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The Special Counsel is now investigating whether an advisor to the United Arab Emirates, George Nader, is influencing U.S. policy. George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman, has hovered on the fringes of international diplomacy for three decades.
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The Florida Senate agreed to advance a bill that would increase school safety and restrict gun purchases during a rare Saturday session that often turned into a debate on gun control and arming teachers in the aftermath of last month's Parkland school shootings. The Senate spent nearly eight hours debating dozens of amendments to the 100-page bill before finally approving the legislation for a final vote on Monday.
Republican Sen. Jeff Flake said he thinks President Donald Trump will and should have a Republican challenger in the 2020 presidential election. "I do think the President will have a challenge from the Republican Party.
He was a controversial leader in D.C. known as the District's "mayor for life," and four years after his death he'll be recognized for years to come outside of the Mayor's office in D.C. Marion Barry was memorialized Saturday morning with an 8-foot statue outside of the Wilson Building, which houses the mayor's office and the D.C. Council on Pennsylvania Avenue in Northwest D.C. Barry was mayor of D.C. for four terms. He spent nearly 16 years as a city council member, he was a civil rights activist and a champion to the downtrodden, but he was also very controversial .
In this Jan. 25, 2018 photo, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks to reporters as he arrives at the office of Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who is moderating bipartisan negotiations on immigration, at the Capitol in Washington. Republicans in Congress have learned to ignore President Trump's policy whims, knowing whatever he says one day he'll change by the next.
Long the subject of barbed tweets from President Donald Trump, members of the Washington press corps sharpened their wits for musical and rhetorical takedowns of the president, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and others Saturday night at the annual dinner of the Gridiron Club and Foundation. Trump accepted an invitation to the 133rd anniversary dinner, his first given that he declined to attend last year.
Congress will hit an initial deadline Monday for resolving the fate of "Dreamers," with nothing to show for months of negotiations over nearly two million immigrants who arrived in the US illegally as children. When President Donald Trump last September scrapped a program that shielded large numbers of young arrivals from deportation, he gave lawmakers six months to craft a solution.
This Jan. 11, 2018 file photo shows dark clouds hovering over the Capitol in Salem, Ore. Oregon's Legislature ended its 2018 session on Saturday, March 3, 2018 wrapping up an almost month-long session that saw additional gun controls, an attempt to curb opioid abuse and a remedy to prevent losses to state coffers from the federal tax overhaul.
The Latest on the nor'easter that's battering coastal areas from Maryland to Maine : 9:30 p.m. Police in Andover, New Jersey say a man was killed by downed power lines during the storm that rampaged up and down the East Coast. NJ.com reports that the 41-year-old man came in contact with live power lines at about 6:45 p.m. Friday.
Oregon lawmakers finished their 2018 session Saturday afternoon, eight days before the constitutional deadline and without much of the partisan drama that marked the last short session two years ago. The relative calm came at a price: Democrats went home without passing their top agenda item, a plan to cap greenhouse gas emissions and charge the state's largest polluters.
In this day and age, it is close to impossible for anyone to get through life without using the internet. That reality is even more true here in Alaska, where larger distances separate us and we have less infrastructure to connect us.
Striking teachers grasp hands during a rally at the West Virginia Capitol in Charleston. The teachers' strike across the state of West Virginia is expected to continue after the West Virginia Senate on Saturday passed a 4 percent wage increase for school employees and state police, 1 percent lower than the number agreed upon to end the strike.
We have serious abuses that occurred in the FISA court against the Trump campaign." #Cavuto pic.twitter.com/zvhMSu2LSd Fox News March 3, 2018 House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said "conservatives in this country are under attack" after late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert filmed a segment poking fun at his panel's recently released memo on alleged government surveillance abuses.
Maybe if partisans didn't go too far. I don't know. It confounds me why we can't talk constructively about guns in this state, or this nation, without both sides shutting down.
The latest outlook report from the United States Department of Agriculture failed to amaze, as most projections about acres and crops were already factored into the news. However, the Feb. 23 report confirmed the market's assumptions and left prices up to the weather.
Former Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore is long past the need for campaign contributions, but that didn't stop him from pleading with supporters to help pay his hefty legal fees incurred trying to fight sexual misconduct allegations. The Republican, who lost to Democrat Doug Jones in a Dec. 12 runoff to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions, took to Facebook late Thursday to tell supporters he faces that "another vicious attack from lawyers in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco who have hired one of the biggest firms in Birmingham, Alabama, to bring another legal action against me and ensure that I never fight again."
Barack Obama will be heavily protected in New Zealand, with a "wannabe jihadi" the most viable threat against him, a security expert says. The former US president will speak to about 1000 invited guests at an event run by the NZ-US Council in Auckland on March 22. He'll spend about three days in the country, before going on to Sydney.
Volkswagen officials are discussing options to make the truck unit more independent. This would potentially pave the way for an initial public offering or bond sale. #tictocnews (Source: Bloomberg)