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In a major blow to House Speaker Paul Ryan, Republican leaders failed to garner enough votes for a sweeping GOP farm bill amid a revolt from hardline conservatives who opposed the bill over an unrelated immigration fight. Friday's 198-to-213 vote was an embarrassing defeat for Ryan, R-Wis., who had championed the farm bill as a major step toward welfare reform but saw that GOP priority squelched by members of his own Republican conference.
Porn star Stormy Daniels reportedly cut her Thursday night performance at an Oregon strip club short after a man threw a wallet at her face. Daniels was dancing to Poison's hit song "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" at Stars Cabaret in Bend, Oregon, when the wallet struck her in the face, according to Oregon Live.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley sent a letter to the Justice Department Friday demanding Rosenstein's unredacted memo detailing Mueller's scope. In Chairman Grassley's letter to the DOJ, he noted Mueller's team had just given Rosenstein's memo to Judge Ellis therefore the Senate Judiciary Committee should be permitted to review the document.
U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed a key assistant of long-time Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone, two people with knowledge of the matter said, the latest sign that Mueller's investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election is increasingly focusing on Stone. The subpoena was recently served on John Kakanis, 30, who has worked as a driver, accountant and operative for Stone.
The Texas student charged in the school shooting at Santa Fe High School described planning the attack in private journals, including a plan to kill himself, posted an image on Facebook of a "Born to Kill" shirt and used his father's shotgun and pistol in the rampage that left 10 dead and 10 wounded, authorities said Friday.
West Virginia's two U.S. senators have announced federal approval of nearly $3 million for a new substance abuse treatment center in Ohio County. Sens. Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito announced the grant to Heart 2 Heart.
Multiple deaths have been reported from a shooting at Santa Fe High School. The gunman has been identified as Dimitrios Pagourtzis, and he has been charged with capital murder.
President Donald Trump said Friday he has chosen Acting Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie to permanently lead the beleaguered department, a surprise announcement that appeared to catch Wilkie off guard. Wilkie, a former Pentagon undersecretary for personnel and readiness, has led the department since Trump fired David Shulkin in March amid an ethics scandal and mounting rebellion within the building.
VETERANS HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENTS: Voting 347-70, the House on Wednesday passed a bill that would launch the process to realign, consolidate or close some of the Department of Veterans Affairs' 1,200-plus medical centers and outpatient clinics, some of which were built to treat veterans of the Civil War. The bill also would streamline a four-year-old "community care" program in which veterans who live at great distance from Veterans Health Administration medical facilities can receive publicly funded care from close-to-home private-sector providers.
So basically it's a massive PRT system which would certainly have no capacity, scaling, or congestion issues. And so cheap to build! The Boring Company founder shared more details Thursday night in Los Angeles about his project to cure the city's traffic congestion with hundreds of tunnels.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi used Friday's school shooting to renew her call for gun reform. As CNSNews.com reported , 10 people are dead and another 10 were injured when a gunman opened fire inside a classroom around 8am Friday morning.
In a surprise announcement that caught the candidate off-guard, President Donald Trump said Friday he'll nominate acting Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie to permanently lead the beleaguered department. Trump spilled the news about Wilkie at a White House event on prison reform as he introduced Cabinet members in attendance.
Artist RISK's recreation of a Venice skateboard pavilion is featured as part of the "Beyond the Streets" show in downtown Los Angeles. What began as tagging or graffiti art in the 1960s, with names like Cornbread and "Wicked" Gary Fritz , has since blossomed into street art, making stars of people like Banksy , Keith Haring and Shepard Fairey , all part of the comprehensive new show, " Beyond the Streets ," featuring over 100 international artists in L.A.'s Chinatown through July 6. Curator Roger Gastman , who co-curated MOCA's popular " Art in the Streets " show in 2011, also advised on the Oscar-nominated Banksy documentary, " Exit Through the Gift Shop ."
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
Most Cubans who know about Castrogonia's UMAP camps and about the "rehabilitation" that Castronoids inflicted on political prisoners will not be surprised by this story. Indoctrination, coercion and abuse are the linchpin of the whole communist/socialist scam, as essential to it as its ideology, because that ideology requires the use of brutality to ensure conformity.
President Donald Trump on Friday urged Congress to overhaul the nation's prison system and help more former inmates re-enter society, hoping to jump-start legislation that's facing fresh opposition from Democrats. Trump said at a White House forum that a prison overhaul "unites people from across the political spectrum" and that lawmakers need to "work out their differences, get a bill to my desk - I will sign it."
The U.S. Solicitor General has recommended that the nation's highest court consider whether Yakama tribal members are exempt from state gas taxes on the reservation. The U.S. Supreme Court has yet to announce whether it will review the matter.
President Trump shakes hands with Acting Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie after surprising him with the announcement. "I'll be informing him in a little while, he doesn't know this yet, but we're going to be putting his name up for nomination to be secretary of the veteran's administration," Trump said.
The House Democrats' campaign arm announced on Friday that it raised $11.2 million in April, surpassing its April monthly haul from the last cycle. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee , which has been hyper-focused on online fundraising this cycle, said that nearly $3.1 million of that haul came through online donations.
In a 198-213 vote, GOP conservatives essentially joined Democrats in rejecting the measure, which would have introduced tougher work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program [SNAP] that were a priority for Speaker Paul Davis Ryan Lighthizer says NAFTA countries are 'nowhere' near reaching a deal Dem introduces bill to prohibit lawmakers from sleeping in their offices Trump hears 'covfefe' as White House aides weigh in on 'Yanny' and 'Laurel' MORE The whip count remained in question in the hours leading up to the dramatic vote, despite GOP leaders expressing confidence just minutes before hand that they would have enough support to pass the bill.