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to and your own senator, and to urge them to stay strong,” tweeted the Brooklyn, N.Y., chapter of Indivisible Nation, a leader in the progressive, Resist Trump movement.
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All together, 12 crude explosive devices have been found since Monday, sent through the mail to a host of Democrats and other prominent figures who have been among Mr. Trump’s most vocal detractors.
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WASHINGTON — A young Republican congressional aide resigned Monday after her Facebook post berating President Obama’s daughters for their attitude and outfits during the annual White House turkey pardon became a sensation on the Internet.
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Tlaib, who became one of the first Muslim women in Congress on Thursday, dropped the expletive as she spoke to a crowd of supporters at an event hosted by the progressive group MoveOn.
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Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., former chairman of the House oversight committee, said in a statement that Clinton "failed" to follow records law.
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“I’m astounded that this caucus refuses to acknowledge reality and change.”
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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer shared a similar sentiment, urging Trump and Sen. Mitch McConnell to "stop holding government hostage and end the shutdown" immediately.
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Earlier this week, the colorful and sometimes combative congressman who represents parts of Brooklyn and Queens was characteristically sharp tongued, refusing to answer reporters' questions about it, and even calling one a "jackass" for interrupting him.
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Mr. Hunter, 41, becomes the second Republican congressman to be indicted this month.
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The Post noted that the legal age of consent in the state is 16, and sexual contact by anyone 19 or older with anyone between 12 and 16 years old is considered second-degree sexual abuse.
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A spokeswoman for Mr. Farenthold did not respond to questions about whether he had fulfilled that promise or whether he would do so after resigning.
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"But here in this small town called Hope, I was raised to believe where a person started didn't mean that is where he had to stop.
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It is too early to talk about that intelligently.
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"Given our struggling economy, preventing the tax increase and providing economic certainty should be our top priority."
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It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful.
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That assurance came ahead of the release of a book by acclaimed Watergate journalist Bob Woodward, which reported that Mattis once told staffers that Trump has the understanding of a “fifth- or sixth-grader.” Mattis has denied having said that.
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“I don’t like that language.
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It also creates a six-to-one matching system for donations of up to $200 to congressional and presidential candidates who reject high-dollar contributions, funded by an additional fine on corporations found to have broken the law.
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Republicans arguably have spent more time trying to define the bill — called the For the People Act or H.R. 1, to underscore its primacy — and tear it down than Democrats have spent trying to promote it.
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“I think liberals are missing a vital point in their blind hatred of Chick-fil-A,” Minor said in a statement sent to Fox News.
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"Donald's a really good friend of mine, I don't know that Donald really wants to be president," Christie said in an interview that aired Wednesday night.
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“American women know that Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and the party they lead are the wrong choice for women and their families,” a statement from the Democratic committee said.
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“It didn’t sound too important to me,” he said.
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Nine states, including California, Delaware and New Jersey, now allow civil unions and broad domestic partnerships that most likely fit Mr. Romney’s description of marriage-like arrangements, meaning that they would be in the cross hairs of a President Romney, who supports a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex mar...
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Several of the packages went through a U.S. postal facility in Opa-locka, which is less than 10 miles from Aventura.
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"This country is capable of change. But change doesn't happen by itself."
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Others, including the party chairmen for Covington County, William Blocker, and Mobile County, John Skipper, dismissed the story as a Democratic trick.
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Speculation over Wasserman Schultz’ position has swirled for months, however, and so far she has retained the public support of the White House.
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Mr. Boehner said Tuesday that he and Mr. Cantor had “been through a lot together,” making “tough choices that come with governing.”
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The Democrat, Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, said Mr. Flynn had declined the panel’s request for documents and an interview as part of its investigation into Russian meddling in last year’s election.
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Some of the relatives, known as “angel moms,” stood up holding pictures of loved ones who had died.
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The Deputy Director, as the senior career FBI official, has the delegated authority to review and modify any disciplinary findings and/or penalty as deemed necessary in the best interest of the FBI.”
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Largely, it was meant to instruct members, who now must use it to underlie their bills, and to inform voters.
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After a few seconds, the congressman grabs the camera and the young man.
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While Netanyahu has long been skeptical of the negotiations, his opposition has increased over what he sees as Obama's willingness to make concessions that would leave Iran on the brink of being able to build a nuclear weapon.
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Even if he doesn’t follow through or succeed, though, Trump’s vow to try aligns with other messaging and actions attacking undocumented immigrants ahead of the midterm elections next Tuesday.
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“We need to make policy rather than simply making political theatre,” he told reporters.
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When prosecutors charged the couple last Friday, the ex-congressman said he fully accepts the responsibility for the improper decisions and mistakes he has made.
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“People love you and you win,” the video showed Tlaib telling supporters.
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Mr. Issa said he reserved the right to recall Ms. Lerner later.
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He faces up to 48 years in prison.
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The state’s four legislative caucuses have said that they believe all four would have to agree for a special session to be scheduled.
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“I did these things. … I used money that should have been used for my campaign.”
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As a Harvard Law School student, Wilkins said he had supported the presidential campaign of Jackson's father, civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson, and that as an attorney in 1999, Wilkins had been a guest on a show hosted by Jackson's father.
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"I don’t know where Joe Biden will be or what he will be doing, but I can’t believe it’s more important than being in the chamber and listening to our best ally in the region -- Israel -- about the biggest threat to mankind, a nuclear-armed Iran. ...
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The company says its policies expressly bar discrimination and promote diversity.
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Mr. Netanyahu said Tuesday that he was making the trip because it was his obligation to “do everything I can to prevent” a nuclear agreement with Iran.
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"I think if you make comments like that, you make comments that are well over the line," he added.
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Reps. Peter DeFazio of Oregon, and Jim McDermott and Jay Inslee of Washington state are crafting a letter to share with the House Democratic Caucus that would try to block the bill from seeing the light of day.
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"We don't have a problem with the tea party's existence.
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In recent months, Obama has privately suggested that Sanders drop out of the race to help Democrats unite around Clinton and prepare for the general election.
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“Two words sum it up better than anything anybody else can say, and that is ’categorically false,’” the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, told reporters on Friday.
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It laid out eight federal law enforcement priorities that states need to protect if they want to authorize "marijuana-related conduct."
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“And I’m 100 percent positive he is not a member of the executive branch, which is charged with investigating and prosecuting under the law.”
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But polls show that many Republicans continue to believe that Mr. Obama was not born in this country, and therefore is not eligible to be president.
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At the end of last month, though, Trump signed a short-term spending package that funded the government through the Friday deadline.
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"This will not happen unless the American people demand it."
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According to the gossip site, Griffin joked with Shields on set they would need to move to Mexico after the photos were released or fear imprisonment.
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During a Thursday Democratic caucus lunch, Sens. Dick Durbin (Ill.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.) trashed the idea of Lieberman, or any politician, being in charge of the FBI, according to a senior Democratic aide who was in the private meeting.
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The question, in some respects, is not what's missing from the set of ideas, but what took the administration so long to get to this point.
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He laughed at Mr. Ryan’s remarks so often and so heartily that at times he seemed like a guest at a comedy club roast, not a vice president debating the fate of the nation with his opponent.
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Matt Mika, director of government relations for Tyson Foods’ Washington, D.C., office, was also among those shot.
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“For the president to break with the normal practice and meet with the Russian president alone, I wouldn’t trust what he says there.”
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But the path to such a deal is murky at best.
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“We hope to have a fix very soon."
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"He has no consistency about him.
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The final presidential debates will be held Oct. 16 and Oct. 22.
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The attack took place shortly after 7 a.m. at Eugene Simpson Stadium Park, less than 8 miles south of the White House.
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The National Rifle Association called Tuesday for state legislatures to allow more school personnel to carry weapons on school grounds once they've gone through extensive training, as part of a set of recommendations that capped a weeks-long review in the wake of the Newtown mass shooting.
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Creating federal regulations is a process and could change, she said.
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Mr. Bloomberg is a supporter of the arts and aligns himself with Manhattan’s sophisticated cultural scene; Mr. Trump relishes in being crude.
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Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, said he found those remarks unbefitting a member of the high court.
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The account offered by the source was the most detailed to date from primary sources as to the conversations they had with Sestak regarding his entrance into the Pennsylvania race.
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A government source told Fox News the FBI was analyzing the stamps in Quantico.
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The investigation of the second-term congressman, by the F.B.I. and the United States attorney’s office in Brooklyn, began more than two years ago with an examination of Mr. Grimm’s fund-raising for his 2010 race and expanded.
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The cease-fire should pave the way for Mr. Trump to deliver his State of the Union address to Congress after all, but Ms. Pelosi said it would not be held this Tuesday, as originally scheduled.
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“It’s amazing what she can get away with.”
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With elections just over a month away, many lawmakers were reluctant to oppose a measure backed by 9/11 families who say they are still seeking justice 15 years after the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
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But the nearly hour-long address was spent not bemoaning his ideological foes, but rather demanding purity among his likely allies.
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Beneath a mostly cloudless sky, at least by the mid-innings, fans in the stands intermingled red and blue.
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The “President cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer under [the Constitution’s Article II] and has every right to express his view of any case,” Dowd said.
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“People love you and you win,” Ms. Tlaib told the crowd Thursday night.
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"But it is precisely because of this journalistic dishonesty that conservatives should steer away from these venues -- or at least demand some form of editorial oversight given that these magazines simply cannot be trusted."
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"Their ideas are old and their ideas are bad and they eliminate the guarantee of Medicare," he said.
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The ambitious compendium, at nearly 700 pages, includes proposals designating Election Day as a federal holiday, automatically registering citizens to vote, and restoring voting rights to people who have served felony sentences.
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The charges were announced here on Friday by Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, who made clear during a news conference that the Justice Department views the hacking not as an attack on one party, but as an attack against the United States.
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Speaking on ABC's "This Week," Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said Steele's comments were "wildly inaccurate."
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The most recent back-and-forth between the Romney and Obama campaigns concerns which candidate would do more harm to people's benefits.
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The White House and Mr. Boehner’s office issued identical statements afterward that said “the lines of communication remain open.”
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Do you fully support the Obama agenda?”
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"Anybody who thinks that whoever the next president is -- and God willing, in my view, it will be Secretary Clinton."
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Republican senators rose one by one to voice concerns about the effect on federal workers and the lack of forward momentum in an impasse that felt unbearable.
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And if McConnell doesn’t follow through on immigration, Democrats will still be able to use his promise to vote against the next spending bill on Feb. 8 and pin the blame on Republicans.
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During his job interview with Mr. Trump in 2016, Mr. Mattis said he did not believe in torturing terrorism suspects to get information because he thought he could get more out of detainees by talking to them over a pack of cigarettes and a beer.
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Nick Merrill, a Clinton spokesman, said the former secretary of state expected that emails to State Department officials -- which she sent to department accounts -- would be preserved.
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To the Republican leader, it was a way to ease much of the pressure on federal workers and get the Senate back to work.
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And I think they're different than how most people do in America," he said.
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Thune, who serves in the No. 3 position in Senate GOP leadership as chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, added that Democrats “have not laid a glove on him” in the hearings and predicted the judge would get an “affirmative” vote in the Senate.
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It will be the second time in two days that Mr. Biden has served as the liaison-in-chief for the White House.
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Instead, Trump spent the first hour and a half of it complaining about a variety of issues, such as former Defense Secretary James Mattis’ performance and the late Sen. John McCain’s vote against Trump’s repeal of Obamacare, as well as offering his musings on such things as the utility of wheels and his desire for Russ...
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