Group looks to focus discussion on health care
"I have a big stake in whatever happens with my health care. I may or may not be able to get the treatments I need," Kempe said.
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Minot Air Force Base B-52 bombers fight ISIS in Middle East
Minot Air Force Base's 23rd Bomb Squadron conducted the fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria over six months. The 23rd personnel and bombers recently returned to the Minot base, swapping places in the Middle East with the base's other bomb squadron, the 69th.
Cattle Market Weekly Audio Report for Oct. 14, 2017
"Demand for weaned calves and yearlings this time of year is always good to very good, and this year is no exception," AMS analysts say. "Feedyards are looking to take the least health risk on cattle this time of year as temperature swings in one week can range more than 50 degrees and wreak havoc on compromised immune systems.
Republican Senator Corker blasts Trump for ‘castrating’ Tillerson
Republican Senator Bob Corker stepped up his public feud with Donald Trump on Friday, saying the US president's undermining of his top diplomat was like castrating him in public. Corker told the Washington Post in an interview that Trump had undercut Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's efforts to enlist China in reining in North Korea's nuclear program by denigrating the diplomat.
Trump’s Strategy For Toughening Iran Deal Faces Uncertain Future In Congress
U.S. President Donald Trump's call for legislation aimed at toughening the Iran nuclear deal faces an uncertain future in Congress even as leading Republican senators stepped forward to champion the cause. "I am directing my administration to work closely with Congress and our allies to address the deal's many serious flaws so that the Iranian regime can never threaten the world with nuclear weapons," Trump said as he announced steps to try to rein in what he described as Iran's "rogue" activities in the Middle East.
US mobile carriers Sprint, T-Mobile to merge: Report
Japan's SoftBank has reached a broad accord to merge its US subsidiary Sprint with T-Mobile AFP/KAZUHIRO NOGI TOKYO: Japan's SoftBank has reached a broad accord to merge its US subsidiary Sprint with T-Mobile to create a rival to America's top two wireless carriers, a newspaper said Saturday. SoftBank and German group Deutsche Telekom, which holds 64 percent of T-Mobile, are considering a stock swap for the deal, which could be announced as early as this month, the Nikkei daily said.
Learning from life experiences
The field of candidates in the Kansas governor's race continues to get more crowded and those darn kids are partly to blame.
Chris Cuomo Flips Out Over – Emperor’Trump, Gets Schooled on ObamaCare
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo got in a heated dispute, Friday, with Congressman Jim Jordan over Donald Trump ending ObamaCare subsidies. After asking Jordan for his opinion, Cuomo demanded a more liberal answer: "Jim, why arenA t you saying the President is acting like an emperor? And his job is to execute laws that are passed, not write his own and Congress must hold him into account for doing so."
Yes, build the wall
It's time to build the wall - and, in doing so, prevent an estimated 690,000 DACA "Dreamers" from being deported from the United States. It's a fair deal that could be scuttled only by intense and self-serving partisanship from the White House and the Republican and Democratic congressional leadership.
California declares emergency to fight hepatitis A outbreak
California Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday declared a state of emergency to combat a hepatitis A outbreak that has claimed 18 lives in San Diego. Brown said the federally-funded supply of vaccines is inadequate.
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The Latest: Phone companies told save evidence tied to fires
A helicopter flies through the smokey sky to drop a load of water on a wildfire Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017, in Sonoma, Calif. Officials say progress is being made in some of the largest wildfires burning in Northern California but that the death toll is almost sure to surge.
2018 California Senate race expected to get more crowded
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who announced earlier this week she would seek a fifth full term in 2018, is all but guaranteed to face a serious challenger next year. The question now: who can emerge from a potentially crowded field of ambitious progressives to take on the Democratic establishment favorite? Kevin de Leon, the state Senate president, who CNN reported on Thursday intends to enter the race, is the early frontrunner to advance beyond June's open primary, along with Feinstein, into a one-on-one general election campaign.
US House speaker vows to secure money needed by Puerto Rico
House Speaker Paul Ryan vowed to help Puerto Rico secure the money it needs to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Maria after touring the disaster zone Friday and seeing what he called the "dire conditions" facing many across the island. Ryan toured the island in a helicopter at the head of a congressional delegation and met with local officials and representatives of the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the first time since Maria swept across the entire island as a fierce Category 4 hurricane.
MGM Resorts Hires Crisis Management Firm After Las Vegas Sheriff…
Amid the anger and confusion brought upon by an ever-changing timeline by the Las Vegas Police Department and FBI, MGM Resorts International has hired an elite crisis management firm. The move comes on the same day Sheriff Joe Lombardo claims there is little difference between police and Casino timelines.
Ex-New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin files new legal challenge to his conviction
Acting as his own attorney, former New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin filed a new motion this week asking a federal judge to overturn his conviction on 20 counts related to allegations that he traded his political influence for bribes from city contractors. Nagin's motion, typed at a federal prison camp in Texarkana, Texas, where he is serving a 10-year sentence, cites the same U.S. Supreme Court precedent that led a Virginia judge last week to vacate most of the charges that landed another disgraced New Orleans politician - former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson - in the federal pen.
Oregon officials say they sidestepped Trump’s ‘sabotage’ of health insurance market
President Donald Trump signed an executive order early Friday that eliminated cost-sharing subsidies that helped low- and moderate-income Americans afford health insurance. About 50,000 eligible Oregonians stood to lose about $48 million a year in federal assistance.
Clinton talks discrimination, division during event at Northeastern
Former president Bill Clinton took on the politics of discrimination and division in a panel discussion in Boston Friday night, never naming President Trump but pointedly addressing recent controversies that have been associated with the president's rhetoric and the views of some Trump supporters. Speaking on a panel before a crowd of more than 1,000 at Northeastern University's Matthews Arena, Clinton said that racism, sexism, homophobia, and other biases are nothing new, but that those elements are "all hanging out there now, for obvious reasons."
Ex-congressman: The truth can’t get me fired anymore
Retiring Sen. Bob Corker's recent comments about the White House -- that it's an adult day care center and that President Donald Trump's temperament could set us "on the path to World War III" -- reveal a basic truth about what happens to you when you leave Congress: You get to tell the truth. Many of us who've left elected life feel a sense of liberation, as if our tongues are no longer strapped to the right or left sides of our mouths.
Washington Post: Corker says Trump can’t ‘castrate’ Tillerson
Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tennesse, told The Washington Post in an interview posted Friday that President Donald Trump public statements on foreign policy "castrate" his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson -- creating "binary" scenarios for the United States on the world stage. "You cannot publicly castrate your own secretary of state without giving yourself that binary choice," Corker told The Washington Post's Jackson Diehl in a phone interview on Friday.