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The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) could be extended for five years under an agreement whose terms were first announced by Senate Finance Committee leaders Tuesday night. ADVERTISEMENT Committee chairman MORE (Ore.) said the proposal would also provide additional protections for low-income children and flexibility for states. Federal funding for the program, which provides care for 9 million low- and middle-income children, is set to expire at the end of September. The members said fu

Fox News host Tucker Carlson bashed ESPN after Jemele Hill, co-host of the network's "SportsCenter" program, called President Trump a "white supremacist" on Twitter.  "You probably thought ESPN stood for Entertainment Sports Programming Network, increasingly it looks like Endless Stupid Political Nagging," Carlson said.  In a series of tweets on Monday, Hill called President Trump a "white supremacist" and said he was "unqualified and unfit to be president." ESPN released a statement Tuesday say

Police asked the local city council on Tuesday for permission to use pepper spray in preparation for potentially violent protests that might break out over the scheduled appearance of a former Breitbart editor at the University of California, Berkeley, the Associated Press reported.  The council is reportedly set to vote late on Tuesday on the issue in city hall, where people reportedly showed

President Trump is reportedly considering lowering the number of refugees who are allowed into the country to less than 50,000, the lowest that number since 1980. The New York Times reported Tuesday that senior Trump officials, including senior adviser Stephen Miller, are pushing the president to lower the limit on the number of refugees he set at the start of h

House Speaker Washington Post reported.  The meeting will also include House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), and leaders of the congressional Tri-Caucus, composed of the congressional Asian, Black and Hispanic caucuses.  AshLee Strong, Ryan's spokeswoman, confirmed the meeting to the Post and said that the speaker was intent on including new border security measures in the bill.  President Trump's decision to end the program, which gives roughly 690,000 immigrants brought to the country illegally as young children protection from depor

Many Democrats giddy from their recent health policy successes are starting to reach enthusiastically for a mountaintop goal: establishing a single-payer system for all Americans. But they may want to learn the lessons of their opposition. Like “repeal and replace,” “single-payer” is a broadly popular slogan that papers over intraparty disagreements and wrenching policy choices. Republicans fumbled multiple attempts to replace the Affordable Care Act this year.

Many Democrats giddy from their recent health policy successes are starting to reach enthusiastically for a mountaintop goal: establishing a single-payer system for all Americans. But they may want to learn the lessons of their opposition. Like “repeal and replace,” “single-payer” is a broadly popular slogan that papers over intraparty disagreements and wrenching policy choices. Republicans fumbled multiple attempts to replace the Affordable Care Act this year.

SEOUL, South Korea — The last time South Korea is known to have plotted to assassinate the North Korean leadership, nothing went as planned. In the late 1960s, after North Korean commandoes tried to ransack the presidential palace in Seoul, South Korea secretly trained misfits plucked from prison or off the streets to sneak into North Korea and slit the throat of its leader, Kim Il-sung.

SEOUL, South Korea — The last time South Korea is known to have plotted to assassinate the North Korean leadership, nothing went as planned. In the late 1960s, after North Korean commandoes tried to ransack the presidential palace in Seoul, South Korea secretly trained misfits plucked from prison or off the streets to sneak into North Korea and slit the throat of its leader, Kim Il-sung.

WASHINGTON — The House and Senate have unanimously passed a joint resolution urging President Trump to denounce racist and anti-Semitic hate groups, sending a blunt message of dissatisfaction with the president’s initial, equivocal response to the white nationalist violence in Charlottesville, Va., last month. The resolution passed the Senate without dissent on Monday and was approved without objection by the entire House on Tuesday night. It could be sent to the White House for Mr.