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On Aug. 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon announced his resignation, effective the next day, following damaging new revelations in the Watergate scandal. In 1911, President William Howard Taft signed a measure raising the number of U.S. representatives from 391 to 433, effective with the next Congress, with a proviso to add two more when New Mexico and Arizona became states.
Pennsylvania matters. The Trump and Clinton campaigns will spend millions in this state to nudge the needle a few percentage points one way or the other.
His critics have used a lot of adjectives to describe Donald Trump: outrageous, flamboyant, pompous, thin-skinned, erratic, egocentric and paranoid, for starters. But maybe it's time to use another word: "crazy."
This column is only 600 words or so, which gives me not nearly enough space to do justice to the many ways Donald Trump has proven himself unfit to be president. He is an overgrown frat boy trying to masquerade as a statesman.
PITTSFIELD >> I am running for state senator as a Bernie Sanders progressive. Whenever you hear Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren or I speak at length, our speeches invariably start on the subject of wealth disparity.
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Bali Hai Golf Club is seen on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2016, in Las Vegas. Erik Verduzco/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow @Erik_Verduzco is a sports columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, covering a variety of topics and the Las Vegas sports scene.
In Philadelphia, a cascade of red, white and blue balloons turned the celebrating statesmen on the stage into playful adolescents, while in Cleveland black balloons descended on GOP nominees in a dour mood. Of course there is.
Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah and retiring Legislative Council president Jasper Tsang Yok-sing caused a stir when they announced they may run for Chief Executive Hong Kong was taken aback when the two Tsangs - Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah and retiring Legislative Council president Jasper Tsang Yok-sing - declared their intention to run for the city's top job. The immediate question was why the duo would be the first to shed some light on who will throw their hat into the ring for chief executive, instead of incumbent Leung Chun-ying.
Many years ago, when Chile was deep into one of Latin America's most profound conflicts between democracy and communism, I became friends with -- and was filled with admiration for -- a Belgian Jesuit priest, Father Roger Vekemans. His brilliance was making citizens out of the masses of poor Chileans who had, until then, played no real part in their own lives and country, and it was a wondrous thing to see.
Redistricting and lawsuits challenging the resulting new maps have gone together in North Carolina politics for what seems to be about as long as anyone can remember. Republican-created congressional districts that were hurriedly crafted earlier this year after a federal court ruled the district maps drawn in 2011 were racial gerrymandering again have been challenged in court.
If the federal government grants New Hampshire's request for a drought disaster declaration, farmers in all but the southwest corner of the state can qualify for emergency assistance programs.
They are Republicans vying in the Aug. 30 primary for the chance to run in November against a Democrat in the 23rd U.S. House District. The chances of a GOP candidate defeating a Democrat in this district are slim.
We'll stipulate that Debbie Wasserman Schultz can be prickly. And it was painful to watch people cheer her resignation two weeks ago as chair of the Democratic National Committee.
In Tupelo and throughout America racial divisions like flooding waters are dangerously close to breeching a dam. In a world of hurt people are asking questions.
At the beginning of the year, the Obama administration danced for victory in announcing the implementation of a deal with Iran that rewarded the No. 1 state sponsor of terrorism with the lifting of well-deserved sanctions in return for its purported actions to dismantle its nuclear program.
Campaign 2016: Toomey banking on split-ticket voting The Pennsylvania Republican hopes voters turned off by Donald Trump will still support his Senate reelection bid. Check out this story on publicopiniononline.com: http://on-ydr.co/2aMxkW3 In this May 9, 2016, file photo, Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa.
In her autobiography, Living History , Hillary Clinton describes herself not as a former senator or first lady, but as a person born in a "fortunate time and place", free to make choices unavailable to many women in the past and inconceivable for many in the world today. It is a point that must not be lightly brushed aside, as Mrs Clinton is confirmed as the first woman to ever to be nominated by a major political party to be the United States president.