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“We cannot sustain this level of chaos from the White House and expect it will be anything less than a tragic outcome on Election Day.”
— Jennifer Horn, a former chairwoman of the New Hampshire Republican Party
“We’re just getting a lot of noise out of Washington.”
— Marc Rotterman, a Republican consultant in North Carolina
“It certainly doesn’t make it any easier for Republican candidates in highly educated districts.”
— Whit Ayres, a pollster working for GOP candidate Karen Handel in Georgia
“If after all of the talk, after all of the chest-thumping, we can’t get anything done, we may get clubbed like baby seals in 2018.”
— John McKager “Mac” Stipanovich, a GOP campaign operative in Florida
More and more Republicans across the country are watching dispiritedly as Democrats become further energized to turn out their voters in 2018, potentially tipping not only congressional contests but state and local races down the ballot.
President Trump arrived in Riyadh for his debut on the world stage, hoping to turn a page on the scandal encircling his presidency back home as he embarks upon an ambitious, high-stakes journey through the Middle East and Europe.
The law enforcement investigation into possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign has identified a current White House official as a significant person of interest, according to people familiar with the matter, who would not further identify the official.
“I am hopeful that he will clarify for the American people recent events that have been broadly reported in the media,” Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), the chairman of the committee, said in a written statement. The open hearing will be set sometime after Memorial Day.
Analysis
Two weeks ago, President Trump was celebrating the high-water mark of his administration’s policy agenda: The House’s passage of its health-care bill. Since then: A nearly unrelenting disaster of bad decisions and bad news.
The dismantling of the statue marks an end to more than 130 years of publicly honoring a man who embodied Southern pride and racial oppression. In a speech to mark the historic moment, Mayor Mitch Landrieu sought to end nearly two years of heated debate in the city over what the monuments said about its past.
(Reuters)
Bloggers and designers at the Scouting the Next Saudi Fashion Designer event in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia. (Tasneem Alsultan)
Mohammed bin Salman, son of the king, is pressing for more jobs for women and more opportunities for entertainment in the conservative nation where nearly two-thirds of the population is under 30. “We want to be normal like anywhere else,” said one young Saudi.
President Hassan Rouhani led his conservative challenger by 7 million votes with most ballots counted, officials said, in an election that has rested largely on whether voters backed the president’s efforts to mend ties with the West.
The Education Department will select one company to collect student debt payments on its behalf, reversing years of Obama administration policy and reviving a servicing model that had an equal number of benefits and problems.
Thirty current and former state and local prosecutors say the attorney general’s directive “marks an unnecessary and unfortunate return to past ‘tough on crime’ practices” that will do more harm than good in their communities.
The State Department summoned Turkey’s ambassador for a meeting — the equivalent of a diplomatic scolding — and D.C. police vowed to continue their investigation, but diplomatic immunity and other issues make prosecution difficult, law-enforcement experts say.
Perspective
Movies and TV lazily perpetuate a notion we no longer believe: that looks correlate with character.
Officials cited a variety of reasons for the closures, including political attacks by antiabortion lawmakers. The move means Wyoming will become the second state to have no Planned Parenthood center.
The Heisman winner, now a minor-league baseball player, was warming up before a game when he made a wayward throw that hit a man in a very sensitive area. “It is really funny, except that it hurts,” the fan said.
The Fix
Analysis A Democratic strategist posted a video, filmed two days before the first presidential debate, that shows Clinton evading an aide playing Donald Trump. It draws comparisons with a report of James Comey trying to maintain distance with him.
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