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“It’s great that public outrage has forced Trump to reconsider this despicable decision,” said Tanya Sanerib, a senior lawyer with the Center for Biological Diversity, “but it takes more than a tweet to stop trophy hunters from slaughtering elephants and lions.”
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The president’s comments, made to reporters as he left Washington for a policy announcement in Utah, saw Trump wading deeper into the Flynn investigation even after a weekend tweet landed the White House in hot water.
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“And that weakness, on the other hand, is the friend of danger and the enemy of peace."
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“This is a sobering reminder that attacks on any American — regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation — is an attack on all of us and on the fundamental values of equality and dignity that define us as a country,” he said.
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The letter quotes the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which wrote several letters to Congress saying “a just framework for future budgets cannot rely on disproportionate cuts in essential services to poor persons.”
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Mr. Hunter cannot take his name off the ballot, according to a spokesman for the California secretary of state, and California does not allow write-in candidates.
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It was unclear whether the president’s acknowledgment that Mr. Lieberman was a finalist was intended to stoke the “Apprentice”-style frenzy of speculation he has favored with other high-profile picks, only to opt for a lesser-known candidate.
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Mr. Trump also implored his administration to investigate Ms. Abedin.
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“I think he’d have a good audience with Tea Partiers.”
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Elizabeth Lauten, the communications director for Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-Tenn.), wrote that the two teenagers should "try showing a little class," "dress like you deserve respect, not a spot at a bar," and, most of all, "don't make faces" at Very Serious public events.
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Rubio said the embargo is not to blame for Cuba's failed economy.
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He favored working with allies, and often spoke of how difficult it was to conduct American policy without the benefit of friends.
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"These guys discovered the phrase 'middle class' during the last six months on the campaign trail," said Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who has sparred with Ryan on the House Budget Committee for years and who played Ryan in debate preparation with Biden.
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“I believe there was gross incompetence and mismanagement,” he said.
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Soon, Capt. Ron Johnson of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, who has earned some praise since he took over policing of Ferguson's nightly protests, stopped by to greet the attorney general.
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With polls showing the president enduring most of the blame by the public, Republicans led by Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, pressured Mr. Trump to agree to the temporary truce.
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President Obama is targeting the 2nd Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens instead of seriously addressing the real underlying causes of such violence," he said.
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Vega contended that there was a "rush to indict" after a two-year grand jury investigation.
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The July 2018 indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers in connection with the hack of a Democratic National Committee server during the 2016 election referred to Stone as “a person who was in regular contact with senior members of the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump.”
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I mean, I know that Democrats would be out there pushing this, and certainly the president is," he said.
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Lis Smith, a spokeswoman for the Obama campaign, said, “Mitt Romney’s Medicare ad is dishonest and hypocritical.”
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McConnell, R-Ky., called the bills “a time-wasting act of political posturing” and said that “a resolution will have to be palatable to House Democrats and Senate Republicans alike.”
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“Mike Bloomberg is doing a great job as mayor of New York City,” he posted in 2012.
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He added, “Needless to say, the war in Afghanistan was not ‘a war of Obama’s choosing.’
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Speaking on CNN on Friday, Mr. Clapper said he was not surprised that a device had been sent to him.
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“AARP is the 800-pound gorilla, but they do not speak for seniors.”
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In other words, it doesn't say how much they paid, where is the doctor, here's your room bill."
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If majority Republicans change the threshold, Gorsuch could be approved with a simple majority of 51 votes.
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“But I also ... you know, Jon Stewart might have had it right last night: that there were elements of this photograph that might have been doctored.”
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At a January fundraiser in Texas, Braley urged the attorneys present to contribute to his campaign and contrasted his background with Grassley's.
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Safari Club International, a trophy-hunting organization that sued the Obama administration in 2014 in an effort to challenge the ban and was the first to report the policy change on Tuesday, lashed out against the news media and “anti-hunters” for swaying the Trump administration to lift the trophy ban.
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More recently, Grimm was in the news in January after he physically threatened a reporter in the Capitol.
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"It lasted approximately 50 minutes.
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But his answers to other questions were less clear.
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Mr. McCarthy spent much of the day calling members and shoring up support, said a Republican aide close to the majority whip.
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“It’s official: Chuck Schumer is the worst negotiator in Washington ― even worse than Trump.
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“But no less a theology.”
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Doing away with birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants was an idea Mr. Trump pitched as a presidential candidate, but there is no clear indication that he would be able to do so unilaterally, and attempting to would be certain to prompt legal challenges.
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"I'm not convinced that he has one," Trump said of the birth certificate issue.
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Trump’s administrative attempts to curtail the asylum process have faced legal challenges in two federal courts, however, prompting this week’s legislative fix.
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Near the dugout, the president’s daughter Ivanka Trump bantered with Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s top Democrat, who chatted with two of her young children.
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But Mr. Steele has kept close counsel about his future, Republican officials said Sunday, and his plans were unknown even to several of his own advisers.
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Nonetheless, many see the next majority leader as potentially influencing the House handling of immigration reform, which stalled as conservative members said they would not support a comprehensive measure for an overhaul of the system, and especially not one that, in their view, would grant amnesty to lawbreakers.
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The death of Mr. Cowan’s father at a young age left her to raise her children alone.
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He said, ‘I don’t think I can do that,’” said Mr. Gutiérrez, whoendorsed Ms. Newman last week.
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“Let the Senate know we stand with them for the Dreamers … say THANKS!
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Proponents say the law should allow Christian vendors to refuse service to same-sex couples without fear of legal reprisals.
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While some of those conservative lawmakers elected in 2010 were hoping that the House leadership elections on Thursday would offer them the chance to reclaim their influence on Capitol Hill, few of them give Mr. Labrador much of a chance against the current House majority whip, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California.
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The Arizona Republican said Steele needs to assess whether he can still function in his job and must make "an appropriate decision" about his future.
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"We must also address bad-faith actors who intend to manipulate or detract from healthy conversation."
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The video pointed to Ryan’s budget proposals, which include significant changes to Medicare.
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Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, is a longtime supporter of gun rights.
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The project also found that the African elephant population shrunk nearly 30 percent from 2007 to 2014.
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He repaid his campaign more than $60,000 earlier this year for improper expenses dating back to 2015, but the FBI began investigation additional charges dating back as far as 2009, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.
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“It’s not something to be decided by a show of hands,” Mary Cheney reportedly wrote on her personal Facebook page, concluding her internecine post by saying, “Please like and share if you agree.”
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“My views on treating allies with respect and also being cleareyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held,” Mr. Mattis wrote.
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On Wednesday morning, LePage said unequivocally that he will be staying put.
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“If true, the president committed a crime and must be held accountable.”
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The Associated Press reported that McGurk said in a resignation letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that ISIS was on the run, but wasn’t yet defeated and that U.S. work in Syria wasn’t yet done.
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Connecticut, the home of the Sandy Hook school shooting, is the latest to advance a sweeping gun control proposal -- lawmakers announced a deal Monday on a package that is likely to win approval.
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Mr. Steele’s comments prompted William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard and a leading voice of conservative support for the war in Afghanistan, to call for Mr. Steele’s resignation as party leader.
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Mr. Strzok told lawmakers that he never leaked information about the Russia inquiry, which could have upended the election and hurt Mr. Trump’s chances of becoming president.
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Mr. Trump relented as the effects of the shutdown were rippling with ever greater force across the economy, with fallout far beyond paychecks.
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President Obama met with top GOP and Democratic congressional leaders Tuesday but left the nitty-gritty negotiations to the panel -- he assigned Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and budget director Jacob Lew to represent the administration.
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that the panel has begun to see "the putting together of a case of obstruction of justice" against Trump.
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WASHINGTON — In one of the most stunning primary election upsets in congressional history, the House majority leader, Eric Cantor, was soundly defeated on Tuesday by a Tea Party-backed economics professor who had hammered him for being insufficiently conservative.
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The House speaker, in an interview with Fox News to air Tuesday morning, gave his Republican Party a "two-in-three chance" of holding on to control of the House after taking power in the 2010 elections.
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“Everything we care about [is] at risk,” Schiff told the room.
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Plus Obama is nominating ATF Acting Director Todd Jones to officially lead the agency
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Since then, Mr. Jackson, who has said he had no knowledge of the offer, has been dogged by questions about his ethics.
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But Justice Stephen G. Breyer said Wal-Mart could be held accountable if it failed to take action in the face of reports of discrimination from its stores.
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With the shutdown entering its fifth week and polls showing a majority of the public blaming Mr. Trump, the president’s advisers have been searching for an exit strategy.
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Mr. Gowdy said the committee believed that “a transcribed interview would best protect Secretary Clinton’s privacy, the security of the information queried and the public’s interest in ensuring this committee has all information needed to accomplish the task set before it.”
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CORRECTION: This article originally said the Super Bowl is set to be held in Tempe, Ariz.
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In May, Hillary Clinton filed a disclosure with the Federal Elections Commission showing the couple had earned approximately $30 million from book sales and speeches in 2014 and the first four months of 2015.
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Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum were the only two Republicans who agreed to participate.
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Theater tickets were mischaracterized as “holiday gift certificates.”
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“What the Committee cannot do is conclude its work without assurances the Committee has all relevant information necessary for us to discharge the duties required of us.”
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There could also be a flurry of conservative outrage at the convention, which could distract from the carefully choreographed event Mr. Romney’s strategists are planning.
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"I just saw the reports that he had previously said he opposed same-sex marriage and now according to ABC News he saying that he supports it.
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Farenthold was sued by his former aide, Lauren Greene, in 2014, alleging a hostile work environment, gender discrimination and retaliation.
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"That means that all families — regardless of how they look or how they are made — all families are entitled to the same rights, privileges and protections as every other."
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“It was incredibly disheartening that they don’t want to know the facts when making policy.”
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Following President Obama's comments in a TV interview expressing his support for same-sex marriage, his likely GOP rival Mitt Romney said Wednedsay he maintains his opposition to it -- the same position he's had since he "started running for office"
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White House spokesman Josh Earnest later said Sanders has the right to make campaign decisions on his own timeline.
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As he often has in Senate hearings, Rubio assailed Obama for stressing dialogues and diplomacy over ironclad dealings with heads of foreign governments that have been openly hostile to the United States, and which continue to exercise oppression against political dissidents.
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“I can’t imagine what this place would be — I can’t imagine what the country would be — with Donald Trump as our president,” Justice Ginsburg told The Times in an interview published Sunday.
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As scholars, we want to join the Catholic bishops in pointing out that his budget has a devastating impact on programs for the poor.”
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"We're talking about specifically prenatal testing, and specifically amniocentesis, which is a procedure that actually creates a risk of having a miscarriage when you have it, and is done for the purposes of identifying maladies of a child in the womb.
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"This is punishable by prison.
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Mr. Biden, clearly delighted to come to President Obama’s rescue, relished his role, addressing his opponent as “my friend” but dismissing his arguments as “malarkey.”
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And so there are real consequences to that decision.
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Whether the debate will alter the course of the race remains to be seen.
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The USPS operates an innovative imaging system that photographs each piece of mail processed throughout the country.
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“You can bet if the shoe were on the other foot and a Democratic president was under investigation by the FBI the Republicans would be howling at the moon about filling a Supreme Court seat in such circumstances."
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If AARP is open to reducing benefits, it would be a major boost for Social Security reformers who say the program is too generous and therefore unaffordable.
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Still, Judge Gorsuch’s nomination is broadly popular among conservatives.
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"I want more Americans to have the chance to work hard and get ahead, just like we did.
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It has virtually no chance of passing the Senate.
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The crowd was enthralled, even as Beck took them down winding tales of Calvin Coolidge, the Statute of Liberty and the supposed great middle class explosion of the 1920s.
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