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The federal government ran a $668 billion budget deficit for the just-completed 2017 fiscal year. That's $82 billion more red ink than the government produced last year, according to the Congressional Budget Office, based on preliminary Treasury reports.
Liberty Elementary School students wave the flags of different Latin American countries at the annual Hispanic Heritage Month presentation Friday. The girl second in line is waving the Puerto Rican flag, and students performed a dance in honor of the U.S. territory slowly recovering from widespread devastation caused by Hurricane Maria.
Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event for U.S. Senate candidate Doug Jones, seated at left, at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex on Tuesday. Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event for U.S. Senate candidate Doug Jones, seated at left, at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex on Tuesday.
Weinstein has been fired from The Weinstein Co., effective immediately, following new information revealed rega... . FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2016 file photo, producer Harvey Weinstein participates in the "War and Peace" panel at the A&E 2016 Winter TCA in Pasadena, Calif.
Joan Ethel Norvill Harper was born on Oct. 30, 1935, in Liverpool, England, where she lived until shortly after she married. As a student, she earned an academic scholarship to attend the Belvedere School for Girls in Liverpool from which she graduated with High Honors.
The Chautauqua County Libertarian Party held its annual convention on at the See-Zurh House in Bemus Point. The Chautauqua County Libertarian Party is a chapter of the Libertarian Party of New York and was formed in 2015 to advance liberty in Chautauqua County.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, followed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., looks at a poster at the start of a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017, urging Republicans to abandon cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. WASHINGTON - Trying to revive health care talks, President Donald Trump said Saturday that he had spoken to the Senate's Democratic leader to gauge whether the minority party was interested in helping pass "great" health legislation.
Trump on North Korea: 'Only one thing will work' - President Donald Trump on Saturday lamented decades of "failed" foreign policy with North Korea, saying "only one thing" will work.
During George W. Bush's eight years in office, the federal debt roughly doubled. It doubled again under Barack Obama, a dubious fiscal record forever linking our two previous presidents, one a Republican, the other a Democrat.
As the Florida Republican settles into a second term in a Senate that he once couldn't leave fast enough, Marco Rubio is aggressively pursuing his legislative interests in ways he did not while chasing the presidency. WASHINGTON>> During his run for president, Marco Rubio took plenty of fire for being an absentee senator.
IMF chief Christine Lagarde on Friday urged the United States to proceed with a tax overhaul, saying it was "desperately needed" to boost growth in the world's largest economy. "It has to eliminate all the exemptions and the exonerations and the various exceptions that make the system so complicated."
A few days ago, former First Lady Michelle Obama made some racist comments about the Republican Party. She continued the divisive rhetoric we've all grown used to hearing during her husband's two terms as President.
US President Donald Trump has said he will not go ahead with his controversial pledge to move the American embassy to Jerusalem until after pushing for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. "I wanna give that a shot before I even think about moving the embassy to Jerusalem," Trump said on former governor Mike Huckabee's TV show yesterday, referring to efforts to forge a peace between the two sides that has eluded career diplomats for decades.
Former GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks outside of The United States Supreme Court after oral arguments in Gill v. Whitford, a case on partisan gerrymandering.
Amid speculation that U.S. President Donald Trump is to "decertify" the Iran Nuclear Deal next week, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that the 2015 agreement is "irreversible." "We have achieved benefits that are irreversible.
On Wednesday October 4, the news carried an apocalyptic version of our country with its chaotic national and foreign policy politics; its epidemic of Americans massacred by fellow Americans fatally attracted to assault weapons; and climate change denial in the face of a trifecta of record-breaking hurricanes. Our world is closer to nuclear war than at any time since the 1960s.
The Irish post office, An Post, will release a stamp commemorating Che Guevara 50 years after the Cuban communist was killed while trying, with no success, to export Castro's revolution to Bolivia. The Irish government, through its Cabinet, approved this decision .
An effort to accomplish that kicked off Saturday afternoon when the group Public Water Now held a rally at Laguna Grande Park. There were petitions available for signing, a chance to donate to the cause and to be videotaped while telling about experiences dealing with California American Water's Monterey District Water System.
President Donald Trump's lawyers have adopted a new legal strategy of cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller in the hopes that he will do the one thing former FBI director James Comey did not: confirm publicly that Trump is not being investigated as part of the FBI's Russia probe, according to The New York Times . Mueller was appointed special counsel after Trump fired Comey in May. Initially, the White House said Trump's dismissal of Comey was based entirely on Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's recommendation and because of his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.