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I reviewed Jaimie Branch's incredible Fly or Die album awhile back. It's great. She wrote a piece about its surprising success and she sums up the whole era in which we live at the end: I guess at the end of the day, it's about finding your people.
The president, who snubbed the White House Correspondents' dinner for the second year in a row in favor a rally, took shots elected officials from California to Michigan, the former FBI director, and journalists who cover his administration. He told the crowd in Washington, Michigan, that California Democrats -- like Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Jerry Brown -- are soft on crime and immigration, and don't support the military.
Comedian Michelle Wolf is set to deliver an address that's traditionally been a roast of the president's administration and the press. White House aides, reporters and other famous-for-Washington types were set to gather without President Donald Trump to toast press freedom.
During the recent National Week of Conversation, the Monitor moderated a panel discussion on race in Charlottesville. Here's what it was like to take part in the city's continuing efforts to find healing after last year's protests.
Putting some substance behind his so far quiet re-election effort, Gov. Charlie Baker on Saturday said he wants to reduce the sales tax and fired up Republican delegates at their nominating convention by emphasizing his support for the death penalty for cop killers. Running again with Lt.
In Joseph Hickman's book Murder at Camp Delta , he describes a hideous death camp in which guards were trained to view the prisoners as sub-human and much greater care was taken to protect the well-being of iguanas than homo sapiens. Chaos was the norm, and physical abuse of the prisoners was standard.
Trump's Role in Midterm Elections Roils Republicans - WASHINGTON - President Trump is privately rejecting the growing consensus among Republican leaders that they may lose the House and possibly the Senate in November, leaving party officials and the president's advisers nervous that he does Trump sets Tester trap, calls for resignation - President Trump went after Sen. Jon Tester Saturday morning for releasing allegations against his pick for Secretary of the VA, Dr. Ronny Jackson.
Trump's Role in Midterm Elections Roils Republicans - WASHINGTON - President Trump is privately rejecting the growing consensus among Republican leaders that they may lose the House and possibly the Senate in November, leaving party officials and the president's advisers nervous that he does Trump sets Tester trap, calls for resignation - President Trump went after Sen. Jon Tester Saturday morning for releasing allegations against his pick for Secretary of the VA, Dr. Ronny Jackson.
Trump's Role in Midterm Elections Roils Republicans - WASHINGTON - President Trump is privately rejecting the growing consensus among Republican leaders that they may lose the House and possibly the Senate in November, leaving party officials and the president's advisers nervous that he does Trump sets Tester trap, calls for resignation - President Trump went after Sen. Jon Tester Saturday morning for releasing allegations against his pick for Secretary of the VA, Dr. Ronny Jackson.
Putting some substance behind his so far quiet re-election effort, Gov. Charlie Baker on Saturday said he wants to reduce the sales tax and fired up Republican delegates at their nominating convention by emphasizing his support for the death penalty for cop killers. Running again with Lt.
A Los Angeles police officer has been accused of sneaking in two illegal aliens into the United States earlier this week. An officer by the name of Mambasse Koulabalo Patara was arrested on federal charges for allegedly violating immigration laws.
Senator Lamar Alexander and U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zink to discuss their plan to help address the $215 million in the Park's backlogged maintenance needs after visiting the closed Look Rock campground in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Look Rock Campground on Foothills Parkway in GSMNP has been closed for five years due to lack of funding for repairs to its water treatment facility, roads, and other facilities.
Sen. Jon Tester responded to President Donald Trump's call earlier on Saturday that the Montana Democrat step down from office over what the president said were "baseless" allegations he leveled against Adm. Ronny Jackson, the former nominee to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Sixteen years ago Friday, Agnes Gibboney received the news no mother ever wants to hear. She was at a Girl Scout campout with her two daughters when the park ranger came to her tent, yelling to her that she had an emergency.
Don't miss Jay Barth's column in this week's Arkansas Times on the evolution of opinion on Medicaid expansion among Arkansas GOP voters. Barth digs in to a doozy of a finding in a recent Talk Business poll, one I also noted last week : A substantial plurality of Arkansas Republican primary voters now support Medicaid expansion.
The safety of helicopter ambulances is under scrutiny after three crew members were killed in a crash in a wooded area of northern Wisconsin this week. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating, and the cause of the crash Thursday is not yet known.
That seems like a prudent bet this weekend, when President Trump is going to skip the White House Correspondents' Dinner and instead head to Michigan for a political rally on Saturday night. The White House hasn't published a full schedule for both days, but it looks like perhaps there won't be any golf.
As Maryland's gubernatorial race tightened in 2014, Democratic candidate Anthony Brown got a boost from nearly two dozen liquor stores across three states. Each simultaneously pumped $4,000 into his campaign, for a one-day haul of $92,000.
Howard Sherman, husband of famed actress Sela Ward, and candidate for the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Roger Wicker, arrives at the Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience Center in Meridian, Miss., for the Grand Opening Gala, Friday, April 27, 2018. Howard Sherman, husband of famed actress Sela Ward, and candidate for the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Roger Wicker, arrives at the Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience Center in Meridian, Miss., for the Grand Opening Gala, Friday, April 27, 2018.