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As the midterm elections draw near, the Blue Dog Coalition turned its attention to rural America this week. Read More
A survey commissioned by the Republican National Committee has led the party to a glum conclusion regarding President Donald Trump’s signature legislative achievement: Voters overwhelmingly believe his tax overhaul helps the wealthy instead of average Americans. Read More
After days of silence about whether she would appear, California professor Christine Blasey Ford told the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday that she is willing to testify next week about her allegations of a decades-old sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee ... Read More
Enraged by the actions of the city’s chief watchdog, Mayor Bill de Blasio built a confidential file of allegations against him stretching back two years to justify formally removing him from his post, The New York Daily News has ... Read More
The fixer is pulling a fast one of his former boss. Michael Cohen tweeted and quickly deleted a third-person message Thursday night that confirmed his “critical” cooperation against President Donald Trump in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian ... Read More
The rain falling into Bianca Cruz Pichardo’s home in Puerto Rico’s capital forms a small stream from her living room to the kitchen, past a cabinet elevated by cinder blocks. Read More
When Robert Shafran started community college in upstate New York in 1980, he was puzzled that some of his fellow students seemed unusually friendly, acting as though they already knew him. Read More
Ivanka Trump plans to raise money for Senate Republicans’ campaign arm this fall — amid new concern about the party’s fragile 51-seat majority in that chamber. Read More
September 19, 2018 By Michael McGough SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Mendocino Complex, a pair of wildfires that erupted in Lake County in late July and went on to become the largest recorded fire complex in California history, has been reported... Read More
One of two people who kidnapped Elizabeth Smart from her Salt Lake City home in 2002 was released from prison on Wednesday. Wanda Barzee had been expected to serve several more years, but Utah officials said earlier this month that they ... Read More
Weather experts normally talk of rainfall predictions in terms of inches, but the effects Hurricane Florence had on North Carolina called for a different unit of measurement. Read More
Ari Fleischer wants to know if we're being fair. "How much in society should any of us be held liable today when we've lived a good life, an upstanding life by all accounts, and then something that maybe is an... Read More
Despite his generally good instincts, U.S. President Donald Trump is proving that his biggest weakness is on the foreign affairs front, an area where his background is lacking. This forces him to rely on unelected advisers, many of whom ... Read More
Representative Stephanie Murphy, who is seeking re-election in Florida's 7th District, released her second television ad of the 2018 campaign. Watch the ad, which centers on Murphy’s work to hold Congress accountable to the people... Read More
That’s the question on the mind of every Democrat going into 2020. The scale of the threat posed by a Trump second term is unfathomable — from the Supreme Court and women’s rights to the economy, the environment, and our ... Read More
The U.S.-China trade war deepened as Beijing announced retaliatory tariffs on $60 billion of U.S. goods and the Trump administration threatened duties on virtually all Chinese imports. Read More
September 18, 2019 By Anna M. Tinsley FORT WORTH, Texas—Texans are divided on how Republican President Donald Trump is doing in the White House. Two years ago, Trump handily won the vote in Texas, 4.6 million votes to the 3.8... Read More
Republicans and Democrats on Tuesday bitterly debated how to move forward on a high-stakes hearing Monday with Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh and the California professor, Christine Blasey Ford, accusing him of a decades-old sexual assault. Read More
President Trump’s irresponsible trade war continues to spiral further out of control, and while the adverse effects are being felt by American businesses large and small, the ultimate victims... Read More
Leaders across the country at all levels of government and private sector are working to implement innovative policies that address the challenges facing American workers every day. Read More
Cruising down the Arizona highway in an RV, Congressman Tom O’Halleran, Chairman of the Blue Dog Rural Task Force, was on a mission over August recess: meeting as many constituents as possible. Read More
For more than three days, Alonzo Harris, 64, was trapped in a flooded house in a flooded neighborhood in the flooded town of Trenton, N.C., sleeping on a kitchen counter, waiting for the remnants of Hurricane Florence to pass. But ... Read More
September 17, 2018 By Robert Patrick ST. LOUIS — Fourteen people caught in a St. Louis police “kettle” during protests last year and two others pepper-sprayed at St. Louis City Hall are filing a series of federal lawsuits against police... Read More
The White House hasn’t asked the FBI to investigate the allegation that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted a woman when they were in high school, a request required for the bureau to take further action, according to ... Read More
The Trump administration on Monday announced new tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese imports, a sharp escalation of its trade fight with China that will also exact costs on a wide range of American businesses and consumers. The new tariffs, to ... Read More
With the handful of rivers encircling this beach gateway about to flood, South Carolina officials made a controversial decision. They ordered state transportation workers and National Guard troops to erect a protective barrier along U.S. 501, the main route into ... Read More
A California professor has gone public with allegations that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were high school students in the early 1980s. Read More
The flu was everywhere last year. A Centers for Disease Control doctor said the past flu season was one of the deadliest. So the CDC is urging people to act now, just before the October start of the 2018-19 flu ... Read More
From day one, President Donald Trump has imposed his will on talks to overhaul the North American Free Trade Agreement. But as his administration tries to seal the deal, it’s not clear he holds all the cards. Trump’s ... Read More
He’s standing by his man. President Donald Trump has not completely ruled out the possibility of pardoning his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort — even though he is now cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller, Rudy Giuliani said Friday. Read More
