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Even if Democrats are favored to take back the House of Representatives later this year -- though their clear-cut advantage has eroded in recent days amid terrific economic news and a failed Democratic government shutdown -- the Senate is a different story. The 2018 map heavily favors Republicans, so much so that it would take a gigantic blue wave to wipe away their upper chamber majority.
The stock market is going up. It has been since March 2009, qualifying this bull run as a Marathon Bull - and people who couldn't care less before are paying attention now.
Right before Christmas last year, the Department of Justice announced an ominous settlement: United Therapeutics, a manufacturer of pulmonary arterial hypertension drugs, agreed to pay more than $200 million to settle allegations it violated the Anti-Kickback Statute . United Therapeutics' alleged kickback was supporting - and purportedly benefiting from - a Patient Assistance Program charitable foundation that helped patients pay expensive co-pays for United Therapeutics' drugs.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions was questioned for hours in the special counsel's Russia investigation, the Justice Department said, as prosecutors moved closer to a possible interview with President Donald Trump about whether he took steps to obstruct an FBI probe into contacts between Russia and his 2016 campaign. The interview with Sessions last week makes him the highest-ranking Trump administration official, and first Cabinet member, known to have submitted to questioning.
Printus LeBlanc Guest Columnist Judging by a few recent announcements, it appears elected officials don't care about American citizens. The California Attorney General just announced any employer obeying federal immigration laws would face state charges.
Mitt Romney has spent much of the past two years as an outspoken Donald Trump critic. He denounced Trump's divisive ways during the 2016 campaign and criticized the president's unwillingness to call out white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va.
Sen. Cory Gardner said Wednesday that he still sees real possibility for Republican pickups in the Senate in the coming midterm elections. "What we've seen over the past week is a significant change in the generic ballot, Republican vs. Democrat, and that's all because of the popularity of what we've been able to accomplish in the last year, including the tax cuts," the Colorado Republican said on "The Hugh Hewitt Show."
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., comments on the government shutdown during a TV news interview at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., arrives at the Capitol at the start of the third day of the government shutdown, in Washington, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018.
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THE Department of Justice has suspended Prosecutor Mary Ann Castro-Sanchez for three months without pay while the charges against her are being heard by the justice department. Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre placed Castro under 90 days preventive suspension while the DOJ's Internal Affairs Unit hears the administrative complaint filed by former Cebu Provincial Board Member Grecilda Zaballero.
Key Takeaway: Voucher advocates inadvertently paved the way for Democrats' plans to skirt a punitive element of the new tax law. When Republicans in Congress pieced together the new tax law, they included a particularly partisan element, placing a disproportionate tax burden on taxpayers in so-called Blue states-those that voted for Hillary Clinton in the last election.
"Good evening, everybody. It may be time to declare war outright against the deep state and clear out the rot in the upper levels of the FBI and the Justice Department."
For years, the number of democracies in the world had been on the rise, but recently the trend has stalled. The New York Times journalists Max Fisher and Amanda Taub explore why some democratic countries have backslid, while others never quite made it.
PICTURED: The 15-year-old girl shot dead by Kentucky high school gunman who also shot her boyfriend in the face, killed a teen baseball player and wounded 17 others before running out of bullets 'I lost my career.
Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer has pulled back an offer of $25 billion for President Donald Trump's long-promised southern border wall, as lawmakers scrambled to figure out how to push a deal to protect 700,000 or more so-called Dreamer immigrants from deportation. Schumer had made the offer last Friday in a last-ditch effort to head off a government shutdown, then came scalding criticism from his party's liberal activist base that Democrats had given up too easily in reopening the government without securing more concrete promises on immigration.
Germany's Socia... . In this Jan. 21, 2018 file photo, SPD young wing leader Kevin Kuehnert speaks during a party meeting of the Social Democrats, SPD, in Bonn, Germany.
Sen. Susan Collins explained her vote to pass the recent tax bill citing the expert advice she received from Glenn Hubbard, dean of the Columbia Business School, and Douglass Holtz-Eakin, a Republican policy adviser and president of the American Action Forum. "Even the joint committee on taxation has projected that the tax bill would stimulate the economy to produce hundreds of billions of additional revenue.
Bank of America is ending its free checking option, upsetting some customers enough that they've vowed to close their accounts. Customers who had free checking have been moved into accounts where they must maintain a minimum monthly balance of $1,500 or have at least $250 in direct deposits, or they will be charged $12 a month in maintenance fees, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Saudi King Salman smeets with the U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018. Ryan is leading a Congressional delegation to the Middle East, traveling with five Republican members of congress and one Democrat.
The bill, whose cost has topped $100 billion in previous years, authorizes programs overseen by the Agriculture Department, including payments to growers of corn and soybeans and funds to prevent forest fires. A Trump administration outline for farm legislation calls for pushing some food-stamp recipients back to work, a GOP priority.