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Vermont voters head to the polls on Tuesday to select the Democratic and Republican candidates for the Green Mountain State's at-large congressional seat. Two-term Rep. Becca Balint (D-V.T.) is seeking her third term in the lower chamber and she is running unopposed for the Democratic nomination. Both candidates…
South Carolina voters head to the polls on Tuesday for a special primary election to replace the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on the November ballot. The crowded field includes the late senator's sister Darline Graham (R-S.C.), who was appointed to fill the remaining months of Lindsey Graham's…
Rosie O'Donnell said in a new interview that Donald Trump has made her "re-famous" by continuing to attack her publicly, even as she called him a "horrible creature" on the podcast "Good Hang". The exchange highlights the long-running, mutually antagonistic relationship between the comedian and the president, with…
Sarah Trone Garriott, the Democratic candidate for Congress in Iowa's 3rd District, is seeking to reassure voters that she does not support men having access to women's locker rooms, a topic that has become one of the most contentious "culture war" flashpoints in the current election cycle. However,…
The Trump administration has proposed changes to the federal Head Start programme aimed at reducing bureaucracy and shifting greater authority to individual states, a move that advocates say will give parents more say over their children's early education and care. The proposal has been welcomed by conservative parental-rights…
I was one of the journalists on Air Force One when the president slipped into a smaller plane just before takeoff to avoid possible anti-aircraft fire in a dangerous part of the world. I had mixed feelings about my predicament. With typical gallows humor, my colleagues in the…
The US Secret Service routinely uses decoy vehicles, aircraft and misdirection to conceal the real movements of the president, a practice highlighted by reports that Donald Trump was secretly transferred by catering truck to a separate military aircraft after appearing to board Air Force One in Ankara on…
Parents may be confused about the status of vaccines for their kids after President Trump's new executive order. It's important to know nothing is changing right away.
A Syrian court on Tuesday sentenced ousted former President Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia after it convicted him on counts of murder, torture and crimes against humanity before and after the country's civil war. The sentencing by the Fourth Criminal Court in Damascus is the first against…
President Trump is set to attend the Patriot Games in Geneva, Ohio, on Tuesday evening. The event, announced last year, will pit top high school athletes from across the country against one another as part of a series of events to mark the nation's 250th anniversary. One male and…