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WASHINGTON — Bipartisanship can be disorienting. That’s why Washington has seemed so perplexed over the past 10 days. An unexpected outbreak of cooperation between President Trump and the two top congressional Democrats has upended the established order and left lawmakers grasping to divine the significance, especially Republicans who saw themselves as a strong ruling majority. “You’ve got an unconventional president who is not limited to what the conventions of political behavior are among office holders,” said Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the No. 2 Senate Republican.

WASHINGTON — Every year, the president heads to New York to welcome world leaders to the United Nations General Assembly.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Around the time President Trump announced his new strategy for Afghanistan, a delegation of American and Afghan military officials arrived in New Delhi. They wanted to learn more about the Indian Territorial Army, which has been deployed in contentious areas to ease the burden on India’s regular army. The American military has turned to that force as a potential model for how to maintain the Afghan government’s waning control — without too high a cost — in difficult parts of Afghani

KABUL, Afghanistan — Soon, American Embassy employees in Kabul will no longer need to take a Chinook helicopter ride to cross the street to a military base less than 100 yards outside the present Green Zone security district. Instead, the boundaries of the Green Zone will be redrawn to include that base, known as the Kabul City Compound, formerly the headquarters for American Special Operations forces in the capital.

“If we want to see innovation and ingenuity return to America, in a way that we haven’t seen it in decades, this is absolutely necessary,” Johnson told Breitbart News outside of the IRS building on Friday where he participated in a demonstration in support of passing tax reform legislation. Friday’s event was spearheaded by the Job Creators Network, which recently launched a multi-million dollar campaign, called “15% on the 15th, to pressure Republican and Democratic lawmakers to pass small business tax cuts

“If we want to see innovation and ingenuity return to America, in a way that we haven’t seen it in decades, this is absolutely necessary,” Johnson told Breitbart News outside of the IRS building on Friday where he participated in a demonstration in support of passing tax reform legislation. Friday’s event was spearheaded by the Job Creators Network, which recently launched a multi-million dollar campaign, called “15% on the 15th, to pressure Republican and Democratic lawmakers to pass small business tax cuts

Senate Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi joined Trump for dinner at the White House. "He likes us. He likes me anyway," Schumer said in the audio captured by C-SPAN and broadcast live, Thursday. He elaborated further on the conversation. "Here’s what I told him. I said, 'Mr. President, you’re much better off if you can sometimes step right and sometimes left. If you have to step just in one direction you’re boxed,'" Schumer said.

Longtime Roger Stone has agreed to meet with the House Intelligence Committee for a closed-door interview on September 26, according to Stone and a committee source. "I will voluntarily testify for the House Intelligence Committee on Sept 26," Stone confirmed in a statement to ABC News.

President Donald Trump is going to be asking for a lot of action from Congress in the coming weeks and months, and this week he's already hosted two dinners at the White House as a way to talk things out. Whether it's relaxing in his Mar-a-Lago residence earlier this year with the Japanese prime minister and later the Chinese president, or bringing bipartisan groups of congressional leaders together for dinner at the White House, Trump appears to know the value in breaking bread. Unlike formal state dinners, where the menu is

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