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Voters in southwest Pennsylvania are heading to the polls Tuesday for a special election. Democrats, looking to take back the majority in Congress next year, are hoping a high-profile win in Pennsylvania's 18th District will give them a boost in the heart of Trump country.
It's early yet, but so far this year's field of prospective Republican governors hasn't offered enough leadership on the issue. nder President Trump, the action in education has shifted back to the states.
President Trump may only be blowing smoke -- again -- but his willingness to schedule a "denuclearization" summit with Kim Jong Un, North Korea's brutal dictator, is clearly part Hollywood and part serious diplomacy. He can decide on a moment's notice to parlay with Un and generate thousands of headlines worldwide.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., asks a question during a March 1 hearing on Capitol Hill. Warren recently has been asked whether she would take a DNA test to prove she is of Native American descent.
Editor's note: ProPublica has published a major correction to its February 22, 2017, article -- cited in the piece below -- reporting that Gina Haspel oversaw the torture of two detainees at a "black site" prison in Thailand in 2002. The correction states that "Haspel did not take charge of the base until after the interrogation of [Abu] Zubaydah ended," though additional reporting by The New York Times indicates "she was in charge when [Abd al-Rahim] al-Nashiri was waterboarded three times."
Unnerving fellow Republicans, President Donald Trump declared Monday he would have "no problem" shutting down the federal government this fall if Congress won't come up with more money for border security. Trump's threat, his second in two days, put him further at odds with his own party in Congress, where many Republicans are facing tough re-election fights this November.
Washington, March 13 : NASA's acting chief Robert Lightfoot is set to retire at the end of April, even as US President Donald Trump's permanent choice to lead the space agency remains stuck in Congress, the media reported. Lightfoot, who started in 1989 at the Marshall Centre in Huntsville, Alabama, as a test engineer, has been the acting administrator since the beginning of the Trump administration in January 2017 for nearly 14 months.
The announcement last week that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has agreed to meet face-to-face with President Donald Trump to discuss the rogue regime's development of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles was hailed by many as wonderful news. Kim, like his late father, is a master of brinkmanship - putting much of the world on edge at the prospect of a nuclear war, then appearing to back away.
As deaths from mass shootings have mounted across the United States, some states are moving to collect hard data to guide their decisions about guns - even as the federal government has retreated from such research in the face of pressure from pro-gun groups. The New Jersey legislature, for example, is weighing a measure that would create a gun-violence research center at Rutgers University.
Chief U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo speaks from the bench Nov. 25, 2013, in Chicago. Castillo urged federal law enforcement across the country to stop conducting stings in which undercover agents talk suspects into agreeing to steal nonexistent drugs from nonexistent stash houses, saying they overwhelmingly target blacks, are deeply flawed and should become a relic of the past.
A leading House Democrat announced his opposition Monday to a Republican bill making it easier for some terminally ill patients to try experimental drugs, clouding the measure's fate. Republicans are hoping for House approval today, seven months after a similar package cleared the Senate.
Voters in western Pennsylvania are set to choose between Republican Rick Saccone and Democrat Conor Lamb in a special congressional election that could offer signs of what's to come in November's midterm elections. But the Republican nominee finds himself risking an upset that would rattle GOP confidence as it tries to defend its House majority.
In this March 8, 2018, photo, Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas, left, at the Capitol in Washington. Republicans on the House intelligence committee have completed a draft report concluding there was no collusion or coordination between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia.
Hopes for the release of three American citizens imprisoned in North Korea got a big boost by the news of a possible summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Freeing the prisoners would be relatively low-hanging fruit and a sign of goodwill by Kim.
Missouri's Senate on Monday approved a 10-cents per-gallon fuels tax increase, phased in over a five-year period. But the proposed increase is far from a done deal, since it was added to a 420-page bill that makes numerous changes to the ways state government gets its revenues - and still must win the Senate's final approval.
Senators on Tuesday expressed their disappointment over the Department of Justice's move to dismiss the criminal charges that have been filed against several high-profile drug suspects saying this giving the public mixed signals on the Duterte government's sincerity in the war against illegal drugs. Senator Joseph Victor "JV" Ejercito said he is puzzled by the actions of the DOJ when it decided to clear Kerwin Espinosa, son of Albuerra, Leyte mayor Ronald Espinosa, who was killed at the height of the Duterte government's crackdown on narco-politicians.
One Pullman 10-year-old is trying to make a difference at his elementary school after the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida killed 17 kids and adults. Alden Duff is a fourth grader at Jefferson Elementary School and he says he wants to promote safety and talk about gun reform in a school walkout he organized, but he says the district isn't allowing him to do it.
A pilot who survived a New York City helicopter crash that killed five passengers told authorities he believed a passenger's bag might have hit an emergency fuel shutoff switch in the moments before the chopper went down, it has been reported. A federal official who was briefed on the investigation spoke to The Associated Press on Monday.
The Senate is edging forward legislation to roll back some of the restraints on banks that President Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress put in place eight years ago to prevent another financial crisis. The bill has overwhelming Republican support and enough Democratic backing that it's expected to garner the 60 votes necessary to clear the Senate, possibly later this week.
Fernando Juarez, 36, of Napa, center, embraces his 22-year-old sister Vanessa Flores, right, at the Veterans Home of California on Friday March 9, 2018. in Yountville, Calif.