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Mr. Jackson’s plea was yet another chapter in the downward spiral of his career.
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“We’re the ones who are offering a plan to save Medicare, to protect Medicare, to strengthen Medicare.”
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But on Tuesday, Mr. LePage’s Republican allies in the House, including the minority leader, Kenneth Fredette, announced that they would oppose those efforts — essentially shielding him from any official political consequence.
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Trump was referring to U.S. Navy Sailor Kristian Saucier, who was put in prison for taking unauthorized photos inside a nuclear submarine.
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Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children’s Defense Fund, an advocacy group here, criticized the study as “nothing more than a continuation of the N.R.A.’s attempts to prey on America’s fears, saturate our schools with more guns and turn them into armed fortresses.”
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A pending class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart that would be the largest of its kind in U.S. history may soon be dismissed, considering the tenor of oral arguments before the Supreme Court Tuesday.
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No plan forward on Iran."
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The investigation was internal at first with the White House reaching conclusions at least two-and-a-half months ago.
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“Put big game trophy decision on hold until such time as I review all conservation facts,” Mr. Trump tweeted.
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“This ruling also assures legally married same-sex couples that they can move freely throughout the country knowing that their federal filing status will not change.”
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"This is the tactic.
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"I know how hard this job can be.
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In a recording of the message obtained by the Press Herald, the governor identified himself and went on to curse out Gattine.
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Guess what? You don’t,” Trump said.
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On Capitol Hill, though, jittery lawmakers from both parties greeted the news with relief.
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They include keeping marijuana in-state — something Oklahoma and Nebraska says Colorado has failed to do.
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But at the time, same-sex marriage was a little-discussed item on the agenda of national gay rights leaders, and aides say Mr. Romney has consistently opposed both marriage and civil unions that resemble marriage for gay couples.
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Her comments, said Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, are “entirely consistent with what the president has already said.”
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He said there would be "no daylight" between him and Kerry on policy.
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U.S. Attorney Adam Braverman said Tuesday’s indictment proved that “no one is above the law.”
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"I believe that phrase from the Bible is 'the Lord helps those who help themselves.'
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At one point he suggested that those who opposed his position were heartless.
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The ad says: “You paid in to Medicare for years … now when you need it, Obama has cut $716 billion from Medicare.
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It did not offer further details about what it disputed.
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"From what I understand from doctors, that's really rare," said Akin said of pregnancies caused by rape.
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Mr. Cohen drafted his statement to Congress in August 2017 along with Steven Ryan, his lawyer at the time, according to people familiar with how the testimony was put together.
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In fact, arrests for illegal border crossings are at their lowest levels since the 1970s.
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Congressional Democrats were ecstatic, and so stunned by Mr. Cantor’s loss that many admitted they did not even know who the Democratic challenger was.
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Tripoli was the only post mentioned in the department's fiscal 2013 request -- funding for that location did slip, from $11.5 million in fiscal 2011 to $10.1 million the following year.
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The House GOP will reportedly make it a requirement that all new bills put forth in the legislative body include “a statement by the lawmaker who wrote it citing the constitutional authority to enact the proposed legislation.”
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"So for the president to raise it in the way he did on Friday was clearly giving the impression that he was endorsing it or supporting it -- or tacitly supporting it."
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Mateen also called 911 during the shooting to pledge allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Fox News has learned.
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WASHINGTON — In one of her final appearances as secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday vigorously defended her handling of last September’s attack on the United States diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, which killed four Americans and prompted a scathing review of State Department procedures.
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“Once the final bill is done and the law is changed and is complete and he can see that, he will make a determination of how he proceeds.”
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WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday said the F.B.I. ruined the life of his former national security adviser and said his Democratic opponent for president, Hillary Clinton, suffered no consequences after she lied “many times” to the F.B.I.
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"They've answered a question and it begs many more answers," he said.
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“And you exemplify it.
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The message was hardly subtle. But it certainly was debatable.
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Some say Congress should not raise any taxes, and were disappointed he went so far as to put any revenue on the table.
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“This was such a bad program, and he writes me a letter saying — writes the Department of Energy a letter saying, the reason we need this stimulus — it will create growth and jobs.”
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In a joint letter from the chairs of six committees in the U.S. House of Representatives, Democrats wrote they expect Attorney General William Barr to make Mueller’s report public immediately.
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It had to be. Probably. Maybe. Right?
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The new health care law, by contrast, will reduce projected Medicare payments to health maintenance organizations, hospitals and many other health care providers.
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"In his remarks today, President Obama disgracefully refused to even say the words 'Radical Islam'.
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Just as the forecasts went up on the basis of this agreement they will go down if this agreement fails. That we know.
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This is just the most recent example of an administration at war with people of faith in this country.
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As Senate Democrats float new options for complicating a vote on President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Republicans appear ready to return fire with a bomb of their own – a nuclear one.
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Later on Sunday, at a house party with Democrats in Burlington, Iowa, Mrs. Clinton was more explicit in challenging Mr. Obama by setting expectations for him to work with congressional Democrats on the trade deal.
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Labrador is an ambitious, sometimes savvy politician.
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Noting that Tuesday is the deadline for the government to reopen in time to prevent federal employees from going a second consecutive pay period without a check, Mick Mulvaney, the acting chief of staff, said Senate Democrats had a tricky decision to make.
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Iowa Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley is under fire after a video surfaced Tuesday of him mocking Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, as a “farmer from Iowa who never went to law school” — in the middle of Braley’s campaign for Senate in the state known for its agriculture industry.
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The state's two Republican senators, Jeff Flake and John McCain, called on Brewer to veto it, and major corporations like Marriott, Apple and American Airlines all wrote to the governor and expressed their opposition.
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Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, tried to deflect questions on behalf of Mr. Romney, saying on Fox News that “this is the platform of the Republican Party, it is not the platform of Mitt Romney.”
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Additionally, forces were withdrawn despite the concern by many Republicans that “leaving would strengthen the hand of Russia and Iran, which both support Syrian President Bashar al Assad.”
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House political analysts also have looked at such states, but redistricting in California – run by an independent commission – has been as tough on Democrats as it has been on Republicans.
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“Donald Trump is going to be impeached whether it is by the ballot box or Congress,” said Representative Eric Swalwell, Democrat of California and a member of the Intelligence Committee.
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"It raises a level of skepticism that the American people have from time to time about just how objective the Supreme Court is, whether they're over there to call the balls and strikes, or weigh in on one side or another," he said.
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The indictment documented numerous lies to lawmakers about his efforts to set up a back channel to WikiLeaks, and about his efforts to pressure other witnesses to lie.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said earlier this week that the mounting calls to remove Schiff were "absolutely ridiculous."
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"I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a Christian, but you don't need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school.
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Former Representative Beto O’Rourke, campaigning in South Carolina on Friday night, told reporters that “those facts, that truth, needs to be laid out for all Americans to be able to make informed decisions going forward, whether at the ballot box” or in their discussions with their senators and representatives.
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Trump, as is often his way, fired back on Twitter.
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Mr. Obama said the two leaders and other Republicans had supported public-works investments in the past.
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The letter goes on: “With little time left in this Congressional session, legislative scheduling should be focused on these critical priorities.
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The story was met with immediate backlash from Republicans in Alabama, several of whom dismissed the women’s stories out of hand.
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But Mr. Trump has already adopted some of the language that his Democratic adversaries have used during the longest shutdown in history.
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“It is abundantly clear that this kind of conduct is contrary to President Obama’s pledge to change ’business as usual’ and that his administration has engaged in the kind of political shenanigans he once campaigned to end.”
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That man is here to use the resources and use them wisely, to care for the Earth, to be a steward of the Earth, but we're not here to serve the Earth.
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Earlier, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) released a statement immediately after the Mueller report was revealed to be complete, demanding that Barr quickly put together a redacted, releasable version for Congress to access.
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Outside the St. Louis County Justice Center, where the grand jury convened, two dozen protesters gathered in a circle for a prayer, chanted and held signs urging McCulloch to step aside.
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“We need strength and decision-making and authority back in the Oval Office,” he said.
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However, he did not answer directly when asked six times whether, under the law, it would be legal for a merchant to refuse to serve gay customers.
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It used to be that taking a bite of a chicken sandwich just meant you were hungry.
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Despite Democrats’ vow to reject the measure, it could create an opening for negotiations between the two sides.
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You … I need you to, just friggin.
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Friday lashed out at Donald Trump, accusing the billionaire of enlisting "his friends at the National Enquirer and his political henchmen to do his bidding."
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They have banned a number of pages and accounts in recent weeks for being involved in activity intended to disrupt the midterm elections, and almost all of the major platforms removed content from Alex Jones, the far-right conspiracy theorist, this month over what they called hateful and violent speech.
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CNN, which has enlisted Ms. Griffin to host New Year’s Eve programming alongside Anderson Cooper for the last decade, announced on Wednesday that she would no longer appear.
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"We offered the prime minister an opportunity to balance the politically divisive invitation from Speaker Boehner." Durbin said.
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And an amendment sponsored by Representative Raul Ruiz of California would prohibit federal funds from being spent at businesses owned or controlled by the president, the vice president or any cabinet official.
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And, of course, it drew widespread criticism for its infamous Sarah Palin cover in 2009.
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Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) told reporters that he used his belt as a tourniquet to stop a staffer’s bleeding.
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Boehner, meanwhile, told lawmakers earlier Thursday not to make plans for Christmas, signaling that there may not realistically be a final deal until the very end of the month.
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Top Republican Sen. John Thune, of South Dakota, all but confirmed Wednesday that his party is willing to use what’s known as the “nuclear option,” to lower the vote threshold to confirm Judge Neil Gorsuch if Democrats try to filibuster.
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The 10-year-old lawsuit, argued in lively exchanges at the court Tuesday, claims that Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest employer, favors men over women in pay and promotions.
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He claimed that not knowing about their security requests "really, I think, cost these people their lives."
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"I'm being myself -- frank.
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That’s how John Skipper, 66, a former chairman of the Mobile County Republican Party, characterized the claims, speaking to The New York Times.
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A lockdown has been lifted at the YMCA Alexandria, next to the field where the shooting took place, spokeswoman Dana Rucker told HuffPost.
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Both the White House and lawyers for Mr. Trump vigorously denied the BuzzFeed report even before the special counsel’s office weighed in.
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Reacting to the firing, the president tweeted, "finally," while asking whether the Russia case will now be dropped:
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And I would hope that she would get off the court as soon as possible.”
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But while Republicans have several opportunities to pick off those Democrat-held seats, three races in particular could undermine those potential gains for the GOP. Republican Sens. Scott Brown in Massachusetts and Dean Heller in Nevada, who was appointed to fill the vacancy left by John Ensign, are both considered vulnerable.
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Mark Sheridan, the attorney representing Christie's campaign, confirmed to Fox News that the campaign and the Republican State Committee received subpoenas relating to the closure of traffic lanes near the George Washington Bridge last year.
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He would make it harder for small businesses to compete, do great damage to our economy, threaten the retirement savings of millions of Americans, lead to greater debt and more unemployment, erode our influence around the world and make our communities less safe.”
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He told Fox News Sunday night that “whether you're a Democrat, Republican or independent, you should want to see this report, and we should want to move on from this."
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“Call it the tea party-ization of Congress. ...
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Representative Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican leader, spent much of his weekly news conference comparing Mr. Schiff, a fellow Californian, to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, who fueled fears in the 1950s that Communist spies had infiltrated the American government.
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"I've been a conservative my whole life," he added.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took a stand for fellow House freshman Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Saturday after the latter’s expletive-laced comments in favor of impeaching President Trump.
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