For one, I thought it was pretty striking that the Senate passed a GOP-backed bill to require the detention of undocumented immigrants charged with crimes, on the very day of Trump's inauguration. That bill is similar to some provisions of anexecutive order Trump signedlater that day, and ...
Democrat Jon Erpenbach, who has served in the state Senate since 1998, said he didn’t know why the exception was developed but he can’t imagine that lawmakers intended to allow kids to walk down the street with semiautomatic rifles. “Certainly in 1991 we weren’t seeing what we’re se...
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On Monday, Senate Democratsblocked a billthat aimed to ban transgender students from girls’ and women’s sports. Last month the NCAA issued a policy change thatbans transgender women from competing in college women’s sports. NCAA President Charlie Baker told a Senate committee...
Most preppers are well-versed in Depression-era families who kept a big garden and raised chickens. Yet there are some lesser-known things they did during the Great Depression that might surprise you.
The Republican leaders in the House and Senate have been at odds over the strategy to pass a budget outline, with the Senate plotting out a two-bill approach while the House has stuck to a single-bill strategy. The Senate on Tuesdayteed up a votefor its budget resolution later this week...
While Clinton might be able to put together a case that she "complied" with the rules, experts said her actions are nevertheless hard to defend. We decided not to put Clinton’s claim on the Truth-O-Meter, because there are a lot of unknowns. But we still wanted to bring out as ...
The president also issued an emphatic call for lawmakers to pass sorely needed defense assistance for Ukraine. Acute ammunition shortages have allowed Russia to retake the offensive in the 2-year-old war. The GOP-controlled House has refused to act on a Senate-passed version of the aid legisla...
"The secret channel was Ambassador William G. Miller, who served in Iran during the shah's rule, as chief of staff for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and as ambassador to Ukraine. Ambassador Miller has confirmed to me his conversations with Iranian leaders during the ...