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Senator Elizabeth Warren’s dog, Bailey, has become a fixture in the Massachusetts Democrat’s bid for the White House. Bailey poses for selfies, attends press conferences, and even has his own merch. But even the best campaign staffers sometimes have a bad day. On Friday morning, Warren tweeted a photo of a somber-looking Bailey surrounded by the shredded remains of an unlucky piece of home decor. “Bailey was a bad boy this morning.

TOKYO — President Trump needled Japan over the US-Japan trade imbalance as he kicked off a state visit to the country Saturday that’s been tailor-made to his whims and ego. Speaking at a reception with several dozen Japanese and American business leaders at the US ambassador’s residence in Tokyo shortly after his arrival, Trump said the US and Japan ‘‘are hard at work’’ negotiating a new bilateral trade agreement that he said would benefit both countries. ‘‘I would say that Japan has had a substantial edge for many, many years, but that’s OK,’’ Trump told the gr

TOKYO — US national security adviser John Bolton on Saturday called a series of short-range missile tests by North Korea earlier this month a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions and said sanctions must be kept in place. Washington’s position on the North’s denuclearization is consistent and a repeated pattern of failures to rid North Korea of nuclear weapons should be stopped, Bolton said, defending the recent US seizure of a North Korean cargo ship.

(Bloomberg) -- A Facebook Inc. executive told CNN the company wouldn’t remove a manipulated video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, stating that there’s no policy that says content on the social-networking website must be accurate. The video shows Pelosi appearing to slur her words and stammer, as if drunk or mentally incapacitated.

Rep. MORE's impeachment.  At a town hall in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Amash criticized House Republican leadership, including Minority Leader MORE (R-Calif.), whom he called the “so-called leader.” “I read the Mueller report. I’m sure he didn’t read it,” Amash said of McCarthy.

MORE.” While in Japan, Trump repeatedly criticized Biden on Twitter and during a press conference alongside Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

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MORE while traveling in Japan, which triggered bipartisan blowback against the president. “I was actually sticking up for Sleepy Joe Biden while on foreign soil.

The Supreme Court avoided making a major ruling on abortion Tuesday, even as conservative Justice MORE warned it would not be able to put off the inevitable for much longer. The court handed down a pair of rulings on an Indiana abortion law — letting stand one part of the statute that requires remains from an abortion or miscarriage be buried, but keeping in place a lower court ruling that struck down the ban on abortions based on the fetus’s gender, race or disabilities. The decisions come as Republican-led state legislatures have approved a series of laws in recent

A report by the Associated Press (AP) states that aside from DHS releasing nearly 200,000 border crossers and illegal aliens into about four American communities since December 2018, the agency is flying border crossers and illegal aliens into U.S.