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States can purge their voting rolls by targeting people who haven't cast ballots in a while, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a case that split the conservative and liberal justices. By a 5-4 vote, the court rejected arguments in a case from Ohio that the practice violates a federal law intended to increase the ranks of registered voters.
Declaring he has "won the argument" on hemp, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that the Senate is on track for a vote to legalize the crop that comes from the same plant that produces marijuana. The Senate Agriculture Committee is scheduled to consider the farm bill Wednesday.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is expected to brief President Donald Trump on Thursday about the inspector general report on law enforcement's handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe before it is released to the public, people familiar with the matter said. Capitol Hill staffers were told Tuesday that scheduling and logistical conflicts would make it necessary for the Justice Department to shift their planned Thursday morning briefing to the afternoon, according to people familiar with the congressional plans.
Republicans say two states that President Donald Trump won in landslides are heading in opposite directions in the battle for the Senate majority, as they expressed increasing confidence about capturing North Dakota but diminishing hopes about West Virginia. With fewer than 100 days to the midterm elections, top Republicans have concluded that North Dakota represents their best chance to flip a seat from blue to red, with Rep. Kevin Cramer, R, looking to unseat first-term Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp.
Hof, the owner of half a dozen legal brot... RENO, Nev. - Nevada brothel owner Dennis Hof said Wednesday the "establishment got crushed" when he knocked off an incumbent Republican in a state legislative primary.
In this Jan. 10, 2018, file photo, people rally outside of the Supreme Court in opposition to Ohio's voter roll purges in Washington. The Supreme Court is allowing Ohio to clean up its voting rolls by targeting people who haven't cast ballots in a while.
Marshall officials say Todd May announced his retirement to employees at the Huntsville facility on Monday. It takes effect July 27. A statement from Rep. Mo Brooks of Huntsville says May is being replaced on an acting basis by Marshall's deputy director, Joan A. "Jody" Singer.
Governor Cuomo kicked off a statewide campaign to pass the Red Flag Gun Protection Bill, also known as the Extreme Risk Protection Order Bill. Photo: Office of Gov. Cuomo Governor Cuomo has begun a statewide tour to promote a bill to give teachers and school administrators the power to go to court and ask a judge to confiscate the guns of a student and their family, if they suspect the student might try to harm themselves or others.
U.S. President Donald Trump leaves the G7 Leaders Summit in La Malbaie, Que., on Saturday, June 9, 2018., with White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, left, and National Security Adviser John Bolton.
U.S. Supreme Court requires plaintiffs to point to a common corporate policy or action that affected the women adversely, U.S. District Judge James L. Robart said Monday at a hearing in Seattle about whether to let the case proceed as a class action. He seemed skeptical about the Microsoft women's ability to find commonality.
President Donald Trump said it himself to Congress and the American people: "No regime has oppressed its own citizens more totally or brutally than the cruel dictatorship in North Korea." But when it comes to human rights, don't expect Trump to hold Kim Jong Un's feet to the fire at the Singapore summit.
Jessica is also five months pregnant and did not want to go through a metal detector. The Reason she says is that of the radiation that the metal detector transmits "I told the officers I didn't want to do that and they said the next option is the wand.
The N.C. State Board of Elections officially recognized the Constitution Party this week after collecting 12,000 valid signatures before a deadline, the Associated Press reported. "This has been 10 years in the making and we are very excited," state Constitution Party Chairman Al Pisano said in a statement.
With the primary elections Tuesday, NBC12 will hold a Digital Dialogue as Virginians choose candidates for Congressional and Senate races. While voter turnout is generally lower for primary elections, there are some hotly contested races in the state that could change the tide in Washington.
The crackdown targets thousands of people suspected of using fake identities to get around previous deportation orders, then fraudulently obtaining citizenship The US government agency that oversees immigration applications is launching an office that will focus on identifying Americans who are suspected of cheating to get their citizenship and seek to strip them of it. US Citizenship and Immigration Services Director L. Francis Cissna said his agency is hiring several dozen lawyers and immigration officers to review cases of immigrants who were ordered deported and are suspected of using fake identities to later get green cards and citizenship through naturalisation.
President Donald Trump said it himself to Congress and the American people: "No regime has oppressed its own citizens more totally or brutally than the cruel dictatorship in North Korea." But when it comes to human rights, don't expect Trump to hold Kim Jong Un's feet to the fire at the Singapore summit.
"Remind me of Secretary Kerry's visit to Tehran, or the time that Obama met with" Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, John Delury, a Korea expert at Yonsei University, challenged me when we got together in Seoul in May. I couldn't, because those things never happened. And that was precisely Delury's point.
Del. Bob Thomas clearly ran on a very conservative platform, and was elected by conservative Americans. He promised to protect gun rights, lower taxes, protect the unborn and shrink government.
Voters head to the polls for Tuesday's primary to decide which candidates will face off for congressional and Senate seats in November. All eyes are on these races to see if the Democratic wave that started last November continues to turn the tide this year.
Double standards are not new to Donald Trump and his administration. He's now publicly calling for the comedian, Samantha Bee, to be fired from her job for calling Ivanka the C word.