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The measure still needs Mayor Walsh’s approval, but Boston is preparing to join other communities that have moved against plastic bags.  Project Veritas, which uses deceptive tactics and secret taping, doesn’t like the Massachusetts law against recording a convervation without the knowledge of everyone involved. The House easily approved a bipartisan measure Wednesday requiring lawmakers and aides to take annual anti-harassment training as lawmakers faced heavy pressure to address burgeoning sexual misconduct allegations against members of Congress.  Maryland, D.C.

Senate Republicans have significant momentum ahead of a possible vote this week on tax legislation following a meeting of their caucus with President Trump. Trump has made clear he’s willing to deal with senators on their individual demands, and his offerings paid quick dividends Tuesday. Within an hour of the Trump meeting, the Senate Budget Committee voted to advance the tax bill on a party-line vote. Two Republicans who just a day prior had threatened to vote against the measure, Sens.

The Clinton Foundation’s donor disclosure site vastly understated support that the Clinton Global Initiative received from APCO Worldwide, a global communications firm that lobbied on behalf of Russia’s state-owned nuclear company. The site, created to detect conflicts of interest for Secretary of State MORE because of her family’s various charitable efforts, shows APCO gave between $25,000 and $50,000 over the last decade. But according to interviews and internal documents reviewed by The Hill, APCO was much more generous and provided hundreds of thousands of dollars

A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a lawsuit from an official who claims that she, and not President Trump appointee MORE, is the rightful director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Judge Timothy Kelly of the U.S.

Democrats pulled out of a meeting with President Trump after he tweeted that he didn't "see a deal" to avoid a government shutdown, while the Senate GOP's tax bill cleared a major hurdle. Meanwhile, a court prepares to rule on who really runs a key consumer bureau. The Hill’s Scott Wong, Naomi Jagoda and Sylvan Lane weigh in on what happened today on Capitol Hill. TuneIn here. The Hill 1625 K Street, NW Suite 900 Washington DC 20006 | 202-628-8500 tel | 202-628-8503 fax The contents of this site are ©2017 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a sub

The odds of a government shutdown grew dramatically Tuesday as President Trump tweeted that he saw no path to a year-end deal with Democrats “Chuck and Nancy,” who then promptly backed out of a meeting at the White House. Shortly after Trump’s “I don’t see a deal!” tweet, Senate Minority Leader MORE (Calif.) said they didn’t see the point of sitting down with Trump.  “If the President, who already said earlier this year that ‘our country needs a good shutdown,’ isn’t interested in addressing the difficult year end agenda,” the Democrats said in a statement, “we’ll wor

When he finally went to bed early in the morning on Oct. 2, Sean Hannity had a good sense, as he typically does, of how he would structure that night’s Fox News Channel broadcast. He’d lead with Puerto Rico, and a defense of the Trump administration’s hurricane relief efforts, before moving on to the N.F.L. players who continued to kneel during the national anthem before games.

SAN FRANCISCO — A letter that detailed a secretive effort at Uber to gather intelligence on competitors and cover its tracks has the ride-hailing company on the defensive in a legal fight that has gripped Silicon Valley since February. On Tuesday, the discovery of the letter caused a federal judge to delay a trade secrets trial — a day before jury selection was set to begin — between Uber and Waymo, the self-driving car unit of Google’s parent company, Alphabet. Judge William Alsup of Federal District Court in San Francisco was alerted to the letter’s existence by the United States attorney’s

WASHINGTON — A former militia leader from Libya was convicted on Tuesday of terrorism charges arising from the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed a United States ambassador and three other Americans.

The Tampa Police Department will charge a 24-year-old man in a series of four killings that terrorized the Seminole Heights neighborhood, the police chief announced at a late-night news conference on Tuesday. Chief Brian Dugan identified the suspect, who was caught on Tuesday afternoon, as Howell Emanuel Donaldson III. Mr. Donaldson will be charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the fatal shootings, which occurred from Oct. 9 to Nov. 14, Chief Dugan said.