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Republicans are hesitant to switch from our winner-take-all state laws allocating electors to the electoral college to using the National Popular Vote. The National Popular Vote Plan would award all of a state's electors to the candidate who wins the most popular votes in all fifty states.
Now, there is substantial evidence that the resulting investigation into this political charade was orchestrated by some of Clinton's deep state operatives within the Justice Department. That evidence includes discovery that the key DoJ investigator, Bruce Ohr, who was instrumental in launching the anti-Trump investigation, secretly met with the fake dossier producers, who also employed his wife.
Donald Trump's transition team on Sunday demanded that Special Counsel Robert Mueller return "tens of thousands" of emails that were sent and received on government accounts before the 45th president took office. A "source close to Trump's transition told Axios on Sunday that the team plans to send a letter to Mueller this week demanding the return of emails that were reportedly obtained by the Special Counsel's Office.
Janai Kavarana grew up in India but she learned essential business skills in America. She came to the United States to intern at a company in New York City.
The House Intelligence Committee has at least two interviews scheduled Monday to kick off a packed week of witnesses in the panel's Russia probe. The committee is interviewing British music publicist Rob Goldstone, who arranged the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump campaign officials and a Russian lawyer who promised dirt on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the former head of the Democratic National Committee, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
As Sen. Tammy Duckworth left Jerome Combs Detention Center in Kankakee, she stopped to thank the officers for the tour and to remind them her commitment to supporting them transcends political debate. The Democrat and junior senator from Illinois was there for an oversight visit of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, which house up to about 190 detainees at any given time.
Democratic members of Congress from Massachusetts and Rhode Island are calling on Congress to immediately extend funding for a popular federal children's health insurance initiative.
In this undated photo provided by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, stand-off explosion detection units, left, are deployed in a corridor at The Metro in Los Angeles. U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, wants the Transportation Security Administration to speed up plans to equip transit hubs with the screening devices that can detect suicide vests like the one that exploded in a New York City subway tunnel on Dec. 11, 2017.
How big a deal is Democrat Doug Jones' victory in the Alabama U.S. Senate race? Pretty big for the country. What does it say about next year's elections in Arkansas? Probably not that much.
Background: Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee was the only Republican who voted against the GOP tax bill. He voted against it because he's against raising the deficit by the massive amount that the bill would require.
Senator Chuck Schumer at a subway station at 53rd Street and Third Avenue on Sunday. He called on the Transportation Security Administration to speed up its testing of a machine that can detect explosives in mass transit environments.
More than 100 Idaho business leaders, ranging from high-tech CEOs to small-business owners to engineers, marketers and manufacturers, have signed a letter to Gov. Butch Otter and the Idaho Legislature calling for the repeal of a 2016 noncompete law that sharply limits the rights of employees who move to new firms. The law , which passed both houses by divided votes amid much controversy, took effect July 1, 2016.
The House and Senate are expected to hold final votes on the Republican tax cut legislation early in the week. Republicans on the conference committee finalized the bill on Friday after some last-minute theatrics that raised questions about whether they would have the votes.
The fourth-largest wildfire in California history continues to grow and threaten thousands of homes despite armies of fire crews and fleets of bulldozers and aircraft. President Trump is poised to bask in the triumph of his first major legislative victory with the likely passage of tax legislation this week.
Rabbi Beth Singer led those gathered at City Hall in prayer Sunday after praising the late mayor's justice, mercy, and humility. The 65-year-old Lee, the son of Chinese immigrants and San Francisco's first Asian-American mayor, died last week.
Returning from Camp David on Sunday night, Trump told reporters he's not happy with the way the investigation is being handled. President Trump speaks to reporters on the south lawn of at the White House Sunday after returning from Camp David.
The White House gang was all there in the latest "Saturday Night Live" cold open, with Alec Baldwin reprising his role as US President Donald Trump - this time reflecting on his "amazing first year in office." "That's right, you can finally say that again, because the war on Christmas is over," Baldwin's Trump says.
Registration will allow you to post comments on timesunion.com and create a timesunion.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. Mark Hamill and Ted Cruz got into a Twitter battle Sunday, but Cruz lost terribly.
Former Obama-era Attorney General Eric Holder called for mass protests if President Trump fires special counsel Robert Mueller. This is the second warning Holder has issued this week in respect to rumors about President Trump relieving Mueller of his duties as special counsel.