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President Donald Trump insisted Thursday his reimbursement of a 2016 hush payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels had nothing to do with his election campaign. But the surprise revelation of the president's payment clashed with his past statements , created new legal headaches and stunned many in the West Wing.
The Latest on bills in Oklahoma and Kansas to protect faith-based adoption agencies that won't place children in LGBT homes : Kansas lawmakers have joined their counterparts in Oklahoma in passing legislation to grant legal protections to faith-based adoption agencies that won't place children in LGBT homes. The Kansas Senate approved a bill early Friday that would prevent agencies from being barred from providing adoption services for the state if they refuse to place children in homes violating their religious beliefs.
State lawmakers in Oklahoma and Kansas have approved legislation to grant legal protections to faith-based adoption agencies that cite their religious beliefs for not placing children in LGBT homes. Supporters of such measures argued that the core issue is protecting a group's right to live out its religious faith, while critics saw them as attacks on LGBT rights.
State lawmakers in Kansas and Oklahoma have approved legislation to grant legal protections to faith-based adoption agencies that cite their religious beliefs for not placing children in LGBT homes. Supporters of such measures argued that the core issue is protecting a group's right to live out its religious faith, while critics saw them as attacks on LGBT rights.
President Donald Trump reimbursed his personal lawyer for $130,000 in hush money paid to a porn actress days before the 2016 presidential election, Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump's attorneys, said Wednesday, appearing to contradict the president's past claims that he didn't know the source of the money. During an appearance on Fox News Channel's "Hannity," Giuliani said the money to repay Michael Cohen had been "funneled through the law firm and the president repaid it."
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In Thursday's edition of "A Closer Look," Meyers went directly at Rudy Giuliani's seemingly bizarre inability to shut up One of the wildest weeks of all of the wild weeks of Donald Trump's 15-and-a-half months as president - yes, it really has only been that long - continued apace on Wednesday and Thursday with Trump's new lawyer Rudy Giuliani telling anyone who would listen, including interview spots on Hannity and "Fox and Friends" that Trump totally knew about Michael Cohen paying Stormy Daniels off after Trump spent the last couple months denying that. And in a new edition of "A Closer Look" on Thursday, Seth Meyers was exasperated by the whole thing.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is moving immediately to fill vacant senior positions at the State Department, a task so large it has the feel of a "presidential transition" as opposed to a hand-off from one member of President Trump's Cabinet to another, according to Republican foreign policy experts. "That is true in the sense that there's so many vacancies," Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Elliot Abrams told the Washington Examiner.
How can we reduce the number of abortions in the United States? One way is to make sure women are confident they'll have medical coverage throughout their pregnancies and after. And how can we encourage people to work? By making work pay, which is why Republicans and Democrats have supported the Earned Income Tax Credit, known as the EITC, which tops off the pay of low-income employees.
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's decision this week to pour $300,000 into Tuesday's congressional primary to support former Ohio State wide receiver Anthony Gonzalez against state Rep. Christina Hagan means that establishment Republicans are concerned enough about the race that they have now invested more than a half a million dollars to boost Gonzalez. “I think it indicates that they're worried,” said David Cohen, a political science professor at the University of Akron.
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When "Ocean's 8" began filming in October 2016 - with eight actresses reviving the martini and testosterone-zested heist franchise that last winked at audiences in 2007 - Hillary Clinton was ahead in the polls, Harvey Weinstein was synonymous with Hollywood power, and few in the industry, let alone the public, had ever heard of the term " inclusion rider ." The movie will be released on June 8 in a dramatically different world.
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher, a Democrat candidate for the 7th Congressional District, and her husband, Scott Fletcher, leave after voting in the primary runoff at St. Anne's Church, Tuesday, May 22, 2018, in Houston.
Patrick Conroy, chaplain of the House of Representatives, delivers an interfaith message on the steps of the Capitol in Washington for the victims of the mass shooting ... WASHINGTON - The embattled chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives has won his job back just hours after sending a scalding letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan that accused a top Ryan staff aide of telling him "something like 'maybe it's time that we had a Chaplain that wasn't a Catholic.' " Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, forced Reverend Pat Conroy to tender his resignation last month, sparking a firestorm.
But the surprise revelation of the president's payment clashed with his past statements, created new legal headaches and stunned many in the West Wing. White House aides were blindsided when Trump's recently added attorney, Rudy Giuliani, said Wednesday night that the president had repaid Michael Cohen for $130,000 that was given to Daniels to keep her quiet before the 2016 election about her allegations of an affair with Trump.
Tesla chief Elon Musk's refusal to answer "boring" Wall Street questions about the electric-car maker's financial condition sent shares down more than 7 percent Thursday and spurred concerns about the company's ability to raise money in the future.
In this Nov. 30, 2017, file photo, Ohio Attorney General and former U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine speaks before introducing Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted during a news conference in Dayton, Ohio.
Oklahoma legislators approved a measure Thursday to grant legal protections to faith-based adoption agencies that cite their religious beliefs for not placing children in LGBT homes and lawmakers in Kansas were close to passing a similar measure. The Oklahoma House's 56-21 vote sent its measure to Republican Gov. Mary Fallin, who has not said whether she would sign it.
The Beale Street Music Festival opens Friday and the clouds appear right on cue. But that, in and of itself, doesn't stop the proceedings in Tom Lee Park .