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WASHINGTON — President Trump, the self-styled rebel who wants to sweep out an ancien regime, will travel to Paris on July 14 to commemorate revolutionaries who actually did it — with bloodshed and barricade-storming — 228 years ago in France. The White House announced on Wednesday that Mr. Trump had accepted an invitation from President Emmanuel Macron of France to join him for Bastille Day. He extended the offer in a phone call the day before, when the two leaders discussed Mr.

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s national security officials declared on Wednesday that a White House warning this week to President Bashar al-Assad of Syria had succeeded in stopping a chemical weapons attack by the Syrian government. “They didn’t do it,” Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told reporters as he traveled to Belgium. In an

WHITESBURG, Ky. — Dewey Gorman, a 59-year-old banker who has struggled with opioid addiction, had just gotten out of the hospital in this tiny central Appalachian city when he heard the word from Washington: His fellow Kentuckian, Senator delayed a vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act. He felt torn about that. “It’s broken. It’s broken very badly,” Mr.

WHITESBURG, Ky. — Dewey Gorman, a 59-year-old banker who has struggled with opioid addiction, had just gotten out of the hospital in this tiny central Appalachian city when he heard the word from Washington: His fellow Kentuckian, Senator delayed a vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act. He felt torn about that. “It’s broken. It’s broken very badly,” Mr.

WASHINGTON — With his bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act in deep trouble, Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, raised an alternate possibility on Tuesday: Either Republicans come together, or he would have to work with Democrats to shore up the deteriorating health law. That raised a tantalizing prospect: bipartisanship. The idea is not so far-fetched.

Tuesday on CNN’s “Outfront,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), once a candidate for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, told host Erin Burnett his wife Jane Sanders was “about the honest person” he knew when asked about reports of an FBI investigation of her financial dealings. Sanders connected the investigation to President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and called it “pathetic” that his wife was under what he called an “attack.” “My wife is about the most honest person I know,” Sanders said. “When she came to that college, it was failing financially and academically.

Tuesday on CNN’s “Outfront,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), once a candidate for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, told host Erin Burnett his wife Jane Sanders was “about the honest person” he knew when asked about reports of an FBI investigation of her financial dealings. Sanders connected the investigation to President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and called it “pathetic” that his wife was under what he called an “attack.” “My wife is about the most honest person I know,” Sanders said. “When she came to that college, it was failing financially and academically.

The report came in the midst of an unprecedented crisis of credibility at CNN. Presumably the Obama jeans story was properly vetted by CNN’s Triad — “a three-pronged internal system designed to ensure that sensitive reporting by the network’s journalists is unimpeachable before it runs.” The article states: Fact check: Obama was criticized for “

The report came in the midst of an unprecedented crisis of credibility at CNN. Presumably the Obama jeans story was properly vetted by CNN’s Triad — “a three-pronged internal system designed to ensure that sensitive reporting by the network’s journalists is unimpeachable before it runs.” The article states: Fact check: Obama was criticized for “

President Donald Trump will travel to France next month to attend the Bastille Day celebration in Paris and commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States' entry into World War I, the White House said Wednesday. Trump accepted the invitation from French President Emmanuel Macron. The two leaders met for the first time during Trump's overseas trip in May, just weeks after Macron's election victory. The U.S.-French relationship under Trump has been called into question after the president criticized France's handling of terrorism. Trump also pulled the U.S.