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Michigan attorney set to be first Muslim woman in Congress, looks to go after 'bully' Trump
Rashida Tlaib's opposition to President Donald Trump began while he was still a candidate and before she decided to run for Congress. The 42-year-old attorney — who now will become the first Muslim woman elected to Congress — was booted from a 2016 Trump campaign ...
Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul said on Wednesday he delivered a letter from President Donald Trump to Russian President Vladimir Putin's government, but the senator and the White House offered different characterizations of the message. Three weeks after Trump was widely condemned for not standing ...
President Donald Trump's tariffs against China are causing a South Carolina television maker to lay off nearly all of its employees because of the sudden increase in the price of components for its products. Element TV Company will let 126 workers go, most of them ...
GOP Rep. Chris Collins, an early Trump loyalist, charged with insider trading
U.S. House Republican Chris Collins, one of the first lawmakers to publicly support Donald Trump's presidential candidacy, was indicted by federal prosecutors Wednesday for securities fraud connected to an alleged insider trading scheme. Collins was arrested and charged along with his son, Cameron Collins, and ...
Special elections test Trump clout in Ohio, other battlegrounds
Battleground Ohio was deciding the year's final special election on Tuesday, a congressional faceoff that tested anew President Donald Trump's political clout — and the appeal of his signature tax cuts. The Republican president's shadow also loomed over primary contests in four other states, none ...
U.S. senators led by GOP's Rand Paul, on Moscow trip, invite Russian lawmakers to Washington
A group of U.S. senators, on a visit to Moscow on Monday, said they have invited Russian lawmakers to Washington later this year in a bid to help ease tensions between the two countries. On the second trip by U.S. politicians to the Russian capital ...
Trump sides with House on work requirement for food stamp recipients in farm bill
President Donald Trump is siding with House Republicans in the showdown over work requirements for food stamp recipients, adding a new wrinkle to difficult negotiations that are set to begin this fall. Trump on Thursday tweeted that he hopes lawmakers "will be able to leave ...
Amid tumult and scorn for media, Trump takes in Pennsylvania rally for hard-line GOP candidate
President Donald Trump swiped Pennsylvania from the Democrats in 2016. Now he is trying to help Republicans take a Senate seat there. Trump is holding a rally Thursday evening in Wilkes-Barre to back Rep. Lou Barletta, who's running to unseat two-term incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob ...
Bipartisan U.S. senators introduce Russia sanctions 'bill from hell'
Republican and Democratic U.S. senators introduced legislation on Thursday to impose stiff new sanctions on Russia and combat cyber crime, the latest effort by lawmakers to punish Moscow over interference in U.S. elections and its activities in Syria and Ukraine. The bill includes restrictions on ...
Top court nominee Brett Kavanaugh documents not expected to be ready until October
The National Archives and Records Administration said Thursday it won't be able to complete its review of nearly 1 million documents regarding Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's time in the George W. Bush White House until the end of October. This could potentially thwart ...
Clash of GOP titans as Trump escalates feud with activist Koch network 'joke'
The war of words intensified between two titans in Republican politics on Tuesday as President Donald Trump trashed the conservative billionaire Koch brothers as a "total joke in real Republican circles." The presidential insult followed a weekend gathering of Koch officials who repeatedly condemned Trump's ...
Trump sows confusion on shutdown plans as high-stakes midterm elections loom
Will he or won't he? President Donald Trump is sowing confusion about whether he's committed to keeping the government open through the fall elections or would willingly shut it down to secure more money for his promised wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump on Tuesday escalated ...
