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By the time Attorney General Jeff Sessions arrived at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort for dinner one Saturday evening in March 2017, he had been receiving the presidential silent treatment for two days. Sessions had flown to Florida because Trump was refusing to take his calls about a pressing decision on his travel ban.
The Latest on the North Carolina General Assembly debating and voting on state government budget adjustments for the coming year : Senators voted 36-14 Thursday for the nearly $24 billion spending plan after essentially no debate. They talked for about 90 minutes Wednesday before the Republican-led chamber gave the plan initial approval with an identical nearly party-line vote.
Shannon Kula, a Farmington resident and longtime U.S. Senate employee, filed paperwork Wednesday with the Federal Elections Commission to run for Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty's soon-to-be vacant seat. Kula was employed most recently as director of the Women's Leadership Center at the University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday signed a bill into law that will reinstate the Obamacare individual mandate as the state attempts to stabilize its health care markets. The bill implements a statewide fee for New Jersey residents who don't obtain health insurance through their job, Medicaid, or another source, NJ.com reports .
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he would offer a full pardon to conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza, who pleaded guilty in 2014 to violating federal campaign finance laws but later said he was targeted for his conservative views. "Will be giving a Full Pardon to Dinesh D'Souza today," Trump wrote on Twitter on Thursday.
President Donald Trump is again pushing the narrative that he did not fire former FBI Director James Comey over the Russia investigation -- despite saying exactly that days after the dismissal. "Not that it matters but I never fired James Comey because of Russia!" Trump claimed on Twitter Thursday morning.
The White House, working with the Ad Council, is set to unveil a new anti-opioid campaign that will "shock the conscience," according to Axios. President Donald Trump reportedly has a fondness for the "Your Brain on Drugs" campaign and wanted a message with the same toughness.
President Trump said Thursday he would pardon conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza - and said he was considering clemency of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and lifestyle guru Martha Stewart as well. "Will be giving a Full Pardon to Dinesh D'Souza today.
In this May 20, 2014 file photo, conservative scholar and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza, left, accompanied by his lawyer Benjamin Brafman leaves federal court, in New York. President Donald Trump says he will pardon conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza who pleaded guilty to campaign finance fraud.
People who retire are finally allowed to say what they actually think. So liberating! Outgoing Rep. Trey Gowdy says the FBI not only did nothing wrong in using an informant, but that they did what the public would want them to do : Outgoing Rep. Trey Gowdy , the House Oversight Committee chairman and a Trump supporter, said in an interview on Fox that the FBI was justified in using a secret informant to assist in the Russia investigation.
President Donald Trump is poised to play offense against midterms elections history, planning an aggressive travel schedule in support of Republican incumbents from now until November, CNN reports. The president is in Texas on Thursday, the second campaign stop this week alone.
ACLU Border Advocacy Strategist, Michael Seifert, along with Juanita Valdez-Cox of L.U.P.E, US Rep., Filemon Vela, Rochelle Garza, an attorney from Brownsville and Amber Arriaga with Projecto Azteca Equal Voice Network during a round table discussion of the "no tolerance" at the Lower Rio Grande Development Council in Weslaco Wednesday, May 30, ... (more)
President Donald Trump declared Thursday that he didn't fire FBI Director James Comey over the Russia investigation, despite previously citing that as the reason. His lawyer, meanwhile, blasted federal investigators as "a lynching mob" the Trump team will "knock the heck out of" in the end.
Johnny Olszewski Jr. began airing his first ad Wednesday in the three-candidate race for the Democratic nomination for Baltimore County executive. The former state delegate for Dundalk introduces the tagline, "the progressive Democrat," which contrasts with rival Jim Brochin's tagline of "the real Democrat."
The National Flood Insurance Program , a vital but cracking foundation for homeowners and businesses alike in south Louisiana, expires in one month. Lawmakers have been trying for years to stabilize it for the long term, but they might simply pass yet another short-term extension by mid-summer, again putting off the painful repairs.
David Hogg, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, poses for a photo at Pine Trails Park, Tuesday, May 29, 2018, in Parkland, Fla. Hogg, one of the leaders of the March For Our Lives movement, is spearheading the national effort to register young voters along with the New York-based organization HeadCount.
A federal study shows math scores are 10 percentage points lower for students using vouchers to attend private schools in Washington, D.C., compared with their peers who applied but weren't selected. The study from the Institute of Education Sciences, part of the U.S. Education Department, assessed children two years after they applied for the government subsidies.
Chicago's public schools will make pre-kindergarten available to 3,700 more children next fall as part of a four-year plan to provide it to every 4-year-old in the city. Mayor Rahm Emanuel says implementing universal full-day pre-kindergarten for all of the children regardless of their families' financial status will "further close the achievement gap."
U.S. election officials responsible for managing more than a dozen close races this November share a fear: Outdated voting machines in their districts could undermine confidence in election results that will determine which party controls the U.S. Congress. In 14 of the 40 most competitive races, Americans will cast ballots on voting machines that do not provide a paper trail to audit voters' intentions if a close election is questioned, according to a Reuters analysis of data from six states and the Verified Voting Foundation, a non-political group concerned about verifiable elections.