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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said Tuesday that the Federal Commission on School Safety she leads would not be examining how guns play a role in school violence. "Will your commission look at role of firearms as it relates to gun violence in our schools?" Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., asked DeVos at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing.
Bill Clinton's return to the spotlight was supposed to help make his new novel a best seller, but the ex-president has found interviewers in the #MeToo era unwilling to turn the page on his checkered past with women. The former president is on the interview circuit in promotion of his new political thriller co-authored with James Patterson, "The President is Missing."
Eight states are casting midterm primary ballots on Tuesday, with outcomes that could help determine control of the U.S. House and Senate and decide several governor's races. Here are six things to keep in mind as primaries are being held in Alabama, California, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota: 1. California is a jungle: There are no party primaries in California, with voters instead choosing among all candidates on one ballot, with the top two vote-getters advancing to November regardless of party.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson told federal officials Monday that free trade has been good for his state and warned that new trade barriers could undermine its economy. "I don't like the potential of a trade war," Hutchinson said in an interview Monday evening.
The Supreme Court ruled in 1988 that the appointment of an independent counsel was constitutional, but the rules and circumstances were a little different then. And the Supreme Court has not spoken directly on the constitutionality of current regulations for special counsels.
My Uncle Ian enjoyed asking his younger brother when that wastrel Niall would leave college and get a real job. The implication was that, by becoming an academic, I had essentially failed to grow up.
The number of illegal immigrants killed after their boat sank off the southeastern coast of Tunisia on Sunday has risen to 112, according to the UNs' migration agency. The ill-fated boat was packed with about 180 migrants, including 80 from other African countries, local media had reported earlier.
I'm confronted by this dilemma in downtown Blanco at Old 300 BBQ, which is run by pitmaster Ladd Pepper, who's cooked for countless celebrities, including Beyonc and former President Barack Obama. Earlier in the week I convinced my friend Rolando to make the short 48-mile trip from Austin to Blanco with a promise that there would be both barbecue and beer.
This past week a life-long liberal, Roseanne, tweeted a despicable comment that armed the Left in their war that has been going on since the day Donald Trump entered the political scene. Anytime Trump makes a statement that questions the status quo and then he is deemed a racist and hater.
A Democratic senator is accusing the Trump administration of being part of a "cruel" effort against unauthorized immigrant children after he was denied entry to a Texas immigration center for unaccompanied minors when he showed up asking for a tour of the facility. Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley -- who acknowledged that he had been told in advance he wouldn't be admitted to the facility -- told CNN's "New Day" Monday morning that he believes President Donald Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Department of Homeland Security "do not want members of Congress or the public to know what's going on" in the center.
We've come a long way from harmless playground jibes like "your mother wears combat boots," to those of today from the likes of critics blame his harsh rhetoric for the language they use to attack him. Perhaps he bears some responsibility, but that is poor justification for bad behavior from others who might set a better example.
A United States senator tried to enter a federal facility in Texas where immigrant children are being held, but police were summoned and he was told to leave. Sen. Jeff Merkley's attempt late Sunday to enter the facility, and his request to speak to a manager, comes amid a national debate over the practice of separating families caught crossing the border illegally.
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It seems almost quaint today. But back when Barack Obama was president, Republicans strenuously objected to his expansive use of executive orders to maneuver around Congress on issues like climate change and immigration.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt testifies before a Senate Appropriations Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee hearing on the proposed budget estimates and justification for FY2019 for the Environmental Protection Agency on Capitol Hill last month.
The Philadelphia Eagles will not visit the White House on Tuesday after President Donald Trump rescinded the team's invitation, citing several players on the team who planned not to attend.
Martin Luther King. Steve Jobs. John F. Kennedy. Winston Churchill. Fine examples of politicians, leaders, business men that many would claim were very charismatic public speakers.
As Robert Mueller continues his special counsel investigation to nowhere, at least one government watchdog group is keeping up the pressure on Hillary Clinton. "After uncovering the Clinton email scandal," Judicial Watch's president, Tom Fitton, said in a written release, "[we] now want a full accounting of the Hillary Clinton emails found on Anthony Weiner's laptop."
In a crowded field of Democrats, Audrey Denney of Chico was leading the pack Tuesday, and if the results hold she will challenge top vote-getter and Republican incumbent Doug LaMalfa in November. LaMalfa, who owns a rice farm in Richvale, earned 52 percent of the vote, as of 11 p.m., with 41 percent of precincts reporting.