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NewsOK Pro is a fast and easy way to build your own customized topic pages and add them to the existing NewsOK you've grown to love. GOP Senator Rand Paul Rips Former US Intelligence Officials Rand Paul is doubling down on calls to revoke security clearances of former U.S. intelligence officials who have criticized President Donald Trump.
Opening statements begin in federal court in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, July 25, ... . FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2016, file photo, makeshift roadside memorial for rancher LaVoy Finicum stands on a highway north of Burns, Ore.
After two years of uncertainty in a Turkish prison, Pastor Andrew Brunson, of Black Mountain, NC, is finally being released. Brunson was first imprisoned on terrorism charges after an attempted coup in the summer of 2016 against President Recep ErdoAYan.
Secretary of State Pompeo testified before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill a week after President Trump's one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Secretary of State Pompeo faced pointed questions from lawmakers Wednesday about President Trump's recent summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the firestorm that followed.
Georgia Republicans went to the polls yesterday in a runoff election to determine their nominee in November's race for governor. Trump-endorsed candidate Brian Kemp trounced Casey Cagle, who had been supported by Georgia's current governor Nathan Deal.
US secretary of state Mike Pompeo declined to respond when asked whether North Korea was continuing to pursue submarine-launched ballistic missiles or whether its nuclear programme was advancing generally. Pompeo declined to respond when asked whether NKorea was continuing to pursue submarine-launched ballistic missiles or whether its nuclear programme was advancing generally He said US was engaged in "patient diplomacy" to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons, but would not let the process "drag out to no end" WASHINGTON: North Korea is continuing to produce fissile material for nuclear bombs in spite of its pledge to denuclearize, US secretary of state Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday.
According to Donald Trump, tariffs are the greatest, while trade wars are good and easy to win. Apparently he didn't consult with the folks in America's so-called " heartland " about any of that.
Nearly six in 10 Americans say President Trump and his GOP allies are responsible for Obamacare-related problems because they've made changes to the law, according to a poll released Wednesday that frames the public's view on looming political battles. The Kaiser Family Foundation said 58 percent of the public will hold Republicans accountable for turmoil in the insurance markets, while only a quarter say that because President Obama and Democrats passed the law, they should take the blame.
On June 20, members of the organization's Metro D.C. chapter confronted Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at a Mexican restaurant downtown, chasing her out and making national news. Can you imagine the Washington Post saying this about a far-right group that had chased, say, Eric Holder out of a restaurant, thereby "making national news"? I didn't think so.
Republican state Sen. Chris Kapenga says he won't support a tax break bill to help keep Kimberly-Clark Corp. plants in Wisconsin open. The announcement Wednesday shows how difficult it will be for Republicans to pass the bill required to keep at least two of the company's plants open in northeast Wisconsin.
Yesterday I noted that Republicans now dominate many old blue collar manufacturing districts that used to tilt decisively Democratic as recently as Bill Clinton's time. And one of the Democrats who has made some noises about how the neglect of the working class in the heartland has been a mistake for Democrats is Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan, who unsuccessfully challenged Nancy Pelosi for the leadership of the House Democratic caucus after the last election.
Former service members of the U.S. Coast Guard have filed a lawsuit claiming they were wrongfully forced to retire. The Kodiak Daily Mirror reports the lawsuit filed in federal court last month claims about 400 service members were made to retire in violation of federal law from 2012-14.
"Advisers to President Trump say Joe Biden is the Democrat he most fears running against, and that Pennsylvania is the state he worries most about flipping against him," Axios reports. "Trump's calculation is based partly on how weak he sees other Democratic possibilities, including Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, and partly on who's capable of appealing to his base of working class whites."
From AT&T and Time Warner to the hot pursuit of 21st Century Fox and Sky, media mergers are in full swing. Why now? WSJ's Amol Sharma answers all your questions about the forces driving media deals.
Marshalltown Mayor Joel Greer will be meeting President Trump in Dubuque on Thursday, one week after a tornado hit the town. According to the Des Moines Register Greer said he got a call from the White House, asking him to come to the Dubuque airport with one of the first responders to meeting with the president.
All three networks on Tuesday and Wednesday ignored a blockbuster Second Amendment ruling to come out of the usually liberal Ninth Circuit. The pro-gun rights decision found that Americans DO have a constitutional right to openly carry outside of the home.
This was because an A.P. reporter recently learned of Department of Justice plans to reopen the 1955 Emmett Till lynching case. Federal officials say the decision was spurred by revelations in my book, "The Blood of Emmett Till," published a year and a half ago.
Three members of Illinois' Congressional delegation will be behind closed doors when lawmakers hash out the reconciliation of the farm bill that passed the House with the version approved by the Senate. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a farm bill, and the Senate passed a similar but different one.