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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."
File - In this July 12, 2017, file photo, Jeffrey Kerr, general counsel to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals , speaks to reporters outside of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. A monkey cannot sue over rights to photos that it took because U.S. copyright law does not allow animals to file lawsuits, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday, April 23, 2018, in a novel case over selfies taken by a crested macaque.
Republican candidates hoping to oust U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin in the fall took turns attacking the incumbent Democrat's record during a forum in West Virginia. They also aligned themselves as much as possible with President Donald Trump during the 90-minute forum that lacked fireworks and harsh finger pointing among each other Monday night at Wheeling Jesuit University.
Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee are raising concerns about allegations involving Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the department of Veterans Affairs and are reviewing them to determine if they are substantial enough to upend his nomination.
In the Wall Street Journal today, Representative Martha McSally spoke publicly for the first time about being sexually abused by her high school track coach when she was 17 years old. After her father died when she was in middle school, McSally focused on sports, running cross-country and track and throwing the javelin for her high school in Rhode Island.
Roy Hawthorne Sr. became part of a famed group of Navajos who transmitted hundreds of messages in their language without error. WWII Navajo Code Talker Roy Hawthorne Sr. dies in Arizona at 92 Roy Hawthorne Sr. became part of a famed group of Navajos who transmitted hundreds of messages in their language without error.
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Former president George H.W. Bush was taken to a Houston hospital with an infection the day after attending the funeral for his wife of 73 years, according to a statement from his office Monday. Bush, 93, was taken to Houston Methodist Hospital Sunday with an infection that had spread to his blood.
The congressional career of six-term Republican U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn of Colorado Springs was thrown into jeopardy after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Monday that he should be kept off the primary ballot in June. While the decision - that Lamborn's re-election campaign improperly gathered voters' signatures to land a spot on the ticket - is unlikely to mean his 5th Congressional District seat leaves GOP hands, it injects the very real prospect that a fresh face will take over after years of unsuccessful challenges to Lamborn's reign.
Sen. Rand Paul announced Monday that he will support the nomination of Mike Pompeo to be secretary of state, a last-minute reversal that now avoids a historic rebuke of the President's pick to be the country's top diplomat. The Kentucky Republican's decision will now allow Pompeo to be reported favorably out of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee.
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks to the media after arriving at Andrews Air Force Base for the first state visit of the Trump presidency outside Washington, DC, on April 23, 2018. French President Emmanuel Macron speaks to the media after arriving at Andrews Air Force Base for the first state visit of the Trump presidency outside Washington, DC, on April 23, 2018.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, wrote to Metro-North Railroad on Monday, April 23 after Metro-North President Catherine Rinaldi reportedly announced two months of "slippage" in the railroad's timeline to fully implement federally-mandated positive train control. Blumenthal wrote Rinaldi in response to Metro-North's reply to an original inquiry about the railroad's PTC implementation timeline.
The mentally unstable gunman suspected of opening fire at a Waffle House restaurant in the middle of the night was arrested not far from his apartment Monday after hiding from police for more than a day following the attack that killed four people, authorities said. Authorities had mounted a massive manhunt for 29-year-old Travis Reinking, after the Sunday morning attacks, in which a gunman clad only in a jacket used an AR-15 rifle to kill four and injure others.
Hillary Clinton excoriated President Donald Trump for his treatment of the media, saying in remarks on Sunday that press rights and free speech are "under open assault" in the current administration, which she compared to an authoritarian regime. "We are living through an all-out war on truth, facts and reason," Clinton said at the PEN America World Voices Festival, in Manhattan.
File - In this July 12, 2017, file photo, Jeffrey Kerr, general counsel to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals , speaks to reporters outside of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. A monkey cannot sue over rights to photos that it took because U.S. copyright law does not allow animals to file lawsuits, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday, April 23, 2018, in a novel case over selfies taken by a crested macaque.
The outspoken rapper, who reactivated his account this month after nearly a year away, has managed to excite some fans with announcements about new music while isolating others with philosophical and polarizing messages - including some that have drawn right-wing support. Yep. After deleting his account last May, West returned a little over a week ago with posts about a fond memory with Lamar Odom, his popular Yeezy shoes and tattoo ideas.
Authorities had mounted a massive manhunt for 29-year-old Travis Reinking, after the Sunday morning shooting at a Waffle House in Nashville. More than 100 police officers had been going door-to-door and searching wooded areas, joined by dozens of agents with the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and officers with the Tennessee Highway Patrol.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he's looking forward to voting to confirm President Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, later this week in the Senate. McConnell is making the upbeat assessment after two more Democratic senators announced support for Pompeo, now the CIA director, despite steep opposition expected Monday evening at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Monday promised members of the illegal immigrant caravan still making its way to the U.S. border that they could face criminal charges if they jump the border despite all the warnings. The migrants insist they are refugees seeking asylum from specific oppression at home, not rank-and-file illegal immigrants trying to reunite with family or get jobs or a better life in the U.S. They said they'll make their case.
If Republicans aren't losing their congressional majority this coming fall, they are doing a good job of acting like it. Dozens of Republicans are leaving the House, and recently Paul Ryan said he is resigning as House speaker at the end of this Congress, and will not even run for his congressional seat again.