When then-Hennepin County Attorney Amy Klobuchar was running for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota in 2006, members of the local public employees’ union that represented the lawyers on her staff wrote to their state union headquarters asking it to withhold its endorsement from the Democrat.…
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Hundreds camp out overnight ahead of Trump rally in Colorado
President Trump is gearing up for a rally in Colorado Springs Thursday evening, but many supporters have already been there for quite some time, braving cold temperatures and camping out overnight with the hopes of securing prime spots for the…
Pentagon chief visits nuke base to highlight weapon spending
MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. — Defense Secretary Mark Esper used his first-ever visit to a nuclear missile field in frigid North Dakota to tout the Trump administration’s multibillion-dollar plan for a top-to-bottom modernization of the nuclear arsenal. The costly project…
Explainer: Nevada caucuses present new test to Democrats after chaotic Iowa contest
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nevada Democrats will host hundreds of caucuses on Saturday, the third contest in the state-by-state presidential nominating process, almost three weeks after the Iowa caucuses caused mayhem when a technical meltdown delayed results. The Democratic race has…
Trump calls for all cases stemming from Mueller probe to be ‘thrown out’
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump walks to Air Force One after the NASCAR Daytona 500 in Daytona Beach, Florida, U.S., February 16, 2020. REUTERS/Erin Scott WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday called for all cases stemming…
Trump threatens lawsuits over Mueller probe, blasts prosecutors on Stone case
President Trump on Tuesday blasted the federal prosecutors who until recently were working GOP operative Roger Stone’s case, while even threatening to bring lawsuits over former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s “badly tainted” investigation. “These were Mueller prosecutors, and the whole Mueller…
Democratic presidential hopeful Bloomberg calls for tighter financial industry regulations
FILE PHOTO: Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg addresses a news conference after launching his presidential bid in Norfolk, Virginia, U.S., November 25, 2019. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday proposed…
DHS waives contracting laws in bid to speed up border wall construction
In a move to speed up the construction of 177 miles of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, the Trump administration is waiving a set of laws that applies to how the Department of Homeland Security can work with federal contractors.…
Federal Judges Association calls for emergency meeting amid DOJ intervention in Roger Stone case
A national association of federal judges reportedly called an emergency meeting Tuesday to tackle mounting concerns about President Trump and senior Justice Department officials’ intervention in cases involving Trump associates. USA Today first reported that the independent Federal Judges Association would…
Trump wars with Bloomberg: Rivals go full New Yorker with epic bout of insults
The war of words between President Trump and fellow New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg reached a new level of nastiness on Thursday as the two traded deeply personal insults on Twitter. “Mini Mike is a 5’4” mass of dead energy…