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The Party for Socialism & Liberation has a keen interest in California as primaries loom on June 5. Eight candidates have filed to run for statewide office in the Golden State, running on the "Peace and Freedom Party slate," the organization advises , describing this designation as "California's feminist socialist political party." The eight include Gloria La Riva for governor, Nathalie Hrizi for insurance commissioner, Jordan P. Mills for the 49th Congressional District, Gayle McLaughlin for lieutenant governor, John T. Parker for U.S. senator, C.T. Weber for secretary of state, Kevin Akin for state treasurer and Mary Lou Finley for state controller.
Greitens res... . Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens leaves the podium after announcing his resignation at a news conference, Tuesday, May 29, 2018, at the state Capitol, in Jefferson City, Mo.
Trump on Wednesday tweeted a quote from Republican congressman Trey Gowdy, who said Sessions should have told Trump before accepting the job that he planned to recuse himself from the investigation. President Donald Trump, still nursing resentment against Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia investigation, says he wishes he'd picked a different leader of the Justice Department.
There is no evidence that the FBI planted a "spy" on President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, a senior House Republican said Wednesday, directly contradicting Trump's repeated insistence that the agency inserted a "spy for political reasons and to help Crooked Hillary win."
It's time for change - Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler's support of President Trump and the culture of corruption that he has established do not reflect the values of the citizens of Southwest Washington. Whether it's the president's comments about women or his staffers' inappropriate comments about Sen. John McCain's battle with brain cancer, Herrera Beutler refuses to speak out.
President Donald Trump endorsed the so-called Right to Try legislation in his State of the Union address in January. Under the measure, people with life-threatening conditions who have exhausted their treatment options would be able to try remedies not yet in pharmacies.
The Trump administration is pushing back against reports that a government agency "lost" nearly 1,500 unaccompanied minors who attempted to cross the border into the United States. An official at the Department of Health and Human Services who oversees programs that place unaccompanied minors with families told a Senate committee last month that a department office "was unable to determine with certainty the whereabouts of 1,475 unaccompanied alien children."
Thousands waited in long lines and terrible weather to see President Donald Trump take the stage at a campaign rally in Nashville, TN . President Trump was in Nashville on behalf of Rep. Marsha Blackburn's 2018 U.S. Senate bid.
President Donald Trump, still nursing resentment against Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia investigation, says he wishes he'd picked a different leader of the Justice Department. Trump on Wednesday tweeted a quote from Republican congressman Trey Gowdy, who said Sessions should have told Trump before accepting the job that he planned to recuse himself from the investigation.
The cancellation of Roseanne Barr's situation comedy reboot at ABC/Disney is not, as some of my more serious acquaintances on social media are saying, unimportant. Barr's attack via Twitter on former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett , is an important moment in American cultural history.
Donald John Trump House GOP prepares to consider Trump's billion clawback Mexico's president fires back at Trump: We will never pay for your wall Trump in Nashville claims people were 'infiltrating' his campaign MORE to Osama bin Laden and the Taliban, calling him the current "greatest threat to our democracy" in a new campaign ad.
Women running for office are due to hit another threshold with a record number of candidates for the U.S. Senate, but actually winning those seats and changing the face of the chamber are a different matter. Many of the women jumping into Senate races face uphill campaigns.
When Hillary Clinton was running against Donald Trump in 2016, she boiled down concerns about his temperament to a central question: "Imagine Donald Trump sitting in the Situation Room, making life-or-death decisions on behalf of the United States," she said. The attack was centered on national security, but the argument went beyond the role of commander in chief to broader questions about Trump's ability to handle any number of potential crises.
T.S. Eliot famously wrote that April is the cruelest month, but when it comes to America's fiscal picture, nothing could be further from the truth about this April. The latest government numbers confirm that last month was a blockbuster for growth, federal revenues and deficit reduction.
FOR COURAGE AND CONVICTION: U.S. Sen. John McCain, left, receives the National Constitution Center's Liberty Medal from former Vice President Joe Biden last year. This is not a TV review column, thankfully, because "bleak" would not begin to capture the assessment here of what passes for entertainment these days.
Congress's last chance to tell Americans - in a bipartisan way - how Russia interfered in the 2016 election rests with 15 senators who meet twice a week behind closed doors. The Senate Intelligence Committee has become a rare symbol of unity on the divisive issue of Russia's role in the presidential race - quite a feat for a panel with members ranging from conservative Trump ally Tom Cotton, R-Ark., to liberal Trump critic Kamala Harris, D-Calif.
Rep. Martin Meehan, D-Mass., the incoming University of Massachusetts at Lowell chancellor, addresses an open meeting of students, faculty and staff on the school's campus in Lowell, Mass., Thursday, April 12, 2007. Meehan says he can't endorse any candidate in the race to succeed him because of his pending move to academia.
Toppling like trees in a hurricane, many male executives in entertainment, media and other industries have been felled by allegations of sexual harassment. The hashtag #MeToo has raised awareness about the prevalence of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace, sparking a growing movement in the U.S. and abroad.
In this Oct. 10, 2017 file photo, the Supreme Court in Washington is seen at sunset. The Supreme Court is putting limits on the ability of police to search vehicles when they do not have a search warrant.