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The Anchorage mayor's race is shaping up to be a two-way contest between incumbent Mayor Ethan Berkowitz and challenger Rebecca Logan, an oil, gas and mining industry group manager who has the support of the Alaska Republican Party. Candidate registration closed Friday for mayor and for three Anchorage School Board seats.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski talks to the Downtown Rotary Club at the Dena'ina Center in Anchorage on Aug. 29, 2017. Sen. Lisa Murkowski talks to the Downtown Rotary Club at the Dena'ina Center in Anchorage on Aug. 29, 2017.
Three days after the release of a GOP memo that raised questions about part of the FBI investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 elections, the House Intelligence Committee voted Monday to publicly release a rebuttal memo from Democrats - that document now goes to President Donald Trump, who will decide whether it is made public or not. "The President must now put our national security and intelligence first, and expeditiously release the Democratic memo," said House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, as she called on Mr. Trump to act.
Nearly three out of four Republicans believe the FBI and Justice Department are trying to undermine U.S. President Donald Trump, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Monday, a sharp turn for a party that has historically been a strong backer of law enforcement agencies. U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on his tax policy after a factory tour of the Sheffer Corporation in Blue Ash, Ohio, U.S. February 5, 2018.
The United States and Russia are pledging to abide by a treaty limiting strategic nuclear weapons that took effect on Monday, but foreign leaders and experts fear a new arms race may be looming. Concern over a potential conflict with nuclear-armed North Korea is also growing following a series of bellicose statements between Washington and Pyongyang.
Donald Trump calls Congressional Democrats who didn't applaud his State of the Union speech "UnAmerican" and treasonous. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra steps in to provide oversight of SFPD reforms after the federal Justice Department abandons its Obama-era role.
The House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously Monday to release a 10-page memo prepared by Democrats to rebut what they say are inaccuracies in an infamous memo written by aides to committee Chairman Devin Nunes , which alleges FBI misconduct at the heart of the Trump-Russia investigation. Still, the memo's contents may never see the light of day.
Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer View text version of this page Help using this website - Accessibility statement Join today and you can easily save your favourite articles, join in the conversation and comment, plus select which news your want direct to your inbox. Washington: Lawyers for President Donald Trump have advised him against sitting down for a wide-ranging interview with the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, according to four people briefed on the matter, raising the specter of a monthslong court battle over whether the president must answer questions under oath.
China's pension shortfall is emerging as the next big challenge for policy makers as they intensify their years-long campaign to keep rising debt from derailing the economy. Aging in the world's most populous country means pension contributions by workers no longer cover retiree benefits, forcing the government to fill that gap since at least 2014.
President Donald Trump is accusing Democrats of being "un-American" and maybe even treasonous for failing to applaud him during his State of the Union speech. Trump says during a speech in Blue Ash, Ohio, that the Democrats last week gave off "bad energy" as he delivered his first State of the Union, failing to clap even at positive economic news.
Indiana Republican Rep. Todd Rokita called for increased vigilance in protecting U.S. borders and enforcing immigration laws, in light of news that an illegal immigrant suspected of drunk driving killed two Hoosiers - including Indianapolis Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson - on Sunday.
A trove of internal FBI emails released over the weekend shows the dramatic impact President Trump's firing of then director James Comey had on the bureau's workforce last May. The messages portray agents deeply shocked and saddened by the news, and they contradict Trump's description of a bureau "in tatters." The blog Lawfare, run by Brookings Institution government studies Senior Fellow Benjamin Wittes, filed four Freedom of Information Act requests for the documents back in June.
Ohio investigators in the case of a 2-year-old girl found unresponsive on a porch in freezing weather await autopsy results to learn how she died. Ohio investigators in the case of a 2-year-old girl found unresponsive on a porch in freezing weather await autopsy results to learn how she died.
To follow up on Paul's post below, since political science models have played a role in advancing the strongest versions of legal realism, it's worth explaining what a more realistic version of legal realism looks like. One way I like to explain it is borrowed from Michael Klarman's superb book From Jim Crow to Civil Rights .
U.S. lawmaker Adam Schiff on Monday exchanged fire with President Donald Trump who slammed him over his efforts to release another edition of the disputed memo alleging the FBI and Justice Department of surveillance abuses in the Russia probe. "Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington," Trump tweeted Monday morning.
At the foot of a small stairway, at the entrance of the former Vibora Institute of Secondary Education which is now RenA O'ReinA High School, a group of students smoke one cigarette after another and argue loudly about football. They are sitting on a cement floor and lean their backs against the base of a relatively ordinary bronze statue of JosA MartA , whose image is commonly present in many Cuban schools.
As they begin to probe the circumstances of the fatal wreck in South Carolina, officials have already settled on one thing: that the crash between a passenger train and a freight car could have been prevented with technology already installed in parts of the U.S. It's been a decade since Congress approved a law mandating the GPS-based system called "positive train control," which is designed to prevent two trains from traveling on the same track at the same time. That's what happened early Sunday in Cayce, South Carolina, when a locked switch sent a New York-to-Miami Amtrak passenger train onto a side track where an empty CSX Corp. freight train was parked.
President Donald Trump traded insults with the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee Monday, a day after Democrats and Republicans said Trump was wrong to assert that a GOP-produced classified memo on FBI surveillance powers cleared him in the Russia investigation. Trump's attack on California Rep. Adam Schiff came before a planned meeting of the House intelligence panel Monday, where the committee is expected to consider whether to release a Democratic rebuttal memo.
Parents of Otto Warmbier, Fred and Cindy Warmbier, are acknowledged during the State of the Union address. WASHINGTON: US Vice President Mike Pence has invited the father of the late former North Korea prisoner Otto Warmbier to the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.
What does President Trump ask the country to believe? On Saturday, he insisted again via Twitter that there was "no Collusion and there was no Obstruction." Yet rather than let the investigation of the Russian intervention into 2016 presidential election play out, confident the facts will fall in his favor, the president contends the FBI and the Department of Justice are out to pin false charges on him.