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The Argentine submarine ARA San Juan went missing in the South Atlantic last week with 44 crew members aboard. Here's a look at the submarine and the round-the-clock international maritime search.
Two Minnesota state lawmakers hit by sexual misconduct allegations announced they would resign, less than two weeks after they were accused of misdeeds that ranged from groping colleagues to persistent unwanted sexual advances and sexting. Democratic Sen. Dan Schoen, who allegedly grabbed a woman's buttocks at a campaign event and made unwanted advances toward other women - including sending Snapchat photos of male genitalia to a female Senate employee - was the first to go Tuesday, with his attorney saying Schoen had decided he could no longer be effective.
Silent for more than a week, President Donald Trump all but endorsed embattled Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore on Tuesday, discounting the sexual assault allegations against him and insisting repeatedly that voters must not support Moore's "liberal" rival.
This photo provided by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives shows an aerial of Barclay Friends Senior Living Community in West Chester, Pa., Friday, Nov. 17, 2017. Authorities struggled Friday to account for the whereabouts of all the residents of a Pennsylvania senior living community after a massive blaze tore through their complex during the middle of the night, injuring nearly 30 and leading to a chaotic evacuation.
President Donald Trump's vision of a "big, beautiful" wall along the Mexican border may never be realized, and almost certainly not as a 2,000-mile physical structure spanning sea to sea. But in a systematic and less visible way, his administration is following a blueprint to reduce the number of foreigners living in the United States - those who are undocumented and those here legally - and overhaul the U.S. immigration system for generations to come.
You have to hand it to them - on one hand, the Republicans who have run everything in Lansing for the past seven years have been consistent. They've done pretty much everything they can to seriously damage public education in Michigan.
Two Minnesota state lawmakers - a Democrat and a Republican - will resign from office following accusations of sexual misconduct, officials said on Tuesday. Republican state Rep. Tony Cornish announced he intends to resign around Dec. 1. His announcement came shortly after an attorney for Democratic state Sen. Dan Schoen told the Star Tribune that Schoen would announce his resignation and address the allegations during a Wednesday news conference In a statement, Cornish, from Vernon Center, said he has reached an agreement in principle with an unnamed female lobbyist who told Minnesota Public Radio News that Cornish had propositioned her for sex dozens of times and once forced her into a wall in an attempt to kiss her.
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents testified Tuesday a Waterloo man admitted sending three tweets "that could be perceived as threatening" to U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst in August.
John Conyers has dealt with various ethics investigations and a public corruption case that landed his wife in prison during a U.S. House career spanning more than five decades - longer than any other current member. Allegations that the 88-year-old Michigan Democrat sexually harassed female staff members may be the toughest opponent yet for the party's top member on the House Judiciary Committee.
A U.S. aircraft searching for a missing Argentine submarine with 44 crew members spotted white flares, but they were unlikely to be from the sub lost for six days in the South Atlantic, the Argentine navy said Tuesday. The ARA San Juan carried red and green flares, but authorities would still try to identify the origin of the white signals, navy spokesman Enrique Balbi told reporters.
Virginia Del.-elect Danica Roem , left, and Demi Lovato at the American Music Awards. With Virginia's first openly transgender elected official preparing to take her seat in the House of Delegates, the Republican leader of that chamber says it is time to end a tradition of addressing lawmakers by formal male and female pronouns.
The jury in the month-long trial of the undocumented Mexican immigrant accused of murdering San Francisco resident Kate Steinle on a city pier two years ago has begun its deliberations. San Francisco prosecutors say that 45-year old Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, a homeless man who had been deported multiple times, intentionally fired the single shot that killed the 32-year old Steinle as she was walking arm-in-arm with her father on July 1, 2015.
During Fox News' Outnumbered Overdrive, the discussion of sexual assault was prevalent and after the news of Charlie Rose's firing, Melissa Francis admitted that so much of it started on Fox News and she said, "This is everywhere" and institutions that passed judgement on them was headed for it also. I don't share her opinion outside of the Fox News sexual harassment scandals did get the ball rolling on this issue because she took an adversarial approach when her network was drenched in sexual assault.
When the GOP House voted to repeal Obamacare in May, President Donald Trump invited supporters to the Rose Garden to celebrate with him and to pat themselves on the back for making history in record time. Thursday, when Republicans passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act there was no talk of orchestrating a public victory lap.
Now that the scandal involving the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service is more or less over, there is still a question or two that has not been answered. The U.S. Justice Department settled last month a number of lawsuits against the IRS for the extra scrutiny for conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, a scandal which dates back to 2010.
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Toobin continued, saying, "He is not up to the job and he is a walking advertisement for term limits. I know the Supreme Court has said they're unconstitutional - but it is absolutely outrageous that that man in that condition is getting a salary from the taxpayers to do this job.
Lincoln businessman Todd Watson announced Tuesday he will mount a "conservative Constitutionalist" challenge to Sen. Deb Fischer in the 2018 Republican Senate primary election.
For Department of Defense acquisitions, the Conference Report for Fiscal Year 2018 NDAA includes provisions that simplify and others that complicate contractor responsibilities. Proposed change to the definition of a "subcontractor" may result in fewer vendors being subject to mandatory flow-down clauses.