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Massachusetts voters really don’t like President Trump, but that doesn’t mean they want Democrats on Capitol Hill to try to impeach him. Sixty-one perecent of those surveyed in a Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll viewed Trump unfavorably — far more than any of the other politicians included in the question. Just 30 percent held a favorable view of Trump. However, 49 percent of Mass. voters said the House of Representatives should not seriously consider impeaching Trump, according to the survey released Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he will send 1,000 more U.S. service members to Poland as part of his broadening security and economic alliance. Trump made the announcement during a White House news conference with Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda.

Billionaire Howard Schultz announced on Wednesday that he has undergone three back surgeries, keeping him away from the campaign trail over the last several months, and said he would not return until after Labor Day. The former Starbucks CEO swift backlash from Democrats, who feared a Schultz candidacy would split the anti-Trump vote in 2020 and hand President Trump a second term. But Schultz has been absent fro

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, said he is ‘‘glad this is finally over’’ after speaking to the Senate Intelligence Committee for around three hours on Wednesday. Trump Jr. said he was happy to clarify answers from an interview with the panel’s staff in 2017, but told reporters, ‘‘I don’t think I changed any of what I said because there was nothing to change.’’ Senators wanted to discuss the answers Trump Jr.

House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman MORE if officials provided certain documents to Congress by Wednesday. In a letter sent to Barr on Tuesday evening, Cummings was critical of a Department of Justice (DOJ) letter sent earlier in the day that warned that the department would ask MORE to assert executive privilege over the documents on the census citizenship question subpoenaed by the committe

MORE. Speaking in Council Bluffs, Iowa, to celebrate his administration’s decision to allow 15 percent of ethanol to be mixed into gasoline in the hot summer months, Trump in one breath called the move an American success story while also blasting Biden for failing to embrace the fuel under former President Obama. "America must never be held hostage to foreign suppliers of energy as we have under Sleepy Joe," Trump told the crowd gathered a

Lawmakers say that any effort to give members of Congress a raise won’t pass unless both parties agree not to use the issue as a campaign weapon. While no such agreement has been ironed out, there is a chance that there will be a bipartisan deal struck at some point this year. Proponents of the pay hike acknowledge it’s not popular but argue that it is long overdue. The effort got a significant boost Tuesday when House Minority Leader MORE (R-Calif.) offered support for a pay bump, saying he doesn’t want Congress to be a place where only the wealthy can afford to serv

The lack of a spending deal with fewer than 20 legislative days remaining until the August recess is prompting some GOP senators to discuss the possibility of cutting short the Senate’s August break. Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.), who is up for reelection next year, said he will ask Senate Majority Leader MORE (R-Ky.) to consider trimming the annual recess in order to tackle government spending bills. The effort to shorten the recess was successful in 2018 after Perdue and other lawmakers sounded the alarm on a pileup of spending measures.

MORE traded blows on Tuesday as the men held events simultaneously in Iowa, previewing what could be a fierce 2020 battle in the months to come. In Biden's first major speeches to prospective voters in Iowa, the former vice president took direct aim at Trump, uttering the president's name numerous times and painting him as an “existential threat” to the country's well-being. "President Trump is in Iowa today," Biden told a crowd in Ottumwa, Iowa.

The FBI has released 277 pages of redacted records that show the FBI failed to produce information from an August 2015 meeting with Intelligence Community Inspector General about Hillary Clinton’s email server.