Donald Trump threatens government shut down over border security

Republicans anxious about keeping control of Congress think it's a bad idea, but President Donald Trump still says he's willing to close the government over border security issues, including money he wants to build a promised U.S.-Mexico border wall. "I would be willing to 'shut down' government if the Democrats do not give us the votes for Border Security, which includes the Wall!" Trump tweeted Sunday.

The Health 202: Democrats seeking to recapture emotion of ACA vote in Kavanaugh fight

Saturday marked one year since Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain's now famous thumbs-down vote that upended the last GOP attempt to fully repeal the Affordable Care Act. In the leadup to that vote, Republicans faced intense political pressure from a grassroots campaign that focused on the often emotional stories of the tens of millions of Americans who would lose coverage if the ACA went away.

Rudy Giuliani doesna t rule out Trump interview for Mueller investigation

President Trump 's current attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani said Monday that Mr. Trump may still sit for an interview for special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation and argued that collusion may not be a crime. Mr. Giuliani denounced the Mueller investigation on CNN's "New Day," saying the special counsel created "a completely biased staff," but the attorney didn't rule out the possibility of Mr. Trump interviewing for the investigation.

NORC/MTV Poll: Young people looking for younger leaders

A poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and MTV found that most Americans ages 15 to 34 think voting in the midterm elections gives their generation some say about how the government is run, and 79 percent of this group say leaders from their generation would do a better job running the country. The poll found young people eager to vote for someone who shared their political views on issues like health care and immigration policy.

OpinionIt’s time to fulfill the promise of citizenship | Opinion

This year we marked the 150th anniversary of the 14th Amendment in a strange way: with an assault on the idea of citizenship that is at the amendment's core. In June, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that it had launched a denaturalization task force to revoke the citizenship of and deport "people who should not have been naturalized."

This is not your grandfather’s KGB

Looking at Russia's competing spy services, their overlapping operations against the US and their sometimes careless tradecraft, some CIA veterans are wondering if the Russian spooks actually want to get caught. The truth is, President Vladimir Putin probably doesn't mind that his intelligence activities are so blatant that they're a subject of daily public debate.

Navy tightens surface warfare officer qualifications to improve watch-standing skills

The Navy is clamping down on who can become a surface warfare officer - a move aimed at boosting focus on bridge watch-standing opportunities for future warship commanders. Effective immediately, sailors pursuing SWO certification must be commissioned line officers qualified to command warfighting units or be making a lateral transfer into the field, according to a Navy instruction issued July 23. The change - which restricts limited-duty officers, chief warrant officers and senior enlisted sailors from becoming SWOs - comes after ineffective watch-standing was found to be partly to blame for separate collisions last year that killed 17 sailors on the destroyers USS Fitzgerald and USS John S. McCain.

California Mesothelioma Victims Center Now Urges a US Navy Veteran…

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Why India has effectively stripped 4 million people of citizenship

India says hundreds of thousands of people have illegally entered the country from neighbouring Bangladesh over decades and settled down in the northeast. Bangladesh rejects the claim India said on Monday it had excluded more than 4 million people from a draft list of citizens in the border state of Assam who could not produce valid documents, a move that has sparked fears about the future of thousands in the region.