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Protesters outfitted in red robes and white bonnets -- the signature look of "handmaids" in the Hulu series "The Handmaid's Tale" -- greeted Vice President Mike Pence Friday outside a speaking engagement in Colorado at the conservative Christian organization Focus on the Family. "The Handmaid's Tale" is set in a dystopian future, where fertile women are forced into sexual servitude and identifiable by their distinct wardrobe. The robe-wearing protesters -- who were part of a larger group of about 100, according

Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., was released from the intensive care unit on Thursday, hospital officials said, over a week after the House majority whip and three others were shot at a baseball field in Alexandria, Virginia. Officials with the MedStar Washington Hospital Center and "Scalise’s continued good progress allowed him to be transferred out" of the ICU on Thursday and he "remains in fair condition as he continues an extended period of healing and rehabilitation." Dr.

Senate Republican leaders are planning to move fast now that legislation was revealed on Thursday to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA) -- otherwise known as ObamaCare -- and drastically change the current healthcare landscape. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said he ambitiously hopes to pass the bill before the July 4 recess -- but in order to do so, Republicans would need to bypass the traditional committee process and for

A bipartisan group of Senate Judiciary Committee leaders is examining former Hillary Clinton email investigation. The group is seeking details about Lynch's communication with a Clinton campaign aide, Amanda Renteria, as well as copies of documents and information about whether the FBI investigated the alleged communication. The letters, sent Thursday, are signed by Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley, Ranking

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Posted at 4:12 pm on June 23, 2017 by streiff On Monday, I posted about the Russian response to a US Navy Super Hornet shooting down a Syrian SU-23 that was attacking anti-ISIS forces supported by the United States. The initial Russian response was pretty much what you’d expect from a Kremlin that looks back fondly at the Brezhnev era: This was pretty obviously busllsh** at the time as the Russians simply don’t have the combat power in the theater to make that threat stick, they don’t have