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Ronny Jackson, Trump's V.A. Nominee, Faces Claims of Overprescription and Hostile Work Environment - WASHINGTON - The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee is examining allegations that President Trump's nominee to lead the Veterans Affairs Department oversaw a hostile work environment Watchdog report points to power struggle involving VA pick - WASHINGTON - A watchdog report ordered in 2012 by Dr. Ronny Jackson - President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs - found that he and a rival physician exhibited "unprofessional behaviors" Sessions Declines to Recuse Himself From Probe Into Trump Lawyer - Attorney general's recusal from Mueller probe angered Trump - Sessions still may step back from some issues involving Cohen - Attorney General Jeff Sessions has decided against recusing himself from the investigation Mueller legislation is unconstitutional: Sen. Mike ... (more)
Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, President Donald Trump's choice to be secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, leaves a Senate office building after meeting individually with some members of the committee that would vet him for the post, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 24, 2018.
A federal judge in Washington delivered the toughest blow yet to the Trump administration's efforts to phase out an Obama-era program for undocumented immigrants known as "dreamers," ordering the administration to continue the program and accept new applicants for the first time. U.S. District Judge John Bates called the government's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program "virtually unexplained" and therefore "unlawful."
Uber-liberal national Democratic leader Jim Clyburn says his party must retake the U.S. Congress in 2018 or else . "If we're still in the minority , all of us have got to go," Clyburn told Politico .
Bob Barnas is hopeful that Poe Springs Park will finally reopen this summer after it was shut down due to damage from Hurricane Irma in September. The former High Springs city commissioner, who runs the Poe Springs Facebook page that has a reach of nearly 4,000 people, has seen pictures sent to him of the damage still left over from the hurricane, like broken walkways and sand that washed up from the Santa Fe River.
Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, center, President Donald Trump's choice to be secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, walks down a stairwell to avoid reporters and cameras as he leaves a Senate office building after meeting individually with some members of the committee that would vet him for the post, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, ... (more)
N.Y. State Sen. Simcha Felder during a budget hearing in Albany, Jan. 30, 2017. The call for a breakaway faction of Democrats in the State Senate to abandon its Republican allies and rejoin the partyA's fold has picked up a surprising supporter in Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who also happens to side with the Republicans.
Passersby stop at a make-shift memorial set up on Yonge Street after Monday's tragedy where a man driving a cube van killed 10 pedestrians and injured another fifteen while traveling down the sidewalk. CREDIT: Lucas Oleniuk/Toronto Star/Getty Images.
A Democratic senator who supports rolling back some of the financial rules put in place after the 2008 financial crisis warned bankers Tuesday that the legislation will stall if it comes back to the Senate for another vote. Sen. Mark Warner's comments are a warning shot to House Republicans, who are insisting on adding to Senate-passed legislation that would scale back the law known as Dodd-Frank.
Graduate teaching assistants have taken on heavier workloads, but their pay rarely rises to the level of a living wage. More than a year after graduate students at Columbia University voted to unionize with the United Automobile Workers, hundreds of The students plan to stage a week-long strike during what is the university's most hectic time, when students and professors are preparing for finals and the help of graduate teaching assistants, fellows, and research assistants is critical.
A Democratic candidate for Iowa Secretary of State said Tuesday she would refund a major contribution from a national political group after learning it was mistakenly given and accepted in violation of Iowa law. Deidre DeJear's campaign said it would send back the $5,000 contribution to EMILY's List "as soon as possible" after learning of the violation from The Associated Press hours earlier.
WASHINGTON President Trump's nomination of Navy Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs is in peril as the Senate delayed his confirmation hearing amid concerns about his record.
Members of Charleston's Emanuel AME Church and its supporters will hold an anti-gun violence and racial reconciliation rally in June that will draw 1960s peace movement folk singer Joan Baez and others to Marion Square. The gathering, timed for the third anniversary of the mass shooting that killed nine church members during Bible study inside Emanuel, is being billed as a "call to action."
Abbott v. Perez is a case of mind-numbing procedural complexity. It involves Texas' successful efforts to draw gerrymandered maps in 2011 - maps that were eventually found to be an illegal racial gerrymander by a federal court - and then maintain as much of these illegal maps as possible for as long as possible after the fact.
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise rides a scooter as he arrives for the weekly House GOP conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Oct. 3. Scalise was released Saturday from a hospital after undergoing planned surgery. . "Rep. Scalise is a proud LSU alumnus and great supporter of the university.
Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, has announced a nationwide crackdown on the sale of e-cigarettes to minors. Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, has announced a nationwide crackdown on the sale of e-cigarettes to minors.
Heavy machinery excavate and carry coal ash from a drained coal ash pond at Dominion Power's Possum Point Power Station in Dumfries, Virginia. CREDIT: Kate Patterson for The Washington Post via Getty Images Residents have not been clamoring for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt to weaken the nation's coal ash waste rules.
The most liberal appeals court in America could soon be getting a Republican makeover if President Trump and Senate GOP leaders are able to fill seven open seats with conservative picks. Standing in their way is a wall of Democrats hellbent on protecting the long-standing leftward lean of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
During a joint news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, President Trump advised his hand-picked choice to be secretary of veterans affairs, Ronny Jackson, to not take the job. Jackson's confirmation process is currently on indefinite hold because the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee is investigating allegations he oversaw a hostile work environment as the White House physician, allowed the over-prescribing of drugs, and drank too much on the job, according to the New York Times .
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt testifies during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on Capitol Hill January 18, 2017 in Washington, DC. On Tuesday afternoon, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt signed a proposed rule limiting the kinds of science that the agency can use in its rulemaking, a step that he described as bringing transparency and trust back to the agency's scientific process.