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U.S. Rep. John Katko has joined a group of 20 Republican moderates openly rebelling against party leaders by trying to force a vote on a series of immigration bills. Katko, R-Camillus, signed a petition that could force an open-ended debate and votes on four bills aimed at preserving an Obama-era program that allowed young, undocumented immigrants to remain in the country without fear of deportation.
Organizing for Action , a group spawned from former President Obama's presidential campaign, is getting set for the 2018 midterm elections with a plan to mobilize its supporters for top House races and state-level contests that they say are key to the party's push to gain clout in redistricting and liberal ballot initiatives. The "Organizing for '18" plan, which will be officially unveiled next month, is the group's latest strategy meant to turn the energy the group harnessed during the Obama years toward making Democratic gains during the midterms.
Passage of the farm bill is... . Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., promotes this year's renewal of the farm bill during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 17, 2018.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., arrives at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, May 18, 2018, as the conservative House Freedom Caucus threatens to hold up a final vote on the farm bill. Passage of the farm bill is a priority for GOP leaders, who are eager to pitch to voters its tougher work requirements for food stamps, a party priority that polls well with voters.
President Donald Trump is trying to jump-start efforts in Congress to overhaul the U.S. prison system and help more former inmates successfully re-enter society. Trump says lawmakers in the House and Senate need to "work out their differences, get a bill to my desk - I will sign it."
The USS Constitution glides through Boston Harbor past the city skyline on a cruise to honor Vietnam veterans, Friday, May 18, 2018, in Boston. The U.S. Navy vessel known as "Old Ironsides" is the world's oldest commissioned warship still afloat.
Megan Shade and Victoria Rivera participate in a health-care protest outside the office of Rep. Carlos Curbelo on March 8, 2017, in Miami. Fourteen House Republicans took a big risk last year in voting for a bill repealing much of Obamacare.
Bruce Boynton, an unheralded civil rights pioneer arrested for sitting in the whites-only section of a bus station in 1958, is being recognized in his native Alabama.
President Donald Trump accused the Justice Department on Friday of trying to frame him by planting a spy in his 2016 campaign - an allegation his own lawyer said might not be true. Promoting a theory that is circulating in conservative circles, Trump quoted Fox Business anchor David Asman and tweeted: "Apparently the DOJ put a Spy in the Trump Campaign.
The Santa Fe school district issued an alert... . In this image taken from video law enforcement officers respond to a high school near Houston after an active shooter was reported on campus, Friday, May 18, 2018, in Santa Fe, Texas.
Exclusive: Manafort's former son-in-law cuts plea deal, to cooperate with government: sources - NEW YORK - The former son-in-law of Paul Manafort, the one-time chairman of President Donald Trump's campaign, has cut a plea deal with the Justice Department that requires him to cooperate As Mueller probes Seychelles meetings, details emerge on Russian plane: exclusive - A Russian plane linked to the country's government flew into the Seychelles the day prior to a 2017 meeting now under review by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, according to the airport flight data obtained by NJ Advance Media.
The U.S. State Department has expressed concern over the welfare of a Utah man jailed in Venezuela, a day after he managed to upload a video to Facebook saying inmates at his prison had seized the complex and were trying to kill him. As we have reported previously , 26-year-old Joshua Holt traveled to Venezuela in 2016 to marry Thamara Caleno Candelo, whom he met online.
China's first home-grown aircraft carrier finishes maiden sea trial amid speculation Asia's most advanced destroyer will be next Footage of the vessel was released by state broadcaster China Central Television in a report that said: "Multiple types of equipment have been further tested and [the trial has] reached the anticipated goals." The voyage of the 65,000-tonne Type 001A also came amid rising speculations that the PLA's Type 055 destroyer, Asia's most advanced and biggest destroyer and the carrier's likely escort, will soon start sea tests.
I first met Erin Herbig when she was heading up the first Maine Fare under Maine Farmland Trust. We worked closely together that summer to align my organization, the Belfast Farmers' Market, with this huge weekend-long event she was producing.
Exclusive: Manafort's former son-in-law cuts plea deal, to cooperate with government: sources - NEW YORK - The former son-in-law of Paul Manafort, the one-time chairman of President Donald Trump's campaign, has cut a plea deal with the Justice Department that requires him to cooperate As Mueller probes Seychelles meetings, details emerge on Russian plane: exclusive - A Russian plane linked to the country's government flew into the Seychelles the day prior to a 2017 meeting now under review by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, according to the airport flight data obtained by NJ Advance Media.
Donald Trump has used his Twitter account to advance an unverified theory circulating among conservatives that the Justice Department planted a spy in his 2016 campaign and is now "out to frame him". Donald Trump has used his Twitter account to advance an unverified theory circulating among conservatives that the Justice Department planted a spy in his 2016 campaign and is now "out to frame him".
Faced with cyber-security threats to their voting systems, Florida election supervisors say they want access to some of the federal election security money Congress approved for all 50 states nearly two months ago. But the state, which is supposed to receive $19 million, doesn't yet have the money, and election officials say they're growing impatient.
The U.S. Senate confirmed Gina Haspel May 17 to be director of the CIA , ending a bruising confirmation fight centered on her ties to the spy agency's past use of waterboarding and other brutal interrogation techniques. Haspel, who will be the first woman to lead the CIA , is a 33-year veteran at the agency currently serving as its acting director.
President Donald Trump on Friday used his Twitter account to advance an unverified theory circulating among conservatives that the Justice Department planted a spy in his 2016 campaign and is now "out to frame him." Trump's early morning tweet seemed intended to undercut the ongoing Russia investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller, which he has repeatedly called a "witch hunt."