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Balderson, a two... . Democratic congressional candidate Danny O'Connor speaks to Roger Tackett, 71, of Clark County, Ohio, during a campaign event in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday, Aug. 6, 2018, ahead of Tuesday's special election.
Too little, too late. That's the Governor's reaction to Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo's call for a federal emergency task force to help the Guam Memorial Hospital meet deficiencies cited in a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid report.
Kansas City-area businessman Greg Orman speaks to reporters after he and his running mate Sen. John Doll delivered more than 10,000 signatures to the Secretary of State's office in Topeka, Kan., Monday morning, Aug. 6, 2018, to formalize their campaign for governor. He needs the signatures of 5,000 registered voters to appear on the November ballot.
Margaret M. Heckler, an eight-term Republican congresswoman from Massachusetts who later became an embattled secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services under President Ronald Reagan before serving as U.S. ambassador to Ireland, died Aug. 6 at a hospital in Arlington, Virginia. She was 87. Throughout much of her career, Heckler was a groundbreaking figure who often forged her way in law and politics as one of the few women in the male-dominated fields.
Former Kansas Sen. Bob Dole endorsed Gov. Jeff Colyer in the state's Tuesday Republican gubernatorial primary, a split with Donald John Trump South Korea urges Pyongyang to speed up denuclearization process More than a dozen arrested as protesters, counter-protesters clash in Berkeley Trump golfs with Graham at New Jersey club MORE Dole, the 1996 GOP presidential nominee, tweeted his support for Colyer, whom he called "our best choice to win tomorrow AND in the fall." Proud to support Jeff Colyer for Governor-our best choice to win tomorrow AND in the Fall.
A Republican co-chair of the Legislature's budget committee said Monday there are not enough votes in the Senate to pass a tax break bill designed to keep open a pair of Kimberly-Clark Corp. plants in northeast Wisconsin, saving more than 600 jobs. Kimberly-Clark, which makes Kleenex tissue, Huggies diapers and other paper products said earlier this year it planned to shutter the plants , but hopes of saving them were rekindled last month after the union representing workers there agreed to concessions.
Voters in Missouri will decide on Tuesday if the state adopts a "right-to-work" law hampering union organizing, a decisive moment in a years-long battle pitting labor and Democrats against an alliance of business groups and Republican politicians. Republicans in Missouri's state government in February 2017 approved a right-to-work law, preventing unions from signing contracts that force all workers to pay for union representation.
Visiting the McLean County Fair Friday night, Erika Harold said she has many disagreements with the Republican governor, including his signing into a law a bill expanding taxpayer support for abortions to include women on Medicaid and state employee insurance. Sen. Kwame Raoul's campaign told me that if Harold's going to distance herself from Rauner on HB40, "it's only fair that she is forthright and held accountable on just how far away she is."
Kris Kobach has emerged as the outright favorite to win the GOP nomination in Tuesday's gubernatorial primary after winning an endorsement via Twitter from Donald John Trump South Korea urges Pyongyang to speed up denuclearization process More than a dozen arrested as protesters, counter-protesters clash in Berkeley Trump golfs with Graham at New Jersey club MORE Trump's tweet calling Kobach a "fantastic guy" came just hours before the polls open, and represents the first time the president has endorsed a candidate running against a Republican incumbent in a primary. The unlucky incumbent is Gov. Jeff Colyer , a former surgeon with years of experience in the state legislature, and a far more traditional candidate than Kobach has been.
Los Angeles: No one would mistake President Donald Trump for an expert on climate change or water policy, but a tweet he issued late Sunday about California's bushfires deserves some sort of award for most glaring misstatements about those two issues in the smallest number of words. Trump blamed the fires on "bad environmental laws which aren't allowing massive amount of readily available water to be properly utilised."
POLITICALLY, PAUL RYAN is suffering rigor mortis - his last impotent months as speaker of the House. The immediate cause of death was Donald Trump and the mindless tribalism that turned Ryan's Republican caucus into a snake pit.
Days of Double Takes: How the world's largest festival for twins, triplets and 'multiples' takes over Twinsburg, Ohio each summer - as thousands celebrate everything from 'twinness' and talent ... to wedding bells Sikh man is 'attacked and beaten by white supremacists' before they spray-painted 'go back to your country' on his truck in 'heinous hate crime' Surjit Malhi said that he was putting up campaign signs for Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Calif., at night when two men ambushed him Malhi said he believes the turban he was wearing saved his life during the attack, saying it softened the blows to his head Two men are being sought by police for beating a Sikh man and spray-painting a racist message on his truck in what they're calling a hate crime.
U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth raised concerns about an organization that cares for migrant children separated from their parents Monday, saying she worried they were hungry and stressed. Heartland Alliance runs a number of shelters in the Chicago area, primarily for unaccompanied minors -- children who arrive in the U.S. from other countries without an adult.
Nassau County officials are seeking approval to borrow $300 million to pay down a $360 million backlog of tax refunds, arguing that the move finally would allow the county to attack a pile of debt that is accruing interest at rates of up to 9 percent a year. County officials say they plan to seek approval from the Republican-controlled legislature in September to borrow $100 million this year to pay past tax certiorari claims that total $360 million.
The decision was made as the Department of Defense investigates the use of health and exercise apps that monitor location as part of their services. The Department of Defense has issued a ban on the use of geolocation services -- on a personal or government-issued device, and on any application -- while in any location designated as an operational area because of security concerns.
WASHINGTON Thirty-five members of Congress 32 in the House and three in the Senate are serving out the last months of their terms while the public is left in the dark on whether new jobs they may land pose a potential conflict of interest. The two main reasons: a loophole in legislation that was touted as promoting disclosure of retirees' post-congressional job negotiations, and interpretations of how to apply the law.
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz has accused Texas Democratic Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke of taking money from a political action committee, in violation of O'Rourke's pledge not to take such donations. O'Rourke has consistently outraised Cruz, including announcing a quarterly $10.4 million fundraising haul last month, despite the attention-grabbing vow to ban PAC money from his campaign coffers.
U.S. Senate candidate Joe Arpaio argued the benefits of gun ownership to a tiny toy doughnut in the latest episode of comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's new prank show.
This photo provided by Eddie Ponsdomenech shows a twin-engine aircraft crashed near the South Coast Plaza shopping center in Santa Ana, Calif., Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018. Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Arlene Salac says the twin-engine Cessna 414 declared an emergency before crashing about a mile from Orange County's John Wayne Airport.
Aug 6, 2018--AIDS Healthcare Foundation welcomed the introduction last week of legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 6505, that would require the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate prices of prescription drugs furnished under part D of the Medicare program. "We especially want to thank U.S. Reps.