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Among the “scrambled thoughts” that came to a young Ted Kennedy as he stumbled from the water into which he had crashed his Oldsmobile, killing his passenger and crippling his political career, was a sort of existential question, if not a supernatural one. The 37-year-old U.S. senator from Massachusetts wondered that night in 1969 whether “some awful curse did actually hang over all the Kennedys.” He recalled the thought aloud one week later in a televised speech, after pleading guilty to leaving the scene of the crash and failing to notify police until morning, as Mary Jo Kopechne died in the water off Chappaquiddick Island.
The Republican National Committee has committed $250 million to a midterm election strategy that has one goal above all else: Preserve the party's House majority for the rest of President Donald Trump's first term.
U.S. Rep. Luke Messer said Saturday that truthfulness is the main difference between him and his two rivals for the Republican nomination for a Senate seat from Indiana.
Boston hedge fund billionaire Seth Klarman lavished more than $7 million on Republican candidates and political committees during the Obama administration, using his fortune to help underwrite a GOP takeover of the federal government. But the rise of Donald Trump shocked and dismayed Klarman, as did the timid response from the Republican-controlled House and Senate, which have acquiesced rather than challenge the president's erratic and divisive ways.
South Dakota has become what South Carolina once was - stubborn, pugnacious and wrong. In 1860, South Carolina became the first state to vote to secede.
From left, Rep. Perry Buck, left, and Rep. Ken Buck are on the stage of Colorado Republican State Assembly at Coors Event Center in Boulder, Colo., Saturday, April 14, 2018. Colorado's Republican and Democratic parties are holding state assemblies to help determine who gets to their respective gubernatorial primaries.
A plurality of Democrats have indicated that President Donald Trump-not his predecessor Barack Obama-is responsible for the current state of the country's economy, a tonal shift from earlier this year when top members of the party argued the economic conditions were still due to former President Barack Obama. As of April 9, 46 percent of Democrats agreed that the United States economy was down to Trump, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released earlier this week.
Dave Leroy, former attorney general and former lieutenant governor, at microphone, gives his opening remarks during the first televised GOP debate for Idaho's open 1st Congressional District seat in Meridian, Idaho, Saturday, April 14, 2018. Leroy debated against four other Republican opponents.
The area was under a severe thunderstorm warning. A potent spring storm system that's expected to persist through the weekend raked across the Plains and Midwest Friday, spawning at least one tornado in Arkansas as blizzard conditions blanked much of the Northern... A potent spring storm system that's expected to persist through the weekend raked across the Plains and Midwest Friday, spawning at least one tornado in Arkansas as blizzard conditions blanked much of the Northern Plains.
Susan Witka writes Anti-bombing protest messages in front of Senator Dianne Feinstein home on Saturday, April 14, 2018 in San Francisco, CA. Eleanor Levine is at left of a public address speaker.
The New York Working Families Party, an influential coalition of labor unions and progressive activist groups, voted on Saturday to endorse actress and liberal activist Cynthia Nixon in her primary challenge to Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo. After hours of discussion, and in defiance of pleas from state committee members pushing to delay the decision, the party formally broke its uneasy alliance with Cuomo, the two-term governor leading Nixon in one early poll by a 3-to-1 margin.
How about a break from geopolitics. If you've never seen the 2007 documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters , it's about one man's attempt to set a new world record on the classic arcade video game Donkey Kong.
President Trump's decision to launch missile strikes in Syria is political theater that will play well among some voters but have little effect on civilians caught in the country's long civil war, said Yasser Munif, an assistant professor at Emerson College who grew up in Syria. "I think it's just a way for Trump to differentiate his politics or policies from [those of former president Barack] Obama," said Munif, 46, who studies revolutions in Arab countries.
After narrowly losing her first bid for Congress in 2016, Democrat Angie Craig is getting a second crack at defeating first-term Republican Rep. Jason Lewis this fall. Craig, a former medical device company executive from Eagan, easily won the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party endorsement on Saturday for Minnesota's south suburban 2nd Congressional District seat.
Former FBI director James Comey says his belief that Hillary Clinton would win the 2016 presidential election played a role in the way he handled the investigation into her use of a private email sever as secretary of state. The former FBI director, who was abruptly fired by Trump last year, announced in July 2016 that he would not recommend charges in the investigation of Clinton's email practices.
The latest statewide poll in the Republican gubernatorial race affirmed Secretary of State Kris Kobach to be the most well-known and intensely disliked candidate in the field and revealed half of the electorate still don't recognize Jeff Colyer as the state's governor four months ahead of the August primary. Kobach was known to four of every five people involved in polling by the Docking Institute of Public Affairs at Fort Hays State University, but 41 percent said they had a “highly negative” opinion of him.
Gov. Eric Greitens' problems are threatening to derail action in the House and the Senate in the final weeks of the legislative session. The roster of proposals hanging in the balance include some legislative initiatives he supports, including business-friendly changes to the state's legal system and an anti-union measure called "paycheck protection."