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Former Vice President Joe Biden campaigned in Alabama for Democratic Senate hopeful Doug Jones this week, and Steve Bannon is all in for Republican former judge Roy Moore. Jones' campaign has worked hard to convince Democrats to take seriously the former prosecutor's chances of defeating Moore -- the twice-removed former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice whose theocratic campaign message has alienated some moderate and pro-business Republicans.
The former Boston mayoral chief of staff who announced plans to run in the 3rd Congressional District in 2018 said he has raised more than $805,000 in September for the campaign. With the funds in place, Democrat Daniel Koh announced in a press release Wednesday that his official campaign announcement is expected in the coming weeks.
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The 44-year-old mayor of Tuscaloosa launched his 2018 campaign for governor with the release of a video announcement on social media and email Thursday morning. "I believe the issues I care most about; education, healthcare, infrastructure, I believe we can put together a plan that can solve our problems," Mayor Walt Maddox, a Democrat, told WBRC.
We are in the middle of an important event. Every year we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, September 15-October 15, reminding everyone of the enormous social and economic contributions that Americans of Hispanic ancestry make to the United States.
WASHINGTON The House Homeland Security Committee voted to send a bill to the full U.S. House on Wednesday that aims to follow through on President Donald Trump's campaign promise of constructing a wall at the United States' southern border. The bill from U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul , an Austin Republican and the committee's chairman, included $10 billion toward building a wall.
Two Texas Republicans in Congress Sen. John Cornyn and Rep. Bill Flores expressed interest Wednesday in exploring a federal ban on a type of gun attachment used by the gunman in the Las Vegas mass shooting. Flores, R-Bryan, said he supports a federal ban on "bump stocks," which Stephen Paddock used to make rifles shoot more like automatic firearms, The Hill reported Wednesday.
Sheriff: Vegas gunman aimed at fuel tanks as diversion - KXXV-TV News Channel 25 - Central Texas News and Weather for Waco, Temple, Killeen Federal investigators returned to search the home of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock on Sunday, while the officers who raided his hotel room door the night of the shooting gave a harrowing account. "Saturday Night Live" has paid tribute to the victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting and the late rock superstar Tom Petty by opening its show with country star Jason Aldean singing one of Petty's songs.
A leading senator wants more details about a trip taken by a Trump administration official who flew to Florida earlier this year on the private plane of hedge-fund billionaire Nelson Peltz, according to a letter reviewed by CNN on Wednesday. The letter by Senator Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, calls on the Treasury Department to outline the purpose and dates of a trip taken by Eli Miller, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's chief of staff.
Trump has at times appeared to undercut Tillerson's message on some of America's most sensitive national security challenges, including Iran and North Korea The moment was as remarkable as it was unprecedented: a sitting US secretary of state took to the microphone to pledge his fealty to the president - despite his well-documented unhappiness in the job and the growing presumption in Washington that he is a short-timer. Rex Tillerson said Wednesday he would stay as long as US President Donald Trump wants him to , and Trump said he has "full confidence" in the former ExxonMobil chief executive.
Amid multiple reports of infighting among senior Trump administration cabinet officials, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday that his commitment to the President is still "strong." In 2014, while Barack Obama was president, Donald Trump tweeted a cartoon that showed one of the founding fathers of the United States saying, "I keep thinking we should include something in the Constitution in case the people elect a ****** moron."
Tens of thousands of young undocumented immigrants have reapplied for the program protecting them from deportation, hoping this renewal won't be the last time they're able to stay in the country they've called home since childhood. Young Immigrants Seek To Renew Deportation Protection Tens of thousands of young undocumented immigrants have reapplied for the program protecting them from deportation, hoping this renewal won't be the last time they're able to stay in the country they've called home since childhood.
What's better than finding out that Larry David and Sen. Bernie Sanders are distantly related? Watching the two men find out they're distantly related. PBS' "Finding Your Roots" released a clip of its Season 4 premiere on Tuesday, showcasing the remarkable moment David and Sanders discovered they were distant cousins.
"We have to use different tools and different tactics for the right situations," said Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Calif. "I just don't think it's going to be as impactful as it was the first time."
"If we're going to be in the minority again, we might as well have a minority who are with us as opposed to a minority who helped us become a minority," Ayers said. Republicans in Congress were seething Wednesday after a top aide to Vice President Mike Pence suggested to a gathering of GOP donors that the party's congressional majorities should be jettisoned in 2018 if that's what it takes to weed out members disloyal to President Trump.
The leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday largely endorsed the findings of the intelligence community that Russia sought to sway the 2016 U.S. elections through a hacking and influence campaign, and they called for a "more aggressive, whole-of-government approach" to ensure future elections are not similarly compromised.
4. DEBATE BEGINS ON US TAX OVERHAUL Capitol Hill Republicans are advancing budget plans integral to the overhaul of the tax code that would add up to $1.5 trillion to U.S. debt. 5. WHAT'S SOURCE OF REVENUE FOR PYONGYANG At a time when North Korea is banned from selling almost anything, seafood prepared by the country's workers has gone U.S. stores and homes, the AP determines.
Republican congressman Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania announced Wednesday that he would not run for a ninth term, amid tawdry revelations of an extramarital affair in which the anti-abortion lawmaker urged his mistress to get an abortion when he thought she was pregnant. Murphy said in a brief statement through his office that he will "take personal time to seek help as my family and I continue to work through our personal difficulties."
Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation is looking at a controversial dossier on President Trump compiled by a former British intelligence officer, according to a report on Wednesday. Three sources with knowledge of the probe told Reuters that Mueller's investigators have assumed control of multiple inquiries into allegations by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia interfered in the election to benefit Trump.