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THE TAKE with ABC News' Rick Klein So that's it, right? A bipartisan bill has been introduced, the gun lobby says it's on board, and the Trump White House wants a seat at the table that will generate the most significant new federal gun safety legislation of the 21st century. That’s a whole lot of movement less than a week after the worst mass shooting in U.S.

Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories WASHINGTON — Senator Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, charged in an interview on Sunday that President Donald Trump was treating his office like “a reality show,” with reckless threats toward other countries that could set the nation “on the path to World War III.” In an extraordinary rebuke of a president of his own party, Corker said he was alarmed about a president who acts “like he’s doing ‘The Apprentice’ or something.” <

Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories The comments by Bob Corker of Tennessee came hours after he called the White House ‘‘an adult day care center.”  Vice President Mike Pence left the 49ers-Colts game after about a dozen San Francisco players took a knee.

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Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories While he has not yet held a public campaign kick-off event, candidates don’t raise that much money if they don’t plan to run.  CAPITAL SOURCE Tennant, whom Charlie Baker once removed as a fund raiser because of his raffish reputation, is hosting a fund raising event for Beth Lindstrom at his Swampscott home Wednesday night.

Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories The comments by Bob Corker of Tennessee came hours after he called the White House ‘‘an adult day care center.”  Vice President Mike Pence left the 49ers-Colts game after about a dozen San Francisco players took a knee.

President Trump approved an emergency declaration for Mississippi on Saturday as Category 1 Hurricane Nate made landfall in southeast Louisiana.  The storm is expected to hit Mississippi later Saturday night. The declaration authorizes the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to coordinate all disaster relief work, supplementing local and state work.  Despite the storm's category being low, officials stressed the importance of safety and preparedness ahead of the storm.  "The storm surge is a big thing that really traps everyone," Biloxi, Miss., Mayor Andrew Gilich told

President Trump said he would like to attempt to establish peace between the Israel and Palestine before moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.  “I want to give that a shot before I even think about moving the embassy to Jerusalem,” Trump told former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) on the Trinity Broadcasting Network's "Huckabee" in an interview that aired on Saturday.  Trump renewed a waiver last August to keep the U.S.

President Trump defended tossing paper towels into a crowd at a church in Puerto Rico last week. Trump said in an interview with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) Saturday that media coverage of his trip to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria was unfair, using the incident during which he tossed the paper towels as an example. “They said, ‘throw ‘em to me! Throw ‘em to me Mr. President!’ Trump said, before pantomiming shooting a basketball in the same way he tossed the paper towels. “So the next day they said, ‘oh it was so disrespectful to the people.’ It was just a made-up thing.

President Trump praised health care block grants on Saturday, saying they allow the states to focus on health care, but said he would rather focus his energy on tensions with North Korea than "fixing somebody's back or their knee." "You know in theory, I want to focus on North Korea, I want to focus on Iran, I want to focus on other things. I don't want to focus on fixing somebody's back or their knee or something.