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The Latest on commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. : Stevie Wonder has released a video featuring celebrities espousing the need to continue the works of the Rev.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will face questions from two congressional panels next week about how his company handles its users' data. He's set to appear before a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees on Tuesday afternoon followed by a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing the following morning.
The United States plans to sanction Russian oligarchs this week under a law targeting Moscow for meddling in the 2016 US election, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, in what could be the most aggressive move so far against Russia's business elite. The action, which could affect people close to President Vladimir Putin, reflects Washington's desire to hold Russia to account for allegedly interfering in the election - which Moscow denies - even as US President Donald Trump holds out hope for good relations with Putin.
Something unprecedented took place in Austria in December 2017 - and hardly anyone outside the country noticed: For the first time in Western Europe, a government took power that advocates anti-immigration and anti-Islamization policies. The government comprises two very different parties which together won 58 percent of the vote: the arch-establishment, very-mildly conservative Austrian People's Party and the populist, firebrand Freedom Party of Austria whose roots lie in the far-right swamp of German nationalism.
The House Ethics Committee said Wednesday that it will continue to investigate whether Rep. John J. Duncan Jr., R-Tenn., misspent more than $100,000 in campaign and leadership PAC funds on personal expenses, including gifts, travel, club memberships and private events such as bridal lunches and baby showers. Duncan might have broken House rules and federal law if he misused political funds, the Office of Congressional Ethics, an independent ethics monitor, said in a detailed, 57-page report.
The unity deal announced on Wednesday bringing members of the Independent Democratic Conference back into the main Democratic caucus will change the political landscape significantly. It could affect Cynthia Nixon's ability to gain a foothold against Andrew Cuomo.
For weeks, rumors have swirled of a plot to shake up the Hillsborough County Commission and dramatically alter the political landscape there. In its current state, there are seven county commissioners - four elected in equally apportioned single-member districts and three who serve county-wide.
The sole survivor of a deadly 2007 home invasion is considering running for a congressional seat held by a Democrat under fire for her handling of harassment complaints in her office. Dr. William Petit Jr., who was severely wounded in the home invasion that killed his family, is among a growing list of potential candidates eyeing the seat held by U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty, who's in her third term.
When Oklahoma Republicans finally passed a massive tax hike for hundreds of millions of new dollars for public schools and teacher pay raises, they thought they would get a thank you.
A Resolute Eagle drone similar to this one crashed at Pendleton's airport around 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. Drone testing by a defense contractor has stopped after one of the company's prototypes crashed on Saturday and set off a small wildfire near the Pendleton, Oregon, airport.
President Donald Trump spent nearly three minutes at a luncheon this week welcoming the presidents of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - whose difficult-to-pronounce names he never uttered publicly - and saying he should be given "credit" for pressuring countries like theirs to give more money to NATO. As he concluded, White House staffers started to shepherd a small group of journalists out of the room - but Trump was far from done sharing his complaints.
D.C.'s delegate to Congress plans to call for congressional hearings on the security of our cell phone system after learning of rogue devices found in the Washington, D.C., area. The spy technology mimics a cellphone tower and tricks nearby phones into connecting to it- enabling the device operator to track a phone user's location and intercept calls.
A Republican congressman from Tennessee may have misspent more than $100,000 from his campaign committee and leadership political action committee on personal expenses over the past decade, according to an independent ethics office that asked the House Ethics Committee to review the matter. The conclusions from the Office of Congressional Ethics on Rep. John Duncan Jr. were released Wednesday by the House Ethics Committee.
President Donald Trump and border-state governors are working to "immediately" deploy the National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border to fight illegal immigration, with some troops potentially arriving later Wednesday, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said. "The threat is real," Nielsen said at an afternoon briefing, adding that Trump was signing a proclamation to put the deployment into effect.
Esta foto del 3 de abril del 2018 muestra al admnistrador de la Agencia de Proteccion Ambiental de Estados Unidos, Scott Pruitt, mientras hace declaraciones en Washington. ARCHIVO - Esta foto del 3 de abril del 2018 muestra al admnistrador de la Agencia de Proteccion Ambiental de Estados Unidos, Scott Pruitt, mientras hace declaraciones en Washington.
Eight unknown Democrats are fighting for a spot to challenge a high-profile Republican in Washington state's reliably red 8th District. It's a familiar battle in the 8th, where voters have chosen the Republican for almost four decades since the U.S. House district's creation in 1980.
Adding to mounting concerns about widespread antibiotic resistance, U.S. public health officials detected more than 220 cases of what they described as "nightmare bacteria" across more than half the country last year, according to a new government report. In just nine months of surveillance during 2017, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found "nightmare bacteria" with "unusual" resistance in 27 states, fueling the agency's warnings that "antibiotic-resistant germs can spread like wildfire."
TRUMP: "Thank you to Rasmussen for the honest polling. Just hit 50 percent, which is higher than Cheatin' Obama at the same time in his Administration."
As teachers in the historically red states of Oklahoma , Kentucky , and Arizona are following in the footsteps of educators in West Virginia and turning out in droves to demand higher pay, reliable pensions, and greater government investments in the public school system, s ome Republican state leaders are sticking to their narrative that teachers are simply asking for too much-a strategy that could backfire during the November midterm elections. Her comments followed fiery remarks by Kentucky Republican Gov. Matt Bevin, who last month said that educators who were protesting legislation that would slash their retirement benefits were "ignorant," "remarkably selfish," and "throwing a temper tantrum."