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WASHINGTON — President Trump’s plans to combat the nation’s opioid epidemic were disrupted on Monday as he came under pressure to abandon a nominee for drug czar who championed legislation undercutting the government’s power to go after pharmaceutical companies that contribute to the crisis. Even as the president promised to announce a major initiative to stem the wave of opioid abuse as early as next week, Mr.

WASHINGTON — President Trump and Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, tried to convey a sense of harmony on Monday after months of bitter, private feuding that threatened to undermine their party’s legislative push in the coming weeks to enact a sweeping tax cut. In an impromptu, 45-minute Rose Garden news conference after the men met for lunch at the White House, Mr. Trump and Mr.

WASHINGTON — President Trump and Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, tried to convey a sense of harmony on Monday after months of bitter, private feuding that threatened to undermine their party’s legislative push in the coming weeks to enact a sweeping tax cut. In an impromptu, 45-minute Rose Garden news conference after the men met for lunch at the White House, Mr. Trump and Mr.

LONDON (AP) — For months, the euro has been strengthening as fears over the rise in populism in Europe abated. Now, following elections in Germany and Austria, the currency is back under pressure. On Monday, it’s down a further 0.3 percent at $1.1785. While that decline is modest, it comes on top of recent losses — just last month the euro was above the $1.20 mark for the first time in two years. One of the reasons it’s been retreating relates to the electoral success of populist forces.

LONDON (AP) — For months, the euro has been strengthening as fears over the rise in populism in Europe abated. Now, following elections in Germany and Austria, the currency is back under pressure. On Monday, it’s down a further 0.3 percent at $1.1785. While that decline is modest, it comes on top of recent losses — just last month the euro was above the $1.20 mark for the first time in two years. One of the reasons it’s been retreating relates to the electoral success of populist forces.

President Donald Trump is pointing to a fall in health insurance stocks as a sign of the success of his order immediately ending payments to insurers that help cover out-of-pocket costs for low- and middle-income Americans. In tweets Saturday morning, the president also suggested that Obamacare. The president's self-congratulatory tweets come after the White House announcement Thursday night that the administration will immediately end subsidy

Bob Corker. "Nobody can run and hide on this one, these folks are coming for you," Bannon said Saturday to the crowd at the Value Voters Summit of social conservatives. Bannon, who called for Corker to resign last week after the Tennessee senator said Trump's rhetoric put the United States at risk of "World War 3," told the conservative gathering that such comments undermine U.S.

Michelle Obama’s garden and planting McNuggets,” and donating Colts season tickets to lucky fans in Puerto Rico – though noting they’d have to fly themselves to Indiana and book their own hotel rooms because “at a certain point they have to start doing things for themselves.” Also featuring prominently in the cold open was "SNL" cast member Beck

Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., hit the links together Saturday, marking the second time they did so in a week. The commander in chief and Graham were spotted arriving Saturday morning at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, located about 30 miles from the White House.