Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared Thursday that the United States has learned from its past “mistakes” and “reasserted its traditional role as a force for good” in the Middle East, lobbing criticism at both the Obama administration and Iran by denouncing “false overtures from enemies.” Read more President Donald Trump is taking the shutdown battle to the U.S.-Mexico border, seeking to bolster his case for the border wall after negotiations with Democrats blew up over his funding demands Read more The comprehensive health care plan ceremoniously unveiled by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio this week drew lots of applause from the Democrat's supporters but also is drawing skepticism from voices in his city who question the true value and cost of the effort Read more His departure raises significant questions about the future of Mueller's Russia probe Read more “A wall, in my view, is an immorality. It’s the least effective way to protect the border and the most costly. I can’t think of any reason why anyone would think it’s a good idea — unless this has something to do with something else,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said shortly before the government shutdown Read more Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made an unannounced stop in Iraq on Wednesday as part of a larger tour of the Middle East in which he is reassuring partners of America's presence in the region following President Donald Trump's surprise decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria Read more President Donald Trump urged congressional Democrats to fund his long-promised border wall in a somber televised address that was heavy with dark immigration rhetoric but offered little in the way of concessions or new ideas to break the standoff that has left large swaths of the government shuttered for 19 days Read more Republicans are feverishly digging into Beto O’Rourke’s past, a sign they view the former Texas congressman as a potential threat if he wins the Democratic presidential nomination Read more Republican colleagues are criticizing the Utah senator for opening a new rift with the president Read more With the House of Representatives now under Democratic control and the gavel in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s hands, some of President Trump’s critics are eagerly anticipating a surge of congressional investigations Read more U.S. troops will not leave northeastern Syria until Islamic State militants are defeated and American-allied Kurdish fighters are protected, a top White House aide said Sunday, signaling a pause to a withdrawal abruptly announced last month and initially expected to be completed within weeks Read more Democrats griped about one particular provision in the 2017 tax cut bill, and now they are in a position to fix it Read more Newly sworn-in Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib electrified progressives with her passionate declaration that she and her colleagues will " impeach the motherfucker" — the "motherfucker," of course, being President Trump Read more U.S. and Chinese officials have begun talks aimed at ending the trade war that has imposed hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs over the past year Read more Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was absent from oral arguments Monday while recovering from surgery for lung cancer, a first in her 25-year career on the court Read more President Trump will travel to the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday in a bid to highlight border security, as he presses Democrats for wall funding amid the protracted standoff that triggered a partial government shutdown now stretching into its 17th day Read more This little shutdown is a blip. The debt crisis is an atomic bomb Read more The manufacturing industry posted net job gains of 284,000 over 2018, capping its best calendar year since 1997 Read more
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