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Congress is increasingly turning to its most powerful weapon against MORE: oversight. As more Democrats urge Speaker MORE (D-Calif.) to start impeachment proceedings, she has pointed to the party's recent wins in court against Trump as proof that the party doesn't need to initiate a move that comes with significant political pitfalls. The legal history backs her up approach: Judges tend to side with Congress's over

Iran is set to breach the 2015 nuclear deal for a second time in as many weeks as it ramps up its demands for sanctions relief.

“Let’s collab,” Inslee tweeted in response to the “Old Town Road” artist’s call to “stop” global warming. Inslee’s campaign is primarily built on targeting climate change.

Only 70 percent of Democrats say the TV-displayed migration of almost 800,000 men, women, and children into the United States counts as a crisis — and 54 percent of all Democrats say the crisis is caused by the “way migrants are treated” by the federal government.  Only eight percent say the crisis is solely caused by the number of migrants, while a further 7 percent blame both the government and the migrant numbers, even as the migrants flood into Americans’ blue-collar neighborhoods, pushing down wages, boosting rents and adding ore chaotic diversity to school

The “Demand Free Speech” rally – aimed at bringing attention to the censorship efforts of Silicon Valley – featured many notable figures, with appearances by Gavin McInnes, Lara Loomer, and Milo Yiannopoulos. Antifa showed up to protest the event, dubbing its counter-protest “All Out D.C.” According to reports, the Antifa counter-protesters vastly outnumbered the “Demand Free Speech” rally attendees, which included members of the “Proud Boys.” Polic

NBC 4 New York, citing sources, reported court documents state that Epstein allegedly had sexual encounters with dozens of underage girls at his Palm Beach, Florida residence. According to authorities, the politically connected hedge fund manager employed “female fixers” who sought out the girls from all over the world for such encounters.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, the only Republican in Congress to call for impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, said Thursday he is leaving the GOP because he has become disenchanted with partisan politics and ‘‘frightened by what I see from it.’’ In an opinion article published in the Washington Post , on July 4, Amash said partisan politics is damaging American democracy. ‘‘I am declaring my independence and leaving the Republican Party,’’ Amash said.

Senator Elizabeth Warren on Friday outlined a series of executive actions she’d take “on day one” if elected president to boost wages among women of color, leveraging the federal government’s power to negotiate with its contractors. “For decades, the government has helped perpetuate the systemic discrimination that has denied women of color equal opportunities.

President Trump said his teleprompter suffered a malfunction Thursday when he referred to the Continental Army taking over airports during his July 4 speech in Washington, D.C. Speaking from the White House’s South Lawn on his way to his Bedminster, N.J., golf resort on Friday, Trump said the rain had been a factor in the malfunction, causing him to misspeak and claim the 18th-century army had seized airports as it liberated the colonies from the British.

Former vice president Joe Biden said Friday that he had not been prepared for Senator Kamala Harris to so pointedly question his record on school busing during the first Democratic debates, extending the dispute between the two presidential candidates, who have sparred repeatedly in the week since their high-profile confrontation. In an interview broadcast Friday morning on CNN, Biden said that while he had expected candidates to target him, he had been caught off guard by Harris’s criticism in part because of their relationship. “I was prepared for them to come