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Republican leaders in Washington are coming to grips with the possibility - perhaps even probability - that Alabama's Roy Moore will win his special election next Tuesday and join them in the capital. Looking past allegations of sexual misconduct with Alabama teenagers, President Donald Trump formally endorsed Moore, and the Republican National Committee quickly followed suit, transferring $170,000 to the Alabama Republican Party to bolster Moore's candidacy.
On a sharply divided Supreme Court, the justice in the middle seemed conflicted Tuesday in the court's high-stakes consideration of a baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple in 2012. The court's fault lines were laid bare in a riveting argument that focused equally on baker Jack Phillips' right to refuse to put his artistic talents to use in support of something in which he disagrees and the Colorado couple's right to be treated like any other two people who wanted a cake to celebrate their marriage.
WASHINGTON, DC - A new report says Vice President Mike Pence considered a push to top the Republican ticket after the Donald Trump Access Hollywood tapes came out. "The people I talk to say he is a lot more ambitious and calculating then he lets on in public," said McKay Coppins, the writer of the article.
Douglas Chin says there's a lot at stake in the legal argument over the latest version of President Donald Trump's travel ban. He'll argue Hawaii's challenge to the travel ban before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, meeting Wednesday in Seattle.
Gov. John Bel Edwards ' administration told the Louisiana House leadership Tuesday it can have another crack at approving $15.4 billion worth of state Medicaid contract extensions next week if it wants. But the governor will continue to circumvent the Legislature and put the contracts in place anyway if the House doesn't act.
A man walks past the U.S Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, August 4, 2013. recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel moving forward and said it has directed State Department officials to begin plans to move the U.S. embassy recognition of reality, both historic realityand modern reality", and noted that it would "fulfill several campaign promises" that President Trump made during the 2016 election.
The Latest on a malicious-prosecution trial against former Sheriff Joe Arpaio in a lawsuit brought by one of Sen. Jeff Flake's sons : Jurors who will decide a malicious-prosecution trial were told about the emotional distress that one of Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake's sons suffered when former Sheriff Joe Arpaio brought an animal cruelty case against him. The now-dismissed criminal case against Austin Flake and his then-wife is at the center of a civil trial that began Tuesday.
A federal credit union in New York City has sued President Donald Trump, saying his acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is "trying to minimize its existence." The Lower East Side People's Federal Credit Union lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court.
Par for the course in our modern Trumpian era of politics, the Alabama Senate race continues to divide Republicans, and naturally this played out on social media today between two Senators: Arizona's Jeff Flake and Nebraska's Ben Sasse. It all started when Flake tweeted a photo of a check he had written, showing a $100 donation to the campaign of Democrat Doug Jones, with "Country over Party" in the memo line.
A liberal Democrat is putting the House on track for a likely vote Wednesday on impeaching President Donald Trump, an effort that's certain to lose and has drawn opposition even from many in his own party. "Friends, whether we like it or not, we now have a bigot in the White House who incites hatred and hostility," Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, wrote in a letter to colleagues Tuesday explaining his proposal.
The Senate Judiciary and House Intelligence Committees, two of the three major congressional panels investigating Russia's election interference, appear to have resigned themselves to the reality that their probes will be conducted according to the partisan interests of their members. Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has recently begun sending out a flurry of letters to witnesses requesting new documents and interviews related to potential collusion between President Donald Trump's campaign team and Russia.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday will announce that he is reversing a decades-old U.S. policy by recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Like Trump, previous presidents promised to make the same decision prior to being elected.
Over the past two weeks, conservative media has been warning of a new menace loose in the corridors of Washington, a " It's the type of conspiracy theory popular in Facebook groups and Reddit forums that cater to fringe paranoia. But in this case, these ominous concerns are coming from Republican senators.
Nevada Democratic Rep. Ruben Kihuen told ABC News Tuesday that he is not resigning amid allegations of sexual harassment. Top Democrats have called on him to step down.
When right-wing conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich put an 8-year-old tweet from MSNBC contributor Sam Seder on blast last month, falsely claiming it was an endorsement of child rape, he bemoaned that the mainstream media would ignore his discovery. When MSNBC caught wind of the scandal Cernovich was attempting to incite, the cable news network decided to sever ties with Seder , who has regularly appeared on the network's shows for over a decade and hosts the podcast "The Majority Report."
Now becoming increasingly popular: "Woebot," a chatbot recently created by researchers which can act as a therapist for people who are feeling troubled. It has it's limitations, though. They connected one to Trump's Twitter feed and it reformatted it's C: drive in despair.
Hillary Clinton says she's always eager to return to New Hampshire, though she isn't saying what she thinks of President Donald Trump's unsubstantiated claim that rampant voter fraud led to her victory in the state. The former Democratic presidential nominee is at a Concord bookstore on Tuesday, signing copies of her new book about the 2016 campaign, "What Happened."
Two men running separate write-in campaigns for Alabama make arguments echoing many third-party challenges of the past: The major parties don't represent us. Lee Busby , a retired military veteran and businessman, and Mac Watson, a business owner, are mounting separate write-in campaigns for US Senate.