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Immediately after she was fired, Politico published a piece citing anonymous sources that blamed her “abusive” management style, including “making homophobic remarks” and accusing people of having affairs. However, in the days since, supporters of Skinner have claimed there were other reasons behind her firing. One former senior administration official said Skinner was targeted because she was determined to implement President Trump’s America First agenda at the agency, and because she h

CBS 3’s John Holden reports that the officers’ injuries are all non-life-threatening: NBC 10 reports that there was a pitched gun battle. A mother who lives in the area where the confrontation occurred said, “It was like a war. Like the scenes that you see in war. The guns, the fire, the noise.

The New York Times said in a statement Tuesday that Jonathan Weisman, a deputy Washington editor of The Times, had been demoted and would no longer oversee the paper’s congressional correspondents because he repeatedly posted messages on social media about race and politics that showed what the paper called “serious lapses in judgment.” Weisman, 53, will lose the title of deputy editor, a designation for Times editors with wide-ranging duties and significant input into news coverage, a spokeswoman for the paper said. Weisman met with Dean Baquet, the executive e

WASHINGTON - Not everyone is going to receive the $125 they might have expected out of a settlement between Equifax and government regulators over its 2017 security breach - and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is asking why. For the Democratic lawmaker and 2020 presidential candidate, the concern is that the Federal Trade Commission, one of the agencies that probed Equifax, initially offered ‘‘misleading public descriptions’’ about the relief available to the roughly 147 million Americans whose names, addresses and Social Security numbers had been compromised.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Raising the stakes in a standoff over women’s health, Planned Parenthood said Wednesday it will leave the federal family planning program within days unless a court puts a hold on Trump administration rules that bar clinics from referring patients for abortions. Spokeswoman Erica Sackin told The Associated Press that Planned Parenthood clinics ‘‘will be formally out of the Title X program’’ by Monday unless the full 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco halts the new rules.

Defending his opposition to abortion even in cases of rape or incest, US Representative Steve King of Iowa asked whether “there [would] be any population of the world left” if people born of those crimes weren’t counted, according to the Des Moines Register. “What if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled out anyone who was a product of rape or incest?

DENVER — John Hickenlooper will drop out of the Democratic presidential primary on Thursday, according to a Democrat close to him. The two-term former Colorado governor, who ran as a moderate warning of the perils of extreme partisanship, struggled with fundraising and low polling numbers.

MORE on Tuesday moved to protect U.S. consumers from the next round of his trade war with China amid mounting threats to the economy and his reelection. The White House said it would delay 10 percent tariffs slated to take effect Sept. 1 on certain consumer goods from China while exempting other products — less than two weeks after Trump announced the new import taxes. Postponing the tariffs until Dec. 15 is expected to temporarily cool U.S. trade tensions with China while also shielding consumers and American businesses from higher costs.

MORE (R-Ky.) to take up two election security bills that have passed through the House.

Violent clashes between anti-government protesters and riot police in the Hong Kong airport prompted an outpouring of support Tuesday from U.S. lawmakers for the demonstrators. MORE for his part expressed hope the escalating clashes can be resolved, but offered no direct warning to China — leading to criticism from some Democrats that he should have more forcefully backed the protesters. Footage of startling scenes in the world’s eighth busiest airport dominated U.S.