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The Trump administration is looking for ways to deal with a recurring frustration: individual federal judges who have put the brakes on one major administration policy after another. The administration is telling the Supreme Court in a case about President Donald Trump's travel ban that judges are increasingly using what are called nationwide injunctions to stop "a federal policy everywhere."
It's taken just two weeks for Washington's immigration battle to fade from blistering to back-burner. Lawmakers now seem likely to do little or nothing this election year on an effort that's been eclipsed by Congress' new focus on guns, bloodied by Senate defeats and relegated to B-level urgency by a Supreme Court ruling.
In this Aug. 1, 2016 photo, laborers work in the steel market in Yichang in central China's Hubei province. China has expressed "grave concern" about a U.S. trade policy report that pledges to pressure Beijing but had no immediate response to President Donald Trump's plan to hike tariffs on steel and aluminum.
Italy's soon-to-end election campaign reads muc... . The League party's candidate premier, Matteo Salvini, shakes hands with sympathizers during an electoral meeting in view of March 4 Italy's general elections, in Rome, Thursday, March 1, 2018.
Democratic House Majority Leader KC... An effort by Colorado Democrats to expel one of their own over sexual misconduct allegations appeared set to fail Friday amid Republican objections to how the complaints have been handled. Republicans object to how... An effort by Colorado Democrats to expel one of their own over sexual misconduct allegations appeared set to fail Friday amid Republican objections to how the complaints have been handled.
Last December, President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law. Supporters promised that the new law would reform America's broken tax code, make filing simpler and give a necessary break to middle-class families and low-income earners.
Sally Hawkins and Octavia Spencer in Mexican director Guillermo del Toro's "The Shape of Water." The film is this year's top Oscar contender, with 13 nominaitons.
Empowered state and municipal politicians in various parts of the country are at it again - asserting that their governments will not comply with federal law nor adequately cooperate with federal officials charged with enforcing U.S. law. cities are elevating local pols' own feelings and values - in this case, support for open borders and the welcoming - even inviting - of illegal aliens to their communities above national law.
Indonesian police on Thursday questioned the captain and crew of a luxury yacht seized in Bali at the request of US authorities, probing alleged money laundering at a Malaysian state fund, they said. The yacht was impounded in Bali on Wednesday amid a multi-billion dollar corruption investigation launched by the US Department of Justice and tied to Malaysian state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad .
In this June 7, 2017 file photo, acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe appears before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Justice Department's inspector general is expected to criticize former FBI Deputy Director McCabe as part of its investigation into the bureau's handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday, March 1. 2018.
The Trump administration told Congress on Thursday that it plans to sell Ukraine 210 anti-tank missiles to help it defend its territory from Russia, in a major escalation of U.S. lethal assistance to Ukraine's military. The long-awaited move, which lawmakers of both parties have been urging for years, deepens America's involvement in the military conflict and may further strain relations with Moscow.
Trump has had rough patches with most of his top officials at one point or another, but there is a particular poignancy in his humiliating treatment of his own attorney general, who got on board the Trump Train early and supports the president's policy instincts as much as anyone. Sessions is ideologically and politically loyal, but not personally loyal, at least not in the way Trump expects, and so the man who looked past Trump's erratic temperament when he decided to support him now routinely feels the brunt of it.
With just over two months before the party convention, six Democrats angling to be the front-runner argued over the future of Connecticut on and who's best-qualified to lead the state Thursday night. While Republican candidates for governor have been grappling on televised stages in the run-up to the May convention, Democratic hopefuls have been meeting in smaller, more-intimate gatherings around the state to explain their visions for the future of Connecticut.
Strong ironies are playing out as California's 14 Republican members of Congress support President Trump's announced $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan at the same time they all back a planned ballot initiative to repeal the state's new gasoline and diesel fuel tax increase. No state needs more work on its infrastructure than this one, where more than 1,300 bridges of various sizes and shapes require seismic retrofitting and potholes are common on every type of road from country lanes to major urban freeways.
As U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions promised, the Justice Department on Thursday evening filed a "statement of interest" in the swath of lawsuits being heard in Cleveland that accuse drug manufacturers and distributors of heavily contributing to the nation's opioid epidemic. But instead of a display of force and support for the local and state governments that allege the drug companies caused the addiction problems, the Justice Department asked U.S. District Judge Dan Polster for 30 days to decide whether it wants to intervene.
A group of political independents that includes Alaska Gov. Bill Walker has endorsed a candidate for the Washington state Legislature, part of a plan to mount a national challenge to the two-party system at this year's midterm elections. Unite America, formerly known as the Centrist Project, said it has raised $3 million to help re-elect Walker and fund gubernatorial candidates in Maine and Kansas, Senate candidates in Missouri and Maryland, in addition to state legislative hopefuls in Colorado and Washington.
Millennial voters are backing Democrats over Republicans by a more than two-to-one ratio heading toward November's midterms, according to a Pew Research Center poll released Thursday. Sixty-two percent of millennial voters said if the 2018 elections were held today, they would vote for the Democratic candidate, while only 29 percent said they would support the Republican.