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When U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke announced his latest fundraising haul earlier this month - a stunning $6.7 million - it was widely expected to surpass what his rival, Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, brought in over the same period. Now it's clear by how much: roughly $3.5 million.
Nearly three years after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, the city of Houston continues to battle for the rights of its gay workers. On Tuesday, a judge struck down Houston's attempts to defend its city benefits policy in federal court.
Trump's approval rating stands at 40 percent in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll , slightly more than his 36 percent approval rating when last measured in January. It's also the highest he's enjoyed in Post-ABC polling since his first 100 days in office.
Almost at the very beginning of a recent speech, Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards reminded his Southern University audience that they were used as a backdrop "to scare people" in an ad attacking him during the 2015 gubernatorial campaign. Against the faces at the historically black university, Republican David Vitter's commercial - the first one out of the gate during the runoff - charged that the election of Edwards would lead directly to the release of "fifty-five hundred dangerous thugs, drug dealers, back into our neighborhoods."
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, left, talks with Altoona Mayor Dean O'Connor during a tour of a carpenters training facility in Altoona, Iowa. The state launched two exceeding long shots, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama, to the White House, giving each a look and listen when sophisticates elsewhere treated their campaigns as the stuff of cockeyed fantasy.
For Democrats in this year's race for Ohio governor, the choice should come down to passion, vision and an ability to grasp the bully pulpit to inspire Ohioans about the need for change. Ohio's next governor must be a fighter -- a fighter for greater equity, justice and common sense; a fighter for the state's urban centers; and a fighter against the moribund thinking on education, diversity, economic opportunity and home-rule rights that's held Ohio back for too long.
Early this past Sunday morning, at the last minute, Kansas legislators passed a school funding bill of more than $500 million. The Supreme Court must still rule on its constitutionality, but the frantic maneuvering of last week allows Kansans to understand a lot about state politics as we head toward the end of the session and the 2018 elections.
In the race to succeed Paul Ryan as House speaker, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has one major enemy: time. RyanA s decision to not run for reelection sets up an unusually long race to choose his successor, creating a campaign that is out in the open but almost in a state of suspended animation.
The Mueller Special Counsel appointment is predicated on the notion that President Trump's campaign colluded with Russia to assure the defeat of Hillary Clinton -- a notion so ludicrous only a Democrat could fall for it. Dennis Miller sets it out simply so we can see how preposterous a notion this is: Dennis Miller?@DennisDMZ Obviously Trump is a Russian Agent.
In this Nov. 4, 2016 file photo, Beyonce, center, and Jay-Z perform during a Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton campaign rally in Cleveland. Beyonce performed a 2-hour set at Coachella, Saturday, April 14, 2018, paying tribute to the marching bands, the dance troupes and step teams at historically black colleges and universities.
This image provided by the Department of Defense was presented as part of a briefing slide at the Pentagon briefing on Saturday, April 14, 2018, and shows a photo of a preliminary damage assessment from the Him Shinshar Chemical Weapons Storage Site in Syria that was struck by missiles from the U.S.-led coalition in response to Syria's use of chemical weapons on April 7. In this image from video provided by the U.S. Navy, a U.S. fast-attack submarine launches a tomahawk missile on April 14, 2014, from the Mediterranean Sea as part of a U.S.-led military operation in retaliation for Syria using chemical weapons on April 7. President Donald Trump declared "Mission Accomplished" for a U.S.-led allied missile attack on Syria's chemical weapons program, but the Pentagon said the pummeling of three chemical-related facilities left enough others intact to enable the Assad government to use ... (more)
The White House is seen in the early morning light in Washington, Saturday, April 14, 2018, the morning after the U.S. military response, along with France and Britain, to Syria's chemical weapon attack on April 7.a less The White House is seen in the early morning light in Washington, Saturday, April 14, 2018, the morning after the U.S. military response, along with France and Britain, to Syria's chemical weapon attack on ... more In this image released by the Department of Defense, a U.S. Air Force B-1 Bomber separates from the boom pod after receiving fuel from an Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker on April 13, 2018, en route to strike chemical weapons targets in Syria.
In heated exchanges with his national security team in recent weeks, President Donald Trump repeatedly made clear he saw little incentive for the United States to be involved in Syria's intractable civil war. In doing so, Trump is trying to confront a dilemma that haunted his predecessor, Barack Obama.
Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and Donald Trump's presidential campaign is starting to display similarities to Ken Starr's probe into Bill and Hillary Clinton. The latest twist in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation feels, as the great American philosopher Yogi Berra once put it, like deja vu all over again.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." - Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution No one ever accused Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz of being a conservative, but Dershowitz is a rare breed these days; someone who applies the Constitution and the law to everyone, regardless of their political leanings.
With the latest U.S. missile strikes, President Donald Trump appears to have reset America's red line for military intervention in Syria over the use of chemical weapons. The United States said its strikes were a response to President Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons attack on April 7 that administration officials say employed chlorine and perhaps even sarin, a more deadly nerve agent.
President Donald Trump told Liberty University graduates that Americans worship God, not government, and to "relish the opportunity to be an outsider." Hillary Clinton compared Trump to Richard Nixon in a fiery speech at Wellesley College.
Graves County Democrats, Republicans and Independents running for elected office this year are all invited to an "Evening With The Candidates" on April 24 to talk directly to voters.
House Speaker Paul Ryan's announcement that he will step down from Congress leaves the door open for two likely successors. One is House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and the other House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy .
U.S. Rep. Elise M. Stefanik, R-Willsboro, wants farmers and other constituents to share their thoughts on the 2018 draft Farm Bill recently rolled out by House Republicans. One of the most significant changes included in the draft bill is an overhaul of the Margin Protection Program, which is supposed to provide farmers with financial relief when the selling price of milk is less than the cost of production.