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In this Feb. 16, 2017 photo, President Donald Trump hands the pen he used to sign H.J. Res. 38 to Kevin Hughes, General Manager, Murray Energy Corporation, second from right, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington.
Over the past couple weeks we have been snooping around some of the contrarian corners of the world, to see what those folks not completely enamored of the "Trump trade" have been up to . While we were away, all manner of things has gone down in Washington, often in a most colorful fashion.
In the Washington week that wasn't, President Donald Trump 's new administration whirred like a "fine-tuned machine," piling on big-league accomplishments at a pace never before seen. Immigration agents newly empowered by Trump 's call to secure borders sent hordes of bad foreigners back home, validating a president who won the most lopsided Electoral College victory since Ronald Reagan.
Every day there is a new round of questions and a new set of concerns that raise anxieties and lower trust. Every day it becomes ever more clear that it is right and just to doubt the legitimacy of this regime and all that flows from it.
So far, the native New Yorker had been treating Chicago like the weather; he can't stop talking about it, but is there really much he can do about it? He's been talking about Chicago's violence epidemic since a June 29, 2015, meeting with the Chicago Tribune editorial board, which he addressed as if he was bringing news of which Chicagoans already were not painfully aware: "Crime in Chicago is out of control, and I will tell you, outside of Chicago, it's a huge negative and a huge talking point, a huge negative for Chicago," he said. "You've got to stop it.
Trashing the Paris Agreement made for a great campaign prop at Donald Trump's rallies, where the climate change accord was portrayed as a product of the out-of-touch, insufferable elites that Trump pledged to sweep from power. Now the landmark agreement, signed under President Barack Obama, is fast becoming a nuisance for President Trump's White House.
The Trump Administration is taking steps toward repealing and replacing former President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act. It's still not known how many Republicans are dissecting the health law, but it is known that some elements of the ACA are likely to survive.
During a speech at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, the Republican senator from Arizona delivered a pointed and striking point-by-point takedown of Trump's worldview and brand of nationalism. McCain didn't mention Trump's name once, but he didn't have to.
The news sent shock waves through the agency and has left career officials on edge, in part because of its abrupt nature - taking place before their assignments end this summer and replacements have been found - and in part because these officials help the secretary, a government novice, work with policy experts throughout the building. While Tillerson was on his first overseas trip at the G20 in Bonn, Germany, his aides told the entire staff in the offices of the deputy secretary of state for management and resources and the State Department counselor that their current assignments were prematurely coming to an end, according to senior aides.
This undated photo provided by the law firm Public Counsel shows Daniel Ramirez Medina, 23, who was was brought to the U.S. illegally as a child but was protected from deportation by President Barack Obama's administration. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Medina on Friday, Feb. 10, 2017, at his father's home, even though he has a work permit under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Pruitt served six years as Oklahoma's attorney general and was closely aligned with oil and gas companies in his home state, whose executives backed his political campaigns. He filed 14 lawsuits as attorney general challenging EPA regulations, including President Barack Obama's plan to limit planet-warming carbon emissions.
In this Friday, Feb. 3, 2017, file photo President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. It didn't take long for President Donald Trump to start running out of the custom-made Cross pens he uses to sign all of his executive orders.
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The currency is growing unrecognizable after casting off its close link with oil, Russia's chief export, and turning into a proxy for political risk. Becoming less beholden to crude has meant it's ever more sensitive to shifts in capital flows and investor sentiment.
Gov. Charlie Baker will be lucky if he draws Democrat Jay Gonzalez, a Deval Patrick acolyte, as his opponent for re-election. Gonzalez, 46, of Needham, served as Patrick's secretary of administration from 2009 to 2013, which, outside of governor, is the top job in state government.
Critics of President Donald Trump saw in his Thursday news conference a combative, thin-skinned chief executive who continues to blame the media for the controversies roiling his administration. His supporters saw something else: A champion of Middle America who is taking on the establishment and making good on his campaign promises to put the country first.
Washington: At the end of a week in which he misplaced his national security adviser, and found a replacement who bolted before his feet were nailed to the floor, Donald Trump declared the chaos he calls an administration "is running like a fine-tuned machine". And to the extent that it's not quite that, he's used a near-80 minute press conference to blame Barack Obama.
The United States does not have a way to measure how well fencing works to deter... . A section of the border fence is shown, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, along the U.S.-Mexico border in Brownsville, Texas.
A look at some of his claims the president made in a news conference Thursday and how they compare with the facts. Fact Check: Trump's messy case that he inherited a mess A look at some of his claims the president made in a news conference Thursday and how they compare with the facts.
Congressional Republicans, anticipating confrontations with angry Affordable Care Act supporters during the upcoming February recess, have been given talking points by party leaders to counter and deflect the growing public rancor. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., on Thursday provided an outline of the ACA repeal legislation that Republicans will introduce after Congress returns on Feb. 27. But former Obama administration health advisers said the document and its strategy recommendations for GOP lawmakers couldn't hide the fact that Republicans still hadn't produced a definitive plan to replace Obamacare.