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Greenfield will welcome three of the four Republicans running for Congress next week for a forum to introduce them to voters. Hancock County Young Republicans is hosting one of this election season's first gatherings, inviting the men seeking their party's nomination to run for the District 6 U.S. House of Representatives seat to meet with the folks they'd represent.
A top Democrat is hinting that the Justice Department's investigation into Planned Parenthood is politically motivated, but a pro-life advocate said those claims would not stop the feds from pursuing their investigation. The DOJ is asking for unredacted documents from the Senate Judiciary Committee's probe into accusations that Planned Parenthood violated federal laws regarding the sale of fetal tissue and body parts of aborted fetuses.
Chicago Sun-Times via AP Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool tenders his resignation during a news conference Friday at CPS headquarters. The resignation follows Inspector General Nicholas Schuler's recommendation that Claypool be fired because he concluded Claypool had lied during a probe by denying that he'd asked an attorney to alter a bill for legal advice on an ethics issue.
AP file photo John Conyers III poses July 16, 2011, with his father, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., in Detroit. John Conyers' resignation from the U.S. House amid sexual harassment allegations unlocks the seat he's held for more than a half-century.
President Trump stumped for Alabama's Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore during a packed rally in nearby Pensacola, Fla., last night, where he said the GOP needs the controversial former judge to keep its "Make American Great Again" agenda on track. "We want jobs, jobs, jobs, so get out and vote for Roy Moore," Trump said about 30 miles from Florida's state line with Alabama, where voters Tuesday will choose between Moore or Democrat former prosecutor Doug Jones.
U.S. Sen. Edward J. Markey is slamming the Republican tax plan as a measure that would disproportionately hurt Bay State residents and is sounding off on calls to go after entitlement programs next year. "This Republican tax plan is a direct assault on Massachusetts families and their way of life," Markey said.
U.S. President Donald Trump gave his most full-throated endorsement yet of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, casting aside calls for to shun the former judge who's been accused of sexual misconduct while seizing on reports that questioned the credibility of his accuser. Trump, speaking to a crowd of supporters in Northern Florida about 30 miles from Alabama, highlighted reports Friday that Beverly Young Nelson acknowledged she had written some of the words in her high-school yearbook that she had attributed to Moore. Referring to the woman's attorney, Gloria Allred, Trump said "anytime you see her you know something's wrong."
President Donald Trump responded to chants of "lock her up" by citing the "rigged system," while speaking at a rally in Pensacola, Florida, on Friday night. "Look, it's being proven we have a rigged system," Trump said to the crowd of supporters.
A Democratic senator is calling for the investigation into Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's travel to include his use of government helicopters. Zinke's use of Interior Department and other helicopters was revealed earlier this year when the department released his office and travel schedules in response to Freedom of Information Act requests.
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the confession given by Brendan Dassey, a key figure in the Netflix "Making a Murderer" series, should not be thrown out. The decision from the US Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a federal judge's ruling and means Dassey's life sentence will remain in effect.
A federal appeals court in Chicago narrowly overturned a ruling Friday that could have freed a Wisconsin inmate featured in the "Making a Murderer" series from prison, though one dissenting judge called the case "a profound miscarriage of justice." The full 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reviewed Brendan Dassey 's claims that investigators tricked him into confessing that he took part in raping and killing photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005.
Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra, D-Pacoima, right, discusses a bill with Assemblyman Matt Dababneh, D-Van Nuys at the Capitol in Sacramento,. On Monday, lobbyist Pamela Lopez accused Dababneh of forcing her into a bathroom and masturbating in front of her at a party in 2016.
Steinle was killed by an illegal immigrant with a stolen gun in 2015. The jury acquitted Jose Ines Garcia Zarate for the murder on the grounds that the gun misfired.
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President Donald Trump on Friday touted his efforts to secure the homeland, telling a raucous rally crowd in the Florida panhandle that his administration is "taking care of our citizens at home" by defeating the Islamic State abroad and expelling violent street gang members from the U.S. "Not only are we defeating these killers, these savage killers, horrible, horrible," Trump told hundreds of supports at a rally in Pensacola, Florida, a region a White House spokesman called "Trump country." Florida helped Trump win the White House.
In this Nov. 30, 2017 file photo, former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore speaks at a campaign rally, in Dora, Ala. In the Alabama Senate race, national Democrats and the liberal grassroots are treading lightly, trying not to sink Doug Jones' upset bid against Republican Roy Moore.
President Donald Trump took a swipe at his former opponent in the 2016 election by poking fun at "The Resistance" during a Friday night rally in Pensacola, Fla. Trump, speaking about his administration's accomplishments, made fun of the "resistance" by pointing out that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to "resist" and ended up losing the 2016 presidential election.