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The Georgia Republican party asked voters on their 2016 primary ballot if they wanted expanded options for school choice in the state. Seventy-five percent of those answering the non-binding question voted in favor of school choice.
In 1992, a jury in Simi Valley, California, acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of motorist Rodney King; the verdicts were followed by rioting in Los Angeles resulting in 55 deaths. In 1993, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II announced that for the first time, Buckingham Palace would be opened to tourists to help raise money for repairs at fire-damaged Windsor Castle.
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Five Democrats are seeking the party's nomination for the House of Representatives District 43 seat, which is being vacated by 22-year incumbent Clyde Kersey, who has decided to retire. Those vying for the nomination are Mark Bird, former Vigo County Council member and director of the county weights and measures department; Sylvester Edwards, past president of the Greater Terre Haute branch of the NAACP; Norm Loudermilk, a division chief with the Terre Haute Fire Department fire prevention bureau and former Terre Haute city council member; Chad Overton, owner of ServPro and other businesses; and Tonya Pfaff, a Vigo County School Corp. math teacher for the past 24 years.
It's been a strange primary season, as Republican candidates seek to try to attach themselves to President Donald Trump's popularity of seemingly all who consider themselves Republican, conservative or right-leaning. One of the roughest campaigns of the season has been the contest for the GOP nomination for U.S. senator and the chance to challenge first-term Democratic incumbent Sen. Joe Donnelly in November.
Vicki Weger is trying to keep her Vigo County Council District 3 seat for the next four years, while political newcomers Michael Esau and David Hoopingarner are the Democrats challenging for the seat. "She was the only woman on the council," Weger said of Miller.
President Donald Trump took aim at familiar political targets and added a few fresh ones during a campaign-style rally Saturday night in an Upper Midwest state that gave him a surprising victory in the 2016 election. Trump has been urging voters to support Republicans for Congress as a way of advancing his agenda.
Donald Trump has renewed his criticism of the new US embassy in Nine Elms, London , saying it is in a 'lousy' and 'horrible' location and cost too much. The US president, who is visiting the UK on July 13, lashed out again at the move from Grosvenor Square in the centre of the capital to a new location south of the Thames.
In this Jan. 25, 2018 file photo, Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., arrives for voting at the Capitol in Washington. With a flat-top haircut, three missing fingers and a quite-wide girth, Tester has somehow kept a low profile in Congress.
New US secretary of state lands in Riyadh before heading for Israel, where discussions are expected to focus on Trump's plans for the nuclear deal US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gives a press conference during a NATO Foreign ministers' meeting at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on April 27, 2018 Mike Pompeo, Washington's newly appointed secretary of state, is set to fly to Israel Sunday, where he will meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in talks likely to focus on US President Donald Trump's plans for the Iran nuclear deal.
Democrats in deep-red Utah are looking to McAdams to flip one of the state's four ... . FILE - In this April 10, 2017, file photo, Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams looks on during a committee hearing in Salt Lake City.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a media conference at the conclusion of a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, April 27, 2018. This Sunday, ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl goes one-on-one with newly confirmed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo , in an ABC News exclusive.
The U.S. House has approved a measure requiring medical checks for commercial hot air balloon pilots in an effort to avoid a reoccurrence of a 2016 crash that killed 16 people in Texas. The House voted Friday on a wide-ranging Federal Aviation Administration bill that includes a provision requiring medical checks similar to those required for helicopter and airline pilots.
This morning, Karen had a nice rundown of the allegations brought forth against Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson in a memo offered up by Montana Senator Jon Tester and what's become of them since the shocking "revelations" first hit the news. Let's just say that they don't seem to be holding up well under initial scrutiny, to put it charitably.
JK Scott is the punter for last season's national champion University of Alabama football team who, during a recent team visit to the White House, initiated a prayer for President Trump. He described it this way: Teams don't usually draft punters.
Washington a Trey Gowdy's emotions sometimes bubble disconcertingly close to the surface but, unlike many members of the political class, he is not all surface. At a breakfast four years ago, the South Carolina Republican had tears in his eyes as he explained when he would leave Congress: after Tim Scott, a Republican congressman who had been appointed to the Senate in 2013 when Jim DeMint resigned, had been elected in his own right.
News correspondents Jim Sciutto and Gloria Riviera attend the 2018 White House Correspondents' Dinner at Washington Hilton on April 28, 2018 in Washington, DC. Scion Kelly and Parkland shooting survivor and activist David Hogg attend the 2018 White House Correspondents' Dinner at Washington Hilton on April 28, 2018 in Washington, DC.