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In the Santa Clarita Valley, where hospitals and specialists were once few and far between, Teresa Savaikie said the Affordable Care Act helped keep her and her family from losing their home as she fought two, stage 3 colon cancer tumors. In the San Gabriel Valley, where there are more hospitals and specialists, Mike Merkel said the Affordable Care Act pushed his wife, Nina, who was diagnosed with breast cancer, out of the City of Hope, where she had been a patient and into a maze of providers and specialists all across the region.
President Donald Trump received substantially worse ratings for his first months in office than any president dating back to World War II, according to Gallup. Even presidents who've gone on to be unpopular generally enjoyed high ratings during their first months in office.
Young immigrants protected by executive action from deportation say they won't ''rest easy,'' even if President Donald Trump says they should. Several ''dreamers'' told The Associated Press on Friday that they were not comforted by Trump's pledge, in an AP interview, that he wouldn't target the almost 800,000 people brought to the U.S. as children and living in the country illegally under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program enacted by his predecessor, Barack Obama.
In this Nov. 4, 2015 file photo, Juan Escalante, of the immigration reform group America's Voice, conducts interviews in New York. Young immigrants protected by executive action from deportation say they won't "rest easy," even if President Donald Trump said they should.
On the legal status of the "dreamers," young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally and protected from deportation by the Obama administration. TRUMP: Yes.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, April 19, 2017. White House press secretary Sean Spicer speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, April 19, 2017.
At his Senate confirmation hearing, Attorney General Jeff Sessions lied under oath that he had never had contact with the... Despite promising to release his tax returns in a televised debate with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump continues to show that... Jeff Sessions is really all in on calling one of the 50 United States an "island in the Pacific" as a way to attack the legitimacy of a duly appointed and confirmed federal judge who sits in Hawaii. In an interview with MSNBC's Ali Velshi, Sessions did not back down from defending that indefensible position.
"No one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it," observed George Orwell in his prescient novel "1984." However, until Donald Trump came along most U.S. presidents were at least subtle about their eagerness to retain power - especially during the first 100 days.
The leader of a bipartisan good-government group, Zach Wamp, headed to the White House last week to ask whether President Donald Trump's "drain the swamp" slogan would ever be more than a throwaway campaign slogan. One of the president's closest aides, Steve Bannon, assured him it's a priority.
President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans who control Congress face their first major budget test next week, with the threat of a U.S. government shutdown potentially hinging on his proposed Mexican border wall as well as Obamacare funding. With Republicans controlling the White House and both chambers of Congress, keeping the federal government operating is a basic test of their ability to govern, but their task could become even more complicated if they insist on using the spending legislation to bring about contentious policy changes.
ISIS CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR PARIS ATTACK THAT KILLED 1 POLICE OFFICER AND WOUNDED 2 MORE: ISIS claimed responsibility for an attack on police officers on the Champs-Elysees in Paris Thursday evening that left one officer dead and two others wounded. The terrorist group released a message through its news agency Amaq saying that the attacker was "one of the fighters for the Islamic State."
Pence will meet with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Saturday as part of his 10-day, four country trip... . U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, left, and his wife Karen smile as they arrive in Sydney, Friday, April 21, 2017.
During a press conference with Italian Prime Minister Gentiloni, while praising their great culture and artistic accomplishments, President Trump said, "Through the ages your country has been a beacon of artistic and scientific achievement." Trump continued and offhandedly said, "That continues today.
Geopolitical tensions flare every spring on the Korean peninsula, but analysts say the anxiety of recent weeks has been magnified by the unpredictable new player in the annual drama: Donald Trump. North Korea always intensifies its rhetoric when Seoul and Washington stage annual large-scale joint military drills that it condemns as rehearsals for a potential invasion.
FILE - In this March 21, 2107 file photo, President Donald Trump, with Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington to rally support for the Republican health care overhaul. W... WASHINGTON - A simple question - should adults who are able to work be required to do so to get taxpayer-provided health insurance? - could lead to major changes in the social safety net.
One of the many irritating things about the dominant United States corporate media is the way it repeatedly discovers anew things that are not remotely novel. Take its recent discovery that Donald Trump isn't really the swamp-draining populist working class champion he pretended to be on the campaign trail.
Fox News took Bill O'Reilly off the air after a heavy campaign to fire him led by CNN's media unit and The New York Times. If all the charges of sexual harassment are true, his case is indefensible.
Money for the wall President Donald Trump wants to build along the U.S. border with Mexico must be part of the massive spending bill Congress is preparing, the White House budget director says. Additional funding also must be included to hire more immigration agents, Mick Mulvaney told The Associated Press in an interview in which he laid out the top priorities of the president.
If you're any student of politics, you saw Steve Bannon on the cover of Time magazine in early February - "The Great Manipulator," it called him - and knew to start the countdown then. He'd crossed the line that a politician's advisers mustn't, to a place and prominence where only the most foolish of them tread.
With a deadline looming this week to avert a U.S. government shutdown, Congress returns to work on Monday as President Donald Trump leans on Democrats to include funding for his promised border wall with Mexico in spending legislation. The Republican president took to Twitter on Sunday to warn Democrats that the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, could soon lose essential funding without Democratic support for a congressional spending plan to keep the government running.