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Flanked by leaders of several pro-life religious organizations, Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore held a bizarre campaign event on Thursday that began with a weird story about hemorrhoids. Moore talked about a time when he first got into politics and a seasoned judge told him about three things he needed to succeed in politics.
Twitter has finally decided to institute new rules about how users gain, and retain, verification - the much desired blue check mark - and many Nazi/White Nationalist/alt-Right users are apparently in complete violation and are now losing their blue checks. And let me tell you, they are not happy.
Perhaps OMB Director Mick Mulvaney has become more of a curse than a blessing in his job as budget director. Or perhaps he's just bored with that job and would love a shot at wrecking the CFPB, an agency he loathes.
Did you know, the school bus driver hauling your kids around could be a sex offender? The Minnesota law overlooking school bus drivers, only disqualifies candidates if convicted of a sex offense. That means, if the case is still in progress, they can drive the bus.
It, er, might not be Robert Mugabe's call to make any more. When the military rolls into your capital, seizes broadcast outlets, and takes you into "protective custody," it's a little late to fall back on the institutions you've spent the last couple of years corrupting on behalf of your wife.
For over a decade, Charles Crenshaw has been paying his ex-wife tens of thousands of dollars annually in alimony. The now-retired engineer is hoping to renegotiate the agreement for lower payments, but he's waiting first to see what comes of a tax reform proposal in Congress.
Kansas investigators say a jailer who was fired last year for smuggling tobacco into his lockup had sex with male and female inmates and paid for one to get an abortion. A Los Angeles radio host says U.S. Sen. Al Franken forcibly kissed her during a 2006 USO tour in the Middle East.
A Senate Finance Committee hearing got heated Wednesday as the committee's chair, Sen. Orrin Harch, defended the decision to include in the tax bill a repeal of the Obamacare requirement for Americans to get health insurance. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., left, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, criticizes the Republican tax reform plan while Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, listens to his opening statement as the panel begins work overhauling the nation's tax code, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Nov. 13, 2017.
On Thursday, Los Angeles radio anchor Leeann Tweeden accused Minnesota Sen. Al Franken of forcibly kissing her during a 2006 USO tour and of posing for a photo with his hands on her breasts as she slept. Tweeden shared her story with her followers on social media and it quickly became a topic of conversation with users across Twitter.
DEMOCRATS across the nation, ecstatic at their party's landslide win in the recent Virginia election, are eagerly thanking the state's voters for thoroughly repudiating Trumpism. Virginia voters spoke loud and clear in giving the largest Democratic margin of victory in a gubernatorial campaign here since 1985.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer says sexual misconduct allegations against Minnesota Sen. Al Franken are "troubling" and he hopes and expects that the Senate Ethics Committee will fully investigate. He said Thursday that a bipartisan ethics panel should "fully investigate this troubling incident, as they should with any credible allegation of sexual harassment."
The Minnesota Supreme Court on Thursday upheld Gov. Mark Dayton 's line-item veto of the Legislature's operating budget, declining to referee a political dispute between two co-equal branches of government that it said could resolve the issue themselves. The 5-1 decision handed Dayton a major legal victory as he seeks to rework costly tax breaks and other measures that he signed into law this spring as part of a new state budget.
The jury in the corruption trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez said Thursday that it could not reach a verdict on the fourth day of deliberations since a federal judge instructed them to start their discussions from scratch. U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., arrives at the federal courthouse in Newark on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017.
Oklahoma legislators have been raising thousands of dollars from lobbyists at lavish fundraisers during a special session limping into its eighth week, yet they've failed to make much progress toward plugging a $215 million hole in the state budget. The Associated Press obtained invitations to a dozen scheduled fundraisers held over the past few weeks for some of the Legislature's top Republican leaders, including the powerful chairs of the appropriations committees in the House and Senate.
The House is preparing to vote Thursday on the first major rewrite of the tax code since 1986, a crucial step toward delivering one of President Trump's signature promises. Starting Jan. 1, the bill would drop the top corporate rate dramatically, realign how Washington treats domestic and foreign income of multinational companies, and give individuals lower rates while eliminating some deductions and credits.
The jury in the corruption trial of New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez said Thursday it is deadlocked on all charges and is now being interviewed by the judge, one-by-one. Defense attorney Abbe Lowell has requested the judge formally declare a mistrial.
Technology used in the medical field for years may soon revolutionize screening of carry-on bags at airports - bolstering security while dramatically cutting bottlenecks at checkpoints. Computed-tomography machines being tested at airports in Phoenix and Boston allow Transportation Security Administration screeners to rotate a three-dimensional image of a suspicious object without opening up a bag, meaning travelers can whisk through faster without removing items such as laptops and small containers of liquids.
Republican leaders want to intervene in a Democratic House of Delegates candidate's federal lawsuit over 55 unopened absentee ballots in Stafford County, writing that the "stakes a could not be higher." The campaign of Democrat Joshua Cole, who lost the 28th District House election last Tuesday to Republican Bob Thomas by 82 votes, requested an emergency court order requiring those 55 ballots to be counted in a race that could determine control of the chamber.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wants an ethics investigation into Sen. Al Franken's behavior in light of new explosive allegations that he inappropriately touched a woman while on a USO tour in 2006. The top Republican in Congress hopes his counterpart, Chuck Schumer, will support his effort.
After his first attempt at an apology for groping a woman's breasts while she was asleep was ripped apart by just about everyone, Sen. Al Franken has issued a lengthier statement apologizing for his actions. Franken also called for an ethics investigation into his conduct and pledged to "gladly cooperate" with any investigation.