In high-tax states, worries about pain from GOP tax plan

Homeowners in high-tax states like New Jersey, where a modest house within commuting distance of New York City can easily carry property taxes of over $15,000 a year, are wondering whether the Republican bill being sold as a tax cut would actually result in higher bills for them. At issue are provisions that would end deductions for state and local sales and income taxes and would cap the property tax deduction at $10,000.

Hawaii Protesters Turn Out Against Trump Visit: ‘No Aloha’

Residents in Hawaii protested President Donald Trump's visit Friday with signs blasting "Welcome to Kenya" - even sporting a full-sized cardboard figure of former President Barack Obama - to attack the Republican's "birtherism" campaign against his predecessor. "I have no 'aloha' for him and I don't think the state of Hawaii does either," Laura Margulies, a protester who held a sign that read "No Aloha 4 Trump," told The Washington Post .

GOP Poll: Ed Gillespie Up 3 in Va. Governor’s Race

Republican Ed Gillespie has pulled ahead of Democrat Ralph Northam in the Virginia governor's race - leading by 3 points in a new poll released Saturday - three days before the election. Gillespie, a former aide to President George W. Bush, leads Northam, the lieutenant governor, 40.4 percent to 37.4 percent in the survey of likely voters by Optimus/Firehouse Strategies .

Rand Paul assaulted at Kentucky home: police

In this April 7, 2017 photo, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, speaks to reporters on the way to the confirmation vote for President Donald Trump's high court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sen. Rand Paul suffered minor injuries when a man allegedly assaulted him at his home in Warren County, Kentucky, on Friday afternoon, according to state authorities.

Russia’s hackers took only a week to pry into Clinton camp

Nineteen thousand lines of raw data associated with the theft of emails from Hillary Clinton campaign staffers show how the hackers managed the election-shaking operation. Minute-by-minute logs gathered by the cybersecurity company Secureworks and recently shared with The Associated Press suggest it took the hackers just over a week of work to zero in on and penetrate the personal Gmail account of campaign chairman John Podesta.

Kentucky man charged with assaulting Sen. Rand Paul at his home

Kentucky police arrested and charged a 59-year-old man for assaulting Sen. Rand Paul at his Bowling Green home. State troopers responded to the Republican politician's home just before 3:30 p.m. on Friday and charged Rene Boucher with fourth-degree assault, according to a police statement obtained by the Bowling Green Daily News .

Sen. Rand Paul assaulted at his Kentucky home, man arrested

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks to supporters gathered at The Champions of Liberty Rally in Hebron, Ky., Friday, Aug. 11, 2017. Paul was joined at the fundraising event by Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, and U.S. Reps Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.

North Topeka YMCA takes on new focus: To serve militaryveterans

Military images - including this picture of a fighter jet - now decorate the renovated North Topeka YMCA building at 1936 N.W. Tyler, which is being transformed into the "Veteran's YMCA" for this community. More than 150 people attended a ceremony held late Saturday morning just outside the branch building at 1936 N.W. Tyler to celebrate its transformation into the "Veteran's YMCA" for this community.

Report: Donna Brazile considered replacing Clinton with Biden as nominee

Donna Brazile, the former interim Democratic National Committee chair, wrote in her new memoir that she considered pushing for the removal of Hillary Clinton from the 2016 ticket and replacing her with then-Vice President Joe Biden, according to a report published Saturday. The Washington Post, which obtained an advanced copy of her memoir , reported that Brazile wrote that Clinton's campaign was "anemic" and had taken on "the odor of failure."

Welcome to the D.C. suburbs, where the GOP tax plan could really hurt

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi joined Congressman Jamie Raskin at a rally with hundreds of people against the proposed GOP tax plan at Luxmanor Elementary School in Rockville, Md., on Saturday. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi visited Rep. Jamie B. Raskin's Maryland congressional district Saturday morning, ground zero for affluent homeowners who could take a financial hit under the House Republicans' tax plan.

First openly gay lawmaker elected to a statewide office dies

In this March 15, 2000 file photo, Vermont Auditor of Accounts Ed Flanagan, left, watches the debate on same sex marriage next to Nina Beck, and her son, Seth, at the Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier, Vt. Flanagan, credited as the first openly gay lawmaker in the country elected to statewide office has died, he was 66. .

11/04/2017

This is not normal people. Not normal at all. He's basically doing promotional public appearances at his global properties on the taxpayer's dime: President Trump stopped at Trump International Hotel Waikiki during his trip to Hawaii on Saturday so he could "say hello" and thank employees.

Donald Trump mocked by Hawaiians holding ‘welcome to Kenya’ signs

Protesters in Hawaii mocked Donald Trump with signs that said "welcome to Kenya" as the President touched down on the first leg of his Asia-Pacific tour. Making light of the President's past enthusiasm for the so-called "birtherism" conspiracy that targeted Barack Obama, who was born in Hawaii, demonstrators also held signs that read "Aloha means goodbye" and "Immigration gave me my family".