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With little notice and stunning quickness, anti-abortion legislators in Ohio stand one signature away from enacting the nation’s most stringent abortion law in the hopes of sparking a nationwide reversal of the legal right of women to terminate their pregnancies. With a day left in their annual session, lawmakers Wednesday delivered to Gov. John Kasich […]

Robert Reich, who served as secretary of labor during the administration of President Bill Clinton, appeared on CNN Wednesday night to deliver a message to Republican presidential-elect Donald Trump. Robert Reich: “Lemme just say, because Donald Trump is probably watching right now…” https://t.co/bD5Iskq7br — Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) December 8, 2016 Reich, who also served in

Washington (dpa) – Donald Trump felt he should have been Time magazine’s 2015 Person of the Year, even before the first votes were cast in the Republican Party’s nominating process. Instead, the magazine named German Chancellor Angela Merkel last year for her leadership in Europe’s refugee crisis. “I told you @TIME Magazine would never pick

Donald Trump started a bit of a feud with Boeing on Tuesday when he declared “cancel order!” for the new Air Force One plane. He claimed the airplane would cost upward of $4 billion. However, the company said in a statement that Trump’s numbers were way off. The Hill reported that the contract was closer

PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia judge has denied Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein’s request for a forensic audit of voting machines used in the city. Common Pleas Court Judge Abbe Fletman, in a written opinion issued Wednesday, said Stein “is mistaken” in her claim that the state Election Code gives her a right to the

DETROIT — After a lawyer urged him not to stick taxpayers with a $5 million recount tab, a federal judge on Wednesday dissolved his earlier decision and halted the hand recount of 4.8 million ballots that were cast for president in Michigan. The controversial issue, however, is far from over as an appeal will follow.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — AJC is urging members of the U.S. House of Representatives to adopt the bipartisan Anti-Semitism Awareness Act of 2016. The Senate has already passed the measure, and once the House does so it can be delivered to President Obama for his signature before Congress recesses. “The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, according to multiple reports. The pick of Mr. Pruitt, who has sued the EPA multiple times to challenge President Obama’s regulatory agenda, is guaranteed to thrill conservatives who think the agency has overstepped its authority. But the

The prevailing opinion on President-elect Donald Trump is that he’s unpredictable, a man of no fixed views who transcends traditional notions of right and left. “Donald Trump is post-ideological,” Trump’s campaign pollster, Tony Fabrizio, said at a Harvard University conference last week. With Trump, “you will have no idea each morning what’s going to happen,”