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New York Times
April 27, 2018
In interviews with more than 24 people — including some of Dr. Jackson's former subordinates and a dozen White House political aides in the Trump and Obama administrations — officials said members of the medical and political staffs hardly came into contact with one another outside of routine medicalÃâà...
Orlando Sentinel
April 27, 2018
Marco Rubio, Bill Nelson and 13 Florida lawmakers asked Congress to pay for 500 new customs officers to help with staffing shortages at state airports. In a letter to House and Senate leaders of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, U.S. Sen. Rubio and U.S. Sen. Nelson joined with U.S.Ãâà...
CNN
April 27, 2018
The texts are also likely to raise new questions for Republicans and allies of Trump who've pointed to their previous anti-Trump texts as exhibit A for political bias at the nation's top law enforcement agency. "Having a tough time processing tonight, Lis. Feeling a profound sense of loss," Strzok writes to PageÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
April 27, 2018
Schiff cited several "secret meetings and communication" between people linked to Russia and Trump campaign officials including former National ... will continue meddling in U.S. elections and suggested some fixes that would help the government and politicians better defend against that interference.
The Intercept
April 27, 2018
As fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal continues, Facebook has rolled out a new authorization process designed to deter political ads and official Facebook accounts that intend to disrupt elections. In order to be verified, anyone wanting to run political ads now has to fork over the last four digits ofÃâà...
CNN
April 27, 2018
Trump tapped into the public's resentment that politicians not only didn't listen to them but actively didn't care what they thought. He cast himself as the voice of the "forgotten" man and woman. But capitalizing on that sense of alienation from your elected officials for political purposes is very different thanÃâà...
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
April 27, 2018
Americans express little confidence in elected officials to act in the best interests of the public. Just a quarter say they have a great deal (3%) or fair amount (22%) of confidence in elected officials. That is by far the lowest level of confidence in the six groups includedÃâà...
Dayton Daily News
April 27, 2018
Political signs are being removed from residential yards in Washington Twp. - and local officials are the ones taking them, says NewsCenter 7's Sean Cudahy. One of the biggest violations local officials see are signs being placed on the grassy spots between the road and the sidewalk, which is publicÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
April 21, 2018
White House officials said the plan about the sanctions changed after she was briefed and she wasn't told before she went on television. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin further muddled the narrative Thursday when he told Fox Business Network that the administration "refined the strategy after NikkiÃâà...
WMOT
April 21, 2018
Scheduled speakers included President of Fort Wayne College Democrats Brandon Blumenherst, President of Fort Wayne College Republicans Louis Ostermeyer, high school students and other local political officials and candidates. Farler said she hopes to see the conversation continue beyond theÃâà...
The Tennessean
April 21, 2018
Former Williamson County Republican Party Chairman Julie Hannah has raised an unprecedented amount of money in her campaign against Sherry Anderson for the register of deeds, a position that has not seen a contested race since 1986. Anderson's money comes from political officials and landÃâà...
Vox
April 21, 2018
The effort to discredit Strzok and Page has been part of a broader effort by Trump and his allies to discredit and even fire FBI officials who they believe will be ... Strzok helped oversee two of the FBI's most politically contentious investigations: the probe of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server and aÃâà...
Mother Jones
April 21, 2018
If that office signs off, the EPA could announce an official directive. Nancy Beck, the top political appointee at the EPA's chemical office, expressed worries about the proposed transparency policy, according to emails obtained by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) from a Freedom of Information ActÃâà...
Human Rights Watch
April 21, 2018
(Washington, DC) – Ecuadorean authorities should conduct a thorough and impartial investigation into credible allegations of political interference in the judiciary, Human Rights Watch said today. Evidence indicates that high-level officials of former President Rafael Correa's administration and the CouncilÃâà...
NBCNews.com
April 20, 2018
His election is part of a trend of growing political power for the Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community, especially in the state of California, where AAPIs account for nearly 15 percent of the population, according to Census estimates. In 1980, there were at least 160 AAPI elected officials inÃâà...
KPVI News 6
April 20, 2018
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Anti-abortion rhetoric is intensifying ahead of midterm elections as officials in Republican-dominant states push legislation that would punish both ... Politicians in states from Ohio to Oklahoma are pushing similar measures or promising to criminalize abortion as they seek office.
New York Times
April 18, 2018
This time, however, the divergence has spilled into public in a remarkable display of discord that stems not just from competing views of Russia but from larger questions of political ambition, jealousy, resentment and loyalty. The rift erupted into open conflict on Tuesday when a White House official blamedÃâà...
AZCentral.com
April 18, 2018
Being mayor may be an impressive job title, but the pay won't make you rich. For many cities in metro Phoenix, the top elected spot is a second job. Loading… Post to Facebook. Gilbert cuts politicians' pay, but what is the going rate for city officials in Arizona? Being mayor may be an impressive job title, butÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
April 18, 2018
Knowingly filing a false or incomplete ethics disclosure is illegal, but penalties are seldom sought by regulators, who typically give officials the option of revising forms if they are questioned. Responding to AP's findings, Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board director Megan Tooker said she plannedÃâà...
Monterey County Weekly (blog)
April 18, 2018
It's political season, with just six weeks to go until vote-by-mail ballots go out for the June 5primary. That means it's also the season for volleying complaints back and forth between political factions, and Monterey County Sheriff's Cmdr. Joe Moses delivered a doozy on Tuesday afternoon. Moses spoke toÃâà...
Michigan Radio
April 18, 2018
"School officials should be praising, not punishing, students for engaging in the democratic process and seeking reform following the massacre of their peers in Florida," said Steinberg. "It's hard to imagine a more unconstitutional rule than one that punishes students for simply displaying political signsÃâà...
Citizentribune
April 18, 2018
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump wasted no time before seizing on last week's report by the Justice Department's internal watchdog on misconduct allegations against the FBI's former No. 2 official, Andrew McCabe. Trump tweeted it was proof that his archrival James Comey, the former FBIÃâà...
The Tand D.com
April 18, 2018
WASHINGTON (AP) — CIA Director Mike Pompeo recently traveled to North Korea to meet with leader Kim Jong Un, two U.S. officials said Tuesday. The highly unusual, secret visit comes as the enemy nations prepare for a meeting between President Donald Trump and Kim, in what would the first everÃâà...
The Advocate
April 18, 2018
... feel that they need to jump in with legislation on hot local topics. But in Louisiana's State Capitol, there is not enough deference to local authorities. Our structure of government allows the political impulses of legislators full rein. That makes it difficult for local officials, probably more so than in most states.
StateScoop
April 18, 2018
Her suggested steps include annual training for city hall employees and elected officials, making department heads responsible for the upkeep of their agencies' records, and a public-facing site on which a "citizen could submit a record request, receive information about that request and track the progressÃâà...
The Sun Chronicle
March 26, 2018
A former Swampscott selectman, Baker said local government officials know how to “work with all kinds of folks.” Earlier in the day, at an annual Democratic Unity Breakfast, about 150 in attendance heard speaker after speaker urge voters to back Hawkins, a former school teacher. They pointed out thatÃâà...
CNN
March 26, 2018
After the November 4, missile strike, the kingdom's foreign minister accused Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite militant and political group that is aligned with Iran, of smuggling missile parts into Yemen. "Operatives from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah" helped put it back together again andÃâà...
Arkansas Times
March 26, 2018
Candidates and elected officials: your Facebook/Twitter pages should be open to everyone - no private accounts ... the right to an employee's social media passwords, which I don't agree with, I do believe that all social media accounts of political candidates and elected officials should be open to the public.
Chicago Tribune
March 26, 2018
Now, the activists and advocacy groups will share influence in the process with city and state officials. Some of those activist groups take positions unlikely to appeal to the local political elite; Black Lives Matter Chicago, for example, advocates for de-funding the police and criminally prosecuting Emanuel,Ãâà...
Mason City Globe Gazette
March 25, 2018
Steckman believes that patients and those prescribing the drugs did not know how addictive they were when the epidemic was starting, about the early 2000s. Those who are accountable for the issue are “up and down the line,” meaning politicians, pharmacists, doctors and anyone involved with the issue,Ãâà...
AZCentral.com
March 25, 2018
Both Arizona and national political officials shared messages of support on social media Saturday for the hundreds of thousands of protesters participating in the March for Our Lives events. U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., on Saturday tweeted that he would be marching alongside students and supportersÃâà...
SFGate
March 24, 2018
"We have serious concerns that Trump administration officials are misrepresenting the facts and statistics surrounding this enforcement action for political purposes," the letter said. "Public policies and law enforcement operations must be informed by facts, not the fabricated overstatements or distortions ofÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
March 21, 2018
The videos deepened a bitter political crisis playing out just three weeks before U.S. President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit Peru for a regional summit. The videos presented by the main opposition party purportedly show attempts by Kuczynski's lawyer, a government official, and the son of formerÃâà...
Daily Signal
March 21, 2018
The threats “were so severe in nature,” local officials discovered, “that up to 100 students were removed from the school fearing some kind of attack.” One of the messages threatened: “By Allah, we will kill every single Infidel student at this school.” Corey told FBI agents he “was supportive of known terroristÃâà...
Springfield News-Leader
March 21, 2018
Recently, Chilton perplexed local political officials by filing as a Democrat, withdrawing and then filing as a Republican to challenge Rep. Steve Helms. Neither the executive director of the Greene County Democrats nor the chairwoman of the Greene County Republican Central Committee are familiar withÃâà...
CNN
March 21, 2018
And they say the Trump team never bought into the so-called "psychographic method" Cambridge chief executive Alexander Nix was peddling to US political campaigns. Trump campaign officials including Parscale were more complimentary about the firm's role immediately following the 2016 victory.
New York Times
March 21, 2018
Up to that point in a two-week investigation, officials had never laid eyes on the man they believed was responsible for terrorizing the Texas capital since ... Interviews with political leaders briefed on the inquiry, along with briefings from investigators and a federal law enforcement source, shed light on anÃâà...
San Francisco Chronicle
March 21, 2018
On Saturday, the New York Times and the Observer of London published the results of a joint investigation that found that Cambridge Analytica, a political research firm that worked with the Trump campaign, had taken the information a psychologist had obtained from Facebook and morphed it into aÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 21, 2018
Aides had included guidance in Trump's talking points for the call to Putin stating: "DO NOT CONGRATULATE," a senior administration official said Wednesday, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the official had not been authorized to discuss internal matters.
U.S. News & World Report
March 21, 2018
That decision prompted alarm among state election officials, who expressed concern the federal government was trying to take over elections that have long been the jurisdiction of state and local governments. Johnson said he had considered the move earlier, but had backed off because of resistance toÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 20, 2018
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U.S. News & World Report
March 13, 2018
Iowans hold their elected officials to a high standard, and as elected officials, we have an obligation to lead." Senate Minority Leader Janet Petersen, a Des Moines Democrat, released a statement calling the video a "serious matter." "Because this involves Senator Dix and a lobbyist, there will be questionsÃâà...
Quartz
March 13, 2018
These include market administrators, mayors, security officials, provincial ministers, high ranking bureaucrats, family members of the President, Presidential advisors, family members of high ranking civil ... First, higher level political networks play an important role in revenue extraction in the markets.
90.5 WESA
March 13, 2018
Wolf stopped the practice of accepting gifts among people under his authority when he took office three years ago, but that does not apply to state legislators and other elected state officials. The governor wants limits on political campaign contributions and disclosure of donations made by people seekingÃâà...
Rio Rancho Observer
March 13, 2018
Although it is not uncommon for political mud-slinging to die down after the results for an election are in, does an elected official's fight for relevance ever end? In today's political climate on the national, state and city level, many officials find themselves in constant fear of scrutiny, many times for somethingÃâà...
New York Times
March 13, 2018
They also point to the increase in the use of Twitter and other platforms that make it more difficult to maintain a bright line between the official and the political. “There are unprecedented efforts by outside political groups to use Hatch Act complaints as a vehicle to obstruct this administration, and exponentialÃâà...
Kansas City Star
March 13, 2018
Top Missouri officials say they have been disinvited from a roundtable with President Donald Trump this week in St. Louis. ... but the confusion over the list of attendees at the forum also highlights the political perils the president faces campaigning in Missouri at time when the Republican governor faces aÃâà...
Charleston Gazette-Mail
March 13, 2018
Dept. of Education, Arts officials urge Justice staff to plan transition ... Va., offered to resign if that will help Justice to veto the bill, as a means to lessen the political pressure on him. She said the legislation was "reckless" and "politically motivated," and would not free up any significant money for the state.
Chicago Tribune
March 13, 2018
White House officials said Trump's official gun plan was drafted within the confines of what Congress will allow - a notable contrast to Trump's "I alone can fix ... His defenders on Capitol Hill said much the same Monday, arguing that Trump's plan was crafted in political reality, considering the composition ofÃâà...
Bangor Daily News
March 11, 2018
President Donald Trump's campaign to discredit the news media has spread to state and local officials, who are echoing his use of the term “fake news” as a ... In the last year, at least three political figures have been implicated in physical assaults on reporters asking questions, while journalists have beenÃâà...
