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The Republican congressman from Montana told Breitbart News Monday that he is very disturbed by the lewd tape of Donald J. Trump, but still supports his party’s nominee for president.

ASSOCIATED PRESS — One of the largest oil producers in the U.S. is purchasing a privately-held New Mexico company and some of its subsidiaries in a $2.5 billion deal that will expand its footprint in major energy-producing basins in the West.

The former Army explosive ordnance disposal NCO, who gave both his legs in Afghanistan and is now running for Congress in Florida’s 18th congressional district announced Wednesday he endorses Donald J. Trump for president.

“The White House views the situation as ongoing,” Earnest said, reminding reporters that Democratic voters in six states were currently voting for their choice for president.

A bar in Billings, MT was robbed at gunpoint, but that did not stop one couple there from enjoying their experience. Early into Monday morning, three masked men entered the Tap Inn with guns. One of the robbers can be seen on the surveillance video

The owner of a daycare center told police that she was hit in the face with a shovel by the girlfriend of a drunken father of three children in her care because she would not allow him to leave the center with the children.

On Wednesday morning, a Montana father and mother were shot and murdered, and their daughter was seriously wounded in Pryor, Montana, when they emulated the Good Samaritan and attempted to help Jesus Deniz Mendoza, 18, whose car was stopped on the side of the road on the Crow Indian Reservation.

On Tuesday, inspired by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts’ dissent in the recent ruling legalizing gay marriages across the country, one Montana man who has two wives took the logical next step, applying for his polygamous marriage to be legalized.

Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT), who joined Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) in his filibuster on the U.S. Senate floor on Wednesday, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview when he came off the Senate floor that he stands with Rand because Montanans want him to.

As parents have continued to opt their children out of the testing aligned with the Common Core standards by the thousands in some states, in others, the testing has been halted entirely due to numerous technological glitches, leaving some state education officials worried their federal funding could be at stake as a result of low participation rates in the mandated tests.

Northwestern Energy, Montana’s largest gas and electric company, is lobbying against a Republican bill that protects 2nd Amendment rights by making it legal for residents to sue cities and municipalities that infringe on those rights.

WASHINGTON—Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT), an Iraq War veteran, candidly told the moderator of a CPAC panel discussion that he would not have gone to war in Iraq.

The Montana House endorsed a bill on Saturday to repeal the Common Core standards by a vote of 55-45. All but four Republicans voted for the measure and all 41 Democrats opposed it.

On February 9, the Montana House passed HB 203 which blocks any future federal ban on semi-automatic firearms or the magazines they use.

On January 27, Montana lawmakers heard testimony on Representative Art Wittich’s (R-Bozeman) House Bill 203, which prohibits the state from enforcing any federal ban “on semiautomatic weapons or large magazines.”