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AUSTIN, Texas — Democrat Beto O’Rourke has told a Texas TV station that he’s running for president in 2020. The former Texas congressman sent a text message to KTSM Wednesday afternoon confirming the news that he will seek the Democratic presidential nomination. He wrote: ‘‘I’m really proud of what El Paso did and what El Paso represents. It’s a big part of why I’m running. This city is the best example of this country at its best.’’ O’Rourke was little-known outside his hometown of El Paso until he challenged Republican Sen. Ted Cruz last year.

Indira A.R. Lakshmanan The Brexit debacle shows us we are in an age of irresponsibility.  Opinion | Diane Hessan The Democratic Party is in dire need of some soul-searching.  The vote brings Congress one step closer to a unprecedented rebuke of President Trump’s foreign policy.  State Representative Paul McMurtry faced allegations he grabbed the backside of an incoming legislator during a Dec. 13 cocktail hour.

Indira A.R. Lakshmanan The Brexit debacle shows us we are in an age of irresponsibility.  Opinion | Diane Hessan The Democratic Party is in dire need of some soul-searching.  The vote brings Congress one step closer to a unprecedented rebuke of President Trump’s foreign policy.  State Representative Paul McMurtry faced allegations he grabbed the backside of an incoming legislator during a Dec. 13 cocktail hour.

Indira A.R. Lakshmanan The Brexit debacle shows us we are in an age of irresponsibility.  Opinion | Diane Hessan The Democratic Party is in dire need of some soul-searching.  The vote brings Congress one step closer to a unprecedented rebuke of President Trump’s foreign policy.  State Representative Paul McMurtry faced allegations he grabbed the backside of an incoming legislator during a Dec. 13 cocktail hour.

Indira A.R. Lakshmanan The Brexit debacle shows us we are in an age of irresponsibility.  Opinion | Diane Hessan The Democratic Party is in dire need of some soul-searching.  The vote brings Congress one step closer to a unprecedented rebuke of President Trump’s foreign policy.  State Representative Paul McMurtry faced allegations he grabbed the backside of an incoming legislator during a Dec. 13 cocktail hour.

The Pentagon announced Tuesday that a directive has been signed to implement MORE's policy barring most transgender people from serving in the military. Under the policy, transgender people who join after it takes effect will have to serve in the gender they were assigned at birth.

Senate Majority Leader MORE (R-Ky.) signaled on Tuesday that he is open to changing the president's national emergency powers as support grows within the GOP caucus for amending the National Emergencies Act. "We're looking at some ways to revisit the law. There's a lot of discomfort with the law. ... Was it too broad back in the '70s when it was passed?

Former Vice President MORE. “I’m giving it a shot,” Biden said matter-of-factly during a phone call with a House Democratic lawmaker within the past week — a conversation the congressman recounted to The Hill and interpreted as a sure sign that Biden will run in 2020. In the brief phone call, the former vice president asked if he could bounce some campaign strategy ideas off the lawmaker and invited the lawmaker to sit down with him in person in the near future.

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Vice President Pence is discussing an offer with Republican senators that could lead to the defeat of a Democratic resolution overturningPresident Trump’s emergency declaration to build a wall on the Mexican border, according to GOP sources briefed on the matter.  Under the deal discussed between Pence and GOP senators, Trump would sign legislation reining in his power to declare future national emergencies if they defeat the resolution of disapproval. Killing the resolution on the Republican-controlled Senate floor would spare the president a major embarrassment and avoid him hav