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President Donald Trump met with members of the Congressional Black Caucus in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington in March. WASHINGTON - On the campaign trail last year, then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump sought the support of black voters by asking them, ''What the hell do you have to lose?'' ''We are losing essential freedoms,'' said Brittany Packnett, who became an advocate for criminal justice reform after the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown and subsequent protests in Ferguson, Missouri.
The 17th century painting of George Villiers, the 1st Duke of Buckingham, was believed to have been a copy of the lost original. However, after conservation work carried out for the BBC series Britain's Lost Masterpieces, it has been reassessed and confirmed to be an authentic work by Rubens, who lived from 1577 to 1640.
In this My 3, 2017, file photo, Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., left, speaks to reporters outside the White House in Washington, following a meeting with President Donald Trump on health care reform. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore.
"I'm not a different guy. I had a different job" Bharara, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and a CNN contributor, told CNN's Bill Weir.
President Donald Trump on Saturday pointed to a reported missile test by Iran to renew his criticism of the nuclear agreement it reached with the U.S. and other nations. Iran's Revolutionary Guard on Friday displayed its latest ballistic missile capable of reaching Israel and much of the Middle East.
There's the blustering tyrant - and then there's Kim Jong-un. He has no earthly reason to give up those nukes now President Donald Trump's speech to the United Nations General Assembly this past week did not put worried minds at ease.
Unwilling to concede defeat on a bedrock GOP promise, President Donald Trump on Saturday tried to sway two Republican holdouts on the party's last-ditch health care hope while clawing at his nemesis who again has brought the "Obamacare" repeal-and-replace effort to the brink of failure. Trump appealed to Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a possible "no" vote, to swing around for the sake of Alaskans up in arms over high insurance costs, and suggested that Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul might reverse his stated opposition "for the good of the Party!" Arizona Sen. John McCain, whose announcement Friday that he would not vote for the proposal seemingly scuttled efforts to revive the repeal, came under renewed criticism from the White House.
In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, a U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer, assigned to the 37th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, deployed from Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., prepares to take off from Andersen AFB, Guam, on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017.
On the occasions when President Donald Trump's rambling 90-minute speech in Huntsville, Alabama, on Friday wandered back to its advertised subject, the reelection campaign of Republican Sen. Luther Strange, the president tended to marvel less at the candidate's politics than his height. "I said, 'That is the tallest human being I've ever seen!' " Trump said, recalling when he first met Strange before this year's health-care reform battles.
Sen. John McCain , listened as former FBI Director James Comey testified in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on his past relationship with President Donald Trump, and his role in the Russian interference investigation, in the Senate Hart building on Capitol Hill, on Thursday, June 8, 2017. "John McCain never had any intention of voting for this Bill, which his Governor loves.
Wisconsin, Ohio, California and 10 other states said on Friday they were among 21 states that Russian government hackers targeted in an effort to sway the 2016 presidential election in favor of Donald Trump though no votes were changed. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed it had notified the states of the activity but declined to identify them.
Rigs carry ballistic missiles during a military parade in front of former Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei's shrine due to the Sacred Defence Week in Tehran, Iran on Sept. 22. U.K. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said he is "extremely concerned" by reports that Iran tested a missile, saying the action was inconsistent with United Nations resolutions.
Arkansas universities are reviewing campus policies after the U.S. Department of Education released temporary guidelines Friday on how colleges should respond to sexual misconduct. The federal agency's interim guidance followed through on a pledge Education Secretary Betsy DeVos made Sept.