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BOSTON Five hundred and seventy-four days after kicking off the 2017-2018 session, the Massachusetts House and Senate head into Tuesday, July 31 with only a few hours to tie up the many loose ends on bills that legislative leaders have left to the proverbial last minute. Lawmakers over the past week or so have found common ground on major bills addressing environmental spending, automatic voter registration, taxation and regulation of short-term rentals, new civics education requirements, consumer credit protections, veterans benefits and an annual state budget.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday embraced a line of defense offered by his attorney, Rudy Giuliani, that "collusion is not a crime," even though he continued to deny any alleged ties between his campaign and Moscow during the 2016 election. "Collusion is not a crime, but that doesn't matter because there was No Collusion !" Trump tweeted.
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In this Thursday, July 26, 2018 photo, Westport tech entrepreneur and Navy veteran Steve Obsitnik, right, one of five Republicans running for governor, meets with voters in Waterford, Conn., during a campaign event ahead of the Aug. 14 primary. Obsitnik, who was stationed at the U.S. Naval Submarine Base in Groton, said he's been campaigning for a while in eastern Connecticut, where many communities voted for Donald Trump.
USDA's Rural Utilities Service has more than $4 billion in loan funds and $1 billion in grant funds available for rural community water and wastewater system improvements; nearly triple the normal annual obligation. The Water and Waste Disposal Program provides loans, loan guarantees, and grants to fund the construction, upgrade, or expansion of clean and reliable drinking water systems, sanitary sewage or solid waste disposal infrastructure, and stormwater drainage in rural areas.
Democratic Reps. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts and David Cicilline of Rhode Island plan to introduce legislation during Tuesday's U.S. House session that would prohibit the manufacture or possession of 3D- printed guns.
President Donald Trump lashed out at the billionaire Koch brothers, two days after Charles Koch criticized the president's trade policies and said Republicans should no longer take the financial support of their powerful network for granted. "The globalist Koch Brothers, who have become a total joke in real Republican circles, are against Strong Borders and Powerful Trade," Trump tweeted, adding that he never sought their support "because I don't need their money or bad ideas."
Remember the Trump rally in San Jose, California In June of 2016? It was a complete and total disgrace, not because it was a Trump rally, but because hordes intolerant liberals decided it was totally fine to assault people with whom they disagree politically. Punches were thrown, along with eggs, at Trump supporters because, well, they weren't supporting Hillary Clinton.
JULY 10: Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, left, and Vice President Mike Pence meet with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., left, in McConnell's office in the Capitol on Tuesday, July 10, 2018, the day after President Donald Trump nominated Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Sometime in the next few months, the Senate will vote on whether or not to kill Roe v.
"The globalist Koch Brothers, who have become a total joke in real Republican circles, are against Strong Borders and Powerful Trade. I never sought their support because I don't need their money or bad ideas.
As the FBI drills down in its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and the Pentagon vows to build new capabilities to take on Russian weapons, Russia is, in plain sight, also working on a global power grab with its energy gambit. Nord Stream 2 , the deal that prompted President Donald Trump to blow a gasket at the NATO summit earlier this month, has Germany doubling the amount of natural gas it is buying from Russia.
Since President Trump's steel tariffs have gone into effect, some manufacturers, like snowmobile maker Snow Joe, are seeking waivers. "We're all in this together," said Joseph Cohen, the founder of Snow Joe.
FILE PHOTO: The logo of commodities trader Glencore is pictured in front of the company's headquarters in Baar, Switzerland, July 18, 2017. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo Guidance for full-year lead output was lowered by 5 percent and coal trimmed by 1 percent.
In 1971, Apollo 15 crew members David Scott and James Irwin became the first astronauts to use a lunar rover on the surface of the moon. In 1777, during the Revolutionary War, the Marquis de Lafayette, a 19-year-old French nobleman, was made a major-general in the American Continental Army.
Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's choice to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, arrives for a private meeting with Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., a member of the Judiciary Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, July 30, 2018. WASHINGTON- The first Democratic senator to sit down with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh said Monday he's not ready to say how he'll vote, but Kavanaugh did pick up the backing of Kentucky's Rand Paul, the only Republican in the narrowly divided Senate to have outwardly wavered in possible support.
In this July 28, 2018, photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during the State Prize awards ceremony in Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. Congress is producing an unusual outpouring of bills, resolutions and new sanctions proposals to push back at President Donald Trump's approach to Putin.
The stakes are high as jury selection begins Tuesday in former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort's trial. Facing 18 counts of bank fraud and tax evasion charges in Virginia, Manafort could spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted.
President Donald Trump is diving deep into Florida's Republican politics, joining his preferred candidate for governor in a competitive primary. Trump is holding a rally in Tampa on Tuesday in a show of force for congressman Ron DeSantis, who faces off against state Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam in the state's Aug. 28 GOP primary.
Two questions loom large as Paul Manafort prepares to walk into a federal courtroom Tuesday: Will Donald Trump's former campaign chairman spend what effectively could be the rest of his life in prison? Or will special counsel Robert Mueller be handed a defeat in his team's first trial since his appointment more than a year ago? Those questions will be answered by 12 jurors selected this week as Manafort's trial on tax evasion and bank fraud charges gets underway at the courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia. The pool of jurors will face questions from both sides and U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III as they try to weed out potential prejudice in what has become a highly publicized and politically divisive investigation.
The pro-Trump Republican is leading in the primary against his fellow Republicans by a wide margin since President Trump endorsed him. WATCH: Florida Gov. candidate Ron DeSantis proudly displays his support for President Trump in Epic campaign ad pic.twitter.com/dIgVStbVDu