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WASHINGTON — Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, tried again Sunday to back off assertions he made to reporters last week that the Trump administration had held up an aid package to Ukraine because the president wanted the country to investigate Democrats, acknowledging he did not have a “perfect press conference.” During an appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” Mulvaney disagreed with an assertion by the show’s anchor, Chris Wallace, that Mulvaney’s remarks were proof of a quid pro quo, an exchange the president has publicly denied for weeks.

WASHINGTON — Responding to stinging criticism, President Trump has abruptly reversed his plan to hold the next year’s Group of Seven world leaders’ meeting at his Doral golf resort in Florida. ‘‘I think he knows,’’ his acting chief of staff said Sunday, ‘‘people think it looks lousy.’’ Trump announced a rare backtrack Saturday night after facing accusations that he was using the presidency to enrich himself by hosting the international summit at the private resort owned by his family. ‘‘Based on both Media Democrat Crazed and Irrational Hostility,

BROOKLINE — The six Democrats running to succeed US Representative Joseph Kennedy III appeared together for the first time Sunday, making the case for their campaigns while sharing the goal of helping defeat President Trump next year. The six candidates — Jesse Mermell, Ihssane Leckey, Alan Khazei, and Dave Cavell, all of Brookline, along with Newton city councilors Becky Walker Grossman and Jake Auchincloss — appeared during a Brookline Democratic Town Committee event at the home of State Treasurer Deborah B.

Speaker MORE (D-Calif.) arrived in Jordan on Saturday, where the House's top Democrat is leading a bipartisan delegation of lawmakers to meet with top Jordanian officials. A statement from the Speaker's office Saturday night confirmed that Pelosi and a number of lawmakers including Rep. MORE (R-Texas), a ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee and the delegation's lone Republican member, had met with officials at the U.S.

MORE's announcement this week that the meeting of world leaders would be held at the Trump National Doral Miami resort. I thought I was doing something very good for our Country by using Trump National Doral, in Miami, for hosting the G-7 Leaders. It is big, grand, on hundreds of acres, next to MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, has tremendous ballrooms & meeting rooms, and each delegation would have its own 50 to 70 unit building.

MORE spent much of Saturday on Twitter, unleashing a barrage of tweets and retweets aimed at House Democrats' impeachment inquiry. As of 7:30 p.m., Trump had issued only six tweets of his own but had retweeted at least 40 others, many of them from supporters in the media and Congress offering him a boost. He also issued scorching attacks aimed at Democrats, including House Intelligence Committee Chairman MORE (D-Calif.). "There has never been a greater fraud on Congress," wrote Trump, referring to the impeachment inquiry and responding to Rep

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MORE on Saturday said he would no longer host next year's Group of Seven (G-7) summit at his Doral resort after intense backlash from Democrats, ethics watchdogs and some Republican lawmakers. The reversal came two days after the White House announced that Trump National Doral near Miami would host the gathering of world leaders next June.

Trump tweeted, “So now Crooked Hillary is at it again! She is calling Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard “a Russian favorite,” and Jill Stein “a Russian asset,” the president tweeted on Saturday. “As you may have heard, I was called a big Russia lover also (actually, I do like Russian people. I like all people!).

After disarming the student, Lowe can be seen hugging and comforting the emotional student. The Daily Mail reports that the incident occurred on May 17, 2019, but surveillance video of Lowe’s intervention was just released. The video shows 27-year-old Lowe disarm 19-year-old Granados-Diaz, then holding the gun out for another school employee to take away. NBC News