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To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: The Day's editorial page editor allowed Republican lawmakers 11 days to come up with a $40 billion budget response to the tax and spending plan laid out by Gov. Malloy Feb. 8. It took the Malloy's bureaucratic budget experts presumably all fall and into the winter to create a universally disliked proposal - most Democrats not living in Hartford, New Haven and Bridgeport don't support it either - that shovels much of the state's looming $3.6 billion deficit onto to towns and cities and builds in concessions from state employees.
Letter: National Guard story invents controversy where there's none Saw your front page article about the National Guard being used to round up illegals. Check out this story on azcentral.com: http://azc.cc/2luyA5S Donald Trump and John McCain have been sparring publicly from the beginning of Trump's campaign for presidency, which began in June 2015.
The sacrifices made by those who serve in our nation's armed forces are many. Unfortunately, some of these heroes must lay down their lives so that the American way of life can be preserved.
The federal government has essentially stopped defending the rights of transgender students. Earlier this week, just after Jeff Sessions had been confirmed as attorney general, the Department of Justice announced it would no longer defend a directive that sought to ensure transgender students were not discriminated against in public schools and universities.
Michael Flynn's departure as national security adviser highlights the troubling and mysterious ties between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. We know Trump is the most pro-Russia president in American history.
Use of coal to generate electricity in the United States is expected to make a comeback as Americans begin to understand the reality behind former President Barack Obama's claims of a cheaper, cleaner future based on wind and solar power.
Why have Democrats struggled to defeat President Trump's most objectionable cabinet nominees? Because Hillary Clinton's 3 million popular vote margin obscures this nettlesome fact: Outside California, Massachusetts, and New York, Donald Trump won by 4 million votes. Across the map, political polarization and demographic sorting are shrinking the party.
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Judge Neil Gorsuch, his choice for the Supreme Court. A reader does not regard the position as a "stolen seat" even though Republicans denied Merrick Garland, the man nominated by President Obama, from a hearing in the Senate.
He lied to the vice president, and by extension the president and the American people, about a conversation in December with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. in which sanctions were discussed in some manner. And this opened him up to Russian blackmail, the Justice Department concluded.
The Space Needle towers in the background Feb. 15 beyond a container ship anchored in Elliott Bay near downtown Seattle. A board member of the American Chamber of Commerce in China, Lester Ross, says China is preparing to retaliate if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump carries out promises to impose sanctions on Chinese goods.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas got it wrong when speaking on palliative care on CNN recently with Sen. Bernie Sanders. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas got it wrong when speaking on palliative care on CNN recently with Sen. Bernie Sanders.
The president of the United States tweets that his own intelligence agencies are illegally leaking classified information to The New York Times about his campaign's communications with the Russian government, but he insists that it's all "fake news." Meanwhile, having interfered in the US presidential election via WikiLeaks and an online army of trolls and bots , the Russians send their spy ship Viktor Leonov to have a snoop at the US submarine base at New London, Conn.
Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch should not be confirmed for many reasons, but primarily his record suggests he will be a real threat to the legal protections for women, reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, working men and women, broadly applied religious liberty and limits on money in politics. In short, his record suggests he will be the court's most conservative member - no easy feat considering the presence of Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
In his 72 years, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, who was raised in segregated Richmond, Va., acknowledges that he has seen much change, often for the better, including advances in the 1960s. But in his elegant new memoir, "All Falling Faiths: Reflections on the Promise and Failure of the 1960s," he explains why today's distemper was incubated in that "burnt and ravaged forest of a decade."
University of Pittsburgh law student Ashley Hogan and I were ready to board our flight to Kuwait when we saw the news. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had refused to stay the injunction imposed by a Seattle federal judge against President Donald Trump's executive order banning the entry of people from seven predominantly Muslim countries into the United States.
Senator Rand Paul reacted to President Trump 's tweet about the press being the "enemy" today by saying he's not too concerned so long as there's no legislation in the works to "limit the press." ABC's Jon Karl asked him if he has concerns about the tweet.
Charles Young's legacy reminds us of the need to tell America's full story through our national monuments: Marsha Bayless Charles Young, the first African-American superintendent of a national park, is still celebrated at Sequoia National Park for building the first access road into the park. He's pictured here in 1903, seated center, with his crew.
President Donald Trump hinted at his news conference on Thursday that he may yet unveil a surprise on the fate of "Dreamers" - the undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children. If it favors Dreamers, it could be a shrewd move.  Trump's deportation machine revved up this week, and quickly backfired.