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During a press conference and ceremony blasting President Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall along the southern border, Pelosi received the honor from Laredo, Texas, Mayor Pete Saenz. “While the Republic was short-lived, ten months in all, we still have that spirit of freedom,” Saenz said.

“HOLD THE DATE!” Trump wrote on Twitter.

JEFF JACOBY Should adding a census question about citizenship raise hackles? Only if it was added dishonestly.  Opinion | Madeleine May Kunin Wear black pantsuits. Don’t mess with your hair. And don’t cackle.  “If we are going to truly fix the way we fund public education in Massachusetts ... if we’re going to make sure that every child regardless of her ZIP Code has access to a great public school, we have to pay for it,” Jason Lewis said.  The Mass. senator introduced herself at a rally as a child of parents saved from financial devastation by her mother’s minimum-wage job.   Mr.

JEFF JACOBY Should adding a census question about citizenship raise hackles? Only if it was added dishonestly.  Opinion | Madeleine May Kunin Wear black pantsuits. Don’t mess with your hair. And don’t cackle.  “If we are going to truly fix the way we fund public education in Massachusetts ... if we’re going to make sure that every child regardless of her ZIP Code has access to a great public school, we have to pay for it,” Jason Lewis said.  The Mass. senator introduced herself at a rally as a child of parents saved from financial devastation by her mother’s minimum-wage job.   Mr.

JEFF JACOBY Should adding a census question about citizenship raise hackles? Only if it was added dishonestly.  Opinion | Madeleine May Kunin Wear black pantsuits. Don’t mess with your hair. And don’t cackle.  “If we are going to truly fix the way we fund public education in Massachusetts ... if we’re going to make sure that every child regardless of her ZIP Code has access to a great public school, we have to pay for it,” Jason Lewis said.  The Mass. senator introduced herself at a rally as a child of parents saved from financial devastation by her mother’s minimum-wage job.   Mr.

JEFF JACOBY Should adding a census question about citizenship raise hackles? Only if it was added dishonestly.  Opinion | Madeleine May Kunin Wear black pantsuits. Don’t mess with your hair. And don’t cackle.  “If we are going to truly fix the way we fund public education in Massachusetts ... if we’re going to make sure that every child regardless of her ZIP Code has access to a great public school, we have to pay for it,” Jason Lewis said.  The Mass. senator introduced herself at a rally as a child of parents saved from financial devastation by her mother’s minimum-wage job.   Mr.

Questions are swirling about what, if anything, will be accomplished when MORE meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un next week in Vietnam. Senior administration officials have done little to clear up the questions, demurring on several specifics they said were still under negotiation with Pyongyang during a call with reporters to discuss the second summit between Trump and Kim. The officials did indicate a priority for the summit is reaching an agreed definition of denuclearization, something that has thus far eluded negotiators. But outside observers say there’s

MORE delivers his final report — especially given that investigations by prosecutors in the Southern District of New York (SDNY), among others, are pressing in on him.  Legal experts who spoke to The Hill stressed the importance of the New York investigation in particular, which encompasses scrutiny of everything from apparent hush money payments to women to the funding of the president’s 2017 inauguration. “Trump is not out of the woods and I think the SDNY proceedings are the most dangerous for both him and for members of his immediate family,” said Mark Zaid, a D.C

Months of pressure from U.S. lawmakers, European allies and defense officials has forced MORE to backtrack on one of the biggest decisions made in his two years in the White House: His plan to totally withdraw U.S. forces from Syria. Senior administration officials said Friday that Trump has agreed to leave roughly 400 troops in Syria just two months after he announced that the terrorist organization ISIS had been defeated in the country and the 2,000 U.S. troops there would withdraw. “U.S.

Special counsel MORE should spend in prison for charges in Washington, D.C., but told the judge presiding over his case that he doesn’t deserve leniency. “Nothing about Manafort’s upbringing, schooling, legal education, or family and financial circumstances mitigates his criminality,” Mueller said in a heavily redacted sentencing memo released Saturday, which details Manafort’s crimes. In the document, originally filed under seal on Friday night, Mueller said that the onetime Trump campaign chairman agreed in his plea deal that anything less than the government’s 17.5