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Last December, Democrat Doug Jones won a Senate race in Alabama by defeating a horribly flawed Republican candidate Roy Moore. For the first time, it appeared that the Democrats had a plausible path to winning control of the U.S. Senate in 2018.
There are essentially three policy issues that have become conflated: unaccompanied minors at the border, separating children from their parents at the border and families seeking asylum. We break down what those issues are and what it all means.
Celebrities have taken to Twitter to celebrate the axing of ABC's Roseanne revival after the star posted a racist remark about Valerie Jarrett, one of former President Barack Obama's closest advisers. In the now-deleted tweet, she called Jarrett the offspring of the "Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes".
"A hard-charging populist conservative, tough on immigration, great on trade-Corey Stewart is not going to mince words and he's not going to pussyfoot around the issues. That's the right way to defeat Tim Kaine," Laura Ingraham said recently on Fox News.
Roseanne Barr has delighted in inspiring outrage on social media for years. But her tweet comparing Obama White House adviser Valerie Jarrett to an ape was so blatantly racist, it cost her the comeback of 'Roseanne.'
"If you can't stomach Trump, just don't vote for the other people and don't vote at all," was Bruce Carter's refrain to voters in the summer of 2016. Carter, armed with vehicles wrapped in photo collages of famous black Republicans and speeches touting how Donald Trump's business experience would benefit black communities, was an atypical fixture on the Trump campaign trail.
President Donald Trump is resurrecting his rallying cry that Mexico will pay for his proposed border wall, despite sensitive ongoing negotiations over the future of a key North American trade deal. Acknowledging the sensitivity of the subject but abandoning caution, Trump says, "I don't want to cause a problem, but in the end, Mexico's gonna pay for the wall."
Palestinian militants bombarded southern Israel with dozens of rockets and mortar shells Tuesday, while Israeli warplanes struck targets throughout the Gaza Strip in the largest flare-up of violence between the sides since a 2014 war. The Israeli military said most of the projectiles were intercepted, but three soldiers were wounded, raising the chances of further Israeli retaliation.
Greitens, a sometimes brash outsider whose unconventional resume as a Rhode... . Michael Hafner, a former campaign worker for Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, is sworn in before testifying before a Missouri House special investigative committee probing Greitens, Tuesday, May 29, 2018, in J... .
An alarming increase in the use of a highly toxic and banned pesticide at illegal marijuana farms hidden on public land in California is leading U.S. and state officials to team up on an issue that recently divided them: pot. They announced Tuesday that they will use $2.5 million in federal money to target illegal grows even as they remain at odds over the drug and other issues.
President Donald Trump gestures as he walks toward Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 29, 2018, as he heads to Nashville for a rally. President Donald Trump has taken the stage in Tennessee for a campaign rally to boost Republican Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn.
Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico on Sept. 20, drenching the island with six months' worth of rain in four days and pummeling it with strong winds, landslides and avalanches that erased roads, took out power lines and even buried people alive.
Rep. Trey Gowdy said Tuesday night that the FBI acted properly in its use of an informant in President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign. The South Carolina Republican's comments came in stark contrast to Trump's public assertions, lacking any basis in facts, that the FBI planted "spies" in his campaign as a politically motivated dirty trick.
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens reads from a prepared statement as he announces his resignation during a news conference, Tuesday, May 29, 2018, at the state Capitol, in Jefferson City, Mo. Greitens resigned amid a widening investigation that arose from an affair with his former hairdresser.
For Democrats to take back control of the Senate this November, they need to pick up two seats - more if any of their senators running for reelection in Trump-friendly states lose. Take Tennessee, for example.
The FBI has issued a warning to home and office internet users that a hack has been found involving Russian malware. You are asked to reboot your router in order to load the latest protections.
The Wapama Falls trail next to Yosemite's Hetch Hetchy Reservoir takes wilderness lovers on a 2 1/2-mile trek to the waterfall, which is still flowing this fall, thanks to abundant winter rains. Two years after losing in court and six years after being rejected by voters, a Berkeley environmental group is continuing its long-running battle to drain Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, a linchpin of the water supply for 2.6 million Bay Area residents from San Francisco to San Jose to southern Alameda County.
On the day Donald Trump was elected, a 20-gallon tank of gas cost a Mississippi driver $36. Today, The American Automobile Associations says that same 20 gallons costs $52.
ABC called Roseanne Barr's tweet about former Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett "abhorrent" and "repugnant" when canceling Barr's show on Tuesday, but the network did not use another word: "racist." Danielle Campoamor, a Romper editor and Bustle columnist, captured the sentiments of many Twitter users when she cast avoidance of the term "racist" against the backdrop of other, ongoing debates about word choices in the press.