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Donald Trump supporters at a campaign rally in Janesville, Wis., in March 2016 A Republican primary is officially underway in the Wisconsin Senate race, with candidates facing off over who should take on Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin next year. President Donald Trump won the Badger State by less than one point in November, the first time a Republican presidential nominee had won Wisconsin in more than 30 years.
The top House and Senate Democrats said Wednesday they had reached agreement with President Donald Trump to protect thousands of younger immigrants from deportation and fund some border security enhancements - not including Trump's long-sought border wall. The agreement, the latest instance of Trump ditching his own party to make common cause with the opposition, was announced by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi following a White House dinner that Republican lawmakers weren't invited to attend.
Breaking Bad-obsessed 15-year-old 'school gunman' simulated shootings on YouTube: Teen posted videos 'before killing hero best friend who tried to stop him and wounding three girls in rampage' Trump does a deal with Democrats on Obama's 'Dreamers': The President agrees to protect young immigrants from deportation in return for enhanced border security that DOES NOT include the wall 'It was strange for me': Harrison Ford breaks his silence on Carrie Fisher revealing they had an affair while filming Star Wars in 1976 'They run away when they see us': Clowns plan rally outside movie theater because horror movie It is destroying their livelihoods Top Obama official ADMITS she 'unmasked' Trump team's names from intelligence and says she did it because they had a secret meeting with an Arab prince Boyfriend is charged with murdering missing pregnant teacher just two days after he tearfully ... (more)
Democratic lawmakers said on September 13 that are investigating whether U.S. President Donald Trump's former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn secretly promoted a U.S.-Russian project to build dozens of nuclear reactors in the Middle East.
Trump just reached a deal with top Democrats to protect 'dreamers' - and they say it doesn't include wall funding Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi announced they have reached a deal with President Donald Trump that would protect certain unauthorized immigrants as part of a broader border security agreement. The two Democratic leaders made the announcement Wednesday night after a meeting with Trump.
President Donald Trump blocked a Chinese-backed investor from buying Lattice Semiconductor Corp., casting a cloud over Chinese deals seeking U.S. security clearance and spurring a call for fairness from Beijing. It was just the fourth time in a quarter century that a U.S. president has ordered a foreign takeover of an American firm on national-security concerns.
President Donald Trump and black Democratic lawmakers don't agree on much, but they do agree that FEMA needs to fund houses of worship that assist hurricane victims of hurricanes Harvey and Irma. As the waters slowly recede from Houston and parts of Florida from the two deadly storms, the president and some members of the Congressional Black Caucus are aggressively diving into the murky waters of separation of church and state issues.
Former national security adviser Susan Rice told the House Intelligence Committee that she "unmasked" the names of President Donald Trump's associates because she wanted to find out why the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates visited Trump Tower in New York last year without notifying the US government, CNN reported on Wednesday. Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, UAE's crown prince, traveled to New York during the transition period in December 2016 and reportedly met with former national security adviser Michael Flynn, Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday told The New York Times that he thinks the "blue slip" practice should be scrapped for circuit court nominations, a move that would eliminate Democrats' only leverage against President Donald Trump's picks to the nation's second-highest courts. "My personal view is that the blue slip, with regard to circuit court appointments, ought to simply be a notification of how you're going to vote, not the opportunity to blackball," McConnell told The Times, adding that he still favors keeping the practice in place in its current form for district court judges.
House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., left, answers questions during an interview with Julie Pace, AP chief of bureau in Washington and Erica Werner, AP congressional correspondent, at the Associated Press bureau in Wash... WASHINGTON - House Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday said that deporting hundreds of thousands of young immigrants brought into the country illegally is "not in our nation's interest," as he and President Donald Trump prepared to huddle with top Democrats to try to hash out a legislative fix.
President Donald Trump will have dinner with Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday night, the latest overture by the Republican president to work with his adversaries. The White House said that Trump had invited the two Democratic leaders to dinner, more than week after the president reached an agreement with Schumer and Pelosi - despite objections from Republicans - on a three-month agreement to raise the debt ceiling, keep the government running and speed hurricane relief to states.
Michael Flynn, former national security adviser, also advised Donald Trump during the presidential campaign. His son's lobbying activities are now reported to be a focus of the special counsel's probe.
President Donald Trump is preaching bipartisanship as he meets with a group of moderate members of Congress from both parties Wednesday. Trump says as he begins the meeting that "More and more we're trying to work things out together."
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, beset over the past five months by sex abuse allegations, is set to resign, bringing an ignoble end to a lengthy political career in which he championed gay rights and better pay for workers. Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, beset over the past five months by sex abuse allegations, is set to resign, bringing an ignoble end to a lengthy political career in which he championed gay rights and better pay for workers.
Americans would get health coverage simply by showing a new government-issued card and would no longer owe out-of-pocket expenses like deductibles, according to legislation Sen. Bernie Sanders released Wednesday. But the Vermont independent's description of the legislation omitted specifics about how much it would cost and final decisions about how he would pay for it.
The Republican plan to slash corporate and personal income taxes has finally begun moving forward in Congress, and President Donald Trump wants lawmakers to act with haste. In a tweet Wednesday, Trump urged Republicans to "move fast" on what he said would be a massive tax cut.
Was this book necessary? Hillary Clinton's anguished, angry memoir of her presidential campaign, "What Happened," was unveiled this week, with television appearances and a 15-city lecture tour to follow. "I love Hillary," Al Franken, the senator from Minnesota, said a few weeks ago.
The survey, conducted annually, is based on telephone interviews carried out during the month of August with a national sample of 1,000 Jews over age 18. Questions included topics such as respondents' political stances, their level of satisfaction with the new US administration, antisemitism, US-Israel relations, Jewish identity, and religious pluralism in Israel. Of the respondents, 9% were Orthodox Jews, 16% Conservatives, 2% Reconstructionists, 31% Reform Jews and 39% considered themselves "just Jewish."
Joe Arpaio has not set foot in a courtroom since July, has not sat behind his old, famous desk at the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office for more than nine months, but still, he is never too far from a headline. President Donald Trump pardoned him.