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John McCain Confused During Comey Testimony

May working to fill out ranks of minority government after disappointing election

Authorities seek help in search of 8-year-old boy

Senate Moving to Devastate Health Care Safety Net
That was slightly larger than the decrease in metro areas of expansion states. It's unthinkable to me that the House of Representatives voted to end Medicaid as we know it. Ten million people with disabilities rely on Medicaid to help them live, work, attend school and participate in their communities. He is disabled and unable to speak because he was born with a chromosome abnormality. [Full Article...]
Senators to ask intel officials about Trump pushback on Russia investigation

Intel officials refuse to answer questions on Trump and Russian Federation

Alabama girl, 17, killed in Georgia bus crash
The crash has sadly changed those plans as family reunites with the injured and all mourn a life no one could have known would end so soon. After some confusion over who was investigating the deadly crash, Fulton County police said they were handling the probe. [Full Article...]
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISIS leader killed?

USA attorney general next in scandal's spotlight

Michelle Carter's Defense Ask Judge To Dismiss Case

Trump Responds To Comey Testimony, Calls Former FBI Director 'A Leaker'
Trump hinted that tapes of his conversations might exist in the days following his dismissal of Comey . "You and I both know my father a long time". Before Friday's news conference, he broke his silence. "Despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindication", Mr Trump wrote on Twitter , suggesting that Mr Comey , who was under oath at the hearing, had committed p... [Full Article...]
McConnell: Senate close to Obamacare repeal bill
McCaskill first asked Hatch if there was going to be a hearing in the Finance Committee on the bill, given that it could affect trillions of dollars in healthcare spending. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., said the Senate is "making progress", and dismissed the notion that the body has a deadline to get a new health bill done. [Full Article...]
Conservatives lead, but Labour gains big in British election, exit polls show

Clinging to job, May appoints ministers
Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill , May's joint chiefs of staff, resigned Saturday after facing heavy criticism for their role in the Conservatives' disastrous election campaign, which saw them losing their majority thanks to a groundswell of support for the Labour Party and their leader Jeremy Corbyn . [Full Article...]
USA spy chiefs are ducking questions about Trump and Russian Federation
Four top intelligence community leaders testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday in a hearing that grew uncomfortably testy at times, as all four witnesses dodged questions about their interactions with President Donald Trump related to the Russian Federation investigation. [Full Article...]
Intelligence Officials Won't Say If Trump Asked About Russia Probe
Two of the nation's top intelligence officials declined in a testy hearing Wednesday to discuss the specifics of private conversations with President Donald Trump , refusing to say whether they had been asked to push back against an Federal Bureau of Investigation probe into possible coordination between Trump's campaign and the Russian government. [Full Article...]
Senate Committee Questions Intel
In limiting his comments to attempts at "shaping intelligence", Coats did not contradict reporting by the Washington Post that President Trump asked for his help in intervening with former FBI Director James Comey to convince him to back off the Flynn investigation. [Full Article...]
Qatar says no expulsions of nationals from countries that cut ties
Some analysts believe the Saudi anger is rather because Qatar acts more independently of Riyadh . At his meeting in the Middle East, Trump said it was agreed that all "financial, military, or even moral support" for terrorism must be terminated. [Full Article...]
N.Ireland's DUP says talks ongoing with PM May's Conservatives
As May struggled to contain the fallout, her two closest aides resigned. Cameron assumed that the British voters would ratify Britain's continued membership in the European Union and thus allow him to silence so-called Euroskeptics within his own party. [Full Article...]
Jeremy Corbyn enjoys kickabout as politics takes a backseat
Flanked by her members of Parliament, Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ) leader, and former Northern Ireland First Minister, Arlene Foster (C), poses for a photograph outside the Stormont Hotel in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on June 9, 2017, following the result of the general election . [Full Article...]