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“Chairman Ryan appreciates the support he’s getting from his colleagues but is still not running for speaker”, Ryan spokesman Brendan Buck said in a statement released Friday, Fox News reported.

In May, when Ritzheimer staged a heavily armed protest outside the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix, he had said he wanted to see similar rallies nationwide.

The New York Times first reported the move. The Obama administration is also now considering Turkey’s proposal that the US aid a separate force of Arab fighters that would fight alongside Kurdish militias to march on ISIS’s capital in the eastern city of Raqqa.

Carter predicted Russia’s support for the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, including the new joint offensive, “will have consequences for Russia itself”, adding: “I also expect that in coming days the Russians will begin to suffer casualties in...

The Russians insist they are targeting Islamic State (IS) extremists – also referred to as Isil or Isis – but Western sources say they have largely hit mainstream opposition forces. “Nato will defend you, Nato is on the ground, Nato is ready”, he said.

The Quinnipiac poll also tested the temperature of Ohio’s U.S. Senate race between Republican Sen. “In 2014, voters expressed overwhelming support for legalization, but at the ballot box they failed to meet the 60 percent threshold required by the State...

Temperatures dipped into record lows multiple times last winter, so cheers to possibly avoiding that again. Areas north and west of Worcester, particularly at higher elevations, can expect snowfall somewhat above seasonal averages.

House members who want to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank have enough commitments of support to force a floor vote, one supporter said Friday. The bank’s authorization expired June 30 after conservative Republicans kept it from receiving a vote in committee.

Rep. Darrell Issa said Friday that he’s “considering” running for House speaker.

But Thursday the Senate rules committee unanimously agreed to replace the confederate one with the current state flag. Sen.

After completing his first practice in nearly four weeks, Rutgers receiver Leonte Carroo said he was blessed to be back with the team.

He wrote that the inmates’ allegations that the lethal injection procedure posed a substantial enough risk of causing them unnecessary pain and suffering included enough facts about the drugs used to move forward with their claim. Legal and political battles over death...

Concerned about the number of trains carrying volatile crude oil through his district, U.S. Rep. Scott Garrett called on federal officials Thursday to obtain private inspection reports from rail companies on all spans through the region and share them with local officials.

Regents approved the plan despite a shortfall in fundraising.

Presidential hopeful Ben Carson stumbled over his stance on whether or not he would raise the debt ceiling during a radio interview Wednesday.