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ASHINGTON — When Matt Gaetz abruptly withdrew as President-elect Donald Trump’s candidate for attorney general on Thursday, many career attorneys in the Justice Department breathed a sigh of relief. Hours later, though, Trump nominated former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, a longtime loyalist who backed the former president’s lies about the 2020 election and said “horrible” people in the department were trying to make names for themselves by “going after Donald Trump and weaponizing our legal system.” Justice Department attorneys now hope that Trump’s pick for the critical No. 2 position at the department — Todd Blanche, the president-elect’s defense...

Lincoln may support extending tax cuts for the wealthy in light of 'circumstances'By Darren Goode - 10/09/10 10:32 AM ET Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) Friday signaled she is open to extending Bush administration tax cuts beyond the middle-class incentives President Obama and congressional Democratic leaders are seeking. Lincoln – one of the most endangered Democratic incumbents in the Nov. 2 midterm election – said she may support extending tax cuts set to expire at the end of the year for those making as much as $1 million annually. "I don't think we should have to say that we're either going...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Heads up, tea partiers. You're not the only angry outsiders making waves. In state after state, voters are taking out their frustrations on the political establishment - and no place reflects the depth and diversity of their ire better than Arkansas.

EAST CAMDEN, Ark. – Days before Arkansas voters deliver a verdict on her political career, Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln spent Saturday telling them that she's built up the clout in Washington to best represent the state's interests. Talking up her credentials in Washington flies in the face of the anti-incumbent and anti-Washington sentiment that Lincoln faces. Halter, backed by labor unions that have soured on Lincoln, is portraying himself as an agent of change and Lincoln as the status quo. Lincoln is considered one of the most vulnerable incumbents in Washington this year. She angered conservatives by supporting the Democratic-led...

Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln Bolts from Her Party in New AdMarch 04, 2010 11:15 AM ABC News' Teddy Davis and David Chalian report: What does it take for a Democrat to win in a Red State in 2010? For starters, depict Washington, a town run by your own party, as children. Second, explicitly tout your opposition to central components of your party’s agenda including the public option and the cap-and-trade bill. That’s the strategy being followed by Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D) in a television ad launched on Thursday. Watch Lincoln’s ad HERE:

Multiple independent polls now show Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D) losing or running even in ballot tests against any number of lower-tier GOP challengers. Just as important, those same surveys show more voters having an unfavorable opinion of her than a favorable one. Given the bent of Independent voters (in the recent Massachusetts special election but also in national surveys), we are increasingly doubtful that the Arkansas Democratic Senator can win another term. Of course, much depends on the eventual GOP challenger and how the economy behaves over the next nine months. Still, the burden of proof has shifted in...

A French Engineer Removed In Baghdad BAGHDAD - a French engineer working in Baghdad was removed Monday morning by the unknown ones armed in the west with the capital, indicated the Iraqi police force. The French national circulated on board his car in the district of Mansour when armed men stopped it and taken along towards an unknown destination, according to this source. The abduction took place towards 09H20 (06H20 GMT). Documents proving the nationality of the victim were found in the car left on the spot. The French also rented a house with Mansour, whose owner confirmed nationality,...

Share-cropping became common in the United States after the Civil War. Back then, many Southern plantations had ample land, but little money to pay wages. At the same time, a large segment of the population was left impoverished, with little prospect of earning an adequate living. So, it was little surprise that the landed people -- those with the means of producing a product -- contracted with the poor, who had labor to offer, to produce a product from which both might profit. Share croppers normally received a home, the necessary tools, farm animals, and sometimes even some education, for...

he folks of Little Rock on May 5 got to see an odd spectacle. President Bush told a nearly packed house at the 2,600-seat Robinson Center Music Hall in downtown Little Rock how much the economy badly needs a tax cut as a shot in the arm. On the other side of town, in the state capitol, Republican Governor Mike Huckabee lectured a joint session of the legislature about the urgent need for tax hikes. Huckabee is certainly not alone as a Republican governor eager to raise taxes, but his tax-and-spend fever has effects in Washington — specifically on...

Former Rep. Asa Hutchinson (R-Ark.), the undersecretary of Homeland Security for border and transportation security, is scheduled to make a handful of appearances in the Razorback State over the next month, fueling speculation that he may be weighing a challenge to Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D).

December 16, 2002 Posted at: 2:00 p.m. CDT WASHINGTON -- Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln says if Trent Lott were a Democrat he'd have to go. The Republican in line to become Senate Majority Leader next month has created a swirl of controversy over his recent racially-charged remarks. So far Senate Republicans have been reluctant to ask Lott to give up the leadership role. But Lincoln says that under the same circumstances, she would be very comfortable with asking a Democrat to forego taking leadership of the Senate. Lincoln says Lott's comments were the latest in a series of similar remarks...