Paul Ryan: ‘I’m tired of divided government’
September 29, 2016
September 29, 2016
September 29, 2016
September 29, 2016
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to a federal law that denies trademark recognition to names determined to be offensive, teeing up an issue that could determine the fate of the name of the Washington Redskins football team. In orders issued Thursday morning, the justices agreed to consider the case of “The […]
September 29, 2016
September 29, 2016
Hillary Clinton has tapped the Rev. Leah Daughtry, a seasoned Democratic operative, to help staff her potential White House, as the Democratic candidate slowly but surely builds out her transition team. Daughtry will help lead the transition operation’s personnel team, according to two sources familiar with the hire. That’s likely to make Daughtry one of […]
September 29, 2016
How will the next president deal differently with the ongoing and increasingly-complicated conflict in Syria, former NSA and CIA chief Michael Hayden was asked Thursday morning on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” For Hillary Clinton, Hayden had an answer. For Donald Trump, all the retired general could muster as a response to “Morning Joe” panelist Mike Barnicle […]
September 29, 2016
House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday promised to work with a Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump administration but acknowledged that he’s worn out from working in an ineffective, divided Congress. “Look, we’ll work with whoever wins whatever office,” Ryan (R-Wis.) said during a moderated discussion at the Washington Ideas Forum. “Obviously, I think with a […]
September 29, 2016
Four Republican state attorneys general are suing to stop the Obama administration from transferring oversight of the internet to an international body, arguing the transition would violate the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit — filed Wednesday in a Texas federal court — threatens to throw up a new roadblock to one of the White House’s top […]
September 29, 2016
HOBOKEN, N.J. — A commuter train from New York barreled into a New Jersey rail station without stopping and crashed during the Thursday morning rush hour, injuring more than 100 people and killing at least one. Witnesses reported seeing one woman trapped under concrete and many people bleeding after the New Jersey Transit train crashed […]
September 29, 2016
Congressional leaders are urging states to do everything they can to insulate their election systems from cyber attacks amid reports that more than a dozen states have already been targeted by hackers. “We urge the states to take full advantage of the robust public and private sector resources available to them to ensure that their […]