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Bob Packwood, Senator Forced to Quit in Sex Scandal, Dies at 93
Bob Packwood, a moderate Republican senator from Oregon who championed women’s rights but was forced to resign in 1995 after his fellow senators threatened to expel him for making aggressive sexual advances toward more than 20 women, some of them his employees,...
Amid Mounting Democratic Concern, Platner Says His Past Is Being ‘Weaponized’
Graham Platner, the presumptive Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, moved to quell mounting Democratic anxieties about his candidacy on Friday, telling supporters in a defiant speech that his past behavior was being “weaponized” by his political opponents.A...
Graham Platner Controversy Deepens Democratic Unease Before Maine Senate Primary
Democratic anxiety mounted on Friday about the turbulent personal history of Graham Platner, the party’s leading Senate candidate in Maine, as politicians, officials and strategists wrestled with how to respond to new reporting on his past behavior.The New York...
Casting Her 10,000th Vote in a Row, Collins Sets a Senate Record
Shortly after Susan Collins entered the Senate in January 1997 as a Republican from Maine, some of her more jaded senior colleagues offered her a bit of professional advice: Make sure to miss at least one roll-call vote to avoid getting trapped in an unbroken...
House Passes Ukraine Aid, Opposing Republican Leaders
The House voted on Thursday to approve new aid for Ukraine and impose a fresh round of sanctions targeting the industries fueling Russia’s war economy, after 18 Republicans defied their leaders to join Democrats in support of a bill that runs counter to...
Trump Offers Funds for First New U.S. Coal Plants in 13 Years
President Trump on Thursday announced $700 million in new federal funding for the country’s struggling coal industry, including $185 million meant to build the first two new coal-burning power plants in the United States in more than a decade.It was the latest...
Senators Cassidy and Booker Ask Judge to Maintain Block on $1.8 Billion Fund
Two senators — one Republican and one Democrat — have filed court papers urging a federal judge to maintain her block on the Trump administration’s $1.8 billion fund to pay people claiming to have been unfairly prosecuted, arguing that its creation last month...
Trump Says He Plans to Nominate Blanche for Attorney General
President Trump has indicated that he plans to nominate the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, to take on the role on a permanent basis, the latest move by the president to place loyalists in top jobs across the government.Dan Scavino, one of Mr. Trump’s...
G.O.P. Revives Immigration Bill, Weighing Ban on Trump’s Fund
The Senate voted along party lines on Wednesday to take up Republicans’ $70 billion immigration crackdown bill, but several G.O.P. senators suggested they would not allow it to pass without new language barring President Trump from creating a fund to compensate...
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