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A brief aims to protect young immigrants from the Trump administration’s effort to abolish a federal policy that has shielded roughly 800,000 people from deportation.  A review of executive actions shows how President Trump has systematically attacked his predecessor’s legacy.  analysis Some attempts have failed, but the intensity of the president’s anti-Obama movement has never ebbed.

Republicans on Friday evening released the final version of their legislation to slash tax rates for corporations and individuals. The more than 1,000-page document, containing the bill and an explanatory statement, was crafted by the House-Senate conference committee.

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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration tried to mount a case on Thursday that Iran violated an international agreement to limit its arms dealing, but American officials failed to show how an array of weaponry presented as evidence proved the charges. Nikki R. Haley, the American ambassador to the United Nations, accused Iran of providing weapons to Houthi rebels in Yemen who toppled the government in Sana, throwing the country into chaos and setting off a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia. At a military base in Washington, Ms.

WASHINGTON — President Trump escalated his criticism of the F.B.I. on Friday over its investigation of possible links between Russia and his campaign, adding a new round of his own complaints to a growing conservative effort to discredit the inquiry. “It’s a shame what’s happened with the F.B.I.,” the president told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before departing for an event at the F.B.I. Academy in Quantico, Va. “It’s a very sad thing to watch.” Without citing specifics, Mr. Trump described an extraordinary “level of anger” at the F.B.I. over the investigation.

SAN FRANCISCO — For years, Uber secretly spied on key executives, drivers and employees at rival ride-hailing companies as part of a larger intelligence-gathering operation that spanned multiple countries, according to a letter made public in a federal court on Friday. The 37-page letter, written on behalf of Richard Jacobs, a former Uber security employee, detailed what he described as the formation of separate internal teams designed “expressly for the purpose of acquiring trade secrets” from major ride-sharing competitors around the world. Those teams then worked to infiltrate chat rooms an

WASHINGTON — A federal court on Friday blocked Trump administration rules that made it easier for employers to deny insurance coverage of contraceptives for women. Judge Wendy Beetlestone of the Federal District Court in Philadelphia issued a preliminary injunction, saying the rules contradicted the text of the Affordable Care Act by allowing many employers to opt out of providing contraceptive coverage if they had religious or moral objections. In the lawsuit, filed by the State of Pennsylvania

The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to discard so-called net neutrality rules that prevented broadband providers from slowing sites or demanding payments from them for fast delivery. The decision opens the door for very different consumer experiences on the internet.

WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers appeared to secure enough votes on Friday to pass the most sweeping tax overhaul in decades, putting them on the cusp of their first significant legislative victory as leaders geared up to pass a $1.5 trillion tax cut along party lines and send it to President Trump by Christmas. A day after the bill’s prospects wavered somewhat, Republican leaders notched two victories on Friday, when Senator Marco Rubio of Florida said he would vote yes after gaining a more generous child

Sen. Walter Reed Medical Center for normal side effects of his ongoing cancer therapy,” his office said. McCain, 81, who was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme over the summer, "looks forward to returning to work as soon as possible,” his office added. Sen.