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Category Archives: US News
Candidates for Virginia governor weigh in on health care
In this Tuesday Sept. 26, 2017, file photo, Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie smiles during an interview in Richmond, Va.
Still struggling with hurricane recovery? Help is available from FEMA, Small Business Administration
Help is still available for local homeowners and business owners who suffered damages - both physical and economic - during Hurricane Irma. Village Manager John Gilbert and Mayor Mayra Pena Lindsay met with officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Small Business Administration October 24, and encouraged residents to be aware of the relief opportunities being offered.
Orrin Hatch Tells Friends He Plans to Retire
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-Senator Orrin Hatch has privately told allies in Utah that he is planning to retire at the end of his term next year, and if he does, Mitt Romney intends to run for his seat, according to five sources familiar with the situation. "Nothing has changed since The Atlantic published a carbon copy of this same story in April, likely with the same anonymous sources who were no more informed on the Senator's thinking than they seem to be now," said Dave Hansen, a spokesperson for Hatch.
Trump administration disavows Puerto Rico power contract
The Trump administration said Friday it had no involvement in the decision to award a $300 million contract to help restore Puerto Rico's power grid to a tiny Montana company in Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's hometown. White House spokesman Raj Shah said Friday that federal officials played no role in the selection of Whitefish Energy Holdings by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority.
In topsy-turvy Washington, Democrats are no longer the hunters
Author and columnist Mark Steyn told Tucker Carlson on Fox News this week that the probes into President Donald Trump's supposed collusion with Russian interests resemble but an outrageous "high-concept thriller" in which he is innocent. On Wednesday, Steyn and Carlson discussed the revelation that a dossier on Trump that may have influenced the FBI and the Department of Justice to investigate then-candidate Trump was created by the research firm Fusion GPS and the behest of Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
The Latest: JFK Files: British newspaper got early tip
President Trump blocked the release of hundreds of records on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, bending to CIA and FBI appeals, while the National Archives came out Thursday night with a hefty cache of others. This image provided by the Warren Commission is an overhead view of President John F. Kennedy's car in Dallas motorcade on Nov. 22, 1963, and was the commission's Exhibit No.
Weeds plentiful in the field this year
Evidence of potential weed problems could be seen as early as June of this year.
Indian-American billionaire arrested on charges of opioid fraud
Amritsar-born entrepreneur John Nath Kapoor was arrested by the FBI for bribing doctors to over-prescribe a powerful opioid to patients. A 74-year-old Indian-American pharmaceutical billionaire was on Friday charged with leading a nationwide conspiracy in the US by bribing doctors to over-prescribe a powerful opioid to patients and committing fraud on insurance firms for profit.
GOP leaders: House will vote next week on wildfire bill
Republican leaders say the House will vote next week on a GOP bill to make it easier to cut down trees on national forests to reduce the risk of wildfire. A bill by Arkansas congressman Bruce Westerman would loosen environmental regulations for forest-thinning projects on federal lands.
Big divisions remain as GOP nears its tax deadline37 minutes ago
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., joined at right by Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., holds a news conference following a closed-door Republican strategy session at Republican National Committee Headquarters on Capitol Hill in Washington, last month. WASHINGTON – Republicans set an aggressive timeline for passing legislation to overhaul the nation's tax code, putting pressure on senior lawmakers and the White House to resolve major disagreements about the effort before a Wednesday deadline to introduce a bill.
Hypocrites, bigots & liars
We expect hypocrisy in our government and our leaders. All too often, those who decry something they claim is bad or illegal is also what they do themselves.
White Gold Star Widow In Niger Ambush Breaks Silence On Trump Condolence Call To Her
Michelle Black was reportedly comforted by Trump's "gracious" call in the days after her Special Forces husband Bryan Black was killed in an ambush by Islamic State-linked militants in Niger. "I'm very grateful that he called and he spoke to the kids.
One Hundred ‘Handmaids’ Greet Mike Pence to Protest GOP’s Anti-Choice Agenda
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Hillary Clinton’s “real Russia scandal”: The vast…
Right-wing media's latest concoction: Stir a few old stories into the cauldron of Hillary hate. It just might work about the brewing hysteria I saw in the right-wing media over what they're calling the "real Russia scandal."
Adam Schiff says Donald Trump is preventing bipartisan consensus on Russian meddling
"The single biggest step we need to take to protect our election going forward is [to develop] the bipartisan consensus that if a foreign power intervenes next time, we will all reject it," Mr. Schiff, California Democrat, said on MSNBC. "The single biggest impediment to reaching that consensus is the president of the United States who will not even acknowledge that that happened."
Trump Vows To Give ‘Just About Everything’ On JFK To The Public
President Donald Trump promised to release additional files related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy Friday morning after withholding certain documents from the public a day earlier when their confidential status expired. JFK Files are being carefully released.
Joe Flacco Is Lucky He Walked Away From This Brutal Hit
Flacco scrambles out of the pocket, attempts to slide and got lit up by Dolphins linebacker Kiko Alonso. It's one of the most brutal hits I've ever seen.
US belatedly compiles list of off-limits Russians
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is greeted as he steps off his plane as he arrives, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Tillerson is returning from a seven country trip.
Judges to hire expert to aid evaluating North Carolina districts
Nine North Carolina legislative districts redrawn by the Republican-controlled General Assembly over the summer still may be unlawful, a federal court said Thursday while announcing it planned to hire an outside expert to evaluate them and possibly retool them again. A three-judge panel, which last year determined that 28 of the 170 state House and Senate districts approved in 2011 were illegal racial gerrymanders, say problems remain in the latest version of the legislative maps.