America Political Events March-14-2018
Tillerson out, CIA’s Pompeo is in President Donald Trump’s firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sent shock waves through the world Tuesday. His unhappiness with Tillerson In Iran, the official Islamic Republic News Agency’s website posted an unflattering photo of Pompeo, who has made clear he considers the Tehran government more of a threat than Tillerson did. Democrat Connor Lamb held onto a narrow lead Wednesday as counting of absentee and provisional ballots continued from Tuesday’s election to replace resigned and disgraced Republican U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy in a Pennsylvania congressional district. Lamb was ahead by just a few hundred votes – less than a percentage point – in a district near Pittsburgh that Donald Trump carried by 20 points in 2016. Based on the numbers, Republicans should have been able carry their candidate, Rick Saccone, to an easy victory. Adult film star Stormy Daniels was ordered by an arbitration judge not to sue Donald Trump, accord...