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President Trump called Senate Minority Leader Axios. Trump was looking for "a path forward on health care," a GOP source told Axios. The White House and Schumer's office didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on the call. Trump, who has known Schumer for years, has previously reached out to the fellow New Yorker and Democratic leader on issues. Trump sided with Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) over GOP leaders in early September on a short-term bill

The parent company of Google received the green light on Friday to provide emergency cellular service to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico using balloons. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced it had granted Alphabet Inc.

“Hamilton” creator Trump’s response to the hurricane recovery efforts in Puerto Rico, saying it was “the definition of adding insult to injury.” “I’ve never seen the president attack the victims of a natural disaster,” Miranda said in an appearance on MSNBC’s "All In with launched a series of attacks on Twitter against San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz and other Puerto Rican officials last weekend, questioning their leadership and accusing Puert

The Treasury Department's inspector general said Friday that it is probing allegations that the department's intelligence division has been illegally looking at private financial records of U.S. citizens. Employees of another Treasury branch, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, have reportedly warned federal officials and Congress that private banking and financial information belonging to U.S.

There has been recent criticism of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership’s support of the Modernizing Recreational Fisheries Management Act of 2017, even suggesting that we have somehow done an injustice to the legacy of our organization’s namesake. In a recent opinion piece for The Hill, angler Mark Eustis praised the TRCP in general, but decried the organization for our positions on federal management of saltwater recreational fishing an

Update: The Weinstein Company’s board is planning to investigate sexual harassment complaints against Harvey Weinstein as he takes a leave of absence. Find more coverage here. Two decades ago, the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein invited Ashley Judd to the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel for what the young actress expected to be a business breakfast meeting.

Update: The Weinstein Company’s board is planning to investigate sexual harassment complaints against Harvey Weinstein as he takes a leave of absence. Find more coverage here. Two decades ago, the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein invited Ashley Judd to the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel for what the young actress expected to be a business breakfast meeting.

Now that The New York Times has put together a stomach-turning chronicle of alleged sexual harassment by the movie mogul Harvey Weinstein — complete with brave, on-the-record statements from, among others, the actress Ashley Judd — we’re hearing a lot about how the story of his misconduct was “the worst-kept secret” in Hollywood and New York. But until now, no journalistic outfit had been able, or perhaps willing, to nail the details and hit publish. For decades, stars of Oscar-winning movies produced by Mr.

The Weinstein Company struggled to perform damage control on Friday amid allegations of rampant sexual harassment by its co-chairman Harvey Weinstein and turmoil among its ranks. One-third of the company’s all-male board resigned, while board members who remained hired an outside law firm to investigate the allegations and announced that Mr. Weinstein would take an indefinite leave of absence immediately. Mr.

NEW ORLEANS — Laurent Paige, 66, waved to his neighbor on Friday from his front-porch swing in the Broadmoor neighborhood of this city. “I’m ready — I got my life jacket,” he hollered, pantomiming some swim strokes. New Orleans residents like Mr. Paige were keeping an eye on Tropical Storm Nate, the latest system of this busy Atlantic hurricane season.