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The TAKE with MaryAlice Parks There are some topics (and faces) we know animate voters on both sides: immigration, health care and President Barack Obama. In the last few days, some top Republicans appear to think impeachment might as well. President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, told a crowd Thursday that the 2018 midterms would be a referendum on the issue, encouraging Republican voters to mak

The TAKE with Rick Klein It might be just the matchup President which matchup to focus on. For the last time before November's midterm elections, voters choose between Democrats and Republicans this week, in a special House election in a historically deep-red Ohio district on Tuesday. Trump is positioning himself against Democrats in typicall

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The annual fall fete, which Bill Clinton headlined as recently as 2014, will now be called the Eleanor Roosevelt Dinner.  US Senator Maggie Hassan will be the featured speaker at an Iowa Democratic Party event in Dubuque later in the month.

The courtroom showdown between Manafort and his former right-hand man grew painfully personal during Tuesday’s cross-examination.  Names Unlike Alan Dershowitz, it appears the former president shouldn’t be worried about getting the cold shoulder on the island.  Kansas Governor Jeff Colyer spent months bolstering his credentials, but it may not be enough after President Trump tweeted his backing for Kris Kobach.  Jim Koch, founder and chairman of Boston Beer Co., will be among a group of business leaders who will dine with President Trump at Trump’s New Jersey golf club and resort.

The courtroom showdown between Manafort and his former right-hand man grew painfully personal during Tuesday’s cross-examination.  Names Unlike Alan Dershowitz, it appears the former president shouldn’t be worried about getting the cold shoulder on the island.  Kansas Governor Jeff Colyer spent months bolstering his credentials, but it may not be enough after President Trump tweeted his backing for Kris Kobach.  Jim Koch, founder and chairman of Boston Beer Co., will be among a group of business leaders who will dine with President Trump at Trump’s New Jersey golf club and resort.

The courtroom showdown between Manafort and his former right-hand man grew painfully personal during Tuesday’s cross-examination.  Names Unlike Alan Dershowitz, it appears the former president shouldn’t be worried about getting the cold shoulder on the island.  Kansas Governor Jeff Colyer spent months bolstering his credentials, but it may not be enough after President Trump tweeted his backing for Kris Kobach.  Jim Koch, founder and chairman of Boston Beer Co., will be among a group of business leaders who will dine with President Trump at Trump’s New Jersey golf club and resort.

Kris Kobach has emerged as the outright favorite to win the GOP nomination in Tuesday’s gubernatorial primary after winning an endorsement via Twitter from MORE. Trump’s tweet calling Kobach a “fantastic guy” came just hours before the polls open, and represents the first time the president has endorsed a candidate running against a Republican incumbent in a primary. The unlucky incumbent is Gov.

MORE is solidifying his opposition to California’s environmental policies, saying they are to blame for the state’s historic wildfires. Trump initiated the spat on Sunday when he tweeted that the fires “are being magnified & made so much worse by the bad environmental laws,” which cause water to be “diverted into the Pacific Ocean,” and prevent trees from being cleared. ADVERTISEMENT A day later he poste