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In this Nov. 2, 2017, file photo, Carter Page speaks with reporters following a day of questions from the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. A new congressional memo alleging FBI surveillance abuse is being used to undermine the legitimacy of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
Miguel Rosario Lopez watches a television that works using electricity from a generator, while his wife Milagros Jimenez walks through their house, which was partially destroyed by Hurricane Maria, at the squatter community of Villa Hugo in Canovanas, Puerto Rico, December 11, 2017. Villa Hugo is a settlement initially formed by people whose houses were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Hugo in 1989.
According to House Speaker Paul Ryan, the declassified Devin Nunes memo - alleging FBI misconduct in the Russia investigation - is "not an indictment of the FBI, of the Department of Justice." According to President Donald Trump, the memo shows how leaders at the FBI "politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of Democrats" and "totally vindicates 'Trump' in probe."
That joke has gotten less funny now that the President is positioning applause as a central issue of American politics. On Monday, before a crowd at a manufacturing plant, in Ohio, Donald Trump during his first State of the Union address.
What other conclusion can one draw from the tsunami of woman power now bearing down on us? As chronicled by the New York Times , CNN, NBC News, Time and others, 2018 has brought a record number of women -- over 500 -- running for major state and federal offices. Time reports that almost 80 women are considering gubernatorial runs, twice as many as the next highest year.
So much is said about our divided nation that we are in danger of believing it. Fortunately, most Americans do not define their lives by their political affiliations -- no, not even here in Trump country.
What does President Trump ask the country to believe? On Saturday, he insisted again via Twitter that there was "no Collusion and there was no Obstruction." Yet rather than let the investigation of the Russian intervention into 2016 presidential election play out, confident the facts will fall in his favor, the president contends the FBI and the Department of Justice are out to pin false charges on him.
What really rankles about Joe Kennedy III's vacuous rebuttal to President Trump's SOTU is that once again, Progressives are playing the pretty boy card, and the implications are deeply unsettling. So, it wasn't the bit of drool hanging on Joe's lower lip, though he had to have been drooling at the opportunity to jump on the national stage with so little - of substance - to recommend him.
Groundhog Day may have been last week - Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, predicting six more weeks of winter - but it will be celebrated in spirit again this week as Congress deals with what seems to now be the monthly threat of a government shutdown. Republicans and Democrats continue their dance of despair as they pontificate over important issues and propagate one short-term solution after another regarding their basic duty to fund the government.
If I'm peacefully marching and a person beside me throws a brick, who broke the law? In Washington, D.C., the capital of a nation of growing protest, the answer to that question should be relatively easy. Unfortunately, it's not.
The Utah Legislature has begun this session, as it often does, with a promise of minimal government and a reality of inserting itself into other people's business. But legislative leaders may have reached their Waterloo with House Bill 175 creating a Joint Committee on Governmental Oversight.
It's the first state Supreme Court election without an incumbent since 2007, and the three-candidate race mirrors the divides in American politics. Madison attorney Tim Burns has the same outrage, and on the same issues, as the Vermont Democrat during his presidential run last year.
To hear one of the most passionate arguments on behalf of young U.S. immigrant "dreamers," look south of the border. Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, has become known as an antagonist of President Donald Trump , using combative and profane language to rail against the president's character and his positions on binational issues, from plans to extend the border wall to restrictionist policies on immigration.
Facing possible deportation, Leonor Garcia, pictured in November, lives in a room at Forest Hill Presbyterian Church. The Cleveland Heights church has given the mother of four sanctuary.
File photos Students at Bunche Elementary School in this 2004 photo reflect the diversity the magnet school program has brought to inner-city classrooms in Fort Wayne Community Schools.
Without so much as a committee vote, Indiana's legislative leaders have once again caved to the fringes of their own party and killed a bill that deserved serious consideration.
The bright hopes of young Xinran Ji, a University of Southern California engineering student from Inner Mongolia, died in 2014 at the hands of a then-19-year-old "Dreamer" and his thug pals. Mexican illegal alien Jonathan DelCarmen, who first ju-ped the southern border at age 12, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder last summer in the savage robbery and fatal beating of Ji -- who was walking home from a study group after midnight.
I was delighted to see that the new Hope Place for helping families is finally nearing completion. It is a project that takes us in the right direction.
Mayo Foundation has one of the largest portfolios of investment assets of any nonprofit health care and education-related foundation in the country. A few years ago, Harvard University was at The late and not-so-lamented 2017, with its political conflicts, natural disasters, refugee crises and the threat of nuclear war, is now in the rearview mirror.
President Trump prepares to sign the Executive Order on Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty during the National Day of Prayer event at the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington D.C., on May 4, 2017. WASHINGTON -- Presidents don't win fights with the FBI.