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Franken resigns from Senate amid new claims of sexual misconduct, backlash from Dems (Fox News)
Calling it “the worst day of his political life,” Sen. Al Franken said Thursday he will resign from the U.S. Senate following a wave of sexual misconduct allegations against him that ranged from groping to forcibly trying to kiss women.
Franken, who said that some of the compaints against him were “simply not true” and that he remembers others “differently,” also took a parting shot at President Trump.
“There is some irony in the fact that I am leaving office while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the Oval Office,” he said from the Senate floor. [Read More]
Local election officials across Virginia will conduct recounts of four House of Delegates races this month that will determine whether Republicans retain control of the chamber.
Currently Republicans hold 51 seats while Democrats hold 49, but several of those races were squeakers. In preliminary hearings this week, judges set dates for three of the four races heading to recount, according to spokesmen for both House Republicans and House Democrats.
The first recount will be Dec. 13 and 14 in Fairfax and Prince William counties for the 40th District, where incumbent Del. Tim Hugo (R) narrowly won reelection by a 106-vote margin over Democrat Donte Tanner.
The closest race heading to recount is the 94th District in Newport News, where Del. David E. Yancey (R) beat Shelly Simonds by 10 votes. That recount will be held Dec. 19. [Read More]
Philadelphia is one step closer to getting rid of bulletproof glass in many of its small businesses as part of a larger effort to crack down on loitering, public urination and potential drug sales — but the potential ban has triggered a backlash from shopkeepers.
The city’s Public Health and Human Services Committee passed a bill Monday enabling Philadelphia’s Department of Licenses and Inspections to regulate the bullet-resistant barricades that stand between customers and cash registers in many neighborhood corner stores, according to FOX29.
“No establishment required to obtain a Large Establishment license … shall erect or maintain a physical barrier that requires the persons serving the food either to open a window or other aperture or to pass the food through a window or other aperture, in order to hand the food to a customer inside the establishment,” the bill states. It also calls for larger establishments to have bathrooms for customers. [Read More]
Harvard study: Millennials are fearful of the future of the country [The Blaze]
A Harvard study concluded that 54 percent of millennials, who are now the largest voting group, believe that America is not heading in a good direction.
According to the study by Harvard’s Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School (IOP), roughly two-thirds of young Americans are fearful of the country’s future, with 82 percent of Democrats expressing fear compared to 58 percent of Republicans. The study also found that 18-29-year-olds are twice as likely to be Democrat.
“President [Trump]’s approval rating is at 25 percent — fewer than those that believe he cares about ‘people like them’,” Volpe said in an email. [Read More]
‘Morning Joe’ contemplates Trump’s mental ‘stability’ after dry-mouth speech [Washington Examiner]
The panel on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” suggested Thursday that President Trump is suffering from diminished mental capacity after he delivered a speech and slurred some of his words toward the end.
Republican strategist and MSNBC contributor Steve Schmidt, a regular on the show, said Trump appeared to have an “impairment” and called it “chilling” to watch.
“He seemed like he was almost hanging on to the prompter and hanging on to the words,” co-host Mika Brzezinski said. “Something, I don’t know. … There was a struggle happening.” [Read More]
