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Four states have legalized recreational marijuana, along with voters in D.C. -- though the D.C. measure is the subject of a congressional Republican effort to block its implementation. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Kerry, also a Democrat and the state’s senior U.S. senator, was confirmed Tuesday as the new secretary of state, following his nomination by President Obama to replace the retiring Hillary Clinton. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Mr. Cohen initially repeated his false statements about the Moscow tower to prosecutors working for Mr. Mueller after he pleaded guilty in August to campaign finance violations and financial crimes. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Some say they’re not the right messengers to energize the base and convey an economic message that appeals to people beyond the two coasts. | 0 | 0 | neu |
In 2010, after a wave of Tea Party Republicans swept Democrats out of power, she lost just 43 votes. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The 168-member committee will elect a chairman during its meeting in January. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Attorneys general in Utah and New Mexico said they had no immediate plans to join the suit. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Mr. Obama made his exit after the ceremony, flying by helicopter to Joint Base Andrews in the Maryland suburbs, where he thanked former aides and members of his administration before boarding the presidential jet, no longer designated Air Force One, to fly to Palm Springs, Calif., for vacation. | 0 | 0 | neu |
But, the Times reported, "an examination of his remarks at the ceremonies shows that he does not volunteer that his service never took him overseas. | 0 | 0 | neu |
As the Huffington Post reported on Thursday, various political historians and ethics lawyers have approached the Sestak news with yawns, noting that quid pro quos and backroom job offers are fairly common in administrations. | 0 | 1 | info |
A coordinated effort to replace Mr. Steele has been underway for weeks, with several leading Republicans arguing that the committee needed to urgently improve its fund-raising practices and tighten its organizational structure to prepare for the presidential election. | 0 | 0 | neu |
A persistent line of questioning by Republican lawmakers concerned the initial comments from Ms. Rice that the attack might have resulted from a protest, over an anti-Islamic video, that spun out of control. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Democrats, meanwhile, passed legislation in the House that would fund the whole government, but not the wall. | 0 | 0 | neu |
A voice-over at the end of the ad underscores the prime minister's message: "The world needs American strength, not apologies." | 0 | 0 | neu |
The move is almost certain to be challenged in court. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“We are better than that. We are simply better than that.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
If anything, the pitch being offered from the administration to the rest of the party was: take the package now or risk being blamed for an economic downturn. | 0 | 1 | info |
The polished Gorsuch certainly did not make any deluded or deranged statements, as many have come to expect from the president, that could lead a Republican to flip on his nomination. | 0 | 0 | neu |
You might say that’s just what you need to do to win. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The Justice Department’s Community Relations Service had arranged for the gatherings. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Indeed, even Steele himself declared back in December that Afghanistan is “’a war we have to win” — a far cry from the comments he made Thursday night, in which he said: “...you don’t do is engage in a land war in Afghanistan, alright, because everyone who’s tried over a thousand years of history has failed.” | 1 | 0 | lex |
Wray elaborated at Friday’s press briefing that each device contained roughly 6 inches of PVC pipe, as well as a small clock and wiring. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Republicans must be willing to take these challenges head on with new leadership, fresh ideas and a different approach.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
“This bill is a massive federal government takeover that would undermine the integrity of our elections,” Mr. McCarthy said in a speech on Friday, in an attack on “this new, Democrat, socialist majority.” | 0 | 1 | info |
Of Obama, he said, "I want him to do well. ... | 0 | 0 | neu |
Captain Johnson, whose agency is overseeing security here, said there were only sporadic problems on Tuesday night, and none of the wide-scale looting and confrontations that had erupted on other nights. | 0 | 0 | neu |
This prompted calls to boycott Chick-fil-A that were supported by the mayors of Boston and Chicago, along with plans for a same-sex kiss-in at the restaurants on Friday. | 0 | 0 | neu |
According to slides from an internal presentation intended for NSA senior analysts and obtained by the Washington Post, the program accounts for nearly one in seven intelligence reports. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The world laughs at us. They won't be laughing if I'm elected president," he said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
But while Gibbs said it's time to get off the "mindset that if we disagree, we have to disqualify each other" comments like Santorum's show that the GOP primary "has been a race to the bottom. | 0 | 1 | info |
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, campaigning in San Francisco on Sunday, told the large crowd that, “I don't want a summary of the report! | 0 | 0 | neu |
In June, he was then escorted from his FBI office and lost his security clearance amid the release of a scathing DOJ inspector general report that largely dealt with the DOJ and FBI’s handling of the investigation into Clinton’s private email server but uncovered messages that “appeared to mix political opinion with di... | 0 | 0 | neu |
Bloomberg, who has an estimated net worth of $48 billion, threw several jabs at Trump, whom he called a "dangerous demagogue" and a "bomb-thrower." | 1 | 0 | lex |
“Given the poison pills stuffed into a proposal that was supposed to entice Democrats we can now say the Trump ‘offer’ isn’t about getting to a deal but about shifting blame. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“She may have got out over her skis a little bit and more forthright and political than she should have been. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The state committee subpoenas must be returned Feb. 3. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The nation's leading civil rights group took up the language at its annual convention in Kansas City, Mo. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The plan, though, does call for a range of measures to improve access to mental health services and improve safety at America's schools. | 0 | 0 | neu |
In September, Moore, a controversial judge in Alabama, won the primary for the special election. | 0 | 0 | neu |
In a pair of evening tweets, Mr. Trump seemed to hold out hope of an agreement, writing: “I remain ready and willing to work with Democrats to pass a bill that secures our borders, supports the agents and officers on the ground, and keeps America Safe. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Democrats have largely avoided the internal insurrections that upended Republicans over the past decade. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"This is a monumental moment. | 0 | 0 | neu |
A dozen officers in plain clothes and uniforms stood watch as he spoke; one warned photographers to “remain stationary” during the event. | 0 | 1 | info |
"The only way to stop a monster from killing our kids is to be permanently involved and invested in a plan of absolute protection." | 0 | 0 | neu |
“I will never stop believing in our country & its future,” she wrote. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"I'm not holding anyone's feet to the fire but it wasn't a contest between the tea party and the Republicans and all this," he said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
According to the report, the messages are part of a long correspondence between WikiLeaks and Trump Jr., though Trump Jr. seemed to ignore many of the messages, including some which urged him to release “one or more of your father’s tax returns.” | 0 | 1 | info |
PHOENIX — As the Arizona Legislature sent a bill to her desk Monday that would grant business owners the right to invoke religion to refuse service to gays and others, Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, faced pressure from many corners to veto the measure, which has cast unwanted national attention on Arizona. | 0 | 0 | neu |
But he does have a solution. Sort of. | 1 | 0 | lex |
Mr. Hutchinson spent a year at Georgetown University before enrolling at the University of Central Arkansas, where he joined groups like the Young Democratic Socialists, and rallied for gay rights during the tenure of another Republican, Gov. Mike Huckabee. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"That is described as "incidental," and it is inherent in contact chaining, one of the basic tools of the trade." | 0 | 0 | neu |
"The illegal products being distributed in Colorado are being trafficked across state lines thereby injuring neighboring states like Oklahoma and Nebraska," Pruitt said in a statement. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The Justice Department wrote Mr. Issa last week that it did not need a special prosecutor to investigate if it chose to do so. | 0 | 0 | neu |
WASHINGTON -- In the wake of Mitt Romney's choice of Paul Ryan as his vice presidential nominee, the politics of Medicare have become almost as complicated as the policy itself. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The president has lasered in on immigration ahead of next week’s midterm elections, stoking fear about the caravan of migrants heading toward the U.S.-Mexico border from Central America. | 1 | 0 | lex |
Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke echoed Trump's comment in his own tweet, saying that he and the president had spoken and "both believe that conservation & healthy herds are critical...the issuing of permits is put on hold..." | 0 | 0 | neu |
“I believe this is a politically motivated investigation,” Stone said Friday. | 0 | 0 | neu |
And as the hearing continued, Republicans and Democrats pressed ahead with one point on which they agree these days: that an inept I.R.S. had committed serious misdeeds. | 0 | 0 | neu |
There is no precedent for such a situation here — a fact that has sent lawmakers like Senator Roger Katz, a Republican who has been critical of Mr. LePage, back to reading their state Constitutions on Wednesday to figure out what, if anything, they could do now to convene a special session. | 0 | 0 | neu |
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump Jr. had multiple online conversations during the 2016 presidential campaign with WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group that last year released a hacked trove of Democrats’ emails, according to four congressional officials. | 0 | 1 | info |
Everybody just wants to see the polls, how much money you’ve raised. | 0 | 0 | neu |
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Democratic presidential candidates wasted no time Friday evening demanding the immediate public release of the long-awaited report from Robert S. Mueller III, with several saying that Americans deserved to know any findings about President Trump, Russia and the 2016 election in order to form judgment... | 1 | 0 | lex |
PHILADELPHIA ― Americans should vote for Hillary Clinton because, unlike Republican nominee Donald Trump, she is a “sane, competent person,” Michael Bloomberg, the former New York mayor and founder of the Bloomberg financial news and information empire, said at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday. | 1 | 0 | lex |
Nominees have, in turn, generally refused to answer any question directly, in an appparent fear of revealing any bias about a potential future case they may hear. | 0 | 0 | neu |
As for his recent collaboration with Griffin, he doesn't regret it. | 0 | 0 | neu |
White House officials were reportedly furious that the indictments were announced by U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Friday morning, just days before the planned summit with Putin. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Its compounding effects will ultimately cost the federal government more money than if it was open. | 0 | 0 | neu |
In short, (Netanyahu's) a powerful messenger with a powerful message who the American people believe.” | 0 | 1 | info |
Sometimes his remarks have been plainly untrue, as in his speech to the group in Norwalk. | 0 | 0 | neu |
But the proposal, which Mr. Trump unveiled in a 13-minute address from the White House, appeared dead on arrival in the Capitol. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Beck rejected the notion that the Republican Party should expand its tent to include progressives. | 0 | 0 | neu |
With a little more than a month to go before the New Hampshire primary, the Texas governor is trying to shore up his credentials on immigration: On Tuesday he won an endorsement from one of the nation’s most outspoken and controversial public officials on that issue: Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., who un... | 1 | 0 | lex |
WASHINGTON -- The classified version of a State Department review of last year's assault on an American compound in Benghazi, Libya, found that it was impossible to say what exactly motivated the attackers, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton revealed Wednesday. | 0 | 0 | neu |
That means defeating international terror groups, working with allies and partners to go after them wherever they are, countering their attempts to recruit people here and everywhere, and hardening our defenses at home. | 0 | 0 | neu |
As governor, Huckabee signed a ban on gay marriage (which was overturned by a federal judge last year), and he has been outspoken in his opposition against states legalizing marriage equality. | 0 | 1 | info |
The problem is, those views are wrong.” | 0 | 1 | info |
Congress on Wednesday overwhelmingly rejected President Obama’s veto of a bipartisan bill letting families of Sept. 11 victims sue the Saudi Arabian government, in the first successful veto override of Obama’s presidency. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Politico, a news site that covers politics, reported that House Speaker John Boehner, who is from Ohio, wants the plan, also referred to as “principles,” completed and made public before President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Jan. 28. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Prosecutors said they would seek to have her sentenced to 18 to 24 months. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Mr. Christie, 52, honed his political technique, and developed a YouTube following, during a remarkable run of 137 town-hall-style meetings across New Jersey. | 1 | 0 | lex |
Mr. Ryan and Mr. Obama would impose similar overall constraints on Medicare spending, stipulating that average spending per beneficiary should not grow faster than the economy, measured by the per capita output of goods and services, plus one-half of one percentage point. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey wrote that the “American public deserves the full report and findings from the Mueller investigation immediately—not just the in-house summary from a Trump Administration official.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
But it also demands that higher levels of government provide help—‘subsidium’—when communities and local governments face problems beyond their means to address such as economic crises, high unemployment, endemic poverty and hunger.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
Akin also claimed he would help Romney and the Republican party in November by soldiering on, but admitted that no senator had called him to ask him to stay in the race. | 0 | 1 | info |
McCulloch's father, mother, brother, uncle and cousin all worked for the St. Louis Police Department, and his father was killed while responding to a call involving a black suspect. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“At least respect the part you play.” | 0 | 1 | info |
"People of every race, political affiliation, religion came together for different reasons." | 0 | 0 | neu |
The committee didn't recommend any specific kind of firearm for school security, Hutchinson said, adding, "Everything from a sidearm, to a shotgun, to an AR-15" would work. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The video was released after Akin canceled a scheduled television interview Monday night. | 0 | 1 | info |
But speaking on ABC News, New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie, who is insistent he personally is not a candidate for president in 2012, said he wasn't sure his friend Trump would be either. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Christie also took hits at lawmakers in Washington, including President Barack Obama, claiming a lack of productivity from Congress is giving Americans anxiety. | 0 | 0 | neu |
But "birthers" have demanded additional proof, asserting he could have been born in Kenya. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Former Arkansas Rep. Asa Hutchinson, who led the NRA's review, appeared to ease off slightly on the call for armed officers in every school -- he said it's "important" for every school to have at least one, but acknowledged these decisions are "locally made" based on unique budget circumstances. | 0 | 0 | neu |
But when she declined, he dismissed her again. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“I deeply and profoundly regret my reaction and I apologize to all involved,” Mr. Etheridge said in a statement. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Other Democrats said Trump should nix the summit regardless -- though they were raising concerns about the meeting even before the indictment. | 0 | 0 | neu |
But there’s a 1 in 3 chance that we could lose. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Mr. Christie, whose dazzling rise as a national Republican in his first term was matched only by his spectacular loss of stature at home in his second, entered the presidential race bearing little resemblance to the candidate he once expected to be. | 1 | 0 | lex |
As part of its policy recommendations, the White House called on Congress to act on an old administration proposal to spend $4 billion to keep 15,000 cops on the streets. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Mr. Obama was trying to negotiate, however gently, with him to exit the Democratic race without inflicting damage on efforts to unite the party. | 0 | 0 | neu |
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