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Republicans have backed away from messaging about the tax cut bill during the run-up to the special congressional election in Pennsylvania Tuesday, Politico reported . Republican groups are now attacking the Democratic candidate Conor Lamb's record as a prosecutor and talking about sanctuary cities as they aim to push state Rep. Rick Saccone to a win, the report said.
A decade after the Pentagon began confronting rape in the ranks, the U.S. military frequently fails to protect or provide justice to the children of service members when they are sexually assaulted by other children on base, an Associated Press investigation has found. Reports of assaults and rapes among kids on military bases often die on the desks of prosecutors, even when an attacker confesses.
I've long commented that Republican mythology is a bit like an X-files-type series that's gone on too long. The mythology gets more and more complex and incomprehensible, largely because it never really made any sense in the first place, as they keep piling on more and more layers of gibberish.
Gina Haspel, President Trump's nominee to become the first woman to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, made her career in covert action, but her involvement in controversial interrogations has already provoked opposition in the Senate to her confirmation. Haspel, who joined the CIA in 1985, earned high-level awards during her career and was sworn in as deputy director of the agency on Feb. 7, 2017.
President Donald Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday and said he would nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace him, in a major staff reshuffle just as Trump dives into high-stakes talks with North Korea. Trump announced the change in a tweet early Tuesday just four hours after Tillerson returned to Washington from a trip to Africa.
NEW ORLEANS A company building a crude oil pipeline in Louisiana is asking a federal appeals court to allow it to resume construction work in an environmentally fragile swamp.
The House Intelligence Committee interviewed several dozens of witnesses, but in the end simply was not able to find evidence that President Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russian, Chairman Devin Nunes insisted Tuesday. However, the California Republican told Fox News' "Fox & Friends" that Russia "is bad" and its leader, President Vladimir Putin, is dangerous.
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President Trump will arrive in San Diego County on Tuesday to survey the border wall prototypes he commissioned amid high security and expected protests. Any demonstrators will be confined to a dirt lot in Otay Mesa that the County Sheriff's Department has designated a temporary "free speech zone."
On the last day of the campaign for the special election in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District, Donald Trump Jr. toured a candy factory in Washington County to urge locals to turn out for Rick Saccone, the Republican running for the House seat against Democrat Conor Lamb. Trump was the third member of his family to visit the district in the past few weeks in an all-out effort to help bring Saccone over a finish line that he has been lagging behind in the past 10 days.
President Donald Trump speaks during a ceremony honoring the World Series Champion Houston Astros, in the East Room of the White House, Monday, March 12, 2018, in Washington. 1. 'WE FOUND NO EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION' That's what Texas Rep. Mike Conaway says as Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee also concluded there was no coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Jonathan Brussow, 19, and his girlfriend, Athena Williams, 20, were vacationing in the Bahamas last Monday when a huge wave swept him away. The night before the 19-year-old's tragic death, he sat down with Williams' family to ask them a question that would change their lives forever.
If Democratic contender Conor Lamb wins Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District on Tuesday, it will send shock waves across the political landscape. President Trump won here by 20 percentage points in 2016, and many strategists see this mostly white, working-class district as a testing ground for the November midterms.
Polls are open in western Pennsylvania as voters settle a high profile special congressional race being watched for clues to the upcoming midterm elections. Republican Rick Saccone is trying to stave off an upset by Democrat Conor Lamb in a Pittsburgh-area district that backed President Donald Trump by 20 percentage points in 2016.
Hillary Clinton told an audience in India that the United States did not "deserve" Donald Trump's presidency and these are "perilous times." Clinton said the Republican president has "quite an affinity for dictators" and said Trump "really likes their authoritarian posturing and behavior."
Rep. Adam Schiff says he's not done with the Russian "collusion" investigation, even if his Republican counterparts are. Rep. Adam Schiff , the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee, said he is sad but not surprised that committee Republicans have ended their investigation into Russian "collusion."
President Donald Trump trades on identity politics, and that is what he's doing with Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Though the angle is different, it's reminiscent of his earlier remarks about Barack Obama's birth certificate.
House Intelligence Committee Republicans say they have found no evidence that President Donald Trump and his affiliates colluded with Russian officials to sway the 2016 election or that the Kremlin sought to help him, a conclusion at odds with Democrats' takeaways from the congressional panel's year-long probe and the apparent trajectory of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. The findings are part of a 150-page draft report that Rep. Michael Conaway, R-Texas, who oversees the committee's Russia probe, announced on Monday.
The good news for poll watchers, no matter your party affiliation, is it shouldn't be too late a night if the returns come in at the same rate they have in prior years. We should have a clear idea of who has won the race by 11 p.m. ET.