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Their mission? To pick up the crushingly heavy loads using nothing but their bare hands and carry them for 500 meters, or a third of a mile. The first round would seem easy.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday he believes he has influence to rally Republicans around stronger federal background check laws as Congress and the White House work on a response to last weekend’s mass shootings in Texas and Ohio. At the same time, Trump said he had assured the National Rifle Association that its gun-rights views would be ‘‘fully represented and respected.’’ He said he was hopeful the NRA would not be an obstacle to strengthening the nation’s gun laws. Trump has promised to lead on tougher gun control measures before, includ

NEW YORK — President Trump began a fund-raising swing through the Hamptons on Friday, a visit that’s spurred threats of boycotts and employee complaints against high-dollar donors for supporting a leader many Democrats say is racist. The president landed just before noon and traveled to the first of two fund-raisers, each closed to media.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican and Democrats in Congress teamed up Friday to oppose what appears to be a Trump administration plan to cut the foreign aid budget. The administration hasn’t announced whether it plans to seek the cut. But the Office of Management and Budget instructed the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development last weekend to freeze unspent money in their budgets.

Former FBI Deputy Director MORE's attacks against him and other Department of Justice (DOJ) officials. McCabe alleges in the lawsuit filed Thursday that Trump administration officials “responded to Plaintiff’s two decades of unblemished and non-partisan public service with a politically motivated and retaliatory demotion in January 2018 and public firing in March 2018 — on the very night of Plaintiff’s long-planned retirement from the FBI.” He claims that the actions have harmed his “reputation, professional standing, and dramatically r

House Speaker MORE and urged him to support a universal background check bill. “We spoke to the President separately this afternoon and told him the best way forward to address gun violence in our country is for Leader McConnell to let the Senate take up and pass the House-passed universal background checks legislation and for the President to sign it into law,” the Democratic leaders said in a joint statement.  “The President gave us his assurances that he would review the bipartisan House-passed legislation and understood our interest in moving as quickly as possibl

House Judiciary Committee Chairman MORE. Nadler added that the committee will decide by the year's end whether to refer articles of impeachment to the House floor. “This is formal impeachment proceedings,” Nadler said in an interview with CNN's Erin Burnett. “We are investigating all the evidence, we're gathering the evidence. And we will at the conclusion of this — hopefully by the end of the year — vote to vote articles of impeachment to the House floor. Or we won’t. That’s a decision that we’ll have to make.

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