‘Obamacare’ survives as GOP scraps vote
Senate Republicans, short of votes, abandoned their latest and possibly final attempt to kill the health care law Tuesday, just ahead of a critical end-of-the-week deadline.
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Fox News’ MacCallum to Conway: Why Wasn’t White House…
Martha MacCallum ended her interview with Kellyanne Conway today by bringing up the news of Jared Kushner and others in the White House using private email accounts. The New York Times reported that "at least six of President Trump's closest advisers occasionally used private email addresses to discuss White House matters."
6 reasons post-Maria Puerto Rico could be a Katrina-like disaster
Puerto Rico is quickly sloping toward a Katrina-level catastrophe. A week after Hurricane Maria made landfall, the power is off nearly island-wide.
Republican Congressman Refers to Women Colleagues as ‘Eye Candy’
Republican lawmaker Mark Walker's comments today were no exception to this law of conversation, as he committed a similar party foul while at a press conference in front of the Capitol Building today. In his remarks, Walker told reporters that he'd call his women colleagues eye candy if "it wasn't sexist" - however, these stated reservations were apparently not enough to hold him back from making the joke.
Free Bariatric Seminars Hosted By CHI Memorial Metabolic And Bariatric Care
Jaime Ponce, M.D. and CHI Memorial Metabolic and Bariatric Care will host free seminars in October on surgical and non-surgical weight loss options.
Education chief speaks to St. Paul students
What do I want to do? What do I love and how can I make that a profession? Those are some of the questions Kansas Commissioner of Education Randy Watkins encouraged students at St. Paul School to seek the answers to before they reach their senior year of high school.
Republican voters increasing in Marshall County
More Republican voters. That appears to be a major reason President Donald Trump made his trip to north Alabama to stump in the U.S. Senate race.
Time for Republicans to accept reality
WITH ONE more repeal-and-replace effort in flames, Republicans face a choice. They can continue to live in a fantasy world in which it is possible simultaneously to uproot Obamacare, slash federal spending on health care and widen health-care coverage.
We’re running out of time on tax reform
Looks like another week of debacles for the nation's amateur president and the GOP leaders whose bus he hijacked last year. Bid No.
GOP Dives Into Tax Reform With Key Questions Unresolved
House Speaker Paul Ryan, joined by Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, speaks following a closed-door Republican strategy session at Republican National Committee headquarters on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Having spent years setting the stage for an ambitious bill, Republican tax writers are finally ready to go public with a plan-even as they face a minefield of competing interest groups and unresolved differences within their own party.
The Meat Markets Have Memories Of Last October
The 2017 grilling season came to an end almost one month ago on the Labor Day Holiday. All over the United States, people went back to work and school, and the weather has cooled off.
Republicans Left With Few Good Options on Health Care
GOP leaders could revive repeal legislation again-but potentially imperil tax reform-or move toward bipartisan talks to stabilize Obamacare. Sen. Lindsey Graham , joined by Sens. John Barrasso and Bill Cassidy, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, talked to reporters Tuesday as they faced assured defeat on the Graham-Cassidy bill, the GOP's latest attempt to repeal the Obama health care law.
Obamacare’ survives; GOP concedes on last-gasp repeal try
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., flanked by Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., left, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., right, speaks to reporters as they faced assured defeat on the Graham-Cassidy bill, the GOP's latest attempt to repeal the Obama health care law, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017.
Dunford: North Korea’s Ability to Target US With Nuclear-Tipped ICBM ‘A Very Short Time’ Away
Images released by the North Korean regime early this month show new postage stamps issued to celebrate its intercontinental ballistic missile tests in July. Whether it's three, six or eighteen months, North Korea's capability to reach the United States with a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile is only "a matter of a very short time" away, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Gen.
Hillary Clinton blames many things for her loss; George Clooney…
It was never exactly a shock that George Clooney - a lifelong Democrat, and about as Hollywood as they come - would endorse Hillary Clinton for president. But it wasn't a given, either.
AG: States must resist Trump’s new “federalism”
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Is It War Yet?
Is it war yet? "Little Rocket Man" seems to think so, and Trump's repeated poking the panda is inching us ever closer to nuclear war. Of course, Trump is at war with everyone now, so why be surprised? He's a psychopath, remember.
Hezbollah has launched the initial phase of the next Israel-Hezbollah War
For Israel, the initial phase of its next long predicted war with Hezbollah is focused on neutralizing Iranian arms shipments to Hezbollah while destroying factories allegedly under construction to build long-range missiles. Some Israeli recently bombed sites are also claimed to have been housing chemical weapons.
Janet Yellen Speaks, Stock Market Listens: Live Markets Blog
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is looking to break a three-session losing streak Tuesday, rising 0.15% in the minutes following the opening bell. The S&P 500 was also looking to rebound from a down day of trading, rising 0.16%.
Palestinian kills 3 Israelis outside West Bank settlement
2 young boys whose parents died in a fall off a cliff during a family hiking trip with them are out of the hospital and recovering at their New York home. North Carolina's Outer Banks are bracing for the effects of Hurricane Maria, even though the storm is expected to pass the state at least 150 miles offshore.