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Posted at 6:00 pm on July 14, 2017 by streiff Yesterday, NBC News ran a breathless and, as it turned out, dishonest story about a “former Soviet counterintelligence official” who was also in the now-famous meeting with Donald Trump, Jr.

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Posted at 4:30 pm on July 15, 2017 by Joe Cunningham Hanging on by a very tenuous thread, the Senate’s health care reform bill is in trouble. Susan Collins and Rand Paul have each said they will not vote for it, though for drastically different reasons. Paul, taking a principled, conservative stance, disagrees with any effort to change the current system set up by the Affordable Care Act without repealing it outright and starting over.

Posted at 5:00 pm on July 15, 2017 by Kimberly Ross Long before President Trump was inaugurated, there was an outcry from feminist and pro-abort circles as to the future of so-called “abortion rights” in the country.

Posted at 10:59 pm on July 15, 2017 by Joe Cunningham The Senate will be waiting a bit longer to take up consideration of a GOP-led health care reform effort following a medical procedure to one of the GOP’s members. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell tweeted out a statement on Saturday night, saying consideration would be deferred to a later date while Senator John McCain recovers from have a blood clot removed above his eye. McConnell is already pressed for votes as two Republicans, Susan Collins and Rand Paul, have said they will not vote for the bill, and Mike Le

Former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers (Michigan) ripped President Trump’s defense of his son’s arrangement to meet with a Russian lawyer during the presidential campaign. “I don’t think we can normalize foreign governments trying to influence a candidate by providing information,” Roger, who is the former chair of the House Intelligence Committee, told CNN on Saturday. “Opposition research is a real thing and it happens in politics every day and people throw things at each other in... politics every single election cycle.

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Conservative author Ben Shapiro is expected to testify before a joint Congressional hearing on free speech on college campuses later this month, according to a new report by The Hollywood Reporter. Comedian Adam Carolla, Shapiro and former American Civil Liberties Union President Nadine Strossen will testify before the Committee on Ov

Senate Majority Leader MORE (R-Ariz.) recovers from surgery. McCain had announced earlier on Saturday that he would not be in the Senate next week, depriving Republicans of a key vote. Without McCain, Senate Republicans likely would not have had the 50 votes necessary to advance the legislation. "Elaine and I, along with the entire Senate family, wish John the very best and wish him a speedy recovery," McConnell said in a statement that referred to his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. "While John is recovering, the Senate will continue our work on legislati

Civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) broke down while reliving a sit-in at an exhibit at the Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta. Lewis, who was touring the exhibit with former Obama adviser David Axelrod for an episode of CNN’s “The Axe Files,” got emotional listening to a reenactment of the brutal harassment and violence peaceful demonstrators faced during the Civil Right’s Movement. The audio that Lewis listened to was a depiction of what he himself faced while demonstrating. “Surreal.