President Trump addressed Senate Republicans at their policy luncheon in order to discuss the GOP's effort to cut taxes, and although Corker's comments did not come up, according to two senators who attended, the rift laid bare the tensions between the president and his party in their last attempt at a major policy accomplishment this year.
The Tennessee Republican recently announced that he is not running for reelection, and his lame duck status seems to have liberated him to more forcefully speak his mind.
The Arizona senator's surprise announcement came after more than a year of criticism of Trump and the direction he had taken the party. Flake said he will retire at the end of 2018.
The combative commentator and former Fox News host has spent months with advisers marshaling his response to the women who have accused him of sexual harassment, allegations that helped end his 20-year run as the king of cable news.
The deal includes $18.7 billion for FEMA's response to the wildfires in Northern California and the hurricanes in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico. But lawmakers from storm-ravaged states are clamoring for more money the next time the White House asks for emergency funding.
The Government Accountability Office delivered the admonition most recently in July, a month before the SEC's leadership learned of the 2016 hack. But the agency's advice to the SEC on this issue dates to at least 2008.
The nation's media landscape could be reshaped by federal regulators' decision to eliminate the "main studio rule" that broadcasters have a physical studio in or near the areas where they have a license to transmit signals.
Guillaume rose from squalid beginnings in St. Louis to star in stage musicals and win Emmy Awards for his portrayal of the sharp-tongued character Benson in two TV sitcoms.
Cheez-Its, beef jerky and other gas station-caliber snacks have been derided on social media, but experts say critics don't understand how emergency food works.
A recent disease disaster simulation in Washington was inspired by the "horrendously inefficient" response to the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa that killed thousands of people.
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