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President Donald Trump shot back at LaVar Ball, who downplayed the president's role in getting his son and two other UCLA basketball players released after they were detained in China for questioning following shoplifting allegations. "I should have left them in jail," Trump tweeted Sunday. The president was apparently responding to LaVar Ball's comments to ESPN playing down his son's shoplifting incident in China and Trump's involv

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capital source The unfolding race to succeed outgoing US Representative Niki Tsongas in the Third Congressional District has created a web of odd alliances and pitted former colleagues in arms against one another.   capital source A host of other party leaders are now calling for Roy Moore to be barred from the Senate if he’s elected.  CAPITAL SOURCE On Wednesday, the council’s first meeting since the Nov.

Tito Jackson and his volunteers gave away 3,000 turkeys to community members for their Thanksgiving dinners.  Nearly 20 years after prominent evangelical leaders called for President Clinton to resign over sexual misconduct, many are standing with US Senate candidate Roy Moore.

Tito Jackson and his volunteers gave away 3,000 turkeys to community members for their Thanksgiving dinners.  Nearly 20 years after prominent evangelical leaders called for President Clinton to resign over sexual misconduct, many are standing with US Senate candidate Roy Moore.

Tito Jackson and his volunteers gave away 3,000 turkeys to community members for their Thanksgiving dinners.  Nearly 20 years after prominent evangelical leaders called for President Clinton to resign over sexual misconduct, many are standing with US Senate candidate Roy Moore.

Republican Sen. ABC affiliate KNXV bashing the president in a conversation with Mesa Mayor John Giles, a friend of Flake's. "If we become the party of Roy Moore and

President Trump on Saturday invited his former Democratic presidential rival to try again in 2020. He attacked MORE as “the worst (and biggest) loser of all time,” in a tweet. “Crooked Hillary Clinton is the worst (and biggest) loser of all time. She just can’t stop, which is so good for the Republican Party.

The Senate Ethics Committee is poised to investigate sexual harassment allegations against a sitting senator for the first time in more than two decades. Sen. MORE (D-Minn.) is at the center of a political firestorm after a reporter accused him of kissing and groping her without her consent while on a USO tour in 2006. The Ethics Committee hasn’t formally said it will launch an investigation into Franken, unlike a public announcement members made on restarting the investigation into Sen.

Sen. MORE’s name comes up frequently in talk about the 2020 presidential race, but some Democrats wonder if he has what it takes to compete in what could be a crowded primary.  While Democrats say Booker, 48, is one of the party’s “fresh faces” compared to elder statesmen like former Vice President MORE, they aren’t sure he has created a lane for himself against would-be rivals. “It’s a very high ceiling but he hasn’t met early expectations,” said one top Democratic strategist who has worked on several presidential campaigns.