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Try to imagine another major-party presidential candidate enduring a MassDOT meeting.   Representative Brian Higgins of New York said he had changed his mind after securing an ‘‘agreement in principle’’ that Democrats would undertake a ‘‘serious good faith effort’’ to advance legislation lowering the Medicare eligibility age to 50.

Try to imagine another major-party presidential candidate enduring a MassDOT meeting.   Representative Brian Higgins of New York said he had changed his mind after securing an ‘‘agreement in principle’’ that Democrats would undertake a ‘‘serious good faith effort’’ to advance legislation lowering the Medicare eligibility age to 50.

Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) endorsed House Minority Leader reversed his opposition and endorsed Pelosi on Wednesday. Rep. endorsed her Tuesday after the two met recently. Ocasio-Cortez, who defeated Rep.

Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday rebuked reported by The Associated Press that the U.S. doesn't have "Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges.” “What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them,” Roberts said in the statement released by the Supreme Court's press office. “That independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for," he added in the statement, which came a day before Thanksgiving. Trump's criticism of U.S.

MORE should be investigated for possible obstruction of justice. “Of course she should be investigated,” Giuliani said, asserting that “there is plenty of evidence that Hillary obstructed justice by destroying evidence in a gross and massive way.” Giuliani was referring to approximately 30,000 emails on Clinton’s private server that were deleted before investigators could examine them during the probe of her actions while secretary of State during the Obama administration.  Clinton’s team has said that the deleted emails were personal in nature and therefore irrelevan

Facing the toughest threat to her long and historic tenure as the top House Democrat, Rep. MORE (Calif.) has made enormous strides in recent days to rally support for her Speakership bid and grind down the small but determined group of insurgents battling to prevent her from seizing the gavel next year. Pelosi has tapped her deep network of allies, both in and out of Congress, to launch a ferocious public relations campaign designed to browbeat her critics with the unsubtle suggestion that their efforts are futile.

Those activities include “a show or use of force (including lethal force, where necessary), crowd control, temporary detention, and cursory search,” according to the memo, which was signed on Tuesday by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly. “Department of Defense personnel shall not, without further direction from the President, conduct traditional civilian law enforcement activities, such as arrest, search, and seizure in connection with the enforcement of the laws,” it added. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said despite the new authorization, the current missions have not yet changed and that

Those activities include “a show or use of force (including lethal force, where necessary), crowd control, temporary detention, and cursory search,” according to the memo, which was signed on Tuesday by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly. “Department of Defense personnel shall not, without further direction from the President, conduct traditional civilian law enforcement activities, such as arrest, search, and seizure in connection with the enforcement of the laws,” it added. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said despite the new authorization, the current missions have not yet changed and that

The CBS News poll, conducted by telephone from November 15-18 among 1,103 adults, revealed 15 percent of respondents are “looking forward to” mixing politics with Thanksgiving dinner while 40 percent said, “they hope to avoid it.” Forty-five percent of respondents to the survey say they “don’t care either way.” The poll found 37 percent of Republicans and 40 percent of Democrats hoping to avoid political discussions this Thanksgiving.