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Allegations that an influential New York state senator forcibly kissed a former staffer are "extremely disturbing," the fellow Democrat who leads the party's primary caucus in the chamber said Thursday. Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, of Yonkers, said in a statement that an "immediate independent investigation" needs to be started into the allegations against Sen. Jeff Klein, of the Bronx.
Dennis Kucinich, former congressman, state senator, and mayor of Cleveland, speaks at Cleveland State University's Maxine Levin Goodman College of Urban Affairs last April. Kucinich said in an email to supporters this week that he plans to announce formally for Ohio governor next Wednesday.
In this Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018 file photo, President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with lawmakers on immigration policy in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. One barnyard epithet, and the leader of the free world was now definitively a racist or, alternatively, was back in the good graces of those who had worried he was wavering in his nationalism.
MSNBC's "Hardball" host Chris Matthews joked about drugging then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton before sitting down with her for an interview in early 2016, according to exclusive outtake footage published by New York magazine's The Cut Friday . "Where's that Bill Cosby pill I brought with me?" he asked.
Further extending a drawn-out legal battle, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a case over whether Texas' congressional and House district boundaries discriminate against voters of color. The high court's decision to take the case is a short-term win for Texas' Republican leaders who, in an effort to preserve the maps in question, had appealed two lower court rulings that invalidated parts of the state's maps and would have required the district lines to be redrawn to address several voting rights violations.
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Last fall, the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute noted the growing number of religiously unaffiliated Americans: Nearly one of every four people is unaffiliated - a threefold increase since the 1980s. Often called "nones," this group encompasses agnostics and atheists, as well as those who simply do not belong to a religious community.
The well-educated and well-spoken African responded: "Yes, it is true, and the U.S. Embassy is the biggest hut next to my hut!" It was funny then, until my friend was asked that same question at her school in Washington. President Trump's reported statement that when Nigerians see America they never want to go back to "their huts" is downright appalling.
So seriously that in December, the state started testing its nuclear warning siren system that would alert residents to an impending nuclear missile strike. This was the first of such tests in Hawaii since the end of the Cold War, and came after several threats from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that his country's missiles are extending their range.
Our government is supposed to be "of the people, for the people and by the people." Pennsylvania Congressman Glenn Thompson believes he works "of, for and by" the billionaire owners of big corporations.
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney listen as US President Donald Trump holds a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, US, January 10, 2018. Reuters/Jonathan Ernst United Nations, United States: One year into the job, Nikki Haley stands out as the star of President Donald Trump's administration, and diplomats say the UN ambassador is directing some of that star power into a likely White House bid.
Some of the comments were published in a new book about Mr Trump's first year in office, Fire And Fury: Inside The Trump White House by Michael Wolff, which White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has denounced as "complete fantasy" for portraying her 71-year-old boss as undisciplined and in over his head as president. Mr Trump himself has pushed back hard against any suggestion that he is mentally unfit, declaring himself "a very stable genius".
People pay their respects to the Las Vegas mass shooting victims at makeshift in front of the Fountains of Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nev. on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017.
The Republican congresswoman has voted with the Republican president nearly 97 percent of the time so far. She says that young immigrants shouldn't be shielded from deportation unless Democrats agree to build Trump's massive border wall.
TUCSON, Ariz.-Rep. Martha McSally said Friday she would enter the race for the Arizona Senate seat opened up by the retirement of Sen. Jeff Flake. Ms. McSally, a Republican, enters a contest upended earlier this week when Joe Arpaio, a former sheriff known for his hard-line immigration policies, joined the race.
All but one of the 16 official candidates are Republicans. For the moment, the sole Democrat is Steve Schoettmer, seeking the District 59 state representative seat held by Rep. Jim Lucas, R-Seymour.
HAVEN – Haven High School senior Jaron Caffrey, 18, is one of two Kansas high school students chosen to participate in the United States Senate Youth Program.
Late last year, lawyers for Trump expressed opti... . FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump listens as Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, after Vice President Mike Pence administere... Documents show that FBI agents knew the gunman behind the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history left behind big stashes of guns, ammunition and explosives when they sought warrants to search his properties... Documents show that FBI agents knew the gunman behind the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history left behind big stashes of guns, ammunition and explosives when they sought warrants to search his properties and online accounts.
The United States as a superpower is in competition with global and regional competitors for influence in the world. Its rivals and enemies will take advantage of Trump's insult of Africa, the Caribbean and Central America to reduce US leverage there and to increase their own.