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Bill Shine, a former top Fox News executive, is resigning after less than a year leading MORE’s communications team, the White House announced on Friday. Shine will serve as a senior adviser to Trump's 2020 reelection campaign, according to White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who said Trump accepted Shine’s resignation on Thursday night. “Bill Shine has done an outstanding job working for me and the administration,” Trump said in a statement.

The Trump administration signaled Friday it intends to implement a ban on transgender people serving in the military after a federal court struck down the last injunction against the policy the previous day. “In light of the district court’s decision yesterday to stay the preliminary injunction in Stone v.

A federal judge ruled Friday that potentially thousands of migrant families who were separated at the southern border under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy could be added to an existing class-action lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw had ordered the administration last year to reunite over 2,800 migrant children who were separated from their families at the border. That order applied to those separated after June 26. Sabraw's latest order finds that his decision applies to those detained as early as July 1, 2017.

The White House on Friday rejected a Democratic congressional request to interview a former White House lawyer about hundreds of thousands of dollars in hush money payments made by MORE. White House counsel Pat Cipollone told House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman MORE (D-Md.) in a letter obtained by The Hill that the White House has been “cooperative and responsive” to the panel's requests for documents. But Cipollone said that because the Oversight panel wants to interview Trump’s former deputy assistant and deputy counsel Stefan Pas

Washington has a pressing question for MORE: Did he lie to Congress, again? MORE (D-Md.) replied that he’d “love to hear about it.” “If the president wants to, he can pick up the phone and call me,” he said.

Rubio’s comments come in the wake of reports that Italy is signing onto the Belt and Road Initiative of Chinese president Xi Jinping later this month, which would make Italy the first G-7 nation to join the program. “Italy’s reported desire to curry favor with the Communist Chinese government by endorsing the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ is stunningly naive,” Rubio told Breitbart News. “China’s goal is simple – undermine foreign competition by stealing intellectual property and trade secrets, and artificially propping up Chinese state-directed actors at the expense of its trading ‘partners’.

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The news was announced by White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders. “Serving President Trump and this country has been the most rewarding experience of my entire life. To be a small part of all this President has done for the American people has truly been an honor,” Shine said in a statement.

The House passed H.R. 1, known as the For the People Act, which was approved along staunch party lines on Friday. Conservatives and Republicans alike derided the bill at a “voter fraud and election theft” wish list. Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) sponsored a motion to recommit before the final passage of H.R. 1, to express the sense that illegal aliens’ voting in elections violates fundamental tenets of American democracy.