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The freshman congresswoman shared a tweet by the Republican Party of Kentucky that featured the House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth (D-KY) taking a photo next to a cardboard cutout of her. Apparently not realizing who Yarmuth was, she mocked him by tweeting, “GOP: Let’s pose our older male members next to cardboard cutouts of young female legislators”: After Twitter users began to point out her mistake, she deleted the tweet. It is not the first time the 29-year-old Democrat has made an embarrassing gaffe on Twitter.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump kicked off the annual Easter Egg Roll Monday — the White House’s biggest social event of the year. ‘‘I want to wish everybody a very happy Easter,’’ Trump said, addressing the crowd from the Truman Balcony, where he was joined by first lady Melania Trump and a bespectacled bunny character. He also talked about his administration’s investments in the military, saying, ‘‘it is being rebuilt to a level we have never seen before.’’ Trump later blew a whistle that began an egg roll on the South Lawn — one of many

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, confronting a Democratic divide over the findings of the special counsel, urged her caucus Monday to hold off impeaching President Donald Trump for now, even as she denounced the “highly unethical and unscrupulous behavior” that she said had dishonored his office. Her comments, outlined in a letter to House Democrats on Monday and a subsequent conference call with them, seemed designed to increase support for the investigations already begun, rather than impeachment.

LONDON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump will pay a state visit to Britain in June as a guest of Queen Elizabeth II, Buckingham Palace said Tuesday. Trump and his wife, Melania, have ‘‘accepted an invitation from Her Majesty The Queen to pay a State Visit to the United Kingdom,’’ officials said. The visit will take place June 3-5. Trump made an official trip to the U.K.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The financial condition of the government’s bedrock retirement programs for middle- and working-class Americans remains shaky, with Medicare pointed toward insolvency by 2026, according to a report Monday by the government’s overseers of Medicare and Social Security. It paints a sobering picture of the programs, though it’s relatively unchanged from last year’s update.

told The Washington Post on Tuesday that he saw "no reason" to comply with the House subpoenas, arguing that cooperation with special counsel MORE's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election was sufficient. The president has in recent days excoriated Democrats for continuing with investigations into his administration and him personally in the wake of Mueller's report. In the redacted document, investigators did not establish that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government during the 2016 election, but did not exonerate Tru

MORE on Wednesday said that he would attempt to challenge impeachment in the Supreme Court if Democrats carried out such proceedings, though it's unclear the high court would hear such a case. "The Mueller Report, despite being written by Angry Democrats and Trump Haters, and with unlimited money behind it ($35,000,000), didn’t lay a glove on me. I DID NOTHING WRONG," Trump tweeted. "If the partisan Dems ever tried to Impeach, I would first head to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Attorney General MORE's investigation. Barr, who released a redacted version of Mueller's report on Russian interference last week, is slated to appear before the committee on May 1 at 10 a.m. The appearance will give lawmakers an opportunity to grill Barr on Mueller's findings as well as his handling of the special counsel's final report. The attorney general is also expected to testify before the House Judiciary Committee the following day. Barr's appearances before the committees have been planned for weeks.

Democrats blasted the White House Wednesday following back-to-back reports that administration officials were discouraged from raising concerns about Russian interference in the 2020 election.  Several Democratic lawmakers characterized allegations that White House staffers are rebuffing administration officials as "troubling" and questioned if aides were dodging the topic over fear of irritating MORE.  Sen. wrote Sen.