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In this Aug. 16, 2017 photo, the national flags of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico are lit by stage lights before a news conference, at the start of the North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiations in Washington. Mexico is taking U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to leave NAFTA more seriously as a second round of talks opens Friday, Sept.
Religious schools, homeschoolers to get a boost in GOP tax plan, thanks to Ted Cruz and Mike Pence - Washington Examiner Religious schools, homeschoolers to get a boost in GOP tax plan, thanks to Ted Cruz and Mike Pence Washington Examiner Parents would get new federal tax breaks for sending their children to private or religious schools or teaching them at home if the final Republican tax overhaul bill becomes law.
Editor's note: the White House has now indicated that it will no longer proceed with the nomination of Jeff Mateer . And thanks to a comment, I have corrected my marital status below.
While Alabama native and basketball legend Charles Barkley was elated at Republican Roy Moore 's defeat in the state's special election - calling it "a great night for Alabama" - he also warned Democrats. When CNN host Jake Tapper asked him whether he had a message for President Trump , who backed Mr. Moore despite charges of child sex abuse, Mr. Barkley did not take the bait, even though he had called Mr. Moore "an embarrassment" earlier in the interview.
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas will lead a delegation of lawmakers in a meeting with President Donald Trump on Thursday to argue for changes to the nation's biofuels policy to protect oil refining jobs. U.S. President Donald Trump announces that the United States recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and will move its embassy there, during an address from the White House in Washington, U.S., December 6, 2017.
The pressure is growing on Scott Pruitt and the Environmental Protection Agency to do something anything about the costs being imposed on consumers and the energy sector by the Renewable Fuel Standard. According to Politico's Morning Energy newsletter , there's a meeting scheduled for Thursday in which President Trump will be talking to Ted Cruz and other interested parties about the subject.
The Latest on the Nov. 18 death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in West Texas : The FBI has announced that it is offering a $45,000 reward for information leading to solving the mystery surrounding the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in West Texas. An FBI statement issued Thursday announced a new digital billboard campaign to promote the reward for answers to questions surrounding the death of Border Patrol agent Rogelio Martinez, He was found dead and another agent was found injured in a culvert on Interstate 10 near Van Horn, about 110 miles southeast of El Paso.
A Texas sheriff who was among the first people to reach two badly injured U.S. Border Patrol agents said he thinks they may have been sideswiped accidentally by a tractor-trailer, not attacked, as President Donald Trump and some others have suggested. The injured agents were found the night of Nov. 18 along a culvert next to Interstate 10 near Van Horn, which is about 110 miles southeast of El Paso and about 30 miles from the border with Mexico.
Ammar Hammasho, a migrant from Syria who lives in Cyprus, kisses one of his four children after they arrived with their mother at a refugee camp in Kokkinotrimithia in the eastern Mediterranean island on Sept. 10, 2017.
It's one of the enduring misconceptions of the Trump-Russia affair. During the 2016 Republican convention, the story goes, the Trump campaign weakened a critical passage in the GOP platform to go easy on Russia.
Mike Collier, then-Democratic nominee for Texas comptroller, at the state Democratic convention in Dallas on June 27, 2014. Collier is running for lieutenant governor in 2018.
In the century that Pat Snook's family has run a cattle operation in southeast Texas, she and her relatives have paid the federal estate tax three times to account for acreage, equipment and other assets being passed from one generation to the next. "You don't mind paying it one time," said Snook, who lives in Livingston, about an hour northeast of Houston.
FBI Special Agent in Charge of the El Paso field office Emmerson Buie Jr. speaks during a press conference at the FBI field office, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017, in El Paso, Texas, about the death of a border patrol agent and the severe injuries of a second agent. FBI officials said Tuesday that officers are investigating the incident as a "potential physical assault" on federal officers, but said there are several scenarios that might have led to the agents' injuries.
DALLAS >> Investigators believe a border patrol agent who died in West Texas after suffering extensive injuries to his head and body may have fallen down a 14-foot culvert, and his partner, who radioed for help, has no memory of what happened, according to a U.S. official with knowledge of the investigation. FBI spokeswoman Jeanette Harper said in a statement Monday that both agents were found late Saturday night in a culvert near Van Horn and that both had traumatic head injuries.
Details remain scant in what the FBI describes as a "tragic incident" that left one Border Patrol agent dead and another in serious condition. The FBI said both men were found injured late Saturday in a culvert area - a tunnel structure used for water drainage - in southwest Texas.
Commission this week is widely expected to release its plan to reverse Obama-era net neutrality rules that banned internet service providers from blocking or slowing down content or creating so-called "fast lanes" for companies willing to pay extra to deliver their content more quickly. We don't know the details of the plan yet, but Republican FCC chair Ajit Pai made it clear earlier this year that, at the very least, he plans to overturn a decision that reclassified broadband internet providers as "common carriers," like telephone companies.
A U.S. official with knowledge of the investigation into the death of a border patrol agent said that the surviving agent who radioed in for help doesn't remember what happened. The official, who was briefed on the investigation but is not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Monday that Rogelio Martinez was found at the bottom of a 14-foot culvert and that investigators believe he may have fallen.
Authorities were scouring West Texas on Monday for those behind an apparent attack that killed one U.S. border agent and injured another. U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a statement Sunday that was thin on details about what happened, saying the two agents "were responding to activity" while on patrol near Interstate 10 in the area of Van Horn, which is about 30 miles from the border with Mexico and about 110 miles southeast of El Paso.
Other killers snuffed out far more lives than Charles Manson did in 1969. Yet Manson _ the murderous cult leader who died over the weekend at 83 _ has endured for nearly a half century as the personification of evil.
Authorities were scouring West Texas on Monday for those behind an apparent attack that killed one U.S. border agent and injured another. U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a statement Sunday that was thin on details about what happened, saying the two agents "were responding to activity" while on patrol near Interstate 10 in the area of Van Horn, which is about 30 miles from the border with Mexico and about 110 miles southeast of El Paso.