Trump’s trade agenda hits reality check

President Donald Trump's hard-line views on trade, a staple of his message long before he entered politics, are beginning to collide with the cold realities of global geopolitics. Trade talks on China and the North American Free Trade Agreement have hit stumbling blocks, posing a challenge for a president who vowed to make trade deals more equitable for the United States during his 2016 campaign and who famously tweeted that trade wars are "easy to win."

Trump’s trade agenda runs into reality of global geopolitics

President Donald Trump's hard-line views on trade, a staple of his message long before he entered politics, are beginning to collide with the cold realities of global geopolitics. Trade talks on China and the North American Free Trade Agreement have hit stumbling blocks, posing a challenge for a president who vowed to make trade deals more equitable for the United States during his 2016 campaign and who famously tweeted that trade wars are "easy to win."

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Democrats still optimistic about winning control of the House in the fall elections, but worried it'll be more seat-to-seat combat than any blue wave, got a shot in the arm on when several of their stronger candidates won contested primaries. In a Houston, Texas, district that Hillary Clinton carried, Lizzie Fletcher turned back a Bernie Sanders-type liberal, and is given an even chance of defeating a relatively weak Republican incumbent, John Culberson.

Russian meddling likely to continue

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Pelosi key cog in GOP strategy

State Rep. Clarke Tucker is among a handful of Democratic congressional candidates who have openly opposed the leadership of Nancy Pelosi in the face of Republican attempts to link them to the House Democrat. French Hill and Clarke Tucker agree on at least one thing: Nancy Pelosi shouldn't lead the U.S. House of Representatives.

Louisiana Spotlight: With the special session’s deadline nearing, will Louisiana have a budget?

Gov. John Bel Edwards speaks Tuesday, May 22, 2018, at Earl K. Long Gym on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Lafayette, La. Gov. John Bel Edwards speaks Tuesday, May 22, 2018, at Earl K. Long Gym on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Lafayette, La.

Montana Democrats sense a chance to capture US House seat

For more than two decades, Montana's lone U.S. House seat has been a sacrificial altar where Democratic candidates' dreams are squashed. Not only have all 12 Democratic candidates since 1996 lost to Republicans, but only two of them have since gone on to win any election at all.

House GOP leaders try to quell rebellion over DACA legislation

Tensions are boiling over in the House, where support for an immigration proposal for undocumented children threatens to tear apart the House Republican Caucus. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., emerges from the chamber just after key conservatives in the rebellious House Freedom Caucus helped to kill passage of the farm bill which had been a priority for GOP leaders, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, May 18, 2018.

Assemblyman Jim Frazier urges Sens. Diane Feinstein, Kamala Harris to oppose tunnels

Assemblyman Jim Frazier, D-Solano, co-chair of the California Delta Legislative Caucus, has asked California's two U.S. senators to oppose a rider inserted into a congressional bill that would exempt the proposed twin tunnels project for the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta – dubbed WaterFix – from legal challenges under state or federal law. Sixteen additional lawmakers in the State Legislature also signed the letter, which was released Friday.

Lindsey Graham, John McCain and the bogus vodka shots contest

U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., says the vodka shots story as embellished by U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., isn't true. File/Mic Smith/AP U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., says the vodka shots story as embellished by U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., isn't true.

We’ve studied the WaterFix protect for years. It’s time to build it, not sue over it

The confluence of the American River, left, and the Sacramento River, northeast of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. To the editor: I agree with Jacques Leslie - the language in my bill is indeed intended to blow up the roadblocks built by radical environmentalists who desperately want to kill a project that will provide a clean, reliable water supply for 25 million Californians.

Colleagues disagree with Himes on Dodd-Frank changes

In this July 21, 2010 file photo, President Barack Obama, left, stands with Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., second left, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., second right, and Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., after he signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection financial reform bill in Washington.

Key US allies a perplexeda as Trump treats friends like enemies

President Donald Trump's decision to cancel his historic meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un left South Korea's President "perplexed" and sparked angry protests in Seoul. One sign read: "We condemn Trump."

Sen. Schumer voices opposition to proposed waste-to-energy incinerator

U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer said that he's opposed to the planned waste-to-energy incinerator plant in Seneca County. Senator Schumer says the proposed facility by Circular Ener-G would be bad for the regional economy, and it would put the public's health at risk.