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A panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled against the third iteration of MORE's travel ban, saying it goes against federal law. "We conclude that the President’s issuance of the Proclamation once again exceeds the scope of his delegated authority," the court said in its ruling. The most recent iteration of the ban bars people from eight countries – six of which are predominantly Muslim – from coming to the U.S. The San Francisco-based appeals court, however,

In today's Hillcast PM View, your daily evening update on what went down in Washington: The White House braces for 2018; MORE signs the GOP tax bill, keeping one big campaign promise and breaking one smaller one; and Republicans prepare for their post-tax agenda. Host Niv Elis talks to The Hill’s Jordan Fabian, Sylvan Lane and Jordain Carney about what happened today on Capitol Hill. The Hill 1625 K Street, NW Suite 900 Washington DC 20006 | 202-628-8500 tel | 202-628-8503 fax The contents of this site are ©2017 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a subsidiary of News Com

A growing number of Republicans say a course correction is needed to prevent their party from losing the House, Senate or both given strong political headwinds that one veteran lawmaker likened to a “hurricane.” GOP calls to work more with Democrats next year are becoming more common as Republicans look for ways to win over swing voters. “One thing you can say about this year is that it was pretty partisan,” Senate Majority Leader MORE (R-Ky.) told reporters on Friday at a year-end press conference. “We’re going to be looking for areas of bipartisan agreement because

A few years ago, not long after Jeanine Pirro paid a visit to Donald J. Trump at his Trump Tower office, a box arrived at her home in Rye, N.Y. Inside was a gift: a selection of shoes from the latest Ivanka Trump footwear collection. Ms. Pirro, the prosecutor-turned-politician-turned-television personality who hosts a weekend show on Fox News, has been friends with Mr. Trump for decades, their careers forged in New York’s tabloid caldron. But these days their relationship is playing out on a bigger stage. Ms.

VERONA, Italy — Elena Galeotto, a longtime employee of Melegatti, Italy’s original producer of traditional pandoro Christmas cakes, scooped this season’s final mound of dough from the conveyor belt, rounded it and dropped it into a deep, star-shaped cast. “That’s the last one,” Ms. Galeotto said.

NAYAPARA REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh — A truck trying to overtake another car darted out from the wrong side of the road and slammed into the rickshaw. The tiny vehicle crumpled like a piece of tin foil, flipped twice and finally settled bottom upward. The truck that hit it sped away. For a moment, the six members of Nor Hossain’s family, who had been riding inside, lay upside down in silence, covered in dirt, battery fluids and blood.

If you find the concept of Bitcoin confusing, you are not alone. The virtual currency has been a constant source of controversy, but it is still not well understood. No. Those coins are novelty items that newspapers used in photographs because they couldn’t find anything else to illustrate their stories about Bitcoin. A Bitcoin is a digital token — with no physical backing — that can be sent electronically from one user to another, anywhere in the world. A Bitcoin can be divided out to eight decimal places, so you can send someone 0.00000001 Bitcoins.

You can’t exactly say that Bitcoin was burning a hole in anyone’s pocket, but the virtual currency burned a hole in quite a few hearts on Friday when it plunged 30 percent in less than 24 hours after defying gravity for the past few months. Many skeptics of the virtual currency, which operates with no government or company in charge, have predicted that it was in bubble territory and due for a collapse. Still, the drop to around $12,000 a Bitcoin from around $17,500 was enough to set off a panic among buyers, even while stock market investors remained calm and much of the world, unaware that B

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Security Council placed new sanctions on North Korea on Friday that significantly choke off fuel supplies and order North Koreans working overseas to return home, in what may prove the last test of whether any amount of economic pressure can force the isolated country to reverse course on its nuclear weapons program. The sanctions, proposed by the United States and adopted by a vote of 15 to 0, were the third imposed this year, in an escalating effort to force the North into negotiations.

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. — At this sprawling steel mill on the outskirts of Philadelphia, the workers have one number in mind. Not how many tons of steel roll off the line, or how many hours they work, but where they fall on the plant’s seniority list. In September, ArcelorMittal, which owns the mill, announced that it would lay off 150 of the plant’s 207 workers next year.