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Rep. Don Shooter is believed to be the first state lawmaker in the U.S. to be voted out of his seat since the #MeToo movement against sexual misconduct began last fall. Thursday's vote comes after an outside investigator determined that Shooter engaged in a pattern of sexual harassment that created a hostile workplace.
President Donald Trump used a speech before GOP lawmakers Thursday to pat fellow party members on the back and take digs at Democrats just days after calling for bipartisan unity. Trump also urged the passage of an immigration framework that has been lambasted by Democrats and some members of his party, making clear that he sees no room for compromise.
Republican Chele Farley, who most recently served as New York City finance chair of the state party, on Thursday launched a run against U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who is up for re-election to a second full term this fall. Farley, a partner at the equity firm Mistral Capital, launched her effort with a video that borrowed an argument recently deployed by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo : New York State pays roughly more in federal taxes than it gets back in federal aid - money, Farley said, that could be used to rebuild state infrastructure and boost education, among other things.
Donald John Trump Schiff: Nunes gave Trump 'secretly altered' version of memo Davis: 'Deep state' existed in '16 - but it elected Trump Former Trump legal spokesman to testify to Mueller about undisclosed call: report MORE will head to Ohio on Monday for a visit just days after his first State of the Union address, according to a White House official. The purpose for the visit to the battleground state has not yet been announced, but the trip comes after the president previewed a $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan in his State of the Union address earlier this week.
Aerial bombardment by the Syrian Army in northwest Syria, the biggest remaining rebel-held enclave, killed at least 28 people on Thursday, a war monitor said. Warplanes and helicopters struck in Idlib, Hama and Aleppo provinces, including in the towns of Saraqeb and Kafr Nabouda, said the war monitor, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Donald Trump's first State of the Union address, IPS Middle East expert Phyllis Bennis told the Real News Network after the speech, was "a campaign-style speech" designed to appease Trump's right-wing base. While the president mostly avoided foreign policy, she noted, the views he did express were "extremist positions that are guaranteed to be popular with his base."
Along a party-line vote, the Republican-controlled New Hampshire Senate voted down a bill on Thursday that sought to ban so-called "bump stocks" in the state. On the Senate floor, GOP Sen. Sharon Carson said the bill was poorly worded, and wouldn't accomplish its goal of preventing mass shootings.
Paul Davis Ryan Schumer: Nunes intent on undermining 'rule of law' with altered memo Schiff: Nunes gave Trump 'secretly altered' version of memo Several lawmakers have seen intelligence behind Nunes memo MORE on Thursday defended an unreleased House GOP memo that alleges abuses by the FBI and Justice Department, saying that it's not an "indictment" of those government institutions. "What this is not is an indictment on our institutions, of our justice system.
The WRP is a recruitment and referral program that connects federal and private sector employers nationwide with highly motivated college students and recent graduates with disabilities who are eager to prove their abilities in the workplace through temporary summer or permanent jobs. The program is co-sponsored by the Department of Defense and the Department of Labor and the internships are funded by DoD at no cost to the unit.
Minnesota activists have launched a week of resistance against racism, corporatism, and displacement caused by the Super Bowl in Minneapolis. The Super Bowl is headed to Minnesota's Twin Cities on February 4, and with it, analysts and officials promise, will come millions of tourism dollars.
The Democrats' annual retreat is the latest issue complicating the congressional effort to fund the government and prevent another shutdown this month. deadline for Congress to pass another spending bill to keep the government running.
Trump plans to urge lawmakers at a GOP retreat in West Virginia to back his plan for a pathway to citizenship for nearly 2 million young immigrants, in exchange for $25 billion for his border wall and major restrictions in legal immigration. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he'll hold a vote on immigration as soon as next week, but it's unclear which legislation would make it to the floor.
A former Dallas accountant condemned for fatally shooting his two young daughters while their mother listened helplessly on the phone is looking to the U.S. Supreme Court to spare his life. John David Battaglia is set for execution Thursday evening for the May 2001 killings of his 9-year-old daughter, Faith, and her 6-year-old sister, Liberty.
Trump called for a modernization and rebuilding of our nuclear arsenal. Daniel Ellsberg, most notable for leaking the Pentagon Papers in 1971, recently revealed new secrets he kept while working as a government consultant at the RAND Corporation in his new book joins Michele and Igor to discuss the real threat of nuclear destruction, whether President Trump is fit to operate control of our arsenal, the recent false alarms in Hawaii and Japan, and why they are proof nuclear war may come by human error.
President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, Feb. 1, 2018, en route to a House and Senate Republican conference at the Greenbrier in West Virginia. President Trump is expected to approve Thursday morning the release of a controversial congressional memo alleging surveillance abuses by the FBI, after the White House agreed to some redactions at the bureau's request, according to senior administration officials.
Google has reportedly joined a coalition with several other prominent tech companies supporting an effort to ensure that all touchscreen tools known as styluses work across the board for every major firm. Apple, Microsoft and Samsung have not signed on to the agreement known as the Universal Stylus Initiative , according to BBC.
Democrats are ratcheting up pressure on House Speaker Paul Ryan to intervene in the growing controversy involving House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, who quietly changed his explosive memo alleging FBI abuse without informing many of his colleagues. The top Democrat in the Senate and the House say Republicans have "decided to sow conspiracy theories" and "attack the integrity and credibility of federal law enforcement as a means" to protect President Donald Trump and undercut special counsel Robert Mueller.
That was the deadline for U.S. House and Senate campaigns to file finance reports covering the last three months of 2017. Those watching the races closely are sure to pore over the mishmash of donations and expenditures to separate viable candidates from the long shots.
An attorney who successfully sued to keep a 15-year-old boy's name off Nebraska's Sex Offender Registry has filed another lawsuit regarding those who the State Patrol did list.
This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows John David Battaglia who is scheduled for execution Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018, in Huntsville, Texas, for the May 2001 slayings of his two daughters. This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows John David Battaglia who is scheduled for execution Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018, in Huntsville, Texas, for the May 2001 slayings of his two daughters.