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Asa Hutchinson, a former Republican congressman from Arkansas who led the task force, unveiled the report at a packed news conference with unusually heavy security, including a bomb-sniffing yellow Labrador retriever.
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Several Democrats, including Mr. Kerry, have closed ranks behind him in the hopes of discouraging anyone else from getting in and avoiding a bruising primary.
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As President, I'll end Obama's war on religion.
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The president, immediately after making his remarks, signed nearly two-dozen executive actions -- a step that has stirred objections from lawmakers who have warned Obama not to overstep his bounds.
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Hillary Clinton lied many times to the F.B.I. Nothing happened to her.
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Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was among the many people who called on Trump to abandon his trophy hunting decision.
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But there are broad questions at hand in boosting security beyond that: particularly, does it hurt democracy to put an added barrier between lawmakers and constituents?
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“The one before that was in a shopping mall in Oregon, and the one before that was in a movie theater in Colorado.
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"What he said is just flat wrong in addition to being wildly offensive to any victim of sexual abuse," McConnell said.
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We think it should be spent on things that would have the greatest impact on gun violence, like universal background checks and cracking down on gun trafficking.”
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Mr. Mattis, a retired four-star Marine general, was rebuffed.
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All we've heard, the Fox News host complained, is "we need a big tent. We need a big tent. Can we get a bigger tent? How can we get a big tent?
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"For me, I love the idea we have freedom of speech.
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He agreed somewhat to what everyone said,” McCoy added.
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Donald J. Trump has dropped plans to moderate a presidential debate, but don’t expect him to fade quietly from the political scene.
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The two states filed a lawsuit seeking a court order to prevent Colorado from enforcing the measure known as Amendment 64, which was approved by voters in 2012 and allows recreational marijuana for adults over 21.
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I want you to record this and make it public because I am after you.
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Last year, the Clintons paid an effective federal tax rate of 35.7 percent and donated over 10 percent of their income to charity.
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Democrats urge Trump to cancel Putin summit, after indictment of Russian intel officers
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At one point, he said Ms. Pelosi should back it because she was “a good Catholic” and Vatican City is surrounded by a wall, according to one of the officials familiar with the discussion.
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“You have to consider that there is a lot of information for the public—obviously members want to give as much information as they can—a lot of calendars are broadcast, social media, information is readily available,” Norton said.
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The backlash to Indiana's new religious freedom law grew Monday, even as state lawmakers move to clarify the legislation, with Wash. Gov. Jay Inslee and Seattle Mayor Ed Murray banning government-funded travel to Indiana.
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“I think it’s tragic that AARP would, wittingly or unwittingly, play into the hands of people who have never really liked Social Security and want to decimate it,” Mr. Richtman said.
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The resolution initially said the NAACP would "repudiate the racism of the Tea Parties" and stand against the movement's attempt to "push our country back to the pre-civil rights era," though the wording was amended to downplay criticism of all Tea Partiers while asking them to repudiate bigots in their own ranks.
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Cuts recommended by the board would take effect automatically unless Congress voted to block or change them.
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“What I have is a backbone.”
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Each candidate made frequent appeals to the middle class, Biden by pledging to protect programs in the federal budget and Ryan by pledging to grow the economy for everybody.
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Pelosi has led House Democrats since 2002.
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Those firms have denied they give the government a “back door” to their systems.
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The Senate last year passed a sweeping bipartisan immigration reform bill that both tightened border security and provided a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants who meet a strict set of criteria.
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He continued: “That she should be saying that?
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The lawyer eventually sued Granny Sayz in federal court.
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"And if we don't get it, there should be no deal."
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He said the California progressive has lost the connection with working-class people in the Midwest ― the same people who make up his district, and the same people who turned out in droves to vote for Trump and help defeat Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton weeks ago.
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No fair trying to redefine amnesty.”
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“I said, Why don’t you use this for impeachment?
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Controversial Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced on Tuesday he will officially endorse Texas Governor Rick Perry for the Republican presidential nomination, which could give Perry something of a credibility boost on immigration and border issues.
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“I am running for majority leader because I want to help create a vision of growth and opportunity for everyone and start getting to work for the American people,” he said.
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"House committees of jurisdiction will review these recommendations.
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No senior Pentagon official has defended the withdrawal publicly, despite requests from the White House.
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Biden did another thing Obama did not a week ago.
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President Donald Trump on Friday declared a national emergency at the southern U.S. border in an effort to unilaterally seize funding to begin building his long-promised wall between the U.S. and Mexico.
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The Wal-Mart case dwarfs those rulings in importance.
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Mr. Williams, a coach on the team, trudged out on crutches after injuring his foot in the Wednesday morning fray as well.
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But unlike Obama a week ago, he let few points go unchallenged.
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In an effort to touch on all four of those elements, the president recommended requiring criminal background checks for all gun sales; reinstating the assault weapons ban; restoring a 10-round limit on ammunition magazines; eliminating armor-piercing bullets; providing mental health services in schools; allocating funds to hire more police officers; and instituting a federal gun trafficking statute, among other policies.
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“And when your son looks at you and says: ’Momma, look, you won. Bullies don’t win.’
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Obama spent the weekend lobbying members of his party to switch their votes next week.
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Asked point-blank, "Is that picture you?" Weiner replied, "You know I'm not going to talk about this anymore."
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One-hundred candidates, including those who won their 2018 races, signed a letter to Pelosi and other congressional leaders demanding the reforms be the first order of business.
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Some of the most debated provisions are intended to reveal who funds online political ads and finances so-called dark-money groups.
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He is also puzzled as to why Dan Cathy is such a target, when other corporate CEOs who openly support same-sex marriage are not similarly criticized by conservatives.
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“When you were a little boy and you didn’t do something well at school, your mother had to jump in.
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The stakes are too high for us to accept anything but success in Afghanistan.”
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Trump has long supported ending birthright citizenship, recommending in 2015 on the campaign trail that the country “start a process” to scrap it.
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But environmental groups applauded the reversal on Friday and called for more restrictions on trophy hunting, which has faced increased scrutiny, especially after an American dentist killed Cecil, a lion beloved in Zimbabwe, in 2015.
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In recent months, he has at times said the wall could just be steel slats, which would be like the “bollard fencing” developed during President Barack Obama’s administration.
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Our children and grandchildren’s futures are on the line.
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Investigators were likely relying on that system to pinpoint where some of the packages were mailed.
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But Democrats have become bolder on their predictions.
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WASHINGTON -- Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) announced her decision to veto legislation on Wednesday that would have allowed businesses to legally refuse service to anyone on "religious freedom" grounds, effectively allowing them to discriminate against same-sex couples.
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Ryan says this is to preserve Medicare, not “end” it, as Obama’s campaign claims.
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Representative Steve Stockman, Republican of Texas, threatened Monday to file articles of impeachment if the president seeks to regulate guns with executive orders.
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The larger figure referred to the amount Mr. Trump has demanded for the wall, which the House endorsed in a vote last month, but which failed to garner even majority support in the Senate, where it would need 60 votes to prevail.
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Chief Justice John Roberts also offered his doubts about the merits of lawsuit, suggesting that any discriminatory acts at Wal-Mart are no worse than anywhere else.
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The FWS concluded that Zimbabwe has made strides to improve elephant management and anti-poaching efforts, according to a notice published Friday in the Federal Register.
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On Monday, the Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee came out against SB 1062, stating, "[W]e have heard loud and clear from our various stakeholders that adoption of this legislation would not only run contrary to that goal but deal a significant blow to the state's economic growth potential.
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Yvette Townsend-Saunders called the meeting “wonderful” and said she was thankful that Holder had come to the town.
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Cordova is just one of 198 people that Weiner follows on Twitter, though he has nearly 50,000 followers.
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“I am not running for president of the United States as surrogate for being elected prom king of America,” Mr. Christie said inside the gymnasium at the high school where he was president of his class all three years.
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“I don't know if his staff didn't brief him or not, but somebody should have told him that these debates are split-screen,” Gillespie said.
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To be immune from lawsuits, companies like Yahoo and AOL are reportedly obliged to accept a directive from the attorney general and national intelligence director to open their service to the FBI's Data Intercept Technology Unit, which acts as a liaison between the companies and the NSA.
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Crtitics of Chick-fil-A argue that the company’s opposition to gay marriage goes well beyond Dan Cathy’s statements.
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I think if you do something right from the bottom, the top doesn’t have to jump in.
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He is forgoing the customary tour of early-voting states that usually follows a formal announcement, aides said.
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But he cited a "generational gap."
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“On two occasions, we — we — we advocated for constituents who were applying for grants,” Mr. Ryan said stiffly.
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“I’m not that cool,” the governor replied.
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He later apologized, and even invited Trump “to come to Mexico and to learn about the real Mexico.”
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“He will even be considered like a traitor because we don't accept to be offended like we just heard, and it should not happen that he comes here with a smile on his face.
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In the video, the North Carolina lawmaker is seen approaching the camera, while the reporter asks, “Hi, Congressman. How are you?
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The arrest operation drew scrutiny on social media—even from President Trump, who said “Border Coyotes, Drug Dealers and Human Traffickers are treated better,” and questioned “who alerted CNN to be there?”
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The court only allows the data to be queried when there is a reasonable suspicion, based on specific facts, that the particular basis for the query is associated with a foreign terrorist organization.“
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“We share the Secretary’s desire these two conversations take place as quickly and efficiently as possible, and are willing to expedite both working with your office, the Secretary’s schedule and our Democrat colleagues on the Committee,” Gowdy said.
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He said he does not expect Newsmax to follow through with the debate now that he's out.
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A short letter from Trump's hand-picked Attorney General is not sufficient,” Sen. Kamala Harris of California wrote on Twitter Sunday.
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But Mr. Page urged the committee “to investigate the growing evidence of collusion between Clinton campaign associates, Comey and other former Obama administration officials.”
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“We now have a leadership team that listens to us.
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Campaign Chairman John Podesta told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Clinton “has a clear standard that (the deal) has got to be good for American workers or she thinks the United States should walk away from it.”
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The letter released Tuesday by the faculty at Georgetown took Mr. Ryan to task for that argument, saying that Catholic teaching calls for government to step in and help when communities “face problems beyond their means to address, such as economic crises, high unemployment, endemic poverty and hunger.”
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It was not immediately clear why Mattis' departure date was apparently moved up, but tension in the Defense Department and Washington generally has skyrocketed in the days since he suddenly announced his resignation.
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They were particularly incensed that Mr. Trump’s offer extended protections to Dreamers and T.P.S. recipients that he himself revoked.
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“The Easter Egg Roll with my kids,” he said.
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-Here are the facts: unlike many of his peers, Dick Blumenthal voluntarily joined the Marine Corps Reserves in 1970 and served for six months in Parris Island, SC and six years in the reserves.
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The whole hearing lasted about 50 minutes.
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Kevin Rennie, a former Republican state lawmaker, published a blog post stating that the Times piece was "fed to the paper by the Linda McMahon [Senate] campaign."
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An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll showed Mr. Trump as the most favored candidate among Republicans who consider themselves Tea Party supporters.
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"Those two things would keep our Social Security system solvent for 75 years with really, I think, minor pain and a big gain," she told Fox News on Thursday.
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Sen. Ted Cruz has laid down the gauntlet in the growing war of words with Donald Trump over the Republican presidential candidates’ wives.
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Mr. Flynn’s legal troubles have only mounted in recent days.
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