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Republicans will soon have to go on the record over whether they back President Trump's emergency declaration to secure more money for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. House Democrats are plowing ahead with a Tuesday vote on a resolution sponsored by Rep.

MORE left for Vietnam on Monday, putting him out of the country for one of the most confrontational weeklong stretches he’s faced from the Democratic-held House. While Trump gets set to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the House is expected to vote Tuesday on a measure overturning his emergency declaration to build a wall on the Mexican border. The next day, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform will hear testimony from Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, setting the stage for some of the strangest split-screen cable news shots in U.S.


MORE is talking up the prospects for his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam this week, but foreign policy experts are skeptical real progress will be made. Trump has placed a lot of emphasis on his apparent personal chemistry with Kim, but even conservative analysts are unpersuaded this will count for very much in the end. “A relationship by itself is not an accomplishment,” said Bruce Klingner, a Korean specialist at the conservative Heritage Foundation.  Klingner, a former CIA deputy division chief for Korea, added, “What we need are tangible, u

House Democrats on Tuesday are poised to pass legislation blocking MORE’s emergency declaration on the southern border, sending a clear rebuke to the president and his go-it-alone approach to border security. The resolution, sponsored by Rep.

On Monday, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, S. 311, failed, 53-44, with the requirement of a 60-vote supermajority for approval and only Democrats voting against it. Democrat Sens. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, Doug Jones of Alabama, and Joe Manchin of West Virginia voted with Republicans in favor of the bill. Sen.

On Monday, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, S. 311, failed, 53-44, with the requirement of a 60-vote supermajority for approval and only Democrats voting against it. Democrat Sens. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, Doug Jones of Alabama, and Joe Manchin of West Virginia voted with Republicans in favor of the bill. Sen.

CNN’s Chris Cillizza is predicting President Trump would “lose” the election if it were now. “If the 2020 election were today, Trump would lose,” the headline of a piece Cillizza wrote over the weekend blares across CNN’s website, with the senior CNN analyst writing that it is a “good thing” for Trump that election day is more than 600 days away. To make his point that Trump would lose the election if it were today, Cillizza cites approval rating data from Gallup.

Earlier Monday evening, Univision said Maduro temporarily detained six of its reporters, including Ramos, at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas after asking questions the disputed Venezuelan president “didn’t like.” The network also reported the team’s recording equipment was confiscated before being released. The crew was released around three hours after the incident started, said the network. According to Ramos, Maduro ended their interview upo

MIAMI (AP) — A former worker on President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign claims in a lawsuit filed Monday that he abruptly grabbed her by the hand and planted an unwanted kiss on her face during a Florida meeting with staff and volunteers. Alva Johnson, who lives in the Huntsville, Alabama area, contends in the federal lawsuit that Trump made the nonconsensual advance in August 2016 in Tampa, Florida. She says he ‘‘grasped her hand and did not let go’’ and kissed her on the corner of her mouth as she turned slightly away. ‘‘The forced and unwanted kiss was deeply offensive to Ms.

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.  Although the new chamber is meant to replicate that of historical times, certain changes make it clear this is not the state Senate of the 1800s.  Jason Lewis of Winchester indicated that he wants to go bigger and perhaps bolder than Governor Charlie Baker when it comes to overhauling the state’s education funding formula.  The Mass.