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Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Melania Trump looks on during the 58th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 20, 2017. Political news emerged from Washington, D.C. and beyond in 2017 at a seemingly breakneck pace.
The clock is ticking on the Republican majority in Congress: The GOP has slightly more than 10 months to avoid a rout in 2018. Republicans could do it.
Former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke lashed out Saturday at what he called the "lying lib media," after multiple reports claimed he was under investigation by the FBI.Clarke dismissed the reports as "fake news." According to the Washington Examiner, several news organizations reported Friday that an FBI search warrant in March allowed the agency to look into Clarke's personal email.Clarke, who resigned as a sheriff in August, tweeted, "BREAKING NEWS! When LYING LIB MEDIA makes up FAKE NEWS to smear me, the ANTIDOTE is go right at them.
Attorney General Mike DeWine and Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor took a more circuitous route, supporting favorite son Gov. John Kasich's long-shot aspirations before lining up behind Trump as he neared clinching the Republican nomination for president.
The large pool of candidates vying for Rep. Elise M. Stefanik's congressional seat continues to grow as Greenwich Democratic Town Supervisor Sara Idleman announced her decision to run Thursday. “I gave it serious thought and decided I would run and jump in near the first of the year,” Idleman said in a phone interview Thursday afternoon.
COLUMBUS, GA Anthony Scaramucci, former White House Communication Director, is defending President Trump's view on climate change. Trump said on Twitter last week that cities hit with freezing temperatures might benefit from "that good old climate change."
I had to go overseas to think about this. To clear my head, and view the United States from afar! It's been a wild year on the political roller coaster.
In the 2016 campaign and before Donald Trump commendably discussed the need to fix America's decayed infrastructure, whose crumbling is all too apparent in New York City, whence he comes. He and others in the political class in Washington have suggested that $1 trillion might need to be spent to get things up to something approaching the level of other Western nations.
As I leave D.C. for a weekend in frosty New York City, thousands of people are taking to the streets of Iran to protest the corruption and mismanagement of the ruling mullahs. The White House is not following the last president's "bearing witness" to the pleas of the oppressed.
How the Russia Inquiry Began: A Campaign Aide, Drinks and Talk of Political Dirt - WASHINGTON - During a night of heavy drinking at an upscale London bar in May 2016, George Papadopoulos, a young foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, made a startling revelation to Australia's top diplomat Trump campaign aide prompted Russia investigation in drunken revelation: report - Former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos - reportedly prompted the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election by drunkenly revealing knowledge of Russian opposition research How Can Trump Help Iran's Protesters? Be Quiet.
The New Year is all about new beginnings, and at least one Humboldt County resident will be heading out on a new adventure in 2018. Denise Gillette of Eureka - who recently retired from the U.S. Navy Seabees after 20 years of service - has traveled the world during her military career.
Kevin Boyd was in his mid-20s when he first grasped what it meant to be serving life without parole. It happened when a couple of longtime inmates who'd mentored him died of old age in prison and he watched them carted off on gurneys.
During a night of heavy drinking at an upscale London bar in May 2016, George Papadopoulos, a young foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, made a startling revelation to Australia's top diplomat in Britain: Russia had political dirt on Hillary Clinton. About three weeks earlier, Papadopoulos had been told that Moscow had thousands of emails that would embarrass Clinton, apparently stolen in an effort to try to damage her campaign.
When President Donald Trump meets with aides to discuss policy or prepare for a speech, he may ask about the pros and cons of a new proposal. He may inquire about its possible effect.
If President Donald Trump's first month in office was notable for its mixture of chaos and dysfunction, the last month of 2017 showed a constant combatant who had reason to believe that his refusal to back down paid off with passage of a sweeping tax overhaul. Senator Dean Heller reacts as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a lunch meeting with Senate Republicans to discuss healthcare at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 19, 2017.
Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., readily admits he "wasn't one of the biggest supporters" of President Donald Trump during the 2016 election. "I didn't know him.
President Donald Trump pauses as the media departs after he spoke in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017. The thing Donald Trump does worst in the White House - and there are so many, many things, big and small, that he does poorly - is being presidential.
Nearly two years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that prison inmates who killed as teenagers are capable of change, the question remains unresolved: Which ones deserve a second chance? Now the ruling - in favor of a 71-year-old Louisiana inmate still awaiting a parole hearing - is being tested again in that state, where prosecutors have moved to keep 1 in 3 offenders imprisoned for crimes committed as juveniles locked up for good. "There is no possible way to square these numbers with the directive of the Supreme Court," said Jill Pasquarella, supervising attorney with the Louisiana Center for Children's Rights, which found that district attorneys are seeking to deny parole eligibility to 84 of 255 juvenile life inmates.
After a decade of stagnant growth, America needed a change and the nation's tax reform is a big first step. Even more so it's giant leap for North Dakota.