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Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Tuesday: Surprise! “For months we’ve been working on a very special + secret #GreenNewDeal project,” and promised to reveal it on Wednesday. She posted the video, which she helped write and narrate, on Instagram, giving viewers another look at the socialist values she hopes to put in place in the United States. The video begins as an older Ocasio-Cortez with a streak of gray hair is riding a bullet train from New York to Washington, DC.

With its 29 Electoral College votes, Florida is the nation’s biggest swing state and is critical to Trump’s path to victory in the upcoming race.  If statewide 2016 voting patterns are repeated, the Democratic candidate for president would be able to win the White House by capturing Florida and one other swing state – Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin or Michigan. A centerpiece of the Democrats’ swing state efforts revolve around a Florida state amendment that was passed last year restoring voting rights for felons, with progressive groups battling efforts to require the state’s nearly 1.4 million

The White House is planning to release a 35-page counter-report, according to Politico‘s Darren Samuelsohn. According to Samuelson, President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani texted him at 2:54 a.m. that the counter-report was “now at 34 or 35” pages. “The more concise the better. 400 pages is a novel.” Some sources who did not want to speak on the record say they expect the president will not have much to fear, despite the report being nearly 400 pages long.

WASHINGTON — After nearly two years of waiting, America will get some answers straight from Robert Mueller— but not before President Donald Trump’s attorney general has his say. The Justice Department on Thursday is expected to release a redacted version of the special counsel’s report on Russian election interference and Trump’s campaign, opening up months, if not years, of fights over what the document means in a deeply divided country. Even the planned release of the nearly 400-page report quickly spiraled into a political battle Wednesday over whether Attorney General William Barr is attem

Justice Department officials have had numerous conversations with White House lawyers about the special counsel’s conclusions in recent days, according to people with knowledge of the discussions.   Nestor Ramos When Bill Barr is done with the Mueller report, can he use his quiver of magic markers to take a shot at redacting a few key passages from my life?  National security adviser John Bolton announced rollbacks of Obama administration policy and new restrictions and sanctions against the three countries.

JOAN VENNOCHI He understands what too many sanctimonious Democrats do not: the need to break out of the Rachel Maddow bubble.   Opinion | Margery Eagan The presidential candidate’s calling out of the Christian right’s moral hypocrisy comes just in time for Easter brunch.   Justice Department officials have had numerous conversations with White House lawyers about the special counsel’s conclusions in recent days, according to people with knowledge of the discussions.

JOAN VENNOCHI He understands what too many sanctimonious Democrats do not: the need to break out of the Rachel Maddow bubble.   Opinion | Margery Eagan The presidential candidate’s calling out of the Christian right’s moral hypocrisy comes just in time for Easter brunch.   Justice Department officials have had numerous conversations with White House lawyers about the special counsel’s conclusions in recent days, according to people with knowledge of the discussions.

JOAN VENNOCHI He understands what too many sanctimonious Democrats do not: the need to break out of the Rachel Maddow bubble.   Opinion | Margery Eagan The presidential candidate’s calling out of the Christian right’s moral hypocrisy comes just in time for Easter brunch.   Justice Department officials have had numerous conversations with White House lawyers about the special counsel’s conclusions in recent days, according to people with knowledge of the discussions.

MORE on Tuesday vetoed a measure that would have cut off U.S. military support for the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen's civil war, rebuking Congress for a second time this year. In a statement to the Senate released by the White House, Trump called the joint resolution "unnecessary" and argued it would negatively affect U.S. foreign policy. The resolution, which would have required Trump to withdraw any U.S.

MORE is emerging as the front-runner to win the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. Sanders, the Independent senator from Vermont, has surged to an early lead in fundraising. His poll numbers are better than any other candidate in the race — and are rivaled only by former Vice President MORE, who has yet to enter the contest and who has been beset by concerns over his behavior toward women. Even Sanders’s gambles are paying off for now.