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Trump Delivers Blunt Warning to Venezuela Military Over Aid Impasse

February 19, 2019

President Trump on Monday delivered his sharpest warning yet to Venezuela’s military authorities in an increasingly tense showdown over that country’s crisis, proclaiming they would “lose everything” by remaining loyal to President Nicolás Maduro and

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Protesters across U.S. criticize Trump's national emergency declaration

February 19, 2019

Protests were held across the U.S. over the president's decision to declare a national emergency. The president's emergency declaration also became the target of a lawsuit filed by nearly a dozen states.

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Trump Considering Powell, Craft, Grenell, James for UN Job, Sources Say

February 19, 2019

President Donald Trump is considering four people to be his next UN ambassador: Goldman Sachs Group Inc. partner Dina Powell, the current ambassadors to Canada and Germany, Kelly Craft and Richard Grenell, and John James, a former Republican U.S.

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February 19, 2019

Tuesday's News: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is expected to step down, Sen. Bernie Sanders announces he's running for president, and President Trump warns Venezuela amid a fight over the South American country's leadership.

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Did Trump undercut his own argument to declare a national emergency?

February 16, 2019

President Donald Trump declared a national emergency on Friday to get funding for a border wall. But some wonder if he undercut his own argument by saying, “I didn’t need to do this.”

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Funding and Location of Wall Likely to Spark Conflicts

February 16, 2019

President Trump’s proposal to move billions of dollars from military spending and drug interdiction to fund the construction of 234 miles of barriers on the southern border sets up two new conflicts: one over where the money is coming from, and one o

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Explaining the Green New Deal

February 15, 2019

What does the Green New Deal mean for the Democratic Party?

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A new border wall battle

February 15, 2019

President Trump averts another government shutdown, declares national emergency.

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What’s in the massive border security and funding bill?

February 15, 2019

Overnight Thursday, lawmakers dropped a massive, 1,700-page funding and border security package.

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Analysis: Obamacare ruling puts health care on high-stakes footing

December 17, 2018

A federal court ruling striking down Obamacare threw an explosive political issue in the laps of Republicans and Democrats in Washington just weeks before divided government is set to take hold.