Trump jabs back at ‘wacky’ congresswoman as spat rolls on

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders calls on a member of the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017, in Washington. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders calls on a member of the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017, in Washington.

Trump has no plan to block scheduled release of JFK records

Riding with Kennedy are First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, right, Nellie Connally, second from left, and her husba... A witness to the deadly shooting rampage inside a Maryland granite company says the suspect had grown increasingly hostile recently and had tried to pick fights with co-workers. A witness to the deadly shooting rampage inside a Maryland granite company says the suspect had grown increasingly hostile recently and had tried to pick fights with co-workers.

Activist Speaks On How She Survived ‘Highly Demonic’ Female Genital Mutilation

A human rights activist relayed the "demonic" experience of female genital mutilation she underwent to small crowd Thursday night at George Washington University. Anti-FGM activist F.A. Cole spoke about her personal experience at "Understanding FGM/C in the U.S," a six-person panel discussing the trauma associated with FGM, how to prevent it, and how to help women heal from their physical and emotional wounds.

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What is a pundit? What are they for? Okay, what am I for? Back in the early blogging days a bunch of cranky stupid pundits were mad that bloggers were "advocates" or "activists" while they were... I guess I never figured out what they thought they were. They certainly didn't express opinions about things in hopes of influencing politics and policy! Or something.

McCain in Twilight: An Unfettered Voice Against Trumpism

Senator John McCain, the sometimes cantankerous, often charming and eternally irrepressible Republican from Arizona, has never minced words. But in the twilight of a long and storied career, as he fights a virulent form of brain cancer, the 81-year-old senator has found a new voice.

ROSENBERG: Everyone obsessing over who becomes the next Fed…

His pick is not as relevant as many are making it out to be because with a few exceptions, Fed chairs are not bigger than the institution they oversee, Gluskin Sheff's David Rosenberg argues. The next chair will direct the huge task of slowly reversing the Fed's accommodative policies without causing another recession.

Puna community gets nearly $3M to improve drinking water system

Nearly $3 million has been funded to a community association for a subdivision in Puna to improve its community drinking water system. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is awarding nearly $3 million in funding to a community association for a subdivision in Puna to improve its community drinking water system.

Grounding raises fresh concerns over foreign fishermen

Workers prepared the 79-foot Pacific Paradise commercial fishing vessel for salvage off the shore of Waikiki on Thursday. The boat ran aground while transporting foreign fishermen to work in Hawaii's commercial fishing industry and has raised new questions about the safety and working conditions for foreign laborers in the U.S. fleet.

Trump promises tax cuts as Senate GOP paves way with budget

President Donald Trump promised tax cuts Friday "which will be the biggest in the history of our country" following Senate passage of a $4 trillion budget that lays the groundwork for Republicans ' promised tax legislation. Republicans hope to push the first tax overhaul in three decades through Congress by year's end, an ambitious goal that would fulfill multiple campaign promises but could run aground over any number of disputes.

In California, Bannon Takes Swipes at Bush, Silicon Valley

Former White House adviser Steve Bannon on Friday depicted former President George W. Bush as bumbling and inept, faulting him for presiding over a "destructive" presidency during his time in the White House. Bannon's scathing remarks amounted to a retort to a Bush speech in New York earlier this week, in which the 43rd president denounced bigotry in Trump-era American politics and warned that the rise of "nativism," isolationism and conspiracy theories have clouded the nation's true identity.

Washington Post: A fair deal on Obamacare

Bipartisan negotiators announced Tuesday that they had struck a deal to temporarily stabilize Obamacare markets. Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander, Tenn., agreed to continue paying “cost-sharing reduction” payments that the government promised insurance companies, and Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, Wash., agreed to relax health-market regulations a bit.

Wishing for Trump’s impeachment? 5 reasons the next president could be even more dangerous

From the moment he was elected, liberals have clung to the possibility, however remote, that Donald Trump will be removed from office. They've fallen for the conspiracy theories of , and continue to hold out hope the Mueller investigation will bring his corrupt presidency crashing down.