday in transcripts of phone interviews between Kavanaugh and Senate aides, both of them with no one's name attached One allegation, lodged anonymously, is that Kavanaugh 'sexually' shoved a woman up against a wall after leaving a bar with her in 1998 That correspondes to the period when Kavanaugh was a staff attorney working for Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr during the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal Neither accusation can be corroborated because there are no firm details, and Kavanaugh denies it all as 'made up,' 'ridiculous' and 'total Twilight Zone' Senate investigators questioned Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh about two new claims of sexual misconduct, including one from an anonymous ... (more)
Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Senator Dianne Feinstein , speaks during a news conference denouncing the White House's withholding of documents on Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh outside of the U.S. Supreme Court on September 4, 2018 in Washington, DC. Also pictured are Sen. Mazie Hirono , Sen. Chris Coons , Sen. Cory Booker , Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin , Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse , Sen. Richard Blumenthal , Sen. Kamala Harris , and Sen. Patrick Leahy .
Low Tide Brewing on Johns Island was Joe Cunningham's first stop on a "Cunningham Brewery Tour" on Thursday July 26, 2018 in his campaign for congress. Wade Spees/Staff Republican congressional candidate Katie Arrington turns to former congressman Tommy Hartnett as she expresses gratitude for his work during a 1st Congressional Honorees Banquet at Alhambra Hall in Mount Pleasant on Thursday, August 16, 2018.
Brett Kavanaugh's third accuser's father says he is 'shocked' by her high school gang-rape claims - as her history of money troubles and $100,000 unpaid taxes is revealed Brett Kavanaugh is now forced to deny TWO MORE sex attack claims - including allegation he 'sexually and aggressively' pushed woman against a wall in 1998 - the year he investigated Bill Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky Democrats get ready to take on female judge they expect Trump to turn to if Kavanaugh fails - and focus on her links to group which helped inspire The Handmaid's Tale 'This is from the Twilight Zone!': Brett Kavanaugh DENIES explosive claims he drugged and gang-raped girls at high school made by THIRD accuser - whose attorney is Trump tormentor Michael Avenatti 'A big fat con job perpetrated by very evil people': Trump accuses Democrats of trying to destroy Brett Kavanaugh - as nominee battles ... (more)
U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, the California Republican fighting charges of misusing campaign funds, appeared to suggest in a speech to a women's group that his election opponent is a "radical Muslim" and part of an attempt by Islamists to infiltrate the federal government. "He changed his name from Ammar Yasser Najjar to Ammar Campa-Najjar so he sounds Hispanic," Hunter said Monday night, according to audio of the event recorded by Ken Stone of the Times of San Diego.
Steel and aluminum tariffs imposed by the Trump administration has cost Ford Motor Co (F.N) about $1 billion, its chief executive officer said on Wednesday.
An Indiana U.S. Senator seen as one of the chamber's most vulnerable Democrats has a slight edge while four of his Rust Belt Democratic colleagues have solid leads in states President Donald Trump won in 2016, a Reuters poll found. A Reuters/Ipsos/UVA Center for Politics Poll released on Wednesday found that a majority of likely voters in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan and Indiana disapprove of the Republican president and more than one-third were "very motivated" to back someone who would oppose his policies.
Attorneys for Deborah Ramirez are arguing with Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee over how to bring forward her allegations that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a party when they were Yale students. This undated photo provided by Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence shows Deborah Ramirez.
Her 1991 testimony against Clarence Thomas riveted the nation, but failed to derail his nomination to the Supreme Court. Now, 27 years later, Anita Hill says the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearing - with no FBI investigation and no witness testimony - is destined to be unfair, just as she and many others felt the Thomas hearing was.
This image released by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018 in Washington, shows Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh's calendar, from the Summer of 1982.
Hoping to salvage the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh and cement a conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court for a generation, Republicans have chosen a woman who prosecuted sex crimes in Arizona to question President Donald Trump's nominee about sexual assault allegations. Rachel Mitchell is seen in this Maricopa County Attorney's Office photo from Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., released on September 26, 2018.