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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists recently moved its Doomsday Clock 30 seconds closer to midnight , citing in part President Trump's rhetoric on nuclear weapons and minimizing of the science on climate change. According to this panel of experts and their symbolic clock, we are now two minutes from a human made global catastrophe - the closest we have come since the Cold War in 1953.
Washington, PA-It was a frigid Saturday afternoon but Ellen Cicconi, a 53-year-old stay-at-home mom from Canonsburg, chose to brave the elements to check out the next great American political campaign playing out in her proverbial backyard. In nearby Washington, a city about 30 miles southwest of Pittsburgh proper, Conor Lamb, a 33-year-old Marine veteran was opening up a new campaign office.
The Devin Nunes memo may have been a dud, but it did reveal one major issue: Politicians feel more than fine destroying trust in our institutions. For weeks, we have been sold the idea that a "memo" written by Republican staffers of the House Select Committee on Intelligence was a damning piece of evidence of political bias in the intelligence-gathering process.
President Trump announced on Feb. 5, 2018, his intent to nominate Kenneth Johnson of Missouri to be the administrator of the USDA Rural Utility Service. Johnson serves as the general manager and CEO of Co-Mo Electric Cooperative and president for Co-Mo Connect in Tipton, Mo.
Newsweek is in the news-raided by the police last month as part of a probe into the owners' shady finances, then subjected to a crude purge on Monday, when the owners sacked the editors and reporters who tried to write about the scandal. This was the cinematic coda to a decade of collapse.
In this Feb. 1, 2018, photo, Vice President Mike Pence addresses the Republican National Committee Winter Meeting in Washington. Credit Pence with good timing when it comes to trying to avoid political messes.
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania view the Florida Atlantic University Marching Band at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., Sunday, Feb. 4, 2018, as they arrive for a Super Bowl party. less President Donald Trump and first lady Melania view the Florida Atlantic University Marching Band at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., Sunday, Feb. 4, 2018, as they arrive for a Super Bowl ... more In this Jan. 30, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington.
A neo-Nazi Holocaust denier is set to become the Republican nominee for a congressional seat in Illinois, the Chicago Sun-Times reported on Sunday. The prospective candidate, Art Jones, is not a steadfast supporter of the Republican president.
In this Sept. 6, 2017 file photo, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., accompanied by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, and others members of the House and Senate Democrats, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Gov. Cuomo with Gov. Rossello of Puerto Rico at rally supporting hurricane relief on Saturday. Photo: Office of Gov. Como The bribery trial of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former top aide, Joe Percoco, begins its third week in federal court Monday.
Groundhog Day may have been last week - Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, predicting six more weeks of winter - but it will be celebrated in spirit again this week as Congress deals with what seems to now be the monthly threat of a government shutdown. Republicans and Democrats continue their dance of despair as they pontificate over important issues and propagate one short-term solution after another regarding their basic duty to fund the government.
Graduate teaching assistants at private universities had high hopes 18 months ago when a federal labor board ruled that they had a right to collective bargaining, but after the election of President Donald Trump, some schools are taking another shot at halting the burgeoning unionization movement. Columbia University announced in a university-wide email Tuesday that the school wouldn't bargain with the graduate students who voted more than 2 to 1 for union representation, and would instead appeal to a federal court.
President Trump's call for unity and bipartisanship during his State of the Union on Tuesday wasn't the only appeal for a break from the hyper-partisan atmosphere that has engulfed Washington, D.C. Along with the president, justices on the Supreme Court on at least two separate and unrelated occasions in as many weeks spoke to the need for civility. Justice Neil Gorsuch, Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, during a speech at Stockton University in New Jersey last week, and again by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who sits on the opposite side of the ideological spectrum from Gorsuch, in two different events.
Jerome Powell won't run the Federal Reserve too differently than Janet Yellen would have. But, because he is not her and was not President Barack Obama's nominee, he will start a four-year term as Fed chairman Monday while she begins as a think tanker at the Brookings Institution.
President Richard Nixon's unprecedented misuse of federal resources to spy on political and activist groups 40 years ago prompted the creation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act , which requires federal agencies to obtain warrants for investigations involving U.S. citizens. Signed into law in 1978, FISA was created in an effort inject accountability into the act of federal spying on American citizens after past abuses.
Guests Christine Hallquist possible Democratic candidate for Governor. Also Middlebury College Political Scientist Matt Dickinson to discuss the State of the Union address and Sen. Bernie Sanders' response.
Days later a social media post from State Senate Candidate Mike Saari from Commerce Township has sparked an ugly exchange on Facebook. The post reads, "Judge was wrong for her personal vocal opinions on record that should be a crime against jurisprudence itself.