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It is a tactic that has been embraced since Republicans won back the House in 2010, and it worked again this time in high-profile contests in Montana and Kansas . Tim Ryan lost a challenge to longtime Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi for leadership of House Democrats last fall. "And what they hoped by making it a referendum on Trump was by saying Trump is bad, Trump is terrible, that would be enough to win and they didn't", said Schultz.

Four Republican senators announced later in the afternoon that they are not ready to vote for the GOP health care bill , putting the measure in jeopardy . She says she is committed to ensuring that all Alaskans have access to affordable, quality health care and will review the bill through that lens. In other words, with seven days until a scheduled floor vote, Mitch McConnell will have to thread a needle if he intends to gut the nation's health care system.

Police are investigating it as a road rage crime. Her body was found in a pond near the apartment of Darwin Martinez Torres , 22, an immigrant from El Salvador whom authorities suspect of being in the USA illegally. Her body was found in a man-made pond a few miles from the parking lot. "She would say, 'Salaam aleikum, Auntie, ' " Bhuiyan said, using an Arabic greeting meaning "peace be unto you".

Reports that a firefighting plane crashed in Portugal while tackling the country's deadly forest fire have turned out to be false. Television stations SIC and TVI said the Canadair aircraft had crashed near Pedrogao Grande, centre of the biggest fire that has killed 64 people since Saturday.

Ryan called Pelosi and the Democratic brand "toxic". While the Georgia race was a tempting target after Trump turned in a relatively weak showing there in 2016, it still leaned Republican and Romney had won the district by a whopping 24 percentage points in 2012.

The school area is safe, " Gen Padilla told a news conference in Manila , adding troops were pursuing the attackers. "They were taking advantage of the situation that we have a very lightly defended outpost and that they think our forces are elsewhere in the province", Padilla said.

The coroner's office in Hamilton County, Ohio, said it had accepted Warmbier's case but had only performed an external examination on his body because the family had objected to an autopsy. The United States and its allies would like to see an oil embargo and bans on the North Korean airline and guest workers among other moves, steps diplomats say have been resisted by China and Russian Federation.

Department of Health and Human Services, does not change the balance of power in Washington, where Republicans control the White House and both chambers of Congress. While they should take encouragement that their candidates, running in traditionally conservative districts, lost by only single-digit margins, they nevertheless need to face the fact that a critical mass of American voters still feel no particular need to rebuke Trump.

Mallory was charged with delivering defence information to a foreign government and with making false statements to Federal Bureau of Investigation agents. The BBC reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has confirmed that Mallory was entrusted with high-level clearance when working for the U.S.

Other captives in the school and more 20 other residents who were trapped in their houses later were taken to safety by troops, officials said. Gen. Philippine troops, backed by airstrikes, have been fighting street battles to wrest back control of four areas in the city's business district. Members of the Philippine National Police (PNP) Special Action Force are onboard a military truck for reinforcements, as government forces continue their assault against insurgents from the Maute ...

Despite the meeting, long-time North Korea watcher Dan Pinkston remained skeptical that tangible results will emerge from the talks. Trump wrote on Twitter. A programme for the memorial carried a quote from Andy Bernard, a character on the television show The Office: "I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them".