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Speaker Nancy Pelosi's accusation was intended to slow the building momentum toward opening an impeachment inquiry among Democrats, but it set off the president.
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 President Trump responded to a Democratic push for an impeachment inquiry by saying he would not work with Congress until investigations ended.
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 U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Wednesday said he had not discussed releasing President Donald Trump's tax returns with the White House, and disagreed with an IRS memo that reportedly concluded he should release them to Congress.
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 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her deputies scrambled Wednesday to tamp down calls from the rank-and-file for Congress to launch impeachment proceedings against President Trump, holding a closed-door meeting with Democrats to discuss their battles with the administration that threaten to escalate into a politically risky drive to remove him from office.
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Several cabinet ministers tell the BBC the PM cannot stay on as the backlash to her Brexit plan grows.
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Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke unveiled an ambitious plan to protect abortion rights on Tuesday through mobilizing every branch of the U.S government to defend a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy.
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Democratic U.S. Senator Cory Booker on Wednesday announced a series of executive actions he would take to protect abortion rights if he is elected president, as new statewide restrictions have thrust the issue into the 2020 campaign.
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The president delivered remarks in the Rose Garden, angrily pushing back on the House Speaker's comments.
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 President Trump on Wednesday demanded Democrats end what he called their "phony investigations" before he'll negotiate with them on issues like infrastructure, as he delivered a fiery statement from the Rose Garden after cutting a meeting short with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer.
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The speaker expected her chairmen to fall in line, but Maxine Waters startled Democrats when she said 'I'm for impeachment, I've always been.'
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 Fox Nation host Tomi Lahren sounded off Wednesday on "Fox & Friends" on the issue of California Democrats considering several plans to offer health care to illegal immigrants in the state.
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 Sen. Elizabeth Warren is demanding an explanation for the recent deaths of five migrant children, writing in a letter Wednesday that the Trump administration owes the public "a full accounting."
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 Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast / Photos GettyTwo grassroots progressive organizations formed after President Trump's inauguration are joining forces in advance of the 2020 election.
Swing Left, which had been primarily committed in the last cycle to helping Democrats take back a majority in the House of Representatives, will bring Flippable, an outfit devoted to turning state legislatures blue, under its umbrella. The merged entity will continue to go by Swing Left.
The goal of the merger is to create a unified strategy and better equip volunteers and donors to help in the upcoming presidential race as well as down-ballot contests. Combined, the organizations raised some $13 million in 2018 in addition to having a community of more than a million of those volunteers and donors.
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Ms. Gillibrand's campaign introduced a plan that would help new families with everything from diapers and nursery beds to paid leave and prekindergarten.
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 A hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee came to a screeching halt Wednesday when a Democrat had her words struck from the record after calling the deaths of children in custody at the border an "intentional" policy decision.
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Some UK citizens living abroad have received their European election postal votes late - or not at all.
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In remarks after a meeting with the House Democratic Caucus, Speaker Nancy Pelosi criticized President Trump for his refusal to comply with requests from lawmakers who are seeking more information about details in the Mueller report.
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 Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/CSPANThe acting head of the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday was accused of overseeing the "intentional" deaths of five migrant children, in an aggressive line of questioning by a Democratic member of the House Committee on Homeland Security.
Rep. Lauren Underwood, an Illinois Democrat serving her first term, called the deaths the logical result of "a policy choice being made on purpose by this administration," an assertion that Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan disputed as "an appalling accusation."
McAleenan, who was first tapped to replace outgoing secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in April, previously served as commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, where he was an architect of the administration's policy of separating migrant children from their families. That policy, Underwood said, as well as a spate of recent deaths of children in DHS custody, amounts to more than simple administrative negligence.
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After Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused him of a "cover-up," the president said he would not work with Democrats until they stopped their "phony investigations."
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Virginia Governor Ralph Northam's former medical school was unable to determine his role in a racist photograph that appeared on his 1984 yearbook page, according to a report released on Wednesday following a three-month inquiry.
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is set to make his first appearance Wednesday on Capitol Hill after refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena for President Donald Trump's personal tax returns.
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An independent investigation conducted into a racist photograph on Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam's 1984 medical school yearbook page could not "conclusively determine the identity of either individual depicted in the photograph."
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 Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, on Wednesday accused his Democratic colleagues in the House of plotting a "coordinated effort to take down the president" and believes they are already working in concert behind-the-scenes to impeach Donald Trump.
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It's just one election, but the first congressional special of 2019 suggests a better national environment for Republicans than the one they faced in 2017 and 2018.
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 The House speaker slammed the president's efforts to stonewall ongoing congressional investigations amid calls from some members of her party for his impeachment.
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 The former vice president blasted President Trump for telling the crowd at a rally in Pennsylvania earlier this week that he "deserted" them.
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 Johannes Eisele/GettySen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) will have an agenda focused on helping families become safer and more financially stable in her first 100 days in office if elected president, according to an outline released Wednesday.
The plan, dubbed the "Family Bill of Rights," prioritizes five domestic policy areas: maternal safety, affordable childcare options for newborns, universal pre-kindergarten, non-discriminatory adoption and IVF practices, and paid leave.
The proposal "will make all families stronger--regardless of who you are or what your zip code is--with a fundamental set of rights that levels the playing field starting at birth," Gillibrand said in a statement.
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A federal judge in New York on Wednesday will field another clash over House Democrats' pursuit of President Donald Trump's financial records.
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Ben Carson is the highest ranking housing official in the country.
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The Treasury secretary said it would be "unlawful" for him to release the president's tax returns to Congress.
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 Andrew Harnik/AP/REX/ShutterstockDuring a grilling by the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson faced an actual expert on housing: Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA).
Porter, a former law professor who wrote the textbook on consumer law, asked Carson about REOs, a term related to foreclosures. He mistakenly thought she was asking about Oreos—as in the cookie—and Twitter lost its mind. At one point, the band REO Speedwagon was trending.
If Carson's ignorance wasn't enough, he later tweeted out a photo of himself with a package of Oreos.
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Not long ago, politicians didn't take the daytime talk show seriously. Now it's an essential campaign stop for Democrats and Republicans alike.
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 Even before former Vice President Joe Biden announced a formal climate change policy, the left wing of the Democratic Party was decrying him for what an adviser called his "middle ground" approach to climate change.
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American officials said Iran had threatened to target missiles at Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure to drive up oil prices and disrupt international trade.
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Count Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Elizabeth Warren among the viewers disappointed by Game of Thrones' series conclusion.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Trump administration, arguing that a new regulation would let health care providers discriminate and refuse care to patients based on their personal beliefs.
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Democrats see a rare opportunity to win the governor's mansion, as the Republican incumbent, Matt Bevin, is the most unpopular governor in the country.
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 Just hours after former White House Counsel Don McGahn defied a subpoena from House Judiciary Committee Democrats, the panel announced Tuesday it was issuing two new subpoenas: one for former McGahn chief of staff Annie Donaldson, and another for former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks.
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 The ending to the hit show "Game of Thrones" was sexist and dismissed women as overly-emotional, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., suggested on Tuesday.
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You need to understand cybersecurity well enough to legislate on it, they say.
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A second federal judge has blocked a gag rule that would have stripped federal funding known as Title X for Planned Parenthood and other clinics that refer patients for abortions or even mention abortion as an option. The judge's ruling halts the rule, which was announced by President Trump in February and was scheduled to go into effect on May 3. Washington state Federal Judge Stanley Bastian ruled against the changes to Title X funding Thursday, saying they would require clinics "to face a Hobson's choice that harms patients as well as the providers." This came two days after an Oregon judge issued a preliminary injunction to stop the gag order from going into effect, calling the rule a "ham-fisted approach to public health policy." Title X covers non-abortion services like STD prevention, cancer screenings and contraception, and provides over $280 million in funding for 4 million mostly low-income women every year. We speak with the president of Planned Parenthood, Dr. Leana Wen. She says the gag rule would force doctors "to compromise the oath that we took to serve our patients."
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Abortion rights are under threat across the United States, with 28 states currently considering legislation to ban or restrict abortion in various ways. Among the slew of strategies are trigger bans, to make abortion completely illegal in a state should Roe v. Wade be overturned, and six-week abortion bans. Earlier this month, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed into law a six-week abortion ban, which bans abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected—something that typically happens before many women realize they're pregnant. The bill does not include exceptions for cases of rape or incest. A similar law is set to take effect in Mississippi in July, while judges have blocked similar bills from going into effect in Kentucky and Iowa. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is expected to sign his state's abortion ban in the coming weeks. While over two-thirds of Americans are pro-choice, anti-choice activists have the edge in state governments, with Republicans controlling roughly two-thirds of statehouses and 27 of the country's 50 governorships. We speak with the president of Planned Parenthood, Dr. Leana Wen.
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