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WASHINGTON — President Trump’s attacks on four first-term lawmakers of color have reopened a debate on the nature of patriotism and dissent. The rhetoric in his flurry of remarks echoes an old phrase last commonly heard in the Nixon era: America, love it or leave it. The theme continued at a rally in North Carolina Wednesday night, when Trump disparaged each of the representatives, including Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, who was born in Somalia but is a naturalized citizen.

WASHINGTON — In the foyer of Representative Ayanna Pressley’s Capitol Hill office, interns answered constantly ringing phones Wednesday as calls flowed in from around the country. Behind a closed door in her personal office, Pressley was taking a break from the chaos, drinking a Gatorade and spending a few moments with her husband. All week, Pressley said, she’s been battling a headache — a real one. It’s no wonder. For the fourth day in a row, President Trump was launching vicious personal attacks on the Massachusetts Democrat and thre

GREENVILLE, N.C. — Going after four Democratic congresswomen one by one, a combative President Trump turned his campaign rally Wednesday into an extended dissection of the liberal views of the women of color, deriding them for what he painted as extreme positions and suggesting they just get out. ‘‘Tonight I have a suggestion for the hate-filled extremists who are constantly trying to tear our country down,’’ Trump told the crowd in North Carolina, a swing state he won in 2016 and wants to claim again in 2020. ‘‘They never have anything good to say.

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday misrepresented words from Rep. Ilhan Omar to make her sound like an al-Qaida sympathizer and exaggerated the performance of the economy under his watch. A look at claims from his rally in North Carolina: Trump quotes Omar as saying: ‘‘You don’t say ‘America’ with this intensity. You say ‘al-Qaida,’ it makes you proud. Al-Qaida makes you proud. You don’t speak that way about America.’’ THE FACTS: This is not at all what the Minnesota Democrat said.

MORE (Mich.) -- voted to approve the resolution.  The vote came after a tense moment in which the House parliamentarian rebuked Pelosi after she blasted Trump, arguing her comments violated the rules forbidding lawmakers from directly attacking the president on the House floor. Rep. MORE (R-Ga.) led an effort to formally strike Pelosi's remarks, but the vote on the motion failed, with every Republican voting in favor of it. The resolution condemning Trump's tweets came after a growing outcry over the comments from Democrats.

The House voted against striking Speaker MORE from the record on Tuesday after the House parliamentarian in a rare rebuke of the Speaker said her comments violated House rules. The vote on the motion to strike Pelosi’s remarks failed in a 190-232 vote with no Democratic support.

Senate Majority Leader   McConnell tried to quell the controversy that has raged since Sunday when Trump tweeted that four minority Democratic lawmakers should “go back” to their home countries — even though all of them are U.S.

Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, a leading liberal during his time on the high court, died Tuesday night at the age of 99, the Supreme Court announced. In a statement, the Court said Stevens died at a hospital in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., due to complications following a stroke he suffered on Monday. Stevens is survived by his two daughters, nine grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Stevens spent 35 years on the Supreme Court after he was nominated by then-President Gerald Ford in 1975.

The House on Tuesday voted to formally admonish MORE, approving a resolution condemning as “racist” his tweets targeting four minority congresswomen. The 240-187 vote fell largely along partisan lines, as GOP leaders rushed to the president’s defense in whipping against the measure.  Just four Republicans, Reps.

The Democrat-controlled House affirmed the resolution claiming that Trump made “racist comments” about four far-left Democratic congresswomen,  including Omar, known for their controversial remarks about the U.S. The text of the resolution states that the House of Representatives “believes that immigrants and their descendants have made America stronger, and that those who take the oath of citizenship are every bit as American as those whose families have lived in the U