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After a five-hour meeting with congressional investigators, personally dictated the first statement his son gave in response to questions about the June 2016 meeting. Sources said Thursday the president’s son today tried to distance himself from the White House response and his father’s involvement. Sources also said Trump Jr.

The House passed a sweeping package today that authorizes billions of dollars for hurricane recovery efforts, raises the debt limit and funds the government through December, with some Republicans opposing the measure after panning top administration officials' efforts to sell the legislation. With a vote of 316-90, the measure, which Trump signed into law Friday afternoon, adds more than $15 billion to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s coffers to aid the recovery efforts in areas impacted by H

Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday that ‘‘we may have been a little bit lucky’’ after Hurricane Irma veered from its original course and headed along Florida’s west coast, instead of east.

Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories President Trump commented hours after the nearly 400-mile-wide storm blew ashore early Sunday in the Florida Keys.   President Trump, Vice President Pence and several Cabinet members participated in the briefing from Camp David.

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Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories CAPITAL SOURCE Payton Corbett, a 34-year beer truck driver, is challenging Mayor Joe Curtatone this year in Somerville.  CAPITAL SOURCE Lindstrom announced her US Senate candidacy last month.  CAPITAL SOURCE The former Trump campaign manager will be a visiting fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics.

Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories President Trump commented hours after the nearly 400-mile-wide storm blew ashore early Sunday in the Florida Keys.   President Trump, Vice President Pence and several Cabinet members participated in the briefing from Camp David.

Republican Miami mayor Tomás Regalado called on President Trump to discuss climate change as Hurricane Irma approached his city. “If this isn’t climate change, I don’t know what is,” Regalado said Friday, according to HuffPost. “This is the time to talk about climate change. This is the time that the president and the [Environmental Protection Agency] and whoever makes decision needs to talk about climate change,” Regalado said.

Senate Minority Leader MORE (D-N.Y.) said in an interview published Saturday that he began planning his shocking debt ceiling deal with President Trump as far back as August. In an interview with the New York Times' "The New Washington" podcast, Schumer said he was thinking about his "leverage" with Trump back in August during a family vacation. “Even when I was on vacation with my family in August, I started looking,” Schumer said in the interview. “What’s our leverage?” Schumer said he asked himself.

President Trump's top spiritual adviser Paula White said Saturday that she regretted saying that God "lifted up" Trump in his 2016 election victory over MORE. The megachurch pastor told reporters at the Religion Religion News Association conference in Nashville Saturday that she