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If hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue, then Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has delivered a whopping tribute to the constitutional doctrine of federalism. In a series of tweets, he announced: 'Today, I am formally announcing my plan to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level.
Calvin Duncan poses for a photo with two stacks of legal paperwork filed under "Notification of Direct Appeal Decision" and Non-unanimous Jury Verdict issues" in his Central Business District office in New Orleans, La., Friday, Feb. 23, 2018. Duncan is a former Angola inmate who is pushing the United States Supreme Court, through repeated petitions on behalf of inmates convicted on non-unanimous jury counts, to overturn the state's unusual law allowing murder convictions of a 10 to 2 jury serious felony cases.
Washington- Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee are raising concerns about allegations involving Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, President Donald TrumpA s nominee to lead the department of Veterans Affairs and are reviewing them to determine if they are substantial enough to upend his nomination.
Washigton, April 24 : US Vice President Mike Pence has sworn in Jim Bridenstine as the 13th NASA Administrator, the space agency said in a statement. For his new role at NASA, Bridenstine who was the Republican Representative from Oklahoma, resigned from the House of Representatives on Monday.
Washington, April 24 : US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have not extended invitations to Democrats from Congress to attend their first state dinner, a media report said. This year, the guest list for the state dinner slated for Tuesday was whittled to around 120 people, down from highs of 350 or so people who attended previous bipartisan and media-filled dinners featuring celebrities and pop icons like Beyonce, The New York Times reported on Monday.
President Donald Trump threatened to make Mexican immigration control a condition of a new NAFTA agreement on Monday, saying the southern U.S. neighbor must stop illegal immigrants from getting into the United States. "Mexico, whose laws on immigration are very tough, must stop people from going through Mexico and into the U.S. We may make this a condition of the new NAFTA Agreement," Trump wrote in a Twitter post.
French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte arrived at the White House Monday evening to the pomp and circumstance typical of a state visit, the choreography of which he is expected to balance against a delicate diplomatic effort to persuade President Donald Trump to remain in the Iran nuclear deal. Macron, along with German Chancellor Angela Merkel are making back-to-back visits with the president this week in a last-minute lobbying push to prevent the president from potentially sabotaging the agreement.
Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie asked Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess how the carmaker will take advantage of China's plans to allow foreign car companies to take full ownership of their ventures in the country. Diess spoke in an interview on the sidelines of a new-model presentation at Beijing Auto Show.
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Sonja Laud, head of equity at Fidelity International, discusses the outlook for markets and her thoughts on investing. She speaks with Francine Lacqua and Tom Keene on "Bloomberg Surveillance." (Source: Bloomberg)
Former President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized in Houston with an infection, just after attending the funeral of his wife, Barbara, a spokesman said Monday. Jim McGrath said on Twitter that the 93-year-old Bush is "responding to treatments and appears to be recovering."
Paul Davis Ryan Watchdog group sues for donor list from Ryan-aligned nonprofit Terminating Budget Committees not as absurd as it sounds The writing is on the wall for bump stocks and Congress should finalize it MORE 's retirement announcement earlier this month, the legislative outlook in Congress for the rest of the year was grim. Lawmakers are shifting into campaign mode and are expected to spend much of the summer and fall away from Washington.
Voters in Arizona will head to the polls Tuesday for a nationally watched special election for the seat once held by Rep. Harold Trent Franks The Hill's Morning Report - Lawsuits, investigations send Trump on Twitter tirade This week: Senate barrels toward showdown over Pompeo Arizona GOP tinkers with election rules with an eye on McCain's seat MORE Donald John Trump Rand's reversal advances Pompeo New allegations could threaten Trump VA pick: reports President Trump puts on the pageantry for Macron's visit MORE won by 21 points in 2016. But Republican groups have had to spend more than a million dollars on keeping the seat, which opened up in December when Franks resigned after allegedly asking a staffer to act as a surrogate mother.
The Senate's debate over Gina Haspel's confirmation as CIA director is poised to be a bitter litigation of one of the most controversial episodes in recent U.S. history. Haspel, the CIA's deputy director, is indelibly tied to the agency's use of harsh interrogation techniques after the Sept.
Pelosi, who has led the Democrats since 2003, has given no indication she intends to relinquish her position, regardless of the midterm outcomes. But winning the 23 seats Democrats need to seize the House majority may be no guarantee that Pelosi can gather the 218 votes she'd need to retake the Speaker's gavel, which she lost after Republicans captured the chamber in a 2010 wave.
Public Broadcasting Service's Frontline television documentary series this week will revisit the arrest and conviction of several individuals who smuggled Central American teens into the country and forced them to work at Trillium Farms' Ohio egg production facilities. "Trafficked in America," a joint effort of Frontline and the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California, Berkeley, includes an interview with the man who allegedly organized the labor trafficking and who has since been arrested.
A voter marks a ballot at Great Hollow Middle School in Nesconset on Tuesday morning, April 19, 2016 for New York State's presidential primary day. Photo Credit: Ed Betz Polls opened at 6 a.m. Tuesday in special elections to fill vacancies in three state Assembly districts on Long Island.
Now it's Was... . In this April 16, 2018, photo, U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, M.D., sits with Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., chairman of the Veteran's Affairs Committee, before their meeting on Capitol Hilin Washington.
Former President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized in Houston with an infection, just after attending the funeral of his wife, Barbara, a spokesman said. Jim McGrath said Monday on Twitter that the 93-year-old Bush is "responding to treatments and appears to be recovering."