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President Trump says that he is confident he'll be proven innocent in the Russia election meddling investigation if special counsel Robert Mueller treats "everything fairly." "Well I hope he’s treating everything fairly and if he is I’m going to be very happy because when you talk about innocent, I am truly not involved in any form of collusion with Russia," the president said on Sharyl Attkisson's show "Full Measure" in a wide-ranging interview to be aired Sunday across the Sinclair Broadcast Group's affiliates nationwide. "Believe me.

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will not serve any prison time for walking off his post in Afghanistan in 2009, a military judge ruled Friday. The judge, Col.

President Trump's first visit to Asia since taking office gets underway Friday, representing what will be the most challenging foreign trip yet of his presidency. The five-nation, 13-day tour will force Trump to grapple with two of the biggest problems on his agenda: the nuclear crisis with North Korea and what experts say is the United States's waning influence in the region. It is the longest foreign trip any president has taken since George H.W.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman MORE (R-Texas) said Friday that lawmakers are considering repealing ObamaCare’s individual mandate as part of their tax-reform bill given President Trump’s repeated demands to do so. Brady said Trump has told him twice by phone and once in person that he wants the mandate repealed in the tax bill. Trump has also publicly called for the idea.  Earlier in the week, Brady rejected the idea, saying it could jeopardize the tax bill. “There are pros and cons to this,” Brady said at an event Friday hosted by Politico.

A day after rolling out their tax-reform bill, House Republicans on Friday appeared bullish they would soon pass the first overhaul of the U.S. tax system in more than three decades. “It’s a layup,” Rep. MORE (R-N.D.), a President Trump ally who may run for Senate in 2018, told The Hill. “I think at the end of the day, we’re not going to lose very many members,” said Rep. MORE (R-Okla.), who is close to House GOP leadership. “Leadership did a great job on this thing,” said Rep.

BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. — They call it the “Church Lane Hug.” That is how educators at Church Lane Elementary Technology, a public school here, describe the protective two-armed way they teach students to carry their school-issued laptops. Administrators at Baltimore County Public Schools, the 25th-largest public school system in the United States, have embraced the laptops as well, as part of one of the nation’s most ambitious classroom technology makeovers.

Good morning. (Want to get California Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.) In 1967 the novelist Wallace Stegner wrote: “Like the rest of America, California is unformed, innovative, ahistorical, hedonistic, acquisitive, and energetic — only more so.” I’ve been repeatedly reminded of this over the last 14 months as the writer of this newsletter.

Good morning. (Want to get California Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.) In 1967 the novelist Wallace Stegner wrote: “Like the rest of America, California is unformed, innovative, ahistorical, hedonistic, acquisitive, and energetic — only more so.” I’ve been repeatedly reminded of this over the last 14 months as the writer of this newsletter.