Melissa Quinn

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The president hasn't given a weekly address since mid-October. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

White House revamping Trump’s weekly addresses

Melissa Quinn · November 20, 2017 8:49 pm

"PBS will air 'David Letterman: The Mark Twain Prize' on Monday evening. Senator Al Franken participated in the event, but will not appear substantially in the PBS program," PBS said in a statement. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Al Franken edited out of PBS special honoring David Letterman

Melissa Quinn · November 20, 2017 8:03 pm

One attendee reportedly described the conversation as "jaw-dropping." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

H.R. McMaster called Trump an ‘idiot’ and a ‘dope’ at private dinner: Report

Melissa Quinn · November 20, 2017 6:00 pm

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio will speak at Progress Iowa's fifth annual Holiday Party on Dec. 19 and discuss the "future of the progressive movement" and efforts to fight the conservative agenda, the organization announced Monday. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio heads to Iowa next month

Melissa Quinn · November 20, 2017 5:00 pm

Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said that although he has not spoken to President Trump in over a month, he talks to the president's inner circle "regularly" and considers himself a media "surrogate" for the administration. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Anthony Scaramucci says he expects to help with Trump’s re-election campaign

Melissa Quinn · November 20, 2017 3:30 pm

A woman told CNN she met Sen. Al Franken, who had been elected to the Senate two years early, at the Minnesota State Fair, where her father's business was sponsoring a local radio booth. Lindsay Menz said Franken "pulled me in really close, like awkward close, and as my husband took the picture, he put his hand full-fledged on my rear." (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Second accuser: Woman says Al Franken inappropriately touched her while he was a senator

Melissa Quinn · November 20, 2017 2:37 pm

A tide of sexual harassment allegations leveled at politicians nationwide have compelled a number of state legislatures to increase training, advance new legislation, and institute reviews and changes to current policies. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

Battle for sexual harassment policy change hits state legislatures

Melissa Quinn · November 19, 2017 5:01 am

Rev. Franklin Graham, the president of Samaritan's Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (pictured above), tweeted: "The hypocrisy of Washington has no bounds. So many denouncing Roy Moore when they are guilty of doing much worse than what he has been accused of supposedly doing. Shame on those hypocrites." (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

Franklin Graham: People denouncing Roy Moore are ‘guilty of doing much worse’

Melissa Quinn · November 17, 2017 8:35 pm

Rob Goldstone has been living in Bangkok, Thailand, but is expected to come to the U.S. soon to speak to special counsel Robert Mueller and his team. Goldstone emailed Trump Jr. last year about attending a meeting at Trump Tower with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer. In one email, Goldstone said the Russians had damaging information on Hillary Clinton that would benefit Donald Trump's presidential campaign. (Irina Bujor/Kommersant Photo via AP, file)

British publicist who helped arrange Trump Tower meeting with Russian lawyer ready to talk with Robert Mueller: Report

Melissa Quinn · November 17, 2017 7:24 pm

Lewinsky says she was "patient zero" for "going from being a private person to a globally known, publicly humiliated, losing-by-digital-reputation [person]." (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

Monica Lewinsky: Public shaming of sexual assault victims is a ‘blood sport’

Melissa Quinn · November 17, 2017 5:59 pm

Women staffers who worked for Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., said, "In our time working for the senator, he treated us with the utmost respect." (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Eight women who worked for Al Franken say he ‘treated us with the utmost respect’

Melissa Quinn · November 17, 2017 5:05 pm

Eighteen college championship teams are attending an event Friday with President Trump. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

University of South Carolina women’s basketball team declines White House invitation

Melissa Quinn · November 17, 2017 4:28 pm