Новости за 28.09.2018

Sen. Joe Donnelly (Ind.), one of only three Democrats who voted for Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's first Supreme Court nominee, says he will oppose Brett Kavanaugh, Trump's second pick to the high court.Donnelly,...

Republicans who once hoped to bolster their narrow majority in the Senate are now retrenching in hopes of holding on, buffeted by a worsening national environment and big-spending Democrats.

Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter was killed in the Parkland, Fla., high school shooting, slammed Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, saying his life and family haven't been ruined by allegations of sexual assault.Kavanaugh appeared before the...

Journalists and lawmakers faced off at the National Press Club on Thursday night for the annual Press vs. Politicians Spelling Bee with the Washington Post's Alexandra Petri winning the contest.Petri took the winner's belt after correctly spelling...

A Tennessee police officer was charged with homicide on Thursday after he was filmed fatally shooting a man in the back, according to NBC News.Metropolitan Nashville Police Officer Andrew R. Delke, 25, turned himself in following the fatal shooting...

Sen. Patrick Leahy (Vt.), the longest serving Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, blasted Republicans for jettisoning their independence in their push to get Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh confirmed by next...

Sen. Patrick Leahy (Vt.), the longest serving Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, blasted Republicans for jettisoning their independence in their push to get Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh confirmed by next week.“This Judiciary...

It’s not surprising when a popular musician sells a concert out in less than fifteen minutes, but would anyone believe a technology conference selling out in just over eleven? That happened this month for the Conference on Neural...

A program allowing public servants to receive student loan forgiveness has rejected more than 99 percent of its applicants because of confusion about the program and a lack of coordination with the company running it, a government audit report...

Malia Obama is making her first music video appearance, lip syncing and jamming to an indie rock band.The 20-year-old daughter of former President Obama is seen in a recently released video for the New Dakotas’ song, “Walking on Air.”The brief...

Four Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee walked out of the hearing room in protest after Republicans decided along party lines to schedule a "time certain" vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh fo...

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) on Friday was confronted by protesters on his way to the Senate judiciary Committee vote on whether to advance Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination to the Senate floor for a confirmation vote.“What you are doing is...

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected an effort by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) to subpoena Mark Judge in a party line vote.Christine Blasey Ford alleges that Judge witnessed Supreme Court nom...

GOP Sen. Jeff Flake (Ariz.) said on Friday that he is supporting Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination, giving him a significant boost as Republicans try to confirm him early next week."While some may argue th...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) continued his defense of Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh against allegations of sexual misconduct from three women. Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Kavanaugh of trying to rape her at a high school...

A high school classmate of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Friday defended Kavanaugh against accusations of sexual misconduct, saying "to the day I die, I will believe that he did not do this."Tom Kane, who attended Georgetown Prep with...

Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) on Friday announced he would vote against Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court.The senator made the announcement on Twitter.I will vote no on Judge Kavanaugh.— Senator Bill Nelson (@SenBillNelson) September 28...

Steve Schmidt, the former adviser and strategist on former Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, blasted Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Thursday night, saying he has become “corrupted by ambition.”Schmidt, a frequent critic of President...

ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday tore into Donald Trump Jr. for a tweet he made during the Senate Judiciary testimony of Christine Blasey Ford and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday, calling Kimmel called Trump Jr. "a...

The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to vote Friday on Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court.Most of the members of the panel have already made their minds up, putting the spotlight on Sen. Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican who is...

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) on Friday said House GOP leaders have agreed to invite deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein to testify in front of Congress.In a tweet, Meadows, the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, says that Rosenstein ...

President Donald Trump has often been criticized for his perceived misogyny. Yet commentators give relatively little attention to what is arguably his administration’s most anti-woman policy: the ever-increasing tariffs on imports and a burgeoning...

Throughout his nomination process for the Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh has frequently said that he could legally drink beer during his senior year at Georgetown Prep in Maryland.However, the state's drinking age w...

Matt Schlapp says I am deeply worried that the Democratic Party is now controlled by a radicalized core that believes the only good Republican is a humiliated Republican.

We need to address how to reform the broken nomination process after this historic drama is over.