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“No agreement was reached at this time, but their respective teams look forward to meeting in the future,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement to White House reporters. The summit was cut short as reporters prepared to cover a lunch during which Trump and Kim Jong-un, with their diplomatic teams, were expected to meet as the peace talks continued.

“We are deeply dismayed and astounded that the U.S. Senate has failed to pass the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act,” reads the joint statement by Arlington Bishop Michael F. Burbidge and Richmond Bishop Barry C.

President Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was grilled by a panel of US House representatives on Wednesday, with Massachusetts Democrats Ayanna Pressley and Stephen Lynch getting their fair share of hits in, and Boston University graduate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez raising questions about Trump’s tax returns. Speaking toward the first half of the Cohen hearing, Lynch fired back at GOP congressmen who were calling the former Trump attorney a liar. Lynch shot back while addressing Cohen, saying committee Republicans ‘‘aren’t afraid you’re going to lie.

Opinion | Madeleine May Kunin Wear black pantsuits. Don’t mess with your hair. And don’t cackle.  Opinion | Michael A. Cohen Democrats don’t necessarily need O’Rourke to win back the White House. The bigger challenge will be to win back the Senate.  Massachusetts Democrats Ayanna Pressley and Stephen Lynch got their share of hits in, and BU graduate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez raised questions about Trump’s tax returns.

Opinion | Madeleine May Kunin Wear black pantsuits. Don’t mess with your hair. And don’t cackle.  Opinion | Michael A. Cohen Democrats don’t necessarily need O’Rourke to win back the White House. The bigger challenge will be to win back the Senate.  Massachusetts Democrats Ayanna Pressley and Stephen Lynch got their share of hits in, and BU graduate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez raised questions about Trump’s tax returns.

Michael Cohen’s appearance before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Wednesday is an early candidate for hearing of the year. MORE’s former longtime personal attorney is poised for an hours-long grilling — all while his former boss watches from Vietnam, where he is meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Here are five things to watch from the big public hearing, which is sandwiched by closed-door sessions by the Senate and House Intelligence committees on Tuesday and Thursday. How much will Cohen actually say? Cohen worked as Trump’s attorne

Vice President Pence rushed to the Senate on Tuesday in a last-ditch effort to convince GOP senators to oppose a resolution approved by the House that would block MORE’s emergency declaration to build a wall on the Mexican border. Pence lunched with Senate Republicans hours before the House vote, but remarks after the meeting pointed to the tall task he and the White House face in stopping the resolution. Senate Majority Leader MORE (R-Ky.) went as far as saying that he’s not sure the declaration is legal, a statement unlikely to give pause t

MORE’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen testifies in public. The stakes are high for Cohen’s appearance before the House Oversight and Reform Committee. According to a New York Times report on Tuesday, he will accuse Trump of potentially criminal conduct as well as the use of racist language. His testimony could embarrass the president in the middle of Trump’s Hanoi summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un — and might provoke a volcanic response. But if Cohen’s testimony will inevitably garner plenty of headlines a

Michael Cohen is expected to deliver a scathing and explosive testimony before the House Oversight and Reform Committee Wednesday, calling MORE, the politically connected Republican operative who worked as an informal adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, coordinated with WikiLeaks to dump a tranche of Democratic emails during the 2016 election.   "I am ashamed because I know what Mr. Trump is. He is a racist. He is a conman. He is a cheat.

The House passed legislation Tuesday to block MORE’s emergency declaration for the southern border, marking an unprecedented congressional challenge to a president’s authority to invoke emergency powers. The resolution passed easily through the Democratic-controlled chamber, 245-182, with Democrats voting unanimously to send it to the Senate.