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October 18, 2018

Thursday’s news: Calls for action over details of journalist Khashoggi’s disappearance increase around the globe. Plus, as Congress strategizes for midterm elections, President Trump stumps for Republican candidates, prepares to pick a new White House Counsel, and awaits the initial findings of Special Counsel Mueller’s Russia Probe. Also, President Trump threatens to use the military to stop the influx of immigrants.

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Amid global outrage over Khashoggi, Trump takes soft stance toward Saudis

October 18, 2018

As gruesome details of Jamal Khashoggi’s alleged killing and dismemberment at the hands of Saudi operatives trickled into the public domain this week, calls sounded in capitals around the globe for immediate retaliation to the apparent human rights a

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Leaked RNC Poll Reveals the Midterms Are All About Trump

October 18, 2018

President Donald Trump told the Associated Press on Tuesday that he won’t be to blame if the GOP loses big on Nov. 6, but a private Republican Party survey leaked to Bloomberg Businessweek concludes that he will.

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Immigration policy under the Trump administration

September 21, 2018

The administration proposes to sharply limit the number of refugees.

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Trump Celebrates 'Heroes' of ICE as Political Debate over Agency Intensifies

August 21, 2018

President Trump on Monday offered robust praise of federal immigration officers, touting them as “heroes” at a White House event aimed at drawing a sharp contrast with Democrats over the enforcement of border-control laws.

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Senate panel skewers Trump officials over migrant family separations

August 1, 2018

Trump administration officials defended the rationale for their now-defunct family separation strategy during tense Senate testimony Tuesday, but they did not challenge lawmakers’ assertions that the initiative was a failure.

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Leaked RNC Poll Reveals the Midterms Are All About Trump

October 18, 2018

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Jamal Khashoggi's mystery slaying splits Trump, GOP

October 17, 2018

The crisis over Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi’s apparent murder at the Saudi Consulate in Turkey, which U.S.

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The Trump tax cuts were supposed to be a big win for the GOP – but now they might not be enough to save the Republican House majority

October 17, 2018

Rep. Peter Roskam has spent months preaching the benefits of Republicans' $1.5 trillion tax cuts to voters in his suburban swing district just outside of Chicago.

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Trump’s New Plan to Dismantle Obamacare Comes With Political Risks

June 9, 2018

After failing to repeal the Affordable Care Act with a Republican-controlled Congress, the Trump administration is seizing on a different strategy for dismantling the law, one fraught with political risk.

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Congress has quietly created a new health care crisis for 26 million Americans

February 3, 2018

Last fall, Kim Wagenaar started to plan how she would close the health clinic she runs in rural North Carolina — when Congress let funding lapse for thousands of centers like hers 124 days ago and counting.

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Explaining the new Medicaid work requirements

January 19, 2018

Robert Costa discussed the latest details in the Russia probe with The Washington Post’s Carol Leonnig and Mark Mazzetti from The New York Times, broke down the new Medicaid work requirement with Reid Wilson from The Hill, and recapped President Trum