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Oct 19 2021
News
McCarthy predicts more House Democratic retirements to come ahead of 2022 midterms
Amid the rise in the number of House Democrats not running for reelection in next year's midterms as their party tries to hold on to its fragile majority in the chamber, House GOP leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy is predicting there will be plenty more to come.
Long-serving Democratic Reps. David Price of North Carolina and Mike Doyle of Pennsylvania announced Monday they wouldn't seek
Fox News DigitalJul 29 2019
News
Dem senators slam Ratcliffe's nomination for intel chief
Sen. Chris Murphy on Monday dismissed Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas), President Donald Trump’s nominee to become the next director of national intelligence, as a “television character” who is an “inappropriate choice” for the historically nonpartisan post.
“I don't know this guy,” Murphy (D-Conn.) said on MSNBC. “I think he's a television character that the president has watched on TV,
PoliticoMay 29 2021
News
Biden calls Texas voting bill ‘wrong and un-American’
President Biden called a new Texas voting overhaul finalized by state Republicans an "assault on democracy."
A draft of the bill was circulated around the state House and Senate Saturday, and the legislature is expected to pass the legislation and send it to GOP Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk shortly.
The bill would ban drive-thru voting and 24-hour voting and would require voters to
Fox News DigitalMar 17 2016
News
Kerry Determines That Islamic State Is Committing Genocide Against Christians, Yazidis and Shiite Groups
U.S. officials say Secretary of State John Kerry has determined that the Islamic State group is committing genocide against Christians and other minorities in Iraq and Syria.
The BlazeMay 28 2020
News
Coronavirus updates: Blood clots clogged lungs of African American COVID-19 victims, study says
A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 355,000 people worldwide.
Over 5.6 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The actual numbers are believed to be much higher due to testing
ABC News (Online)Oct 18 2021
News
Democrats face grim political reality in midterms
Democrats are grappling with the increasingly dire political reality facing them in next year’s midterm elections as warning signs pile up for the party ahead of 2022.
Once hopeful that they could defy the typical midterm shellacking dealt to the party in power, a series of foreboding developments has rocked that sense of optimism. President Biden’s approval ratings are in free fall,
The HillNov 27 2020
News
US Navy Destroyer Takes on Russian Forces in Pacific
A U.S. Navy destroyer took on Russian forces on Tuesday in a direct challenge to Moscow's territorial claims in the Pacific.
Dispatched from a Navy base in Japan, the USS John McCain set out for Peter the Great Bay in the Western Pacific to combat Russia's "excessive maritime claims," according to a statement from the Navy.
As it conducted the freedom of navigation exercise, a
Washington Free BeaconAug 08 2021
Opinion
The 1619 Project Conveniently Overlooks Racist Past Of The Democratic Party
Democrats who advanced a bill in June to remove statues of white supremacists from the U.S. Capitol ignored a central fact about those figures: All of them had been icons of their party, from Andrew Jackson’s adamantly pro-slavery vice president, John C. Calhoun, to North Carolina Gov. Charles B. Aycock, an architect of the white-supremacist campaign of 1898 that ushered in the era of Jim Crow
The FederalistOct 09 2017
News
Trump's popularity is slipping in rural America: poll
Outside the Morgan County fair in McConnelsville, in a rural swath of Ohio that fervently backed U.S. President Donald Trump in last year’s election, ticket seller John Wilson quietly counts off a handful of disappointments with the man he helped elect.
ReutersJul 17 2017
News
A Top Republican Vows a Vote on Health Care, but Uncertainty Reigns
A top Senate Republican vowed on Sunday to bring the party’s health care bill to a vote as soon as possible, even as detractors said they would use a delay caused by the absence of Senator John McCain to mobilize further opposition to the measure.
New York Times (News)