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Jan 16, 2019
Andrew Wheeler, President Trump's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, told a Senate panel Wednesday that he does not believe climate change is the "greatest crisis" and vowed to continue the administration's agenda of rolling back environmental regulations.
Wheeler, a former coal...
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Jan 16, 2019
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Jan 16, 2019
Are we quietly winning the war on terror — but are afraid to admit it?
After President Trump warned on Jan. 4 that terrorists were heading our way from Mexico, a remarkable statistic emerged: The number of terrorist acts committed by people who had sneaked across our southern border was exactly...
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Jan 16, 2019
The well-heeled liberals who donate big money to Democrats — creating an outsized role for themselves in choosing which party leaders ascend to stardom — are used to candidates swarming them with requests for cash.
This election they face a different dilemma: Candidates worry they are a liability.
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Jan 15, 2019
Two months before he became the president of Mexico in 2012, Enrique Peña Nieto accepted a $100-million bribe from Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, a witness in the U.S. trial of the drug kingpin testified Tuesday.
Alex Cifuentes Villa, a Colombian who worked closely with Guzman and is awaiting sentencing...
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Jan 15, 2019
Two months before he became the president of Mexico in 2012, Enrique Peña Nieto accepted a $100-million bribe from Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, a witness in the U.S. trial of the drug kingpin testified Tuesday.
Alex Cifuentes Villa, a Colombian who worked closely with Guzman and is awaiting sentencing...
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Jan 15, 2019
Rep. Kevin McCarthy appears to have passed his first test as House Republicans' minority leader this week — holding the party together to sanction one of its own, Iowa Rep. Steve King, for his latest racially charged comments.
McCarthy, of Bakersfield, decided late Monday to bar King from membership...
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Jan 15, 2019
Hoping to make a crack in Democratic unity as the partial government shutdown reached Day 25, President Trump invited a handful of moderate Democrats to the White House on Tuesday for lunch and a chat.
None showed up. That despite the fact that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) jokingly...
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Jan 15, 2019
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), a central figure in the Democratic Party's debate about the #MeToo movement, is preparing to join a 2020 presidential primary contest that features a record number of women in the wake of the midterm election tidal wave of female candidates.
Gillibrand, 52, announced...
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Jan 15, 2019
William Barr, President Trump's nominee for attorney general, told a Senate panel Tuesday that he did not believe special counsel Robert S. Mueller III was on a "witch hunt" and said he would not fire Mueller without good cause.
"I would not carry out that instruction" if asked to do so, Barr testified,...
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Jan 15, 2019
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), a central figure in the Democratic Party's debate about the #MeToo movement, is preparing to join a 2020 presidential primary contest that features a record number of women in the wake of the midterm election tidal wave of female candidates.
Gillibrand, 52, is...
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Jan 15, 2019
The Pentagon has agreed to keep several thousand U.S. troops deployed on the U.S.-Mexico border until Sept. 30, again expanding a controversial mission that began last fall and already was extended once.
The troops's role will transition from "hardening" border crossings to "mobile surveillance...
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Jan 15, 2019
Andrew Wheeler, President Trump's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, has two things going for him when he appears before senators Wednesday at his confirmation hearing.
First, he's not Scott Pruitt, who was forced to resign last year under a cloud of ethics investigations.
Second,...
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Jan 15, 2019
William P. Barr, President Trump's nominee for attorney general, told a Senate panel Tuesday that he did not believe special counsel Robert S. Mueller III was on a "witch hunt" and said he would consult with ethics lawyers on whether he needs to step aside from supervising the probe in light of...
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Jan 15, 2019
Two of the nation's largest banks on Tuesday reported mixed earnings results for the end of last year, a potential caution sign on the state of the economy heading into 2019.
Wells Fargo & Co. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. both missed expectations on revenue for the October-through-December period....
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Jan 15, 2019
Wells Fargo & Co.'s profit fell slightly last quarter compared with a year earlier as the bank continued to deal with a cap on its assets put in place by federal regulators after a series of scandals.
The $6.06 billion in profit from October through December that Wells Fargo reported Tuesday was...
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Jan 15, 2019
William Barr, President Trump's nominee for attorney general, is expected to sail through his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday after promising to let special counsel Robert Mueller III complete his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
The 68-year-old lawyer will likely...
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Jan 15, 2019
This already was going to be a challenging year to fill out your federal tax returns after major tax-law changes took effect in 2018.
Then the political dispute over the U.S.-Mexico border wall sent most Internal Revenue Service workers home last month.
Now, with the government partially shut down...
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Jan 14, 2019
A who's who of former Sinaloa cartel chiefs have become cooperating witnesses in the sprawling drug-trafficking case against Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. But Alex Cifuentes, another leader in the multibillion-dollar drug operation, was able to offer a uniquely intimate view of his notorious ex-boss:
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Jan 14, 2019
William Barr, President Trump's nominee for attorney general, promised Monday to permit special counsel Robert S. Mueller III to "complete his investigation" into Russia's meddling in the 2016 campaign and vowed to be as transparent as possible in releasing the findings.
Barr's pledge, a day before...
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Jan 14, 2019
A year ago, President Trump received a hero's welcome at the American Farm Bureau Federation's 99th annual convention in Nashville, cheered for rolling back regulations, revamping an Obama administration water rule and for being the first president to address the group in 25 years.
In New Orleans...
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Jan 14, 2019
A woman suing Rep. Tony Cardenas (D-Los Angeles) for an alleged sexual assault when she was a teenager publicly identified herself for the first time Monday and is asking the House to open an ethics investigation.
Angela Villela Chavez, 28, made the accusation against Cardenas in May, alleging...
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Jan 14, 2019
A woman suing Rep. Tony Cardenas (D-Los Angeles) for an alleged sexual assault when she was a teenager publicly identified herself for the first time Monday and is asking the House to open an ethics investigation.
Angela Villela Chavez, 28, made the accusation against Cardenas in May, alleging...
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Jan 14, 2019
Members of the California congressional delegation say they still have no idea if President Trump will follow through on his threat to cut off federal disaster funding to the state.
Representatives for the White House and Federal Emergency Management Agency have not responded to daily requests...
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Jan 14, 2019
William Barr, President Trump's nominee for attorney general, promised Monday to permit special counsel Robert S. Mueller III to "complete his investigation" into Russia's meddling in the 2016 campaign and said he would be as transparent as possible in releasing the findings.
On Tuesday, Democrats...
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Jan 14, 2019
President Trump on Monday seemed to back further away from his threat to declare a national emergency to fund his southern border wall and perhaps resolve the 24-day-old partial government shutdown, demanding instead that Democrats give him the $5.7 billion he wants.
"I'm not looking to call a...
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Jan 14, 2019
William Barr, President Trump's nominee for U.S. attorney general, will face a familiar setting on Tuesday — a Senate confirmation hearing.
It is sure to be the most contentious in the long legal career of the 68-year-old Republican lawyer who served as attorney general for two years under President...
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Jan 13, 2019
For Nicki Mitchell of Pomona, there was one good reason to come hear U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris of California talk about her memoir Sunday afternoon at a theater in Los Angeles.
"I'm seeing it as an opportunity to see the next president," said Mitchell, a high school counselor.
Harris hasn't announced...
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Jan 13, 2019
For Nicki Mitchell of Pomona, there was one good reason to come hear U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris of California talk about her memoir Sunday afternoon at a theater in Los Angeles.
"I'm seeing it as an opportunity to see the next president," said Mitchell, a high school counselor.
Harris hasn't announced...
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Jan 13, 2019
Felicia Jones drove from Montclair to Los Angeles in the pre-dawn darkness on Sunday to get a good spot in line to meet U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris at a book reading.
It worked.
"I'm waiting for that announcement," Jones told Harris six hours later as the Democratic senator signed a book at a store...
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Jan 13, 2019
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo on Sunday urged Saudi Arabia and other U.S. Arab allies in the region to repair a long-festering rift with Qatar, expressing frustration that little progress has been made.
The dispute "has dragged on too long," he told reporters in the Qatari capital of Doha...
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Jan 13, 2019
Congressional Democrats on Sunday pledged heightened scrutiny of President Trump's dealings with Russia, spurred on by news reports of extraordinary secrecy surrounding his conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the opening in 2017 of an FBI counterintelligence probe into whether...
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Jan 13, 2019
In 2016, when a slew of 17 Republicans sought the White House, the number seemed to push the boundaries of both plausibility and physical capacity.
In 2020, the Democratic field may be even larger.
If, as the saying goes, everyone in America has a shot at growing up to be president, Democrats may...
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Jan 13, 2019
Let's hear it for ineptitude.
That's one of the unexpected lessons of President Trump's tenure as he nears the halfway mark of his term.
The president hasn't been tamed; he's every bit as autocratic and disruptive as when he took office in January 2017. But he's been restrained by courts from California...
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Jan 13, 2019
There are fresh faces and old hands. Thirty-somethings and senior citizens. Billionaires and at least one person still paying off student loans. A skateboarder, a brewery founder and a coffee magnate are all taking a look.
Dozens of Democrats are thinking about running for president in 2020.
The...
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Jan 13, 2019
Let's hear it for ineptitude.
That's one of the unexpected lessons of President Trump's tenure as he nears the halfway mark of his term.
The president hasn't been tamed; he's every bit as autocratic and disruptive as when he took office in January 2017. But he's been restrained by courts from California...
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Jan 13, 2019
Let's hear it for ineptitude.
That's one of the unexpected lessons of President Trump's tenure as he nears the halfway mark of his term.
The president hasn't been tamed; he's every bit as autocratic and disruptive as when he took office in January 2017. But he's been restrained by courts from California...
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Jan 13, 2019
In 2016, when a slew of 17 Republicans sought the White House, the number seemed to push the boundaries of both plausibility and physical capacity.
In 2020, the Democratic field may be even larger.
If, as the saying goes, everyone in America has a shot at growing up to be president, Democrats may...
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Jan 12, 2019
The grandfather of a northwestern Wisconsin girl who authorities say was abducted during a home invasion that left her parents dead said Saturday that the family has no connection to the suspect and doesn't understand why he targeted her, deepening a months-long mystery.
Someone blasted open the...
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Jan 12, 2019
Today the partial government shutdown becomes the longest in U.S. history.
And with no vote or negotiations scheduled for this weekend, the battle between President Trump and the new Democratic-led House is likely to keep going.
The lack of a compromise means some 800,000 federal workers missed...
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Jan 12, 2019
Today the partial government shutdown becomes the longest in U.S. history.
And with no vote or negotiations scheduled for this weekend, the battle between President Trump and the new Democratic-led House is likely to keep going.
The lack of a compromise means some 800,000 federal workers missed...
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Jan 12, 2019
With a jab at President Trump and vow to rally the country behind a progressive agenda of universal healthcare and environmentalism, former San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro formally launched his bid Saturday for the Democratic nomination for president.
"When my grandmother got here almost a hundred...
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Jan 11, 2019
As the federal government's partial shutdown became tied on Friday for the longest one ever, President Trump tempered his talk of declaring a national emergency on the southern border that could free him to spend money on a wall there.
The president insisted on his power to make the declaration,...
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Jan 11, 2019
The last child departed what was once the nation's largest shelter for migrant youths on Friday, a "tent city" in the west Texas desert town of Tornillo that had spurred protests, official criticism and proposed legislation.
Workers have been dismantling parts of the massive temporary shelter east...
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Jan 11, 2019
The last teen left what was once the nation's largest shelter for migrant youths on Friday, according to the U.S. congressman who represents Tornillo, Texas, the site of the controversial "tent city." The fate of the facility — and others like it — remains uncertain.
Workers have been dismantling...
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Jan 11, 2019
Billionaire Democratic Gov.-elect J.B. Pritzker, who pumped more than $171 million of his own wealth into his campaign to defeat Republican incumbent Bruce Rauner in November, now will use his own money to bolster his top government aides' salaries, his transition team said Friday.
Pritzker's incoming...
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Jan 11, 2019
President Trump saluted a Blackhawk helicopter hovering over the Rio Grande on Thursday, seeking to highlight the need for $5.7 billion for his trademark border wall to stop what he calls an "invasion."
Next to the president stood a Customs and Border Protection officer and a Border Patrol agent....
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Jan 11, 2019
From the time she was a girl, Vivian Shepherd was haunted by the World War II photograph of her uncle Samuel, stern-faced with his Army cap slightly cocked. She asked her father about him, but he never wanted to talk.
One day, when Shepherd was in her late 30s, she saw a picture of her uncle in...
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Jan 11, 2019
Congress's most powerful Republican has intentionally taken a back seat in the negotiations over how to end the government shutdown, even as it extends to a record three weeks with no resolution on the horizon.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has gotten Congress out of a lot of political...
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Jan 11, 2019
Sometimes it feels like the Russia investigation led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has been one bombshell after another. He's successfully prosecuted some of President Trump's closest aides and provided a detailed blueprint of Moscow's attempts to interfere in U.S. politics.
But there's...
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Jan 11, 2019
South Korea is balking at a Trump administration demand for sharply higher payments to defray the cost of basing U.S. forces on its territory, raising fears that President Trump might threaten an abrupt troop drawdown at a time of sensitive diplomacy on the Korean peninsula.
U.S. negotiators have...
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Jan 11, 2019
Only a few blocks from the National Mall, amid a cluster of nondescript buildings, more than a dozen prosecutors working for special counsel Robert S. Mueller III have followed an unusual routine as they toil away on the Russia investigation.
When they leave the office at night, they often wonder...
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Jan 11, 2019
Whenever Bob Robbins would ride the school bus past Blue Mesa Reservoir, he felt a pang in his gut.
The vast shimmering lake, the largest in Colorado, was a recreational paradise for many and a source of power and water storage for the Gunnison Valley and beyond.
But it was once something else.
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Jan 11, 2019
The Supreme Court said Friday that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's recovery from lung cancer surgery is on track and that post-surgery tests found "no evidence of remaining disease."
The reassuring report on the 85-year-old justice is in line with the statements issued after her surgery on Dec. 21....
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Jan 11, 2019
As the federal government's partial shutdown on Friday tied for the longest one ever, President Trump was considering declaring a national emergency to get the money he wants for a border wall, perhaps by diverting funds designated for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects in California and Puerto...
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Jan 11, 2019
A long tradition in the U.S. derides campaign promises as meaningless; in truth, they're anything but that.
Presidents often find themselves boxed in by promises they make in their campaigns. Over the last few weeks, President Trump's pledge to build a wall on the southern border has provided an...
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Jan 11, 2019
Officials have given President Trump a plan to divert funds designated for Army Corps of Engineers projects in California and Puerto Rico to help pay for a wall along the southern border, a leading member of Congress said Thursday.
On his way to the Texas border Thursday, Trump was presented with...
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Jan 11, 2019
President Trump's decision to pull U.S. troops from Syria is viewed as a betrayal by American volunteers who fought alongside Kurdish militias there to oust Islamic State.
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Jan 10, 2019
The Rio Grande Valley had a message for President Trump and the Republican lawmakers who visited Thursday: Dire warnings about a crisis on the border are bad for business.
"There's this fallacy that the border is not secure," Eddie Trevino, the top official in Cameron County, told Texas' U.S. senators,...
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Jan 10, 2019
The trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has featured chilling details of brutal cartel warfare and dizzying revelations about the inner workings of the multibillion-dollar Sinaloa network's dealings. But perhaps the most surreal tale to emerge is that of Guzman's I.T. guy, Christian...
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Jan 10, 2019
The trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has featured chilling details of brutal cartel warfare and dizzying revelations about the inner workings of the multibillion-dollar Sinaloa network's dealings. But perhaps the most surreal tale to emerge is that of Guzman's I.T. guy, Christian...
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Jan 10, 2019
President Trump moved closer Thursday to declaring a national emergency to bypass Congress to secure funds for a border wall and resolve a government shutdown now into its 20th day.
"I have the absolute right to declare a national emergency," Trump said to reporters before departing the White House...
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Jan 10, 2019
President Trump moved closer Thursday to declaring a national emergency to bypass Congress to secure funds for a border wall and resolve a government shutdown now into its 20th day.
"I have the absolute right to declare a national emergency," Trump said to reporters before departing the White House...
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Jan 10, 2019
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome H. Powell warned on Thursday that an extended partial government shutdown could damage the U.S. economy and starve the central bank of key data it needs to make monetary policy decisions.
"If we have an extended shutdown, I do think that would show up in the data...
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Jan 10, 2019
President Trump moved closer Thursday to declaring a national emergency in an effort to secure funds for a border wall and resolve a government shutdown now into its 20th day.
"I have the absolute right to declare a national emergency," Trump said to reporters before departing the White House for...
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Jan 10, 2019
The Environmental Protection Agency has abandoned plans to roll back a set of protections for farmworkers, including a proposal to ease Obama-era regulations requiring anyone working with dangerous pesticides to be at least 18 years old.
Passed in 2015, the rules became a target of the EPA a year...
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Jan 10, 2019
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo used a keynote address in the Egyptian capital Thursday to take aim at two favorite targets — Iran and former President Obama — as he sought to reassure Middle East allies of Washington's commitment to the region.
"In just 24 months, the United States under...
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Jan 10, 2019
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo used a keynote address in the Egyptian capital Thursday to take aim at two favorite targets — Iran and former President Obama — as he sought to reassure Middle East allies of Washington's commitment to the region.
"In just 24 months, the United States under...
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Jan 10, 2019
President Trump moved closer Thursday to declaring a national emergency in an effort to secure funds for a border wall and resolve a government shutdown now into its 20th day.
"I have the absolute right to declare a national emergency," Trump said to reporters before departing the White House for...
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Jan 09, 2019
President Trump is bringing his campaign to sell the U.S. on a border wall to McAllen, Texas.
Two days after claiming a humanitarian and security crisis, Trump will land in the heart of Texas' Rio Grande Valley, the busiest stretch of the border in recent years for illegal crossings.
Many in this...
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Jan 09, 2019
President Trump is bringing his campaign to sell the U.S. on a border wall to McAllen, Texas.
Two days after claiming a humanitarian and security crisis, Trump will land in the heart of Texas' Rio Grande Valley, the busiest stretch of the border in recent years for illegal crossings.
Many in this...
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Jan 09, 2019
The prosecution's recipe for Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's downfall was on full display in federal court Wednesday: turncoats, technology — and the notorious drug kingpin's own paranoia.
The FBI was able to tap into scores of text messages that Guzman, 61, sent in 2012 because the infamous Mexican...
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Jan 09, 2019
After flirting with a presidential bid, billionaire Tom Steyer announced Wednesday he would not seek the 2020 Democratic nomination but rather focus on leading a grass-roots effort to drive President Trump from office.
"Most people come to Iowa around this time to announce a campaign for president,"...
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Jan 09, 2019
The prosecution's recipe for Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's downfall was on full display in federal court Wednesday morning: turncoats, technology — and the notorious drug kingpin's own paranoia.
The FBI was able to tap into scores of text messages Guzman, 61, sent in 2012 because the infamous Mexican...
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Jan 09, 2019
Billionaire Tom Steyer, after flirting with a presidential bid, announced Wednesday he would not seek the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
"Most people come to Iowa around this time to announce a campaign for president," Steyer said in remarks at a news conference in Des Moines. "But I...
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Jan 09, 2019
A day after calling for a bipartisan compromise to resolve the partial government shutdown, President Trump stormed out of a White House negotiating session Wednesday when Democratic leaders refused to agree to his demand for taxpayer funds to build a southern border wall.
"Just left a meeting...
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Jan 09, 2019
President Trump, in a tweet, said early Wednesday that he has ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency not to send more disaster funding to fire-ravaged California "unless they get their act together, which is unlikely."
It was not immediately clear, however, whether Trump's threat was bluster...
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Jan 09, 2019
Republicans on Capitol Hill increasingly view an emergency national security declaration by President Trump as a way to end the 19-day partial government shutdown, which was triggered by his demand to use taxpayer funds to build a southern border wall.
"There are only four doors here," said Sen....
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Jan 09, 2019
President Trump, in a tweet, said early Wednesday that he has ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency not to send more disaster funding to fire-ravaged California "unless they get their act together, which is unlikely."
It was not immediately clear, however, whether Trump's threat was bluster...
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Jan 09, 2019
More than a half century ago, the Supreme Court in one of its most famous decisions boldly put a check on executive power, one that has been cited repeatedly as proof the president cannot declare a national emergency to bypass Congress.
Many legal experts, however, say they are not confident the...
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Jan 09, 2019
More than a half century ago, the Supreme Court in one of its most famous decisions boldly put a check on executive power, one that has been cited repeatedly as proof the president cannot declare a national emergency to bypass Congress.
Many legal experts, however, say they are not confident the...
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Jan 09, 2019
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo on Wednesday made an unannounced trip to Iraq as part of his Middle East reassurance campaign, and heard pleas for more help in fighting Islamic State militants.
Pompeo is attempting to explain to Arab allies President Trump's abrupt decision to withdraw U.S....
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Jan 09, 2019
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo on Wednesday made an unannounced trip to Iraq as part of his Middle East reassurance campaign, and heard pleas for more help in fighting Islamic State militants.
Pompeo is attempting to explain to Arab allies President Trump's abrupt decision to withdraw U.S....
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Jan 09, 2019
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo on Wednesday made an unannounced trip to Iraq as part of his Middle East reassurance campaign, and heard pleas for more help in fighting Islamic State militants.
Pompeo is attempting to explain to Arab allies President Trump's abrupt decision to withdraw U.S....
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Jan 09, 2019
After congressional elections in which Democrats in record numbers chose to elevate women, minority and gay candidates, casting ballots for diversity and youth in district after district, the list of presidential hopefuls most exciting to Democratic voters is a bit curious.
At the top, several...
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Jan 08, 2019
President Trump gave his first prime-time Oval Office speech, focusing on what he declared to be a crisis on the country's southern border. The House and Senate Democratic leaders gave their responses. What did it all add up to? Here are five takeaways.
Neither side had new arguments to sway voters...
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Jan 08, 2019
President Trump took his disputed claim of a national security crisis at the nation's southern border directly to the American people on Tuesday night, for the first time speaking from the Oval Office in prime time to try to enlist public support for $5.7 billion for his long-promised wall.
Yet...
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Jan 08, 2019
The FBI couldn't crack the Sinaloa cartel's encrypted messages, so they went after the man who built the communications system for the powerful narcotics trafficking network
FBI agent Stephen Marston told jurors in the trial of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman on Tuesday that Cristian Rodriguez had created...
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Jan 08, 2019
On Tuesday in the Mexican border city of Matamoros, a group of 55 asylum seekers camped at the foot of bridges, waiting to cross into Brownsville, Texas. The group, including a deaf man and a half-dozen children, face an average wait of six weeks. Further west in Nogales, on the border with Arizona,...
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Jan 08, 2019
On Tuesday in the Mexican border city of Matamoros, a group of 55 asylum seekers camped at the foot of bridges, waiting to cross into Brownsville, Texas. The group, including a deaf man and a half-dozen children, face an average wait of six weeks. Further west in Nogales, on the border with Arizona,...
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Jan 08, 2019
Paul Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman, apparently shared polling data during the 2016 presidential campaign with Konstantin Kilimnik, a business partner in Ukraine who allegedly has ties to Russian intelligence, according to a court filing released Tuesday.
It's unclear whether...
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Jan 08, 2019
The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to block a subpoena issued to an unnamed corporation, owned by a foreign government, ending a mystery dispute in the courts reportedly involving the investigation into Russian election meddling.
The outcome is believed to be a victory for special counsel Robert...
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Jan 08, 2019
The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to block a subpoena issued to an unnamed corporation, owned by a foreign government, ending a mystery dispute in the courts reportedly involving the investigation into Russian election meddling.
The outcome is believed to be a victory for special counsel Robert...
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Jan 08, 2019
Top Trump administration officials moved through the Middle East Tuesday attempting to explain their boss' inconsistencies on plans to withdraw from Syria and to convince skeptical allies of Washington's commitment to them.
On the first day of an eight-nation diplomatic blitz, Secretary of State...
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Jan 08, 2019
Leisyka Parrott of Arcata, Calif., is scouring secondhand shops for a pair of size 15 basketball shoes for her 13-year-old son.
The single mother was furloughed from her job with the Bureau of Land Management in late December as part of the partial government shutdown. Her paycheck won't come this...
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Jan 08, 2019
Paul Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman, apparently shared polling data during the 2016 presidential campaign with Konstantin Kilimnik, a business partner in Ukraine who allegedly has ties to Russian intelligence, according to a court filing released Tuesday.
It's unclear whether...
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Jan 08, 2019
He's vowed to keep the government closed as long as it takes to secure funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Now, as the partial government shutdown enters its third week, President Trump is hinting at a different approach: declaring a national emergency.
In recent days, Trump has said...
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Jan 08, 2019
Rep. Adam B. Schiff expressed concern Monday that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III might decline to look into President Trump's private business dealings as he investigates Russia's interference in America's 2016 election.
As a result, the Burbank congressman said, it could be up to Democrats...
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Jan 08, 2019
Kamala Harris hasn't launched a bid for the presidency yet, but she has launched the narrative around which her campaign would be built.
Hers is the latest political autobiography to hit the shelves. In a medium as predictable for White House aspirants as an Iowa stump speech, the book hews to...
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Jan 08, 2019
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's defense team was on the attack.
The target: Vicente Zambada Niebla, once a member of Guzman's inner circle, now one of the most damning witnesses in the sprawling case against the infamous drug kingpin.
In three days of testimony that concluded Monday, Zambada, 43, the...
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