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A US Marine stands guard on the flight deck of the US aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier anchors off Manila, Philippines, for a five-day port call along with guided-missile destroyer USS Michael Murphy, Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018. US forces are undeterred by China's military buildup on man-made islands in the South China Sea and will continue patrolling the strategic, disputed waters wherever "international law allows us," said a Navy officer aboard a mammoth US aircraft carrier brimming with F-18 fighter jets.
Mitt Romney's extensive resume has many Republicans looking to him to take on a role in the Senate as a political and moral counterweight to a president many in the GOP see as divisive and undignified. The 2012 GOP nominee for president announced Friday he is running for the Utah Senate seat being vacated by GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch.
On Feb. 18, 1678, the first part of "The Pilgrim's Progress," a Christian allegory by English author John Bunyan, was published in London. In 1930, photographic evidence of Pluto, now designated a "dwarf planet," was discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Trump blames FBI for Florida school shooting and says agency is 'spending too much time' trying to prove Russia collusion rather than focusing on 'the basics' during his Mar-a-Lago evening out A history of violence: Florida shooter HIT his adoptive mother with a vacuum hose, threw chairs and a dog bowl prompting dozens of police call outs - yet STILL he was able to buy an AR-15-style rifle 'You are such a psychopath': Furious congressman slams Trump for 'making the death of 17 children' about himself after President blamed Florida shooting on an FBI too distracted by Russia collusion probe 'Most difficult decision of my political career': Joe Lieberman reveals why he denounced good friend Bill Clinton on Senate floor for 'immoral, disgraceful and damaging' affair with Lewinsky 'We will definitely NOT shut up and dribble': LeBron hits back at Laura Ingraham after she slammed him for ... (more)
A speech at Portland State University by James Damore, author of the infamous Google memo, was interrupted on Saturday night when activists reportedly smashed the sound system. The event was organized by student and journalist Andy Ngo, and his student group the Freethinkers.
Russia Warned FBI Several Times about Boston Bomber - Threat was Ignored, It Took FBI 3 Days to Find Terrorist Brothers Chechen Islamist brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev planted two backpack bombs at the Boston Marathon finish line on April 15, 2013. Tamerlan was killed in a gun fight with police and ran over by his brother on April 19, 2013.
President Donald Trump's national security adviser said Saturday there was "incontrovertible" evidence of a Russian plot to disrupt the 2016 U.S. election, a blunt statement that shows how significantly the new criminal charges leveled by an American investigator have upended the political debate over his inquiry. The statement by H.R. McMaster at the Munich Security Conference stood in stark contrast to Trump's oft repeated claim that Russian interference in his election victory was a hoax.
WASHINGTON, Penn., Mark Marran, an operations manager for a Fortune 500 company, voted for Donald Trump. Two weeks ago he noticed an extra $100 in his bimonthly pay check, courtesy of sweeping tax cuts passed by the Republican Congress late last year.
Former Vice President Joe Biden is tiptoeing toward a potential run in 2020, even broaching the possibility during a recent gathering of longtime foreign policy aides.
There is a war that has lasted longer than the one in Afghanistan. It is the "war on poverty," launched by President Lyndon Johnson during his State of the Union address on Jan. 8, 1964.
A man votes Tuesday Nov. 7 at the Olmos Basin Golf Course in San Antonio. Texans will vote again - early voting starting Tuesday - on federal, state and county primary races.
The Texas Federation of Teachers held a protest rally in front of the Stafford office of Congressman Tom DeLay in 2003, wanting a bill granting teachers full Social Security spousal and family benefits in addition to their Texas Teachers' Retirement System benefits. That didn't come true and now rising insurance premiums are eating into their TRS benefits.
In this July 21, 2016 file photo, Republican Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Rallies in Florida to support Republican Presidential candidate Trump requested by Russian adversaries are one small facet of the indictment issued Friday, Feb. 16, 2018, by special counsel Robert Mueller charging 13 Russians and three Russian companies with interfering in the 2016 election.
A U.S. Marine stands guard on the flight deck of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier anchors off Manila, Philippines, for a five-day port call along with guided-missile destroyer USS Michael Murphy, Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018. Lt. Cmdr.
Nikolas Cruz wants to plead guilty so that he can avoid the death penalty and spare a traumatized South Florida community a trial that would recount horrifying details of his mass shooting, a top public defender said Friday. "This is an opportunity to put the criminal case behind and help the victims' families begin to try and pick up pieces of their lives for our community to heal and to figure out how we stop these things from ever happening again," said Broward County Public Defender Howard Finkelstein.
We all know what "cherry picking" is. Sifting through available evidence to pluck out the bits and pieces that support one particular narrative while ignoring everything that reinforces the contrary.
House Republicans spurned tradition and elected one of their own, New Iberia Republican Taylor Barras, shown here at center, as speaker after Gov. John Bel Edwards won election. The House GOP caucus has promised to push for fiscal and tax reform, but leaders have been hesitant to put out their own comprehensive blueprint, drawing criticism from Edwards.
Donald John Trump Tillerson: Russia already looking to interfere in 2018 midterms Dems pick up deep-red legislative seat in Missouri Speier on Trump's desire for military parade: 'We have a Napoleon in the making' MORE on Saturday blamed Democrats for failing to act to strengthen gun restrictions under the Obama administration, accusing them of using the issue as a political talking point. "Just like they don't want to solve the DACA problem, why didn't the Democrats pass gun control legislation when they had both the House & Senate during the Obama Administration.
From left, Senate President John Alario, R-Westwego, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. Cameron Henry Jr., R-Metairie, House Speaker Rep. Taylor Barras, R-New Iberia, and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Eric LaFleur, D-Ville Platte, meet in the front of the Senate Chamber during the last day of the regular legislative session Thursday June 8, 2017, in Baton Rouge, La..