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Control of Congress and the future of Donald Trump's presidency are on the line as the primary season closes this week, jump-starting a two-month sprint to Election Day that will test Democrats' ability to harness opposition to Trump and determine whether the Republican president can get his supporters to the polls. After crushing defeats in 2016, Democrats open the fall campaign brimming with confidence about their prospects for retaking the House, which would give them power to open a wide swath of investigations into Trump or even launch impeachment proceedings.
U.S. President Donald Trump is feuding with his own party over what the GOP views as provoking conflict with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , with a key senator blasting Trump for risking "World War III." Leading Republican senator Bob Corker over the weekend engaged in a battle of words with Trump, accusing the president of treating the White House like a reality TV show and of playing fast and loose with words amid rising tensions between Washington and Pyongyang.
President Donald Trump's long list of immigration demands has landed with a thud among lawmakers hopeful for a deal to protect hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation. The list of demands released late Sunday includes funding for a southern border wall and a crackdown on so-called sanctuary cities - items that are cheered by the president's most loyal supporters, but are non-starters among Democrats and could divide Republicans, who will have to come together on any deal.
Amid the fallout over allegations of sexual misconduct levied against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel told CNN on Monday that President Donald Trump and the movie producer are "not even comparable." During an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, McDaniel was asked if there was a double standard for Republicans who were blasting Weinstein but had previously defended Trump when the " Access Hollywood " tape was released, which was followed by roughly a dozen women accusing the then-Republican presidential nominee of unwanted sexual conduct.
Should he seek re-election next year, Sen. Orrin Hatch could potentially face a far-right challenger financed by former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, who's hunting for Trump devotees to unseat several Senate Republicans. "There's a mini-drama that we're looking at right now," said Tim Chambless, a political science professor at the University of Utah.
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An alumna from a high school in a Montreal suburb is increasingly being mentioned as a potential candidate to prevent U.S. President Donald Trump from winning a second term in 2020. While California Sen. Kamala Harris does not publicly embrace speculation about her 2020 intentions, some online betting websites have put her at the front of the pack to lead the Democratic party into the next election.
Vice President Mike Pence walked out of an NFL game after nearly two dozen players from the San Francisco 49ers knelt during the national anthem. Many have applauded Pence's decision to leave the game in counter-protest, including President Donald Trump .
President Donald Trump has told congressional leaders that his hard-line immigration priorities must be enacted in exchange for extending protection from deportation to hundreds of thousands of young immigrants, many of whom were brought to the U.S. illegally as children. Trump's list of demands included overhauling the country's green-card system, a crackdown on unaccompanied minors entering the country, and building his promised wall along the southern border.
Senator Bob Corker is chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and supported Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. So when the man who, 18 months ago, praised then-candidate Trump's stated foreign policy plans as "very thoughtful" and lauded him for "challenging the foreign policy establishment" suggested that the nation's foreign policy is no longer in the hands of a grown-up, the president did what he usually does when criticized.
Rep. Sean Duffy appeared on New Day Monday morning and defended President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's apparently contradictory approaches to North Korea. The Wisconsin Republican first responded to Sen. Bob Corker's remarks that Trump's rhetoric could set the U.S. "on the path to World War III," arguing that the approach of past administrations to North Korea has failed.
President Donald Trump and outgoing Sen. Bob Corker launched into a Twitter spat Sunday morning in a major public falling out, making the Tennessean the latest senior Republican lawmaker to openly criticize Trump over his statements online and off. Trump tweeted Sunday morning in a series of posts attacking Corker that he denied the senator's request for an endorsement - a claim denied by Corker's chief of staff, Todd Womack, later in the day.
Pfc. Samuel Corsolini, a gunner assigned to F Company, 2nd Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, pulls security with other Pathfinders as a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter takes off after unloading his team and members of 2nd Afghan National Civil Order Patrol Special Weapons And Tactics Team during a vehicle interdiction as part of Operation Pranoo Verbena in order to disrupt Taliban operations in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, March 16. US Army/Flickr The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan vowed a new wave of helicopter strikes by the Afghan National Security Forces on Taliban insurgents after the delivery of dozens of UH-60 black hawk helicopters, in a joint Saturday appearance with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.
President Donald Trump told congressional leaders on Sunday that his hard-line immigration priorities must be enacted in exchange for extending protection from deportation to hundreds of thousands of young immigrants, many of whom were brought to the U.S. illegally as children. Trump's list of demands included overhauling the country's green-card system, a crackdown on unaccompanied minors entering the country, and building his promised wall along the southern border.
Stymied in his efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, President Donald Trump is poised to issue an order that could ease some federal rules governing health insurance and make it easier for people to band together and buy coverage on their own, administration officials said Saturday. One official said the directive could move the president a step closer to one of his long-standing goals: allowing consumers to buy health insurance across state lines.
Sen. Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, on Sunday called the White House "an adult day care center" after President Donald Trump criticized him in several Twitter posts. Setting off a squabble between two leaders of the same party, Trump said in a trio of tweets that Corker "begged" him for his endorsement, did not receive it and decided to retire because he "didn't have the guts" to run for re-election next year.
President Donald Trump's administration released a list of hard-line immigration priorities Sunday that threaten to derail efforts to protect from deportation hundreds of thousands of young illegal aliens, many of whom were brought into the United States as children. The demands include overhauling the country's green-card system, hiring 10,000 more immigration officers and building Trump's promised wall along the southern border.
In the past year, many left-leaning Americans have had the strange experience of finding themselves vigorously nodding along to a handful of right-wingers with whom then never thought they'd agree about anything. We can now add Tennessee Senator Bob Corker to that list, for the same reason as the rest: He has said something obviously true but politically taboo about the incompetence of Donald Trump.
The White House is finalizing an executive order that would expand health plans offered by associations to allow individuals to pool together and buy insurance outside their states, a unilateral move that follows failed efforts by Congress to overhaul the health care system. President Donald Trump has long asserted that selling insurance across state lines would trigger competition that brings down premiums for people buying their own policies.
The White House is finalizing an executive order that would expand health plans offered by associations to allow individuals to pool together and buy insurance outside their states, a unilateral move that follows failed efforts by Congress to overhaul the health care system. President Donald Trump has long asserted that selling insurance across state lines would trigger competition that brings down premiums for people buying their own policies.