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Representatives Katherine Clark and Ayanna Pressley said Friday they support the decision made by two high-profile Massachusetts prosecutors this week to join a lawsuit against the federal government to halt immigration agents from making civil arrests at state courthouses. “They know the fear that so many are living in, and I support what they’ve done,” Pressley said of the move by Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins and Middlesex District Attorney Marian T.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says the ‘‘Russian Hoax’’ was one of the topics he discussed with Russian’s Vladimir Putin during a ‘‘Very productive talk!’’ Trump tweeted Friday: ‘‘As I have always said, long before the Witch Hunt started, getting along with Russia, China, and everyone is a good thing, not a bad thing.’’ Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said earlier that Trump and Putin ‘‘very, very briefly’’ discussed special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report during the call, ‘‘essentially in the context of that it’s over and there was no collusion,

New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is making a stop in Brookline on Saturday to stump for Dr. Raul Fernandez, a candidate for the town’s Select Board. The get-out-the-vote event with Ocasio-Cortez comes just days ahead of the town’s May 7 election. The event will include a talk featuring Ocasio-Cortez, followed by a rally for volunteers on the Fernandez campaign. Ocasio-Cortez is no stranger to Boston.

DUBUQUE, Iowa — As Joe Biden made his way across Iowa on his first trip as a 2020 presidential candidate, the former vice president repeatedly returned to one term — aberration — when he referred to the Trump presidency. “Limit it to four years,” Biden pleaded with a ballroom crowd of 600 in the eastern Iowa city of Dubuque.

MORE on Monday signed an executive grant of clemency, a full pardon, to a former Army first lieutenant convicted of murdering an Iraqi prisoner. The White House released a statement announcing Trump's decision to pardon Michael Behenna, who was sentenced in 2009 to 15 years for shooting and killing Ali Mansur Mohamed. The move comes after repeated requests from Oklahoma's attorney general for Trump to pardon Behenna.  "Mr.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Monday formally rejected Democrats’ request for President Trump’s tax returns, setting up a likely court battle. “I am informing you now that the Department may not lawfully fulfill the Committee’s request,” Mnuchin said in a one-page letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.), adding that the request “lacks a legitimate legislative purpose.” Mnuchin said he made the

MORE is at a crossroads: Does she run for an open Senate seat in Wyoming that she’d be favored to win, or continue to climb the House leadership ladder with hopes of making history as the first female GOP Speaker? Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican and the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, has made no decision following Sen.

Senior aides to MORE (D-Calif.) after she suggested the president might not leave office if he were only narrowly defeated in the 2020 election. MORE told The Hill that Pelosi’s argument was “ironic and tone-deaf.” Conway, who was Trump’s third and final campaign manager in 2016 and is now a top White House adviser, blasted “the inability of [Pelosi’s] party and her party’s failed nominee [MORE] to accept the election results of 2016.” Tim Murtaugh, director of communications for Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign, cal

MORE while stoking a deepening feud with Capitol Hill over presidential power. Barr has maintained that he is willing to allow Mueller to testify, a position that now appears to put him at odds with the president. Until this weekend, Trump had expressed ambivalence over Mueller’s testimony, leaving the decision up to Barr. He altered course Sunday, stating in a tweet that Mueller “should not testify” and declaring once again that Mueller’s findings had proven “NO COLLUSION” and “NO OBSTRUCTION.” Barr, at a news conference on April 18, said he did not object to Mueller

In an interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Sunday, Ellis said nearly all former supporters of China entering the WTO in the 1990s have admitted that the decision has led to the gutting of the American working and middle class, except for Biden who continues to downplay the threat of China. Ellis said: As Ellis noted, Biden supported China entering the WTO and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), both of which led to the elimination of nearly five million American manufacturing jobs in the U.S. economy. The U.S.