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The video touched off a storm of protests from people on all sides of the political spectrum, which forced Ms. Griffin to apologize, and CNN announced that it would fire her from the annual New Year’s Eve program she has co-hosted.
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Christie has maintained that he had no involvement in, or knowledge of, the plan.
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“This investigation is not politically motivated; it is not a witch hunt; it is not a hoax,” he said.
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The total wall funding will now come to about $8 billion, partially approved by Congress but mostly by Trump alone.
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Historian Alan Brinkley of Columbia University told Fox News the reading may be "a bit of theater," but it is "not insignificant given that many Republicans have decided -- implausibly, in my opinion -- that the Constitution is the vehicle that can reduce the size of government."
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“There are the voices that are for the deal no matter what’s in it, and there are voices that are against the deal no matter what’s in it.
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But the way he speaks about his military service has led to confusion and frequent mischaracterizations of his biography in his home state newspapers.
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‘Total contrived media garbage’
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"I have been watching Governor Perry and Texas closely and know his border surge operations with state, local and federal law enforcement officials have helped shut down the illegal trafficking of weapons, drugs and people.
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What difference, at this point, does it make?” Mrs. Clinton said, her voice rising.
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Jess Morales Rocketto, the chairwoman of Families Belong Together, an immigrant advocacy group, called the idea “ethnic cleansing.”
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To which Duncan replied: "It was a terrorist attack.
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Mrs. Clinton called Ms. Pelosi “as strong a supporter” as Mr. Obama has, and said she hoped Mr. Obama would “seize” the chance to work with Democrats to improve the trade pact.
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Republican officials in Alabama staunchly defended their party’s Senate nominee, Roy S. Moore, after a report that he had made sexual advances toward four teenage girls when he was in his 30s.
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He adding that the issue has been “under study for years” but that he would provide an update after additional review.
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In some instances, teams of officers abruptly entered the crowd, detained a single person whom they had apparently focused on, and returned to West Florissant Avenue, where many of the recent confrontations have occurred.
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If the material was too sensitive to share publicly months, weeks or days ago, what changed on Wednesday?
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David Sanford, who represents plaintiffs in other class-action cases, said after the arguments that the court seemed inclined to rule against the Wal-Mart women.
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In the wake of the Orlando attack, Trump again defended his proposals, saying on Twitter: “What has happened in Orlando is just the beginning.
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“We got wiped out in the Midwest, and we’re toxic in rural America,” aides said Mr. Ryan told his colleagues behind closed doors before the vote.
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Not surprisingly, he plans to put the town hall meeting at the center of his candidacy — and to put his hopes in a state, New Hampshire, that is famed for its own town hall meetings.
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The president reportedly told the Democrats in a meeting that Republicans need to take action on immigration in order to keep the volatile issue from hurting their chances with Latino voters, as it appears to have done in 2012, when GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney did extremely poorly with the increasingly impor...
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Hours before Trump’s review announcement, the FWS defended its decision as “part of a robust United States conservation strategy that seeks to eliminate poaching and associated wildlife trafficking.”
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Both men were fired before they were eligible for their pension and health benefits.
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“We have learned something important since the days that I served in Vietnam,” Mr. Blumenthal said to the group gathered in Norwalk in March 2008.
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Kristen Breitweiser, a 9/11 widow and co-chair of September 11th Advocates, criticized Carter's assessment, saying that the defense secretary had testified before Congress last week that he wasn't an expert on the bill.
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Trump wound up winning Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania by a total of 78,000 votes.
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“We stand by our reporting and the sources who informed it, and we urge the Special Counsel to make clear what he’s disputing,” Mr. Smith said on Twitter.
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Mr. Strzok responds: “No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it.”
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“No, not $2.5 billion, no — we’re asking for $5.6” billion, Mr. Trump said during a cabinet meeting, hours before the Situation Room briefing.
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Defense Secretary Ash Carter, in a letter Monday to a senior member of Congress, said he's sympathetic to the intent of the measure.
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The speech comes after a year in which Beck's growing popularity as a Fox News host coincided with the rise of the Tea Party Movement and populist rage directed at Washington.
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On Tuesday as the House was preparing to vote on the nation's debt limit, Weiner was back tweeting about the vote with his usual partisan edge.
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But he expressed no concern that diverting military construction money would delay projects benefiting the troops like base housing, schools and gyms.
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If last year's CPAC keynote speech - delivered by radio host Rush Limbaugh - was defined by urging President Barack Obama to fail, Beck's stood out for his demand that conservatism succeed.
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“I am confident this is the right and best choice,” Patrick said at a late-morning press conference.
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“I think the vice president very well knows that sometimes the words don’t come out of your mouth the right way,” he said with a gotcha smile.
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Mr. Pearce had pushed through a controversial law last year that would have turned police officers throughout the state into de facto immigration agents.
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-Dick has been a constant champion of veterans and of the military.
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“It involves extensive procedures, specifically approved by the court, to ensure that only non-U.S. persons outside the U.S. are targeted, and that minimize the acquisition, retention and dissemination of incidentally acquired information about U.S. persons.”
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“There should be no one-on-one meeting between President Trump and Vladimir Putin,” Warner told reporters Friday.
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She sees it as a paperwork bother more than a financial issue.
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With time short before Ms. Rice began taping her appearances on Sunday morning news programs, the White House also supplied her aides with the final talking points.
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And so, sentence by sentence, in accents that reflect the myriad districts that did not even exist when the document came into being, by women and African Americans whose full rights were not recognized at that time, the constitutional language fluttered through the chamber.
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“But legalization with no path to citizenship can gain some votes.”
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"Both the letter and spirit of the rules permitted State Department officials to use non-government email, as long as appropriate records were preserved."
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Pelosi, who is expected to return to the House speakership Thursday afternoon after eight years as minority leader, intends as her first action to pass spending bills that won Republican support last year to reopen the closed agencies.
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Trump, however, did not mention them during extended remarks he offered shortly before his meeting with the eight top Democratic and Republican congressional leaders.
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The letter from Taylor states that her testimony would "have no purpose other than to embarrass or burden her."
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Instead, Christie was seen that October praising President Barack Obama for responsiveness and "leadership" in the storm's aftermath.
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Wal-Mart's appeal is asking the Supreme Court to stop the case from ever getting to a trial judge.
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Previously, such couples filed federal and state tax returns as individuals.
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The bill’s remaining supporters took to the airwaves and the Internet to defend it.
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He added that Mr. Mattis “rightly believes that Russia and China are clear adversaries and that we are at war with jihadists across the globe who plot to kill Americans at home.”
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The override, the first Mr. Obama has faced in his presidency, is expected to begin in the Senate on Wednesday, followed by the House on Thursday.
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“Well, if he’s such a student of history, has he not understood that you know that’s the one thing you don’t do, is engage in a land war in Afghanistan?”
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Brent Bozell, head of the Media Research Center and ForAmerica, said he's not surprised by the magazine cover.
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At another point, during an exchange first reported by The Washington Post, Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, vented at Mr. McConnell for putting Republicans in the position of having to vote on two competing approaches to reopen the government — one Republican and one Democratic — without consulting them f...
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He did not comment at length on Sunday, but did say at a campaign stop in Las Vegas that Trump is “one of the most racist and uncivil presidents we have ever had.”
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“Now we’re saying that with increased public attention, increased power, comes the responsibility to act responsibly.”
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Ryan shot back, in reference to Biden's tendency to make gaffes: "As the vice president very well knows ... sometimes the words don't come out of your mouth the right way."
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I'm endorsing Rick Perry because we need a tough-on-crime president who will champion and fund full-time border security operations from Brownsville to San Diego.
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I pledge to learn and grow (and I assure you I have) from this experience."
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While President Obama repeatedly promised to pull all troops out of Afghanistan by 2014, U.S. and NATO forces remain there in a predominately training and advising role.
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Mr. Sayoc’s arrest came only hours after the mysterious spate of pipe bombs spread further as federal authorities said on Friday morning that they had found two more of the explosive devices: one addressed to Senator Cory Booker and the other to James R. Clapper Jr., the former director of national intelligence.
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Talking about her victory, she said: “And when your son looks at you and says, ‘Mama, look, you won.
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On Wednesday, Trump appeared to shift stance somewhat by avoiding saying it would be ended by executive order, while acknowledging the matter “will be settled by the United States Supreme Court.”
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“I told the American people that heavily armed militants assaulted our compound, and I vowed to bring them to justice,” Mrs. Clinton said.
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His evening Twitter message reversed a decision by his own administration over Zimbabwe that was announced this week and promoted as recently as Friday afternoon by the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
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He said he heard at least 30 shots and got down on the ground, but couldn’t see the shooter.
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But the GOP bill incorporating his offer would also gut existing asylum laws for children and trafficking victims from Central America, ban asylum for minors who present themselves at ports of entry, gut the concept of temporary protected status for future cases and expand immigration detention ― all measures making it...
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That measure could pass both houses of Congress if it wins the votes of the half-dozen Republican senators who have criticized the declaration, forcing Mr. Trump to issue the first veto of his presidency.
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“According to the indictment, the Hunters knew that many of their desired purchases could be made only by using campaign funds, since they did not otherwise have sufficient personal funds to pay for their purchases,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
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The NAACP resolution, first reported by the Kansas City Star, was expected to make reference to the March incident on Capitol Hill.
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“He doesn’t just talk about it; he does something about it,” Mr. Arpaio said.
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GOP Rep. Paul Ryan is heading to Georgetown University for a speech Thursday morning, but not before an old-fashioned, Catholic school knuckle-rapping.
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But immigration advocates argue that scrapping the concept of birthright citizenship would do away with a vital principle, and would be counterproductive to the stated goals of those who, like Mr. Trump, rail routinely against illegal immigration.
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“I’m worried about undermining our civil liberties, the constant wars going on, the debt of $16 trillion.
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He rejects calls for a minimum wage hike, saying his proposals will yield a "maximum wage" for workers.
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However, he later told Fox News that the video had glitches, which prompted him to take it down and then re-upload it.
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He exchanged heated texts with Randy Credico, a New York radio host with his own contacts with WikiLeaks, pressuring Mr. Credico to lie to the Intelligence Committee so that his story would line up with Mr. Stone’s.
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Cowmen also emphasized that his assignment is “temporary” and that he will work together with Kerry’s team.
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"His refusal to meet is disappointing to those of us who have stood by Israel for decades."
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The Ryan proposal, submitted again in the House earlier this year, would a decade from now give seniors government payments to purchase private plans or stay within the current system.
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Several candidates, in calling for the swift release of the report, also sought to gather new supporters and their email addresses by putting out “petitions” calling for complete transparency from the Justice Department.
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"This afternoon, the President and Speaker Boehner met at the White House to discuss efforts to resolve the fiscal cliff.
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Burton said that he "can't speak to the politics of what the Republicans are doing," but the president was not looking to make political hay with his remarks, which he reportedly considered carefully before delivering them at a White House dinner on Friday night.
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“The campaign and the state party intend to cooperate with the U.S. attorney’s office and the state legislative committee and will respond to the subpoenas accordingly,” Mr. Sheridan said.
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“Even Nixon didn’t destroy the tapes,” Mr. Priebus said, referring to the Watergate scandal that ultimately led to President Richard M. Nixon’s resignation.
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“However valid her comments may have been, though, and however in keeping with her known political bent, they were still much, much better left unsaid by a member of the Supreme Court,” The Washington Post’s editorial board said Tuesday.
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The bill, which Saudi Arabia has fiercely opposed and has hired a phalanx of lobbyists to combat, addresses a 1976 law that gives other countries broad immunity from American lawsuits, amending it to allow for nations to be sued in federal courts if they are found to have played any role in terrorist attacks that kille...
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In response to a question after his speech, Obama defended the programs as essential to combating terrorist threats.
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Mr. Trump, typically, has not shied away from counterattacks.
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Last summer, Mr. Jackson took a medical leave from Congress and was later treated for bipolar disorder.
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Trump has faced intense criticism from members of both parties for his calls to temporarily ban Muslim immigration to the U.S.
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Trump's campaign said he would be delivering a "major speech" in New Hampshire on Monday that would address "this terrorist attack, immigration, and national security."
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Burr added that if there is no response from Flynn, the committee may consider pursuing a contempt of Congress charge.
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Democrats appeared united in condemnation against Trump’s move this week.
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“The president must stop holding government hostage and end the shutdown so federal employees can get back to work serving the American people.
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After the hearing, Mr. Jackson’s lawyer, Reid H. Weingarten, said his client had “come to terms with his misconduct.”
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