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President Barack Obama's endorsement of the "Ground Zero mosque" during a speech on Friday night spurred some hope among supporters that a forceful case could be made for both the project's constitutionality and its larger geopolitical impact.
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The homeland security measure would devote $1.3 billion to border security measures, such as enhanced surveillance and fortified fencing, but not the wall.
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But she said she had gone along with a recommendation from subordinates that the Benghazi post be kept open and assumed that they would take the necessary steps to protect it.
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Those actions include requiring federal agencies to hand over relevant data for a background check system; providing law enforcement officials, first responders and school officials with better training for active shooting situations; directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gu...
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Clinton’s camp is touting the fact she is the first 2016 candidate to release any kind of health information, though she only officially released a one-and-a-half-page letter from her doctor.
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After the college events, Holder headed over to Drake's Place restaurant in Ferguson to talk with other community members.
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“We intend to closely examine the implications of this bill and how it might affect future events as well as our workforce."
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He signaled he did, saying, "And they cannot believe what they're finding. And I'm serious."
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As defense secretary, Mr. Mattis oversaw the world’s most powerful military, supervising active-duty troops based in the United States and deployed worldwide, including in war zones in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and on the Saudi border with Yemen.
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Last week, Trump asserted in a New York Times interview that he had the “absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department.”
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Hutchinson called them "totally inadequate."
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All three men are under consideration, the administration officials said, even if Mr. Lieberman, who was Al Gore’s running mate in the 2000 presidential campaign, is the front-runner.
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WASHINGTON — The House Intelligence Committee’s first hearing since Robert S. Mueller III completed his report had barely begun when the panel’s Republicans moved en masse to demand the resignation of the committee’s chairman.
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And he may elect to do so, given the objections of some Republicans on Wednesday after he dismissed her.
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Flynn’s indictment, however, makes it increasingly difficult for the president to distance himself.
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Outgoing White House economic adviser Larry Summers warned Wednesday that failure to pass a new tax cut compromise would significantly raise the risk of a double-dip recession.
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Mr. Sestak, a retired admiral and two-term House member, was already planning a run.
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“We are in for a struggle, but it is a necessary struggle,” she said.
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Mr. Huckabee said Mr. Obama exceeded his authority by issuing executive actions shielding millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation.
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They swore they would never stand by another government shutdown.
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And control of the Senate could be up for grabs this year, too, with Democrats clinging to a fragile six-vote majority.
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"If they come to a reasonable agreement, I would support that," Trump told reporters.
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“Trump says he wants to run the nation like he’s running his business? God help us.
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The NRA initially took criticism from Democrats for focusing so closely on school security, and rejecting gun control measures, following the Connecticut shooting in which 26 people were killed.
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“This is definitely domestic terrorism,” Mr. Clapper said.
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Police searched his car, going through the trunk and looking under the seats.
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The announcement was made mere hours after the top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee issued subpoenas Tuesday afternoon to Mr. Flynn’s two firms, seeking information that could shed light on his lobbying work on behalf of Turkish interests last year, among other connections.
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The Christian Broadcasting Network referred to her as a “foul-mouthed Islamic congresswoman.”)
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The American people are watching, and they’re expecting action on our parts,” Mr. Obama said.
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An executive from Apple Inc., which plans to build a big manufacturing plant in Mesa, called Ms. Brewer to urge her to reject it, and W. Douglas Parker, chairman and chief executive of American Airlines, sent her a letter citing the state’s “economic comeback” and saying, “There is genuine concern throughout the busine...
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Pelosi reasoned that while Trump’s comments have the power to “impact people’s lives,” the new congresswoman’s comments do not.
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Was he sure, Mr. Jordan asked, that the I.R.S. targeting never came up?
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WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House committee investigating the Benghazi attacks asked Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday to appear for a private interview about her exclusive use of a personal email account when she was secretary of state.
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“Today has a special excitement for me because I think we’re at a time where it is well beyond politics.
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President Trump said he was preparing an executive order that would nullify the long-accepted constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship in the United States, his latest attention-grabbing maneuver days before midterm congressional elections as he has sought to activate his base by vowing to clamp down on immig...
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Even before Donald Trump landed in Mexico Wednesday, he found himself in a Twitter war with former Mexican President Vicente Fox – who went on a tear declaring the Republican nominee “not welcome” in the country.
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It was the first time in a generation, according to officials, that the federal government has filed suit to force a law enforcement agency to cooperate with such an investigation.
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And on Wednesday, the White House began a robust process of selling the deal to Democrats -- skeptical, as they are, about an extension of Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and a generous revision of the estate tax.
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“This all raised the question to us: What else are we missing, and what do we need to comply” with the request, said one official briefed on the matter.
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"We can confirm that the Christie for Governor re-election campaign and the New Jersey Republican State Committee received subpoenas for documents from the U.S. Attorney's office, in addition to the subpoena the campaign previously received from the state legislative committee," said Sheridan.
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He doesn’t even know how to run a business.”
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In an interview this month on the Christian Broadcasting Network, Mr. Ryan claimed that his budget was consistent with Catholic moral teaching because it pushes the poor to become independent of government assistance.
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“I don’t believe he made any commitment whatsoever and I think it would be foolhardy to believe that he made a commitment,” Harris said.
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In a statement, he said he intends to defend the state's marijuana laws.
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Mr. Bloomberg is not overly ostentatious for a man of great wealth; Mr. Trump loves to show off his possessions.
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The group sent a letter to Rep. Ryan in advance of his appearance on the Catholic campus on Thursday morning to give the Whittington Lecture.
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Clinton is widely believed to be the front-runner for the Democratic nomination in 2016.
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“The State of the Union is not planned now,” Ms. Pelosi said.
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The economy, the budget deficit and foreign policy were central.
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In the hours before a midnight deadline to avert a shutdown before Christmas, the vice president had broached that number, which his team has quietly continued to push in the days after parts of the government ran out of money.
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As with Mr. Trump’s abrupt firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the split with Mr. Mattis was a full turn in a relationship that once appeared strong.
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Trump is offering a three-year extension for the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which protects from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as kids.
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The congressman's lawyers said in 2017 that Hunter and his wife repaid the campaign about $60,000.
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In one, Ms. Page asks: Trump is “not ever going to become president, right? Right?!”
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For two months, Democrats in Congress have been enmeshed in stalled negotiations with Trump as he refused to accept anything less than $5.7 billion in the federal budget for his border wall.
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Feinstein is a ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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I haven’t spoken to her in way over a year.”
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Barr is expected to make public more of the report, but 2020 Democrats are demanding the full report be released.
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Make America Awesome PAC paid for the ads and posted them on Facebook and Instagram.
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“One hundred-eighteen visits and it didn’t come up in casual conversation?” Mr. Jordan said.
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“We are giving him a Republican path to do that.
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“The United States needs a physical barrier,” the president said during the cabinet meeting, comparing the southern border to “a sieve” that allows criminals and drugs to enter the country and facilitates human trafficking.
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"If we do not get tough and smart real fast, we are not going to have a country anymore.
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Critics say the Sestak job offer may have violated the part of the U.S. code that says: "Whoever, directly or indirectly, promises any employment, position, compensation...appointment...provided for or made possible in whole or in part by any Act of Congress...to any person as consideration, favor, or reward for any po...
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House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said “the stakes” for the summit “could not be higher.”
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“I’m not standing here because I’m a person of color, but because (the governor) believes I can do the job,” said Cowen, who joins South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott as the chamber’s two black senators.
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And he pushed back forcefully against critics like Mr. Carafano who said the measure amounted to an unacceptable amnesty for undocumented immigrants.
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“We know how to win elections,” Ms. Pelosi said.
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Incoming lawmakers vented new concerns about the shutdown’s effect.
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I want the whole damn report because nobody, especially this president, is above the law.”
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And the Washington Post reported earlier this week that Trump asked Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers to push back on the FBI’s Russia investigation.
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Alabama's Republican governor, Kay Ivey, responded: “These allegations are deeply disturbing.
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At a news conference on Monday, exactly one month after the school massacre in Newtown, Conn., Mr. Obama said a task force led by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had “presented me now with a list of sensible, common-sense steps that can be taken to make sure that the kinds of violence we saw at Newtown doesn’t happe...
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“Censorship is a very dangerous thing & impossible to police,” he added, before embarking on a now familiar rant about “fake news” CNN and MSNBC — which he admitted to sometimes watching, but “just with a grain of salt.”
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Under axiomatic legal precedent, virtually all congressional action is presumed valid anyway, at least initially.
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In February, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham followed up on the classified cable.
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He defended keeping the embargo.
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Despite numerous requests over several weeks, the White House has not provided any economic analysis to back up Trump’s claims.
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“The other justices should hold an intervention, and tell her to be quiet or step down,” wrote Josh Blackman, a Houston College of Law professor who frequently writes about the high court.
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Still, then-Deputy Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security Charlene Lamb testified in October that the size of the attack -- and not the money -- was the issue.
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Reince Priebus lasted barely six months as White House chief of staff, and Sean Spicer had a similarly short tenure as press secretary.
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Mr. Arpaio is also a polarizing figure.
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That’s why I know Hillary will be so good at it," the president said, in the video posted on Clinton's campaign site.
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But LaPierre in December argued that improving school security is paramount.
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Mr. Trump’s statement on Tuesday that he was bowing out of the Newsmax debate seemed certain to open the door to another round of “I just might …” threats from the real estate mogul.
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Republicans, eager to portray Democrats as out to destroy Mr. Trump’s presidency, piled on criticism of Ms. Tlaib — some of it racially tinged.
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One federal law enforcement source told Fox News on Friday that the operation was “standard” for a home arrest.
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The intensely personal feud between Cruz and Trump began earlier this week when a super PAC that opposes Trump posted a meme-style ad featuring a naked Melania Trump that Trump’s then-girlfriend, a professional model, posed for more that 15 years ago for British GQ.
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Despite last-ditch warnings from the Obama administration that the legislation could hurt national security and was “badly misguided,” lawmakers dismissed the concerns.
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They gave nearly $15 million to charity, or an average of 10.8 percent of their earnings.
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Democrats also successfully put down an attempt by Republicans to divide the caucus and tar the legislation with a resolution expressing the sense that “allowing illegal immigrants the right to vote devalues the franchise and diminishes the voting power of United States citizens.”
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“As First Daughters, you can’t win,” Ms. Davis wrote.
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Obama has been critical of the NRA's plan to install armed security in every school.
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If the Republicans are being sincere, they would help us pass this long overdue bill to help the first responders whose health and livelihoods have been devastated because of their bravery on 911, rather than continuing to block this much-needed legislation."
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But with illegal border crossings already down and critics accusing him of manufacturing a crisis, he may have undercut his own argument that the border situation was so urgent that it required emergency action.
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“Senior administration officials have stated on multiple occasions that the Patriot Act’s ‘business records’ authority is ‘analogous to a grand jury subpoena,’ ” they said.
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"I am looking at it, if the Republicans choose the wrong candidate, which is a possibility, and if the economy continues to be bad, which I think it will be," Trump said.
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Monday night, Newsweek responded to the controversy by posting an “outtakes” gallery on its Daily Beast Web site, showcasing other photos taken for the article.
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But White House officials discovered that it would not work because Mr. Sestak could not serve on the board while still serving in Congress.
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And we want to … restore those cuts to prevent that raid.
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