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Only a few days ago, the Old Guard, elitist leaders of the Democratic National Committee , began showing their teeth to the thousands of Berniecrats they once signaled might fill cavities in a rotting party . Add thousands more Bernie Sanders diehards in dozens of grassroots movements-Our Revolution to BerniePDX-or the thousands joining party affiliates such as the Working Families Party and the Democratic Socialists of America.
The woman said that they have a granddaughter living in Texas on the CHIP program - that's Medicaid for children. Because Congress is delaying renewing the CHIP program, Texas could run out of funds - leaving the granddaughter without access to her medications.
For nearly a year, Hillary Clinton failed to admit that her campaign and the Democratic National Committee had provided funding for the notorious dossier that alleged Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election. Then, two weeks ago, the Washington Post published a blockbuster article that proved that Clinton had been misleading the public about her Campaign's role in producing the report.
On an Election Night when the results exactly tracked what public-opinion polls had projected, one of the few surprises was the unexpected appearance at Gov.-elect Phil Murphy's victory party of former Gov. Jon Corzine, who has kept a low profile since leaving office in 2010 - especially after the bankruptcy of his Wall Street brokerage a year later. Then another reminder of the Corzine era surfaced Wednesday, when Murphy made his first appointment as governor-elect in naming Jose Lozano the executive director of his transition committee.
The nearly $3 billion project, which is designed to increase natural gas deliveries by 1.7 billion cu. ft. per day, is expected to be placed into full service in mid-2018.
This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Ruben Ramirez Cardenas. Mexican citizen Cardenas is set for execution in Texas Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017, for the 1997 abduction-slaying of his 16-year-old cousin in the Texas Rio Grande Valley.
During a panel discussion Wednesday, two prominent conservative columnists said President Donald Trump has flipped the traditional conservative script and left Republicans with questions about the party's new identity. Ross Douthat took the stage alongside Bloomberg View columnist Megan McArdle, the Pamela and Jack Egan Visiting Professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy.
That was the comment from Williams Partners on Wednesday night after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia dissolved the administrative stay it had issued Monday. The court's one-page order states the seven environmental groups that wanted to stop the pipeline project had not satisfied the stringent requirements for a stay.
The Republican-controlled House has approved a bill aimed at expanding hydroelectric power, an action supporters said would boost a clean source of renewable energy but opponents denounced as a giveaway to large power companies. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington state, would define hydropower as a renewable energy source and streamline the way projects are licensed, with primary authority granted to a single federal agency.
Emboldened by election wins, Democrats are starting to see a political edge in health care, particularly widening Medicaid access for more low-income people. In Virginia, Democrat Ralph Northam promised a vigorous push as governor to expand Medicaid.
The pundits and the analysts will have a field day figuring out what just happened on Tuesday night, when Democrats won handily in off-year elections. So handily that the vote is being called a "wave" election, the sort that results in power changing hands on a large scale.
In 2006, the endowments of Indiana University and Texas Christian University invested millions of dollars in a partnership, hoping to mint riches from oil, gas and coal. The partnership was formed by the Houston-based Quintana Capital Group, whose principals include Donald Evans, an influential Texan and longtime supporter of former President George W. Bush.
The U.S. Navy has announced that it will carry out a rare exercise this weekend in the western Pacific involving three aircraft carriers. The exercise will take place in the Sea of Japan east of the Korean peninsula and is intended to send a message to North Korea of America's security commitments in the region, according to U.S. officials.
Former presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday said Democrats' victories in Tuesday's elections were a reaction to President Donald Trump's presidency. "Yesterday's elections were really a referendum on the disastrous Trump administration, on his temperament, on his reactionary policies," said Sanders, speaking with Anderson Cooper.
Erie County Executive Kathy Dahlkemper edged out Art Oligeri by just 300 votes during Tuesday's election, a much tighter contest than her first bid for that office four years ago. But final voting results released by the Erie County Dept.
President Trump's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Election Day began with a promise on Twitter, that if Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie were to be elected, he would "totally turn around the high crime and poor economic performance of VA." It ended in a different fashion, with a complaint, also expressed on the social media platform: Gillespie, "did not embrace me or what I stand for."
"A wave of Democratic victories ignited a ferocious debate across the Republican Party on Wednesday over whether President Trump's unA orA thoA dox behavior and polarizing agenda are jeopardizing the GOP's firm grip on power in Congress, governors' mansions and state legislatures," the Washington Post reports.
Paisley and Underwood are celebrating their 10-year anniversary as ... . FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2013 file photo, hosts Brad Paisley, left, and Carrie Underwood appear at the 47th Annual CMA Awards in Nashville, Tenn.
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to halt the scheduled execution of a Mexican citizen on death row in Texas for the slaying of his 16-year-old cousin. The high court rejected appeals from 47-year-old Ruben Ramirez Cardenas to stop his punishment for the February 1997 abduction and killing of Mayra Laguna.