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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dominic Rapini chats at the Wilton Republican Committee's Save Our State fundraiser luncheon at the Old Town Hall in Wilton June 10. Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dominic Rapini chats at the Wilton Republican Committee's Save Our State fundraiser luncheon at the Old Town Hall in Wilton June 10. "Oh my god, you're kidding me!" Rapini, a longtime Apple executive from Branford, exclaimed when he heard this fact. Rapini's website was recently relaunched and redesigned to make his longshot candidacy more enticing - but making him sound like a warm, grilled sandwich was entirely accidental.
A last-minute candidacy has the potential to dilute Republican votes this fall for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat and boost chances for the Democrats to expand their majority on the court. Raleigh attorney Chris Anglin filed on the last available day last week as a registered Republican to run for the seat held by another Republican, Associate Justice Barbara Jackson, who is seeking re-election.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has announced the end of its Channel One News broadcasts in school classrooms, and child advocates are bidding them a less-than-fond farewell. For 28 years, Channel One compelled students to watch a 12-minute newscast that includes two minutes of commercials.
U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt after pulling out of the Paris climate agreement. Pruitt resigned on Thursday.
On July 4th at approximately 11:00, crews responded to reports of a structure fire on Old Turnpike Road. Upon arrival crews found a large detached garage fully involved along with multiple vehicles parked outside the garage.
President Trump is reportedly close to picking federal judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace the retiring Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, according to a CNBC report . Kavanaugh is seen as a better bet in winning over moderate Republican senators such as Susan Collins of Maine who could be a swing vote.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is tapping additional Justice Department resources for help with new legal battles as his year-old investigation of Russian interference with the 2016 election continues to expand. As Mueller pursues his probe, he's making more use of career prosecutors from the offices of U.S. attorneys and from Justice Department headquarters, as well as FBI agents - a sign that he may be laying the groundwork to hand off parts of his investigation eventually, several current and former U.S. officials said.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn visits with World War II veteran Clayton Hicks of Franklin at President Trump's rally held in Nashville in late May. Rep. Marsha Blackburn visits with World War II veteran Clayton Hicks of Franklin at President Trump's rally held in Nashville in late May. The Marsha for Senate campaign announced earlier this week that a coalition called Veterans for Marsha has been formed to focus on the more than 1,000 veterans who are supporting Rep. Marsha Blackburn's bid to become Tennessee's next senator.
The Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy, which led to the separation of children from adults who crossed the border illegally, has fueled a national outcry. Sign up for our ongoing coverage.
Donald Trump's campaign won the technical knockout of a lawsuit filed by two Democratic National Committee donors and a DNC staffer who accused it of colluding with Russian to publish compromising information about the Clinton campaign on WikiLeaks that included details about their lives. U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle in Washington dismissed the year-old lawsuit in a ruling issued late Tuesday, but did so in a way that would allow the men to refile elsewhere.
The newspapers, the social media, the TV news and political commentary programs repeat every Trump off-the-cuff remark, tweet, and bit of bombast insidiously dominating our collective consciousness. He's everywhere - lying, distorting, bullying - a sleazy tabloid figure who in retrospect makes the socially committed but crass, intimidating Lyndon Johnson seem comparatively delicate and sensitive.
In this July 3, 2018 file photo President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. U.S. Sen. Jon Tester is giving Trump a tongue-in-cheek welcome to Montana by taking out a full-page ad in 14 newspapers thanking the president for signing 16 bills that the Democrat sponsored or co-sponsored.
Since at least as far back as 2012, the claim that 43% of all "food stamp" beneficiaries are "illegal immigrants" has echoed through the murky and fact-starved worlds of social media, chain e-mails, and memes, often times shared as part of a larger list of "Facts!" For example, the following post , from the Facebook page of Doug Giles - proprietor of "ClashDaily.com" and author of the book Pussification: The Effeminization of the American Male - has garnered tens of thousands of shares: The food stamp program, known since 2008 as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program , is not open to undocumented immigrants.
After months of controversy and ethical questions, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has resigned from the agency, President Trump tweeted on Thursday. Over the several months, Pruitt has increasingly come under fire for multiple allegations of abusing his power from spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on first-class travel to a sweetheart real estate deal tied to a lobbyist with EPA business and attempting to secure a private business deal for his wife among numerous allegations.
Dawn Laguens, the Executive Vice President of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, said at a press conference in D.C. Thursday that any Supreme Court nominee must be held to the "higher standard" of agreeing that women have a right to abortion and contraception as well as affirming LGBT rights. Laguens argued that past nominees have said of Roe v.
Conservative federal appeals court judges Brett Kavanaugh and Raymond Kethledge are the two most serious contenders being considered by President Donald Trump for the U.S. Supreme Court, a source familiar with the process said on Thursday. Kavanaugh serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
In recent days The New York Times proved once again that it's nothing more than a propaganda organ for the American hard-Left and that it's only interested in helping its preferred political party regain power and then hold it by authoritarian means. As reported by The Daily Caller , an article that was noticeably not labeled an opinion piece actually argued that conservatives have "weaponized" the First Amendment and that our use and defense of it is somehow a threat to our democratic republic.
Elizabethtown, N.C. , July 5, 2018 - U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency Executive Director Chris Tatum in Bladen County today announced that producers who file accurate and timely reports for all crops and land uses, including failed acreage, can prevent the potential loss of FSA program benefits. Please pay close attention to the acreage reporting dates below.
Credit Suisse Group has agreed to pay about US$77 million to settle US criminal and civil probes into its Asia-Pacific hiring practices, including efforts to win banking business by awarding jobs to friends and family of Chinese government officials. The Swiss bank agreed to a US$47.03 million criminal fine and to enter a non-prosecution agreement under a settlement with the US Department of Justice announced on Thursday.
U.S. Sen. Jon Tester gave President Donald Trump a tongue-in-cheek welcome to Montana Thursday by taking out a full-page ad in more than a dozen newspapers thanking him for signing 16 bills the Democrat sponsored or co-sponsored. Trump was scheduled to hold a rally in Great Falls on Thursday to campaign for Tester's Republican challenger, State Auditor Matt Rosendale.