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Russian television anchor Pavel Lobkov was in the studio getting ready for his show when jarring news flashed across his phone: Some of his most intimate messages had just been published to the web. Days earlier, the veteran journalist had come out live on air as HIV-positive, a taboo-breaking revelation that drew responses from hundreds of Russians fighting their own lonely struggles with the virus.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell declared 2017 a huge success Friday, saying in a year-end press conference that Congress has passed legislation to dramatically transform the nation and the economy. Along with adoption of $1.5 trillion in corporate and individual tax cuts that President Trump signed Friday morning, McConnell noted that the Senate repealed regulations adopted by President Obama's administration and installed Cabinet officers who would continue the process.
On December 21, U.S. District Court Lawrence Stengel held a status conference in Constitution Party of Pennsylvania v Cortes, 5:12cv-2726. As already reported, on December 13 the Third Circuit had issued a ruling in this case, casting doubt on whether the county distribution requirement for minor party and independent candidate statewide candidates is constitutional.
Disabled travelers trying to speed up airline reporting about wheelchairs damaged on flights must argue case in appeals court, a judge ruled Thursday. An employee pushes a woman on a wheelchair out of the international arrivals area on Terminal B at Newark Liberty International Airport on Nov. 21, 2017, in Newark, N.J. WASHINGTON - Disabled travelers will have a longer wait to learn how many wheelchairs get damaged on airline flights, after a federal judge ruled that a case to speed up the reporting was filed in the wrong court.
Livestock producers in the United States should continue to be aware of the threat of foot-and-mouth disease and take precautions that can reduce threats. Although the disease has not been detected in the U.S. since 1929 it remains a concern.
Trump said Friday that he believes Democrats and Republicans will soon embrace bipartisanship "for the good of the country" and work together. Trump said Friday that he believes Democrats and Republicans will soon embrace bipartisanship "for the good of the country" and work together.
The Justice Department is officially going after Hillary Clinton over the Uranium One scandal and President Trump is jubilant over it. So is the rest of America.
Christmas came early for the Trump family and their fellow One Percenters with the passage of the GOP tax bill. President Trump said the tax bill "is going to be one of the great gifts to middle-income people of this country they have ever gotten for Christmas."
In this June 7, 2017, file photo, FBI acting director Andrew McCabe listens during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republicans and Democrats are scrambling in the final days of 2017 to establish an enduring narrative on multiple Russia investigations and the integrity of the investigators.
According to Guntersville Airport manager Bob Martin, federal investigators contacted the airport Thursday to say they've been searching for a plane all day with no success. The search will resume Friday morning.
In the Fox & Hound sports bar, next to a shopping mall in suburban Philadelphia, four Democrats are giving speeches to potential voters as they begin their journey to try to unseat Republican congressman Pat Meehan in next year's elections. Winning this congressional district - Pennsylvania's 7th - is key to Democrats' hopes of gaining the 24 seats they need to retake the U.S. House of Representatives next November.
Callista Gingrich, wife of the former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, on Friday became U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, which is at odds with Washington over immigration, climate change and Jerusalem. Callista Gingrich, 51, an author, documentary filmmaker and former congressional aide, presented her credentials to Pope Francis at the Vatican to officially assume her role.
WASHINGTON – Congress passed a stopgap spending bill Thursday, averting a partial government shutdown at midnight Friday but pushing into January showdowns on spending, immigration, health care and national security. Among the issues still to be resolved is federal aid for victims of recent hurricanes and wildfires.
Here's a sad commentary about the state of the Democrat-controlled Legislature these days: It would be a big win for Democrats if they were able to make it through a month without one of their members being linked to an FBI investigation. It would certainly be an improvement over December, when two Democrats found themselves linked to federal probes due to allegations of abuse of power or worse.
Two sitting state legislators representing portions the Greater Lowell area announced they support their colleague state Sen. Barbara L'Italien in her run for Congress. State Rep. Cory Atkins of Concord and state Sen. Mike Barrett of Lexington, both Democrats, endorsed L'Italien in the 3rd Congressional District race Thursday, according to a press release from L'Italien's campaign.
Looking west across a portion of Banning Lewis Ranch from Highway 24 Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Photo by Mark Reis, The Gazette As reported in Dec. 18 Gazette, there is a move underfoot to change the terms of the Banning Lewis Ranch annexation agreement.
But activists on the left outraged at Trump's conduct have found an outlet, of a kind, in the campaign run by California billionaire Tom Steyer. Steyer, a big Democratic fundraiser who has until now focused mostly on environmental causes, is spending around $20 million on TV and digital ads calling for Trump's impeachment.
Democratic leaders in Congress are facing criticism from progressive groups for failing to secure legislative protections for young undocumented immigrants in the year-end stopgap spending bill.
The Republican-led Congress narrowly passed a temporary spending bill Thursday to avert a government shutdown, doing the bare minimum in a sprint toward the holidays and punting disputes on immigration, health care and the budget to next year. The measure passed the House on a 231-188 vote over Democratic opposition and then cleared the Senate, 66-32, with Democrats from Republican-leaning states providing many of the key votes.