Melissa Quinn

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A number of actors, actresses and celebrities have taken to Twitter this week to announce their support for Doug Jones.

Hollywood opens its arms to Doug Jones ahead of Alabama special election

Melissa Quinn · December 9, 2017 11:28 pm

President Trump participated in a "Make America Great Again" rally and is now calling out a reporter about a tweet on crowd size. (AP Photo/Jonathan Bachman)

Trump calls for Washington Post reporter to be fired for tweet about crowd size at Pensacola rally

Melissa Quinn · December 9, 2017 10:27 pm

"With climate change, some scientists are saying Southern California is literally burning up, and burning up as maybe a metaphor or a description not just to the fires right here, but what we can expect over the next years and decades," Brown said. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Energy and Environment

Jerry Brown: Expect to see Southern California burn up because of climate change

Melissa Quinn · December 9, 2017 9:25 pm

President Trump focused his weekly address to the nation on illegal immigration and spoke of the death of Kate Steinle, a 32-year-old who was shot and killed on a San Francisco pier by an illegal immigrant in 2015. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump slams Democrats for ‘putting national security at risk’ over government spending bill

Melissa Quinn · December 9, 2017 8:36 pm

The U.S. Military Academy and U.S. Naval Academy football teams will face off at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia at 3 p.m. ET as part of a rivalry that has spanned more than 100 years. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)

National Security

Trump plans to tune into Army-Navy game, thanks military for ‘sacrifice and service’

Melissa Quinn · December 9, 2017 7:26 pm

President Donald Trump gets a tour of the newly-opened Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, Miss., Saturday, Dec. 9, 2017. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, left, joins the president on the tour. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump honors civil rights icons at opening of Mississippi Civil Rights Museum: ‘We strive to be worthy of their sacrifice’

Melissa Quinn · December 9, 2017 6:12 pm

"It is our mission not only to correct our ills, but to write a new narrative, to be a model for the rest of the world," Jackson, Miss., mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba (pictured above at the microphone) said during a press conference Saturday. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Jackson mayor: ‘If we can change right here in the belly of the beast, we can see a change take place across the world’

Melissa Quinn · December 9, 2017 4:58 pm

In Miami, a suspicious crate caused a brief shutdown at a local art fair. When it was opened, however, it turned out there was a painting of a pink-haired Hillary Clinton inside. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Crate containing pink-haired Hillary Clinton painting triggers brief shutdown at Miami art fair

Melissa Quinn · December 9, 2017 4:50 pm

Rep. Alcee Hasting's former staffer, Winsome Packer, worked for the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, and accused Hastings (pictured above) of "unwelcome touching" and "unwelcome sexual advances" in a lawsuit. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Former female commission staffer received $220,000 settlement for case against Florida Democrat Alcee Hastings

Melissa Quinn · December 9, 2017 4:04 pm

President Trump, left, listens as Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel, right, speaks at a fundraiser at Cipriani in New York, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump asked RNC chair Ronna Romney McDaniel to drop maiden name: Report

Melissa Quinn · December 9, 2017 3:19 pm

Michigan State Sen. Coleman Young II, the son of Detroit's first black mayor, will announce Monday his intent to run for the seat Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., held for more than 50 years. (AP Photo/David Eggert)

Michigan state senator, son of Detroit’s first black mayor to run for John Conyers’ seat: Report

Melissa Quinn · December 8, 2017 8:26 pm

Fifty-one percent of voters, though, said they do not approve of the job the president is doing. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump celebrates his 45 percent approval rating

Melissa Quinn · December 8, 2017 6:47 pm