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Serious questions have been raised regarding the testing of ballast water management systems . In order for a BWMS manufacturer to sell its equipment for use on commercial vessels operating in U.S. waters, the equipment must be tested in accordance with U.S. Coast Guard and Environmental Protection Agency requirements and the equipment must then obtain a type approval certificate from the Coast Guard.
CNN might want to change its name to Collusion Narrative Network; as the network's morning program New Day spent nearly all of its three-hour time slot Thursday morning discussing the latest developments in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Of course, many in the media desperately want to believe that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians in order to secure his upset victory.
President Donald Trump made it clear Tuesday night that he's decided to make public a sensitive memo that alleges bias by FBI agents in the ongoing investigation into Russian efforts to influence U.S. voters in 2016. "One-hundred percent," Trump is heard on camera after his State of the Union speech, telling a South Carolina congressman of his intent to declassify the secret document That decision would directly conflict with Trump's own Justice Department and FBI Director Christopher Wray, who have argued that it would be reckless to release the memo without a thorough review.
Has DB Cooper's identity finally been revealed? Investigators say recently uncovered secret coding in letters PROVES Vietnam veteran with CIA links is the hijacker who parachuted from a plane in 1971 with $200,000 'Make this go viral': Mother posts graphic images of her disabled son covered in his own blood after he was beaten up by bullies to shame school teacher 'who failed to stop the attack' EXCLUSIVE - Mark Salling autopsy report FAILS to confirm that actor committed suicide but does reveal he died early Tuesday and his body was discovered in a riverbed Republican admits he changed the classified memo on 'FBI misconduct' after vote throwing White House bid to green light publication today into chaos Bill O'Reilly returns to cable news to analyse Trump's State of the Union address - but is watched by just 17,000 households Robert Wagner is named a person of interest in death of his ... (more)
A tragic train wreck almost put an early end to this year's GOP policy retreat as lawmakers grappled with whether or not to carry on after an Amtrak train carrying them to the Greenbrier Resort collided with a garbage truck and resulted in at least one fatality. "Personally I gave it a lot of thought.
When President Donald Trump's administration took its fight to end a controversial immigration program directly to the U.S. Supreme Court last month, skipping over a California federal appeals court in the process, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said it was a "rare step" to ensure a quick and fair resolution. But the fast trip to the nation's highest judicial body was not the first time the administration took the unusual route of circumventing liberal-leaning lower courts and heading straight to the conservative-majority Supreme Court for relief from legal setbacks.
It's part of a broader push by the network - backed by the billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch - to redouble its criminal justice reform efforts while embracing common ground with President Donald Trump and his administration, which have delivered mixed results at best for the unlikely alliances that have formed around changing the system. "We're going to meet people where they are," Mark Holden, a senior network official, told reporters here repeatedly - a kind of mantra for the network's eagerness to make progress on a host of policy issues in the Trump era.
Emergency personnel inspect the lead engine of an Amtrak train that was carrying multiple Republican lawmakers that crashed into a garbage truck in Crozet, Va., on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018. A chartered train carrying dozens of GOP lawmakers to a Republican policy retreat in West Virginia struck a garbage truck in a rural Virginia town Wednesday.
Texas is preparing to carry out its second execution of the week Thursday, putting to death a Dallas man who fatally shot his two daughters while their mother listened on the phone. If his pending appeals are denied, John Battaglia, 62, will be the third person to be executed in Texas in 2018.
President Donald Trump's State of the Union offer of a "down-the-middle compromise" on immigration did nothing to move Republicans and Democrats closer to a deal, as Democrats accused the president of lacing his speech with racially charged remarks and Republicans dug in on their demands. The reaction to Trump's high-profile overture suggested both parties were settling into a protracted tug-of-war.
Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes has become the face of Republicans' questioning of the FBI in the Russia probe. California Rep. Devin Nunes has staked his name on questioning the FBI's Russia investigation, but his long term political future could suffer from joining Team Trump.
Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., adjusts her "Recy" button as she joins other House members in wearing black in support of the #MeToo and Time's Up movements, ahead of State of the Union address Tuesday in Washington. President Trump may have been the one with the microphone at his first State of the Union address in the Capitol on Tuesday night, but that didn't stop the members of the audience from delivering their own pointed messages with a series of politically-charged fashion choices.
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez's biggest hurdle to re-election was removed Wednesday when the Justice Department announced it no longer would try him on criminal corruption charges. "Case closed, both in terms of the court and in terms of the political impact for his re-election campaign,'' said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute.
President Trump devoted about 200 words of the more than 5,000 he uttered on Tuesday night to calling for a $1.5 trillion package "to permanently fix our infrastructure deficit." But lawmakers itching to see the administration's long-awaited plan for rebuilding the nation's roads, bridges, railways, and waterways-and more importantly, how to pay for it-will have to wait.
Two of the leading Republican candidates for their party's U.S. Senate nomination have filed the petition signatures needed to appear on the May primary ballot. U.S. Rep. Luke Messer and former state Rep. Mike Braun submitted their petitions Wednesday with the Indiana Secretary of State's office.
James B. Renacci House GOP highlights 16 'On the Radar' candidates Author Vance won't run for Senate in Ohio Overnight Finance: Latest as shutdown looms . But first, the former Ohio State wide receiver faces a primary fight against a staunchly conservative opponent who has won support from some former Trump White House staffers.
Black lawmakers say that's the result of Trump repeatedly stirring racial controversies, from personally attacking two members of the caucus to casting equal blame on white supremacists and counterprotesters for fatal violence in Charlottesville, Va., last summer. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver , former head of the CBC, said the bitter feelings originated well before Trump arrived in office, when the real estate mogul began raising doubts about former President Obama's birthplace - and, by extension, his authority to be president.
The FBU building in Washington, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018.A new congressional memo alleging FBI surveillance abuse is being used to undermine the legitimacy of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. But included ... .
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker seems to spend every waking moment either admiring his Presidential look in a mirror, or trying to move left of any of his opponents for the 2020 nomination. After the State of the Union Address Tuesday, he demonstrated a profound ignorance of the Constitution.
One of two Wisconsin girls who tried to kill a classmate to win favor with fictional horror character Slender Man is being sentenced for her role in the attack. One of two Wisconsin girls who tried to kill a classmate to win favor with fictional horror character Slender Man is being sentenced for her role in the attack.