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Jamal Khashoggi, journalist who spoke truth to power, 1958-2018

Jamal Khashoggi, journalist who spoke truth to power, 1958-2018

Critic of Saudi repression who paid the price for falling out of favour  Read more

Trump takes aim at O’Rourke: ‘Beto is a Flake!’

Trump takes aim at O’Rourke: ‘Beto is a Flake!’

President Donald Trump on Wednesday attacked Rep. Beto O'Rourke as a "Flake!" just hours after O'Rourke hurled Trump's "Lyin' Ted" insult at Sen. Ted Cruz during a prime-time debate in San Antonio  Read more

Treasury employee charged with leaking financial info on Trump campaign officials, Russians

Treasury employee charged with leaking financial info on Trump campaign officials, Russians

A Treasury employee has been arrested and charged with leaking multiple reports about financial transactions relating to former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort, campaign official Richard Gates, accused Russian agent Maria Butina and the Russian Embassy, federal law enforcement officials said Wednesday  Read more

President Donald Trump says he'll ask Cabinet to cut department budgets by 5 percent

President Donald Trump says he'll ask Cabinet to cut department budgets by 5 percent

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would cut the federal budget with the help of his Cabinet, a proposal that analysts said was aspirational at best and unlikely to affect the skyrocketing federal deficit  Read more

McConnell says Senate Republicans might revisit Obamacare repeal

McConnell says Senate Republicans might revisit Obamacare repeal

Republicans could try again to repeal Obamacare if they win enough seats in U.S. elections next month, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday, calling a failed 2017 push to repeal the healthcare law a “disappointment.”  Read more

Trump Is Right About China’s Postal Subsidy

Trump Is Right About China’s Postal Subsidy

Chinese mailers get lower rates intended to help much poorer nations. A solution is long overdue  Read more

How Trump’s Trade War Is Driving China Nuts

How Trump’s Trade War Is Driving China Nuts

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has reacted to American pressure with a level of desperation that is good for neither Washington nor Beijing  Read more

Vote for the Wall on November 6

Vote for the Wall on November 6

Another caravan of thousands of border crossers is amassing in Central America and organizers pledge to march north to the U.S. border and demand entry  Read more

With FL, IA Races in Play, Ryan's PAC Ponies Up

With FL, IA Races in Play, Ryan's PAC Ponies Up

House Speaker Paul Ryan’s super PAC, the Congressional Leadership Fund, announced Tuesday that it reserved $1 million in television ads in Cedar Rapids, Iowa for two-term incumbent Rep. Rod Blum and a mid-six-figure amount for Maria Salazar  Read more

Elizabeth Warren and her little DNA story

Elizabeth Warren and her little DNA story

President Trump has been on another winning streak, and the Democrats are desperate for attention. Their problem?  Read more

Trump reluctant to abandon Riyadh over journalist disappearance, wants to see evidence

Trump reluctant to abandon Riyadh over journalist disappearance, wants to see evidence

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he did not want to abandon close ally Saudi Arabia over the disappearance of a Saudi journalist and government critic, and he needed to see evidence to prove Turkish claims he was killed by Saudi agents  Read more

Trump threatens to cut off aid to Honduras over immigrant 'caravan'

Trump threatens to cut off aid to Honduras over immigrant 'caravan'

FBI chief: 'Usual process was followed' for Kavanaugh background investigation Dems eye ambitious agenda if House flips Supreme Court declines to hear appeal in greenhouse gas case ruled on by Kavanaugh Trump threatens to cut off aid to Honduras over immigrant 'caravan' Melania: Husband's alleged affairs 'not concern and focus of mine' Trump administration proposes tough rules on protests Trump threatens to cut off aid to Honduras over immigrant 'caravan' Melania: Husband's alleged affairs 'not concern and focus of mine' Trump administration proposes tough rules on protests Trump threatens to cut off aid to Honduras over immigrant 'caravan' TheHill.com Autoplay: On | Off President Trump on Tuesday threatened to cut off aid to Honduras if its government does not stop a migrant "caravan" from heading north toward the U.S. border  Read more

Trump tops $100 million raised for his 2020 re-election campaign

Trump tops $100 million raised for his 2020 re-election campaign

The president has more than $47 million in the bank as a significant show of strength against a possible Democratic opponent  Read more

Carter page sues DNC for alleged defamation stemming from Steele dossier

Carter page sues DNC for alleged defamation stemming from Steele dossier

Former Trump campaign official Carter Page announced on Monday a defamation lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee (DNC) over the salacious dossier that claims he has ties to Russia  Read more

GOP Gains Momentum, But Midterm Spending Trails Dems'

GOP Gains Momentum, But Midterm Spending Trails Dems'

With the election less than 24 days away, Republicans are seeing momentum in polls after the Kavanaugh hearings and a new path to holding their majority in the House  Read more

Jamal Khashoggi affair is proving a critical test for US diplomacy

Jamal Khashoggi affair is proving a critical test for US diplomacy

How much longer can Trump indulge Saudis’ claim that a rogue operation is to blame?  Read more

Trump sees that being tough on crime requires being smart on crime

Trump sees that being tough on crime requires being smart on crime

Now is the time for criminal justice reform, and President Trump is the man to do it  Read more

NBC News issues correction on Grant-Lee coverage after Trump balks

NBC News issues correction on Grant-Lee coverage after Trump balks

Network clarifies that president called Grant 'incredible,' not Lee  Read more