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2020 Democratic front-runner MORE is trying to recover from the biggest stumble of his presidential campaign so far — a U-turn on the abortion-related Hyde Amendment. The controversy has stunned people close to the former vice president because it took place at warp-speed. “It all happened really fast,” one Biden ally said.  The central issue is the former vice president’s long-standing — but now abandoned — support for the amendment, which prohibits the use of federal money for abortion services.  One big effect of the Hyde Amendment is a significant limitation on ab

MORE said Friday evening he would drop plans to impose sweeping tariffs on Mexico after the United States' southern neighbor agreed to take new steps to crack down on illegal migration. The decision—reached three days before the tariffs were set to take effect—averts a possible showdown with Congress and could soothe jittery financial markets that have been rattled by the proposed duties, which lawmakers and experts warned could damage the U.S. economy. “I am pleased to inform you that The United States of America has reached a signed agreement with Mexico.

South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg hosted four presidential campaign fundraisers in greater San Francisco, California, which included co-hosts with a former Facebook executive and Google official. This past weekend was at least Buttigieg’s third fundraising trip to Silicon Valley. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) is on the way to making his fourth trip to Silicon Valley to raise money since declaring his candidacy for president in February. Sen.

The New York Times reported on the former mayor of New York City’s Beyond Carbon campaign. “The effort will bypass Washington, where Mr.

Trump also announced the promised tariffs would not be imposed. Delays between the announcement of a deal and the release of details are commonplace, in part because top officials have to agree on the wording of each document that describes the deal. The “safe third country” deal that was sought by the administration would block migration by extending routine international migration rules to the region. The sought-after deal would require migrants in the region to seek safety and asylum in the first safe country they reach and allow the United States border agencies to reject migrants who cros

Ending catch-and-release is a huge win for Americans and Trump because it means border officials now have a legal alternative to the catch-and-release rules which allow migrants to legally enter the United States if they bring children and claim asylum. Those catch-and-release rules set by Congress and the courts also allow the migrants to get work permits before their asylum court hearings, which are now backlogged for two or more years. Instead of catch-and-release, the migrants can be returned to Mexico until their asylum claims can be heard by a judge. The “

NEW YORK — Lawyers for President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign asked a judge Tuesday to penalize the Democratic National Committee for alleging in a lawsuit a conspiracy between the campaign and Russia, saying special counsel Robert Mueller’s findings revealed the ‘‘doomed effort to prove a falsehood.’’ But lawyers for the Democratic Party responded by saying Mueller’s report confirms and bolsters their claims by detailing the campaign’s repeated suspicious interactions with Russian agents, proving the campaign participated in Russia’s election interference.

DETROIT — At a rally in Warren, Mich., a week before the 2016 election, Donald Trump railed against American automakers that had moved their factories abroad — a pitch that helped him become the first Republican presidential candidate to win the state in 28 years. Fast forward to Tuesday, when it was Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, standing in front of hundreds of people on a concrete floor in Detroit and making a strikingly similar argument.