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Activists on both sides of the abortion debate will be rallying and marching over the next few days in their annual show of force, while looking ahead to the coming year with a mix of combativeness and trepidation. The events kick off Friday with the March for Life in Washington, the biggest yearly event for opponents of abortion.
Mortal Again: Christie Blocked at VIP Entrance to Newark Airport - Police officer sends him to Terminal B with rest of nobodies - Three days out of office and Port Authority ends prized perk - Meet Chris Christie, former New Jersey governor and current nobody at Newark Liberty International Airport. Trump's baffling tweet about CHIP and the government shutdown, explained - The president tweets a policy position - and it's the opposite of what congressional Republicans want.
Losses among Boeing, General Electric and other big industrial companies weighed on US stocks on Thursday, pulling the market below the record highs it set the day before. Technology companies accounted for the biggest gains.
If Congress doesn't reach agreement on crucial immigration issues and pass a spending bill, the costly consequence would be a government shutdown. We don't know whether the government will shut down yet , but lawmakers are already playing the blame game.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 18, 2018. President Donald Trump blew up Republican strategies to keep the government open past Friday when on Thursday morning he said a long-term extension of the popular Children's Health Insurance Program should not be part of a stopgap spending bill pending before the House.
The idea first came to Teresa Shook, a Hawaii retiree, in the hours after Donald Trump was elected. Perhaps, she suggested to a few friends on Facebook, women could march on Washington to show the depth of their resistance.
The White House insisted it was not a political event. But that didn't stop President Donald Trump from throwing his support Thursday behind a Pennsylvania Republican in a House race that is widely viewed as a test of whether the party can stave off Democratic gains.
Nevada Republican Danny Tarkanian campaigns door to door with his daughters in Las Vegas in May 2010 in his ultimately unsuccessful race against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Since the internet has deemed Thursday the appropriate time to turn back the clock, I dug through Roll Call's extensive photo archives for some old photos of current candidates who previously ran for another office.
Mark Graul tells WTAQ's Jerry Bader Show that there was a reason Democrat Patty Schachtner was able to defeat Republican State Representative Adam Jarchow in the 10th district, which tends to heavily lean red. "The Democratic candidate got about 40% of the Hillary Clinton vote total , whereas Jarchow only got 17% of the Trump vote."
President Donald Trump fired his opening salvo on Thursday in what amounts to the biggest political race of early 2018 - a special congressional election in a heavily Republican southwestern Pennsylvania district. The race between Republican Rick Saccone and Democrat Conor Lamb is being viewed by many as a bellwether of what's to come later this fall in the midterms.
Conservative House members in the Freedom Caucus are currently against the Republican leadership's plan to avoid the shutdown, putting the plan in jeopardy. President Donald Trump is doing his best to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the week, but it may not be enough to dodge the political disaster.
Congress has until the end of Friday to pass a bill to avoid a partial shutdown of the federal government, and a bill's passage does not look promising. Employees for non-essential services would be out on furlough, meaning they are locked out of work and receive no pay.
Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that he's confident that the GOP-controlled House will pass a stopgap government-wide funding bill, even as growing opposition from Senate Democrats made prospects in that chamber increasingly dicey. Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health says the institution is in a "scramble" to prepare for a potential government shutdown at midnight Friday.
On a Thursday morning in early January, most of official Washington was contending with a road-clogging snowstorm when Attorney General Jeff Sessions triggered another form of chaos on Capitol Hill and inside the federal banking agencies. Sessions announced that the Justice Department was rescinding an Obama-era memo on marijuana enforcement, a move that carried big implications for banks and credit unions in California, Colorado, Oregon and a handful of other states that have legalized recreational pot use.
Of the nation's 435 U.S. House races this November, just 10 percent are likely to be competitive. The preliminary scoreboard at ScottRasmussen.com shows that six races are pure toss-ups, 11 barely tilt in the GOP direction, and three tilt toward the Democrats.
Less than three months after President Donald Trump declared the U.S. opioid crisis a public health emergency, the nation's governors are calling on his administration and Congress to provide more money and coordination for the fight against the drugs, which are killing more than 90 Americans a day. The list of more than two dozen recommendations made Thursday by the National Governors Association is the first coordinated, bipartisan response from the nation's governors since Trump's October declaration.
Donald John Trump Dems flip Wisconsin state Senate seat Sessions: 'We should be like Canada' in how we take in immigrants GOP rep: 'Sheet metal and garbage' everywhere in Haiti MORE travels to the Pittsburgh-area district to boost Lamb's Republican opponent, state Rep. Rick Saccone. Trump preempted the event with a tweet Thursday morning, The 30-second TV ad plays up Lamb's career as a Marine veteran who "still loves to shoot" and his time as a federal prosecutor.
A group of senators is floating a days-long government funding bill as a longer House plan faces growing pushback in the Senate. "I just want to make sure that people ... who want to make sure we don't have a shutdown and people who want to resolve differences know that there is an option to doing something different than a month-long CR [continuing resolution]," Sen. Gerald Moran Doug Jones to become only Dem senator with black chief of staff Congress should stand for rural America by enhancing broadband connectivity Immigrant entrepreneurs are vital to American prosperity MORE Moran suggested that senators could pass stopgap bills that last only one or two days.
Oprah Winfrey speaks during an interview at "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations" event in New York on Monday, Dec. 12, 2016. Oprah Winfrey speaks during an interview at "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations" event in New York on Monday, Dec. 12, 2016.
Joan Elizabeth Seamans is a strong, compassionate woman who is ready to bring back decency and be a voice for the people of NY Congressional District 27. "I fiercely oppose the cycle of special interests funding campaigns and legislation that benefits the wealthy instead of the people in NY District 27. My opponent, Chris Collins, has confirmed this practice. "My donors are basically saying, 'Get it done or don't ever call me again,' "It is time for "trickle up" economics and legislation that gives the people in the district opportunity and financial security instead of the wealthy and corporations."