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If not for the revelations about Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and the subsequent fallout, it's likely Republican Senate candidate and former judge Roy Moore's accusers would have stayed silent. The courage women have found in the wake of Weinstein has dredged up lots of old stories of abuse and harassment, not just those alleged about Moore.
Now two new major pitfalls have appeared on the way to the Omdahl crematorium. As dangerous as it may be to bring the subject up, the lifetime of every male under 100 is being scrutinized for inappropriate sexual behavior, the definition of which has been evolving daily.
Will Saetren warns that the US president has virtually no restraints on his ability to launch nuclear strikes and, given Trump's reputation for impulsiveness, Congress should act to impose new limits Few people realise that Donald Trump , as the American president, has total control over the US nuclear arsenal. Every last one of America's nuclear weapons is at the US president's disposal 24/7 and can be launched at any time, for any reason.
Rep. Bruce Poliquin is showing his true colors with his vote in favor of the House tax cut for the rich. Poliquin ran as a so-called deficit hawk for two elections but that was merely cover for voting against anything while Barack Obama was the president.
Last year, when these families gatherered for Thanksgiving, politics threatened the holiday harmony. Who knew Donald Trump's election would unify us a year later? Last year, when these families gatherered for Thanksgiving, politics threatened the holiday harmony.
President Donald Trump began lying about the merits of an estate tax repeal on the day he began the tax overhaul effort. One of the most important functions the federal government performs is the decennial census, which not only provides a demographic snapshot of the country but also determines how much representation each state gets in Congress.
Don't like skipping work to take your child to the doctor? Republicans have done away with the Children's Health Insurance Program, which protected 9 million children whose families' insurance policies don't cover them because of a legal glitch. Never mind that the U.S. ranks 26th among developed nations on infant mortality.
Franken: "Democratic Sen. Al Franken issued a Thanksgiving explanation and apology in the wake of four women alleging that he had touched them inappropriately, a message that ended with a promise to regain constituents' trust and suggested no resignation was being contemplated. Franken, elected to one of Minnesota's Senate seats in 2008, faces a Senate ethics investigation for improper conduct.
A half-century ago, the Pentagon's misleading claims about civilian deaths in Vietnam eroded public trust and, ultimately, support for the war. The U.S. military today claims to have learned the hard lessons of that and subsequent wars.
Though their ham-fisted attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act failed in September, Republican lawmakers and the Trump administration won't give up on efforts that would take away health care from millions of people. They're now out to do it through the equally sloppy and cruel tax bills barreling through Congress.
Despite efforts by Congress, the Obama administration and state attorneys general to stop the predatory practices of for-profit colleges, veterans and service members who rely on funding from the G.I. bill and the Defense Department to attend school are still being targeted by an industry infamous for saddling people with debt and useless degrees. A Senate committee report sounded a warning on this problem three years ago, when it raised questions about deceptive practices in the industry.
In his Nov. 13 column, Congressman Dan Newhouse touted the GOP's "pro-growth" tax plan. Newhouse wrote that the tax cuts he voted for Nov. 16 should "spur economic development and increase wages in communities here at home."
Last week in Bonn, Germany, thousands gathered at the heavily secured United Nations climate conference, dubbed “COP 23,” a Potemkin village of bureaucrats, politicians, environmentalists, journalists and local support staff. Sixty kilometers away, in the 12,000-year-old Hambach Forest, scores of activists, living in treehouses, defended the old growth woodland in an ongoing struggle to save the rare ecosystem from destruction and stop the expansion of Europe's largest open-pit mine, a sprawling hole in the earth where energy company RWE extracts lignite, or brown coal, the dirtiest coal on earth.
BOUND: Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will be in Boston next month at the Big Sister Association's 'Big in Boston' event. Mayor Martin J. Walsh says he is planning to meet with former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton when she comes to Boston for a nonprofit event next month.
An apparent explosion occurred near the time and place an Argentine submarine went missing, the country's navy reported yesterday, prompting relatives of the vessel's 44 crew members to burst into tears and some to say they had lost hope of a rescue. Navy spokesman Enrique Balbi said the search will continue until there is full certainty about the fate of the ARA San Juan, despite the evidence of an explosion and with more than a week having passed since the submarine disappeared.
Boston minority leaders, advocates and lawyers yesterday expressed concern about a proposal by the Trump administration's education department to narrow the scope of civil rights investigations at schools. "It is deeply concerning that the Department of Education is dismantling its advocacy work in the civil rights space," said Ivan Espinoza-Madrigal, the executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice.
WRECKAGE: One person is dead after a plane that left from Massachusetts crashed in Pittsford, Vt. The pilot was identified as 89-year-old Norman Baker from Windsor.
A makeshift memorial near the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas on Nov. 12. A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation on Nov. 16 that would improve background checks for gun buyers. A makeshift memorial near the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas on Nov. 12. A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation on Nov. 16 that would improve background checks for gun buyers.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey says she has no reason to not believe the women accusing Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual misconduct with teenage girls, but says she will vote for him anyway because the Senate needs Republicans. This is the victory of tribalism over morality.
U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore, center, waits to speak at a news conference in Birmingham, Ala., last week. Even in a political season of routine marvels, few developments are more spectacularly incongruous than this: The United States has seen a swift, dramatic shift in attitudes toward sexual harassment with Donald Trump as president.