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Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen postpones testimony to Congress

Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen postpones testimony to Congress

Cohen’s decision to postpone his testimony was due to ‘ongoing threats against his family from President Trump’, his lawyer said  Read more

Republican Senator Joni Ernst Says She Was Raped in College

Republican Senator Joni Ernst Says She Was Raped in College

Republican Senator Joni Ernst says that she was raped in college by someone she knew and that her ex-husband physically abused her, making her one of the highest-profile women in her party to allege assaults in the era of the #MeToo movement  Read more

Is China's 40-Year Boom Coming To An End?

Is China's 40-Year Boom Coming To An End?

China: Is China's economic miracle coming to an end? It sure looks that way. Recent data and startling demographic changes portend much slower economic growth down the not-so-silken road to the future. Can China reverse the slide? Maybe not  Read more

Trump Delays State of the Union Until Partial Shutdown Ends

Trump Delays State of the Union Until Partial Shutdown Ends

President Donald Trump said he is postponing his State of the Union address until the partial government shutdown ends, yielding after a weeklong showdown with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi  Read more

Trump adviser warns of zero growth if shutdown lingers this quarter

Trump adviser warns of zero growth if shutdown lingers this quarter

President Trump’s chief economist said Wednesday that the partial government shutdown could wipe out an entire quarter of GDP growth if it lasts until the end of March  Read more

Conservatives see Democratic religious bigotry in growing backlog of judicial nominees

Conservatives see Democratic religious bigotry in growing backlog of judicial nominees

Conservatives are turning up the heat on Senate Democrats to fill the growing number of federal judicial vacancies, blaming the backlog in part on Democratic hostility to the traditional religious beliefs of some White House nominees  Read more

Congress agitates to end relentless shutdown

Congress agitates to end relentless shutdown

The Senate is prepping dueling votes while House centrists are pushing Pelosi to counter Trump with her own compromise proposal  Read more

Beto Is Ridiculous. But It Might Work

Beto Is Ridiculous. But It Might Work

Beto writing about people asking if he’s Beto might be the most Beto thing ever  Read more

Justice Department seeks to clear last hurdle to imposing Trump’s military transgender ban

Justice Department seeks to clear last hurdle to imposing Trump’s military transgender ban

Armed with a favorable Supreme Court decision, the Trump administration is seeking injunctive relief to clear the last legal impediment to imposing a ban on military service on most, but not all, transgender troops  Read more

Supreme Court allows Trump's partial military ban on transgender people in military to take effect

Supreme Court allows Trump's partial military ban on transgender people in military to take effect

The Supreme Court will allow President Donald Trump's partial ban on transgender people serving in the military to take effect while court challenges continue  Read more

Elise Stefanik seeks to tackle GOP’s women ‘crisis’ ahead of 2020

Elise Stefanik seeks to tackle GOP’s women ‘crisis’ ahead of 2020

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) is looking to recruit and elect more Republican women to Congress through her leadership political action committee, as the GOP grapples with winning back the suburban, moderate voters who left the party in 2018  Read more

Graham angers Dems by digging into Clinton, Obama controversies

Graham angers Dems by digging into Clinton, Obama controversies

New tensions are flaring on the Senate Judiciary Committee over plans by newly minted Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to dig into Obama-era scandals  Read more

MAGA-hatted teens, a Native American and the peril of instant judgment

MAGA-hatted teens, a Native American and the peril of instant judgment

In an age of instant communication, quick responses usually take precedence over careful deliberation  Read more

Trump's Immigration Offer Solidifies GOP Behind Him

Trump's Immigration Offer Solidifies GOP Behind Him

In the midst of the 2016 GOP primary season, few could have predicted that Sen. Marco Rubio would emerge nearly three years later as one of the strongest champions of Donald Trump’s immigration policies, as well as the president’s hard-ball government-shutdown tactics  Read more

Democrats Reject Trump Border Wall Proposal, Calling It A 'Non-Starter'
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  • 01/20/2019 12:00 AM

Democrats Reject Trump Border Wall Proposal, Calling It A 'Non-Starter'

With negotiations over reopening the government at a standstill, President Trump offered to back temporary protections for some immigrants brought to the country illegally as children, many of whom are now adults, in exchange for funding for a wall on the Southern border  Read more

Trump at the halfway mark: How will history judge our unconventional president?

Trump at the halfway mark: How will history judge our unconventional president?

Donald Trump has reached the mid-point of his presidency. How will history judge him at this point in his first term of office; bearing in mind the wisdom of Chou En Lai when Henry Kissinger asked him what he thought the impact of the 1789 French Revolution was on history, replied, “It’s too early to tell.”  Read more

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.: the best of America

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.: the best of America

Were Martin Luther King alive today to celebrate his 90th birthday, what would he have to say about his nation’s contentious racial landscape?  Read more

Why Bill Barr Is Trump’s Best Appointment

Why Bill Barr Is Trump’s Best Appointment

No cabinet official can get a President in more trouble faster than his Attorney General. Administration policies can fail quickly if they are not ably defended from legal attack  Read more