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The White House is eyeing Wednesday as a target date for a vote on an Obamacare repeal and replacement bill, according to a report, but a Republican aide on Capitol Hill said there is no text of a bill yet. The Washington Post's Robert Costa tweeted that a top White House official said aides to President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans will circulate revised language on a health-care bill Thursday evening.
The Washington Post tried to create what it thought was a clever agit/prop video in favor of the National Endowment for the Arts. Rather than showing NEA funding in big cities, the video explored funding largely in rural, conservative Indiana, represented by Republican congressmen.
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President Trump listens as he and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg participate in a news conference in the East Room of the White House on April 12. Addressing the United Nations last fall, President Obama took a moment to highlight for fellow world leaders what he called "the most important fact" about the state of the global affairs: human existence on planet Earth is good - and getting better. War is down, he said, while life expectancy is up.
The FBI obtained a FISA warrant last summer to monitor the communications of Carter Page, who was an early foreign-policy adviser to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday. The energy-consultant-turned-foreign-policy adviser was named in an unverified dossier about President Donald Trump's ties to Russia as a liaison between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.
Shortly after House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., unveiled the Republican health-care plan on March 6, President Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office and queried his advisers: "Is this really a good bill?" And over the next 18 days, until the bill collapsed in the House on Friday afternoon in a humiliating defeat - the sharpest rebuke yet of Trump's young presidency and his negotiating skills - the question continued to nag at the president.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but what do the media, their script writers in the Democratic Party and even some Republicans not understand about Donald Trump? The man promised certain things to his voters. Now that he does them, everyone is aghast.
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan told journalists on Friday that there would not be a vote on the GOP-sponsored American Health Care that day. Ezekiel Emanuel is chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania and author of "Prescription for the Future," which is scheduled to be published in June.
District crime lab officials are reviewing more than 150 firearm examinations for accuracy after the lab discovered errors by three D.C. forensic analysts who wrongly matched bullets or shell casings recovered at crime scenes to individual weapons. The examinations date to at least August 2015, according to federal prosecutors in Washington and the three former ballistics examiners.
"A Day Without a Woman" protest, one of the many demonstrations taking place in American cities, was organized by the same group that sparked the women's marches held following Trump's inauguration. Wednesday morning, President Trump addressed the protests on Twitter, writing, "I have tremendous respect for women and the many roles they serve that are vital to the fabric of our society and our economy."
A top government official overseeing federal buildings - including the historic tower that is home to President Donald Trump's D.C. hotel - is leaving the agency as it endures increasing criticism from congressional Democrats for not addressing a potential lease violation and other concerns stemming from the president's ownership of the project. Some members of Congress worry that Trump could appoint new leaders who will renegotiate the terms of the lease to eliminate any legal entanglements.
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This Feb. 17, 2017 satellite image released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows a powerful storm beginning to move into California. Many scientists warned that the deep cuts at NOAA could hurt safety as well as academic programs.
Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, said it was normal for Russian diplomats to meet with U.S. lawmakers. A spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, told AP that meetings with American political figures were part of the embassy's "everyday business.'
The administration of Donald Trump, the President who routinely abandons the truth in his quest for self-proclaimed "greatness," attempted to enlist senior members of the American intelligence community and Congressional representatives and Senators to counter documented news stories about questionable ties by Trump associates to Russia. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and other parts of the Justice Department are investigating of unlawful contacts by senior White House and campaign officials, as well as Trump himself, in growing scandals surrounding the new President.
Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes. But... Despite promising to release his tax returns in a televised debate with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump continues to show that... **NOTE: THE FORM LETTER IS BLANK.
The Department of Homeland Security on February 21 rolled out a pair of memos meant to set internal guidelines for the implementation of President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant executive orders. The flagship policies of those executive orders are unpopular with a majority of Americans, but they have been a cause for celebration among nativists and white supremacists.
Flynn's conversations may have violated the Logan Act , a law meant to prevent private citizens from conducting USA diplomacy, and would certainly be against normal diplomatic protocols. This was at worst unsafe and illegal behavior; at best, it was staggeringly unpatriotic.
Currently, more and more cerebral types and even Everyman/Everywoman are struggling to get to the core of who Donald Trump is. To help figure out the guy who is this guy in the White House, those humbled might invest the time and attention in reading the 347-page book "Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power."
Sign up for the Snopes.com newsletter and get daily updates on all the best rumors, news and legends delivered straight to your inbox. A Facebook user claimed to have met an individual carrying sensitive national security items at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago club.