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“This is going to be a very short political career,” he vowed.
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As late as early Friday morning, Mr. Trump appeared intent on declaring a national emergency at the border alongside the agreement to reopen the government, but Mr. McConnell and White House officials encouraged him to drop the idea, according to people familiar with the discussions who were not authorized to discuss them.
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Farenthold declared in December that he would not seek re-election in 2018 after reports emerged that he’d used taxpayer money to settle sexual harassment claims.
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The announcement comes on the 35th day of the longest shutdown in United States history and is a clear cave by Trump, whose impasse over the budget stems from his demands for $5.7 billion in funds for his long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border ― a project Democratic lawmakers say is a firm deal-breaker.
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Austin Smythe, the panel’s Republican staff director, said: “We assume those savings.
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He has brown eyes, black hair and a scar on his left arm, the records said, and was born in New York.
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Before approaching Mac and Cheese, the two turkeys, the president remarked that it was "puzzling that I do this every year."
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Mr. O’Rourke, asked if he supported impeaching Mr. Trump, said he believed the president and his 2016 campaign “at least sought to collude with the Russian government to undermine our democracy” and that Mr. Trump “sought to obstruct justice” once in office.
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Mr. Brown has remained mum on the subject, and his camp has sent few signals about his intentions, but he may find the opportunity hard to resist.
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Speaking at a pair of hearings on Capitol Hill to examine the Obama administration's handling of and response to the attacks, Clinton repeatedly cited the classified version of the review by a State Department Accountability Review Board, distributed to lawmakers last month.
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Trump reopened the government for three weeks on Jan. 25, allowing government workers to get back to work as border security negotiations continued.
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“[B]y tilting the political playing field so heavily toward corporations and against individuals, hasn’t the court impacted the composition of who is in Congress and made it therefore even harder for Congress to taking meaningful,” Hirono said.
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And for the most part, the liberal senators who opposed the agreement held their fire.
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It’s possible that the former FBI counterintelligence official’s extramarital relationship with Page also played a role in the FBI’s decision.
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“The program is subject to oversight by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the Executive Branch, and Congress,” the official said.
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What is this the circus? America is not a clown show. America is not a circus.
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House conservatives — lacking a rationale to fight Mr. McCarthy, a well-liked member of leadership who has raised millions of dollars for Republican incumbents — have begun protesting that his voting record is actually to the left of Mr. Cantor’s.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid broke with President Obama Monday over the proposed mosque near Ground Zero, saying the controversial Islamic center should be built elsewhere.
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The outcome in the Senate on the infrastructure spending provision, however, is not expected to be any different from the previous two votes.
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Unlike other Republican candidates, Mr. Huckabee is a strong defender of entitlement programs, opposing plans to raise the retirement age for collecting Social Security and criticizing plans to curtail Medicare.
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The authorities made at least 47 arrests after demonstrators tossed bottles toward police officers, some of whom used pepper spray to subdue some protesters.
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His response was to hit away a video camera and assault a student.
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Another man, not seen on camera, then tells Etheridge, "We're just here for a project."
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Earlier Friday, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) revealed that his committee had already begun searching for witnesses and documents to confirm BuzzFeed’s report.
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Either individual managers are on their own, "or else a strong corporate culture tells them what to do."
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But in recent days, it has come under intense criticism from activists, lawmakers and business interests both in Arizona and nationally.
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I understand how it offends people.
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“We are transferring power from Washington, D.C., and giving it back to you, the people,” he said.
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President Obama has called for tough new controls on gun ownership, but the prospects for such legislation are murky — a testimony to the rifle association’s prowess as a lobbying force.
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He comes here with a smile on his face.
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For others, it is about religious views of marriage.
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That line is a not-so-veiled swipe at President Obama.
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“If Judge Gorsuch can’t achieve 60 votes in the Senate, could any judge appointed by a Republican president be approved with 60 or more votes in the Senate?” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., asked on Tuesday.
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A day before Mr. Stone and Mr. Bannon emailed about WikiLeaks, Donald Trump Jr. exchanged messages on Twitter with the WikiLeaks account and asked, “What’s behind this Wednesday leak I keep reading about.”
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The added complexity wasn't always satisfying to the legislators who grilled her Wednesday.
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He lamented childhood poverty rates, crushing college debt, crumbling infrastructure and other woes and said these are the issues he’ll bring to the Philadelphia convention.
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I ran on the Republican principles."
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It's now time to govern. The election is over," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
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Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the messages, if real, are “one more example of Russians, Russian agents — in this case WikiLeaks — reaching out to senior officials in the Trump Organization or Trump campaign.”
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The back and forth drew an angry response from the Department of Homeland Security.
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There are also around 25,000 American troops in South Korea, where they have served for generations as a deterrent against North Korea.
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Trying to quell the furor, Steele issued a statement saying: "There is no question that America must win the war on terror.
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Elizabeth Lauten, the communications director for Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-Tenn.), wrote that the two teenagers should "try showing a little class," "dress like you deserve respect, not a spot at a bar," and, most of all, "don't make faces" at Very Serious public events.
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Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley has also opposed the deal.
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Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., became the latest Republican to open the door to tax rate hikes during an interview on "Fox News Sunday."
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LePage initially said his outburst was justified because Gattine called him a racist – something Gattine has denied.
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“Even the protesters are commenting on that: what are they doing?”
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Previously, she had spoken out against the military's former "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
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Clinton's release comes about one month after Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush released 33 years of returns, showing his net worth between $19 and $22 million.
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If it wasn’t a party tracker or intern, why is the face blurred and why is the source hidden?
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The bill, known as the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, prevents Saudi Arabia and other countries with alleged ties to terrorist groups from invoking their legal immunity in U.S. courts.
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Family members of the victims of the terrorist attacks have pushed for such a measure for years, and they have pressured members of Congress to move ahead with the legislation in the days leading up to the 15th anniversary of the attacks.
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Mr. Ryan claimed in a recent interview that those letters did not speak for all bishops, but the conference responded that those letters do indeed represent the bishops’ collective opinion.
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Trump Lashes Out at Kathy Griffin and Democrats
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But let's assume maybe that didn't work or something.
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To avoid the perception of a conflict of interest, the hearing on Wednesday was led by Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, the incoming chairman, and Mr. Kerry did not attend.
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Trump later said the group would "determine what we're going to do about the border."
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Tickets for the family to see the Irish dance show Riverdance at the San Diego Civic Theater became “San Diego Civic Center for Republican Women Federated/Fund-raising.”
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“Because neighboring states have expressed concern about Colorado-grown marijuana coming into their states, we are not entirely surprised by this action," Suthers said.
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“The numbers that you gave are wrong,” he told one reporter.
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For some, it harks to the days of intolerance and segregation.
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And Justice Elena Kagan said that “excessive subjectivity” may be a policy that violates the civil rights laws.
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From his seat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Rubio has already played a key role in U.S. foreign policy debates, often staking out positions that directly counter President Barack Obama's administration.
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Less than a decade after George W. Bush and Dick Cheney won re-election in part thanks to conservative enthusiasm over enshrining traditional marriage into law, some in the party believe they are losing voters, particularly younger ones, over an issue on which public opinion has changed rapidly.
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“Some of the packages went through the mail,” Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen earlier told Fox News.
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But it's not impossible.
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The president on Wednesday will nominate Byron Todd Jones, the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, to take over the post permanently.
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It's not about your quality of life. It's not about your jobs. It's about some phony ideal.
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Cowan said Patrick offered him the job on Tuesday, and he accepted.
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The Justice Department is fighting the law, which has not taken effect yet.
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WASHINGTON – Five hundred and eighty-four days after descending his Trump Tower escalator to announce his candidacy, Donald J. Trump took the oath of office Friday to become the 45th president of the United States.
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While many gun control advocates are eager to harness what they believe is a ripe moment in American life for new and robust restrictions on the kinds of guns that were used in Newtown, there is an emerging consensus on Capitol Hill and among gun education groups that improving the system of background check legislation that currently exempts private gun sales and gun shows is the most viable legislative route to pursue.
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Even with that guidance and other self-imposed checks in place, the justices have time and again declined to step aside in cases of high political salience ― most recently in the same-sex marriage cases, where Ginsburg and Justices Elena Kagan and Clarence Thomas all took part despite calls for them to recuse.
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Mr. Amash, after all, voted last year to make him speaker of the House.
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“Speaker Pelosi made clear that today’s meeting was about re-opening government, not impeachment.”
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“The decision to fire Special Agent Strzok is not only a departure from typical bureau practice, but also contradicts Director Wray’s testimony to Congress and his assurances that the F.B.I. intended to follow its regular process in this and all personnel matters,” Mr. Goelman said.
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Since the report by The New York Times on March 2 that Mrs. Clinton used only a personal email account and did not even have a government account, she seems to have provided two answers about whether she still has copies of her emails.
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Holder told the students he understands "the mistrust" between some residents and the police.
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“I would hope that the secretary joins Elizabeth Warren, Sherrod Brown and the vast majority of Democrats in the Congress in saying, ‘No, we have got to defeat this piece of legislation,’ ” Mr. Sanders said on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” referring to fellow senators.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared closely divided on Tuesday during arguments over the theory put forth by the plaintiffs in an enormous sex discrimination class-action case against Wal-Mart.
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And a number of us are just saying that's enough."
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“It is a tabloid smear, and it has come from Donald Trump and his henchmen.”
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President Trump vowed Wednesday that birthright citizenship will end “one way or the other,” a day after it emerged he was considering killing the policy by executive order -- a development that sparked disagreement among Republicans and condemnation from Democrats.
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Both provisions are seen by many Democrats as giveaways to the rich that will do little to help the economy.
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Asked by one of Ms. Rice’s aides, “Is this the final language you want to use on Benghazi,” Mr. Rhodes replied with a single word: “Yup.”
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She went on to say that Malia and Sasha were “coming up a little short in the ‘good role model’ department” because their parents “don’t respect their positions very much, or the nation for that matter.”
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We believe in freedom of assembly and people raising their voices in a democracy," the NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous said in a written statement announcing the unanimous vote.
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Other recusals were related to stock ownership and family ties to judges or lawyers who participated in earlier stages of the cases.
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The field of confirmed and potential GOP presidential candidates includes more than a dozen people.
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And he then added: “With respect to that quote, I think the vice president very well knows that sometimes the words don't come out of your mouth the right way.”
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And the vice president made full use of his old Senate colleague’s 1988 debate playbook, shaking his head and scoffing pityingly at Representative Paul D. Ryan, trying to paint his opponent as a latter-day Dan Quayle.
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A Facebook executive apologized last month for mistreating Diamond and Silk -- two pro-Trump personalities who have long claimed they are being censored by the platform, but the company has also denied being biased against conservatives.
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It’s not clear what the executive order would look like or when it would be proposed ― if Trump follows through at all, considering his tendency for pre-election bluster and warnings he has received from fellow Republicans, including House Speaker Paul Ryan (Wis.), who have said doing so would be outside the bounds the president’s authority.
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The states that have legalized marijuana or softened penalties for possession have only been able to do so because of federal guidance urging federal prosecutors to refrain from targeting state-legal marijuana operations.
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"I know for a fact that my account was hacked," Weiner told Fox News.
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President Trump said Friday that he will support a short-term spending bill to re-open the government, temporarily ending the partial government shutdown that has dragged on for more than a month -- despite a day earlier saying Republicans would not “cave” on his demands for funding for a wall on the southern border.
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The chances of a successful primary election challenge in the Senate are far more remote.
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“We don’t dislike each other,” Mr. McConnell said, deploying a rare complimentary double negative.
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The Atlantic first reported on Monday that Trump Jr. received a private message from the WikiLeaks Twitter account on September 20, 2016 — a message shown in the tweets produced by the president’s son.
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Other recommendations included creating threat assessment teams at schools, better coordinating state and federal funding for school security, and offering an online assessment tool, so that administrators can evaluate their schools' potential security gaps.
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