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A train carrying Republican lawmakers to their annual retreat in West Virginia crashed with a garbage truck in a crossing grade on Wednesday, killing one person in the truck and leaving several members of Congress injured. Lawmakers were shaken by the incident but no major injuries were reported on the train, which crashed in Crozet, Va., about 15 miles outside Charlottesville.  Witnesses described a terrifying scene in the small rural town, as both lawmakers and first responders scrambled to save the seriously injured people on the tracks. At least two others in the truck sustained injuries.

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MORE is going full-steam ahead with his immigration agenda, catering to his base with tough talk and trying to force a difficult choice on Democrats who have promised to protect immigrant communities. Trump’s State of the Union speech was notable for its emphatic rhetoric on illegal immigration and for the significant time devoted to the topic.  The president offered little by way of an olive branch to Democrats, instead repeating an existing White House proposal and — in the single most memorable line of the night — insisting “Americans are dreamers too.” “If you do

Senate Majority Leader on Tuesday that he will give an immigration bill a vote, but it won't be attached to a spending deal. "It is still my view that I will call up a DACA related immigration bill that ... the president will sign and that it will not be a part of any overall spending agreement," McConnell told reporters, referring to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Congress has less than two weeks to meet a Jan.

Update: Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald resigned on Jan. 31, 2018, following questions about her investments in tobacco and other stock. When she was health commissioner of Georgia, the state with one of the highest rates of child obesity, Dr.

President Donald Trump may have shed some light into whether he will release a classified memo, known informally as the Nunes memo, when he was caught on a live mic while leaving Tuesday night's State of the Union address. Trump, when asked by Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C.

After a tumultuous and busy first year in office, President State of the Union address to Congress and the country. Our team of journalists from ABC News investigated some of those statements, looking for additional context, detail and information. Here is ABC News' fact check of the address: TRUMP CLAIM: "We enacted the biggest tax cuts and reforms in American history." OUR TAKE: False WHY: The recently enacted tax bill is the 12th largest as a percentage of the

First lady President Donald Trump, made a statement -- a fashion statement, that is -- dressed in a white pantsuit, among a sea of Democratic women sporting black attire, who were making a significantly more political statement. Mrs.

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