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By Karen Pierog
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The Chicago City Council on Wednesday gave overwhelming approval to the final budget proposed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who leaves office next year, and who said he will address looming pension funding challenges in December.
It’s a week after the midterm elections and we still don’t know the full extent of the blue wave. Here’s what we do know. Even though vote suppression was at its ugliest, Americans navigated the obstacles in record numbers to renounce Donald Trump’s version of nationalism. We were reminded that race continues to affect our voting experience, especially in Republican controlled states.
A former Trump campaign deputy is now cooperating with several ongoing investigations, according to court filings from the special counsel's office.
While the Trump era has been defined by chaos and division, Biden is appealing to the country with a message of unity and stability.
Sherrod Brown is betting that his version of populism can prevent Donald Trump from winning a second term two years from now.
Georgia Republicans filed an ethics complaint against Stacey Abrams after she approved an ad buy for the potential gubernatorial runoff.
Republicans might turn a blind eye to the womanizers and criminals that they knowingly support – from Donald Trump to Roy Moore – but Democrats never will.
(Reuters) – A Republican U.S. representative of Utah who is trailing her Democratic challenger filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking to halt vote counting while a four-term California Republican congressman conceded, more than a week after the U.S. midterm elections.
By Joseph Ax
(Reuters) – More than a dozen times in the past seven days, President Donald Trump has alleged, contrary to evidence, that the recount of Florida’s elections for governor and the U.S. Senate has been marred by fraud.
By Sarah N. Lynch
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Rick Gates, a former business partner of President Donald Trump’s ex-campaign chairman Paul Manafort, is still cooperating with several ongoing investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to a court filing on Wednesday.
Melania Trump has a Romanov complex. There were signs of it with the casual way she throws tax payer money away, beginning with her decision to stay in New York for several months following her husband’s inauguration.
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) has given Mitch McConnell a choice. He can either protect Robert Mueller or go down with Trump on the Russia scandal.
Panellists (L-R) Kate Van Doore, an international child rights lawyer; Sophie Otiende, a trafficking survivor and programme consultant for HAART Kenya; Andrea Powel, founding president of Karana Rising; Snezana Vuckovic, survivor leader and human rights advocate and Joseph Mwuara, orphanage trafficking survivor and community advocate; speak at a panel on ‘Orphanage as Trafficking Hubs’ at Trust Conference on November 14, 2018. Thomson Reuters Foundation / Daniel Leal-Olivas
Sen. Jeff Flake took a public stand and announced on the Senate floor that he would not vote for any Trump judicial nominees until Special Counsel Robert Mueller is protected.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is zeroing in on people in Trump's orbit who may have participated in the Russian hack of DNC emails.
Trump is trying to exploit the CNN lawsuit by sending out fundraising emailing asking his supporters to send his re-election campaign money.
CNN is SUING President Trump, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a Secret Service agent, and other White House officials…” the fundraising email states. “…All because they REVOKED Jim Acosta’s press badge after his continuous grandstanding and inappropriate refusal to yield to other reporters.”
Trump claimed that people need to show ID to buy a box of cereal, thus proving that the President has no idea how people buy their groceries.
Thirteen of the biggest press organizations in the United States ranging from NBC and Fox News to The Washington Post and New York Times have come together in support of CNN's lawsuit against Trump.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Top U.S. Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump should not interfere in lawmakers’ negotiations if he wants a smooth government funding process.
Two U.S. senators, defying opposition from top Republicans, vowed on Wednesday to push for action on a bipartisan measure that would protect a federal investigation into Russia's role in the 2016 presidential election.