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U.S. President Donald Trump plans to offer Canada and Mexico a 30-day exemption from planned tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, which could be extended based on progress in NAFTA talks, a White House official said on Wednesday night.The move, first reported by the Washington Post, followed comments earlier in the day by a White House spokeswoman that the impending tariffs could exclude Canada, Mexico and a clutch of other countries "based on national security." Trump was expected to sign a presidential proclamation to establish the tariffs during a ceremony on Thursday, but a White House official said later it could slide into Friday because documents had to be cleared through a legal process.
On the south side of Highway 210, Cypress Drive now ends in a dead end. Trees and small hills separate it from the highway and the BNSF Railway corridor.
Republican Rick Saccone, speaks at a campaign rally in Waynesburg, Pa. Saccone is running against Democrat Conor Lamb in a special election being held on March 13 for the PA 18th Congressional Di... .
U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday said Congress must find a way to pay for a massive looming shortfall in funding to pay for crumbling highways, bridges and other infrastructure. Representative Bill Shuster, who chairs the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said at a hearing he is working to find a "big broad bipartisan infrastructure bill" but acknowledged new revenue must be found.
Hope Hicks told House Intelligence Committee she was hacked, sources say - WASHINGTON - Hope Hicks told the House Intelligence Committee last week that one of her email accounts was hacked, according to people who were present for the former White House communications director's testimony in the panel's Russia probe. Gary Cohn's Breaking Point - Like a lot of guys, I've watched "The Shawshank Redemption" more times than I can count.
Trump, a Republican, cited the influence of video games after a 19-year-old gunman was accused of killing 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida and injuring more than a dozen others. "I'm hearing more and more people say the level of violence on video games is really shaping young people's thoughts," he said last month.
Gary Cohn's Breaking Point - Like a lot of guys, I've watched "The Shawshank Redemption" more times than I can count. Which is why, when I heard the news that Gary Cohn had resigned as Donald Trump's top economic adviser, I thought of Red's somber line: "Every man has his breaking point."
Fresh off the triumph of a sweeping new tax cut, President Donald Trump's top economic aide was crafting a priority list that would touch nearly every piece of the economy. There was a $200 billion infrastructure program.
Mueller gathers evidence that 2017 Seychelles meeting was effort to establish back channel to Kremlin Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has gathered evidence that a secret meeting in the Seychelles just before the inauguration of Donald Trump was an effort to establish a back channel between Trump Spoke to Witnesses About Matters They Discussed With Special Counsel - WASHINGTON - The special counsel in the Russia investigation has learned of two conversations in recent months in which President Trump asked key witnesses about matters they discussed with investigators Democrats say Trump associate may have misled House panel over Seychelles meeting - Democrats: Prince may have misled House panel - The founder of the security firm Blackwater did not mention to the House Intelligence Committee last year that a Lebanese-American businessman Hope Hicks told House Intelligence Committee ... (more)
When the U.S. Navy sought the first female sailors to serve on submarines, Suraya Mattocks raised her hand because she had always thought it would be a cool job, not because she wanted to blaze a trail. She did anyway.
Mueller gathers evidence that 2017 Seychelles meeting was effort to establish back channel to Kremlin Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has gathered evidence that a secret meeting in the Seychelles just before the inauguration of Donald Trump was an effort to establish a back channel between Trump Spoke to Witnesses About Matters They Discussed With Special Counsel - WASHINGTON - The special counsel in the Russia investigation has learned of two conversations in recent months in which President Trump asked key witnesses about matters they discussed with investigators Democrats say Trump associate may have misled House panel over Seychelles meeting - Democrats: Prince may have misled House panel - The founder of the security firm Blackwater did not mention to the House Intelligence Committee last year that a Lebanese-American businessman Hope Hicks told House Intelligence Committee ... (more)
As the saying goes, you don't miss the water until the well runs dry: This deeply aberrant presidency threatens to cost the nation much more than even some of Donald Trump's harshest critics may realize. From 1988-1992, I was The Washington Post's correspondent in Buenos Aires, covering all of South America.
The three main Republican rivals looking to unseat U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren actually believe they have a chance to pull off the seemingly impossible in this impossibly blue state. Several factors give Winchester businessman John Kingston, state Rep. Geoff Diehl of Whitman and Groton's Beth Lindstrom, a longtime Massachusetts Republican Party operative, reason for hope.
On March 8, 1965, the United States landed its first combat troops in South Vietnam as 3,500 Marines arrived to defend the U.S. air base at Da Nang. In 1854, U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry made his second landing in Japan; within a month, he concluded a treaty with the Japanese.
The White House says Mexico, Canada and other countries may be spared from President Donald Trump's planned steel and aluminum tariffs under national security "carve-outs," a move that could soften the blow amid threats of retaliation by trading partners and dire economic warnings from lawmakers and business groups. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters the exemptions would be made on a "case by case" and "country by country" basis, a reversal from the policy articulated by the White House just days ago that there would be no exemptions from Trump's plan.
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have completed a draft report concluding there was no collusion or coordination between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia, a finding that pleased the White House but enraged Democrats who were expected to see the document for the first time on Tuesday.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions blasted what he called California's "extreme" and "not reasonable" position that seeks to thwart federal immigration policies, in an interview with Fox News Wednesday. Earlier in the day, Sessions had announced a federal lawsuit against California and attacked its elected officials as "radical extremists" in a speech in Sacramento.
There's something deeply unsettling about living in a country where millions of people froth at the mouth at the idea of giving health care to the tens of millions of Americans who don't have it, or who take pleasure at the thought of privatizing and slashing bedrock social programs like Social Security or Medicare. It might not be so hard to stomach if other Western countries also had a large, vocal chunk of the population that thought like this, but the U.S. is seemingly the only place where right-wing elites can openly share their distaste for the working poor.
Politico reports on a letter to US Representative and House Ethics Committee chairwoman Susan Brooks , from more than two dozen members of the Congressional Black Caucus, requesting an investigation into "the legality and propriety" of lawmakers sleeping in their offices. Among their complaints are that the free lodging and associated perqs constitute a "direct violation of the ethics rules which prohibit official resources from being used for personal purposes," and that the risk of seeing a naked politician creates a "hostile work environment" for House, um, housekeepers.
President Donald Trump and his appointees have stocked federal agencies with ex-lobbyists and corporate lawyers who now help regulate the very industries from which they previously collected paychecks, despite promising as a candidate to drain the swamp in Washington. A week after his January 2017 inauguration, Trump signed an executive order that bars former lobbyists, lawyers and others from participating in any matter they lobbied or otherwise worked on for private clients within two years before going to work for the government.