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Perhaps most jarring to this year’s freshmen, three Democrats in their late 70s are running unopposed in elections this week for the top leadership spots in the House.  Trump slams Fed chair, questions climate change and threatens to cancel Putin meeting  Mississippi voters are choosing between a white Republican Senate appointee backed by President Trump and a black Democrat who was agriculture secretary in the Clinton administration.

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Perhaps most jarring to this year’s freshmen, three Democrats in their late 70s are running unopposed in elections this week for the top leadership spots in the House.  Trump slams Fed chair, questions climate change and threatens to cancel Putin meeting  Mississippi voters are choosing between a white Republican Senate appointee backed by President Trump and a black Democrat who was agriculture secretary in the Clinton administration.

Perhaps most jarring to this year’s freshmen, three Democrats in their late 70s are running unopposed in elections this week for the top leadership spots in the House.  Trump slams Fed chair, questions climate change and threatens to cancel Putin meeting  Mississippi voters are choosing between a white Republican Senate appointee backed by President Trump and a black Democrat who was agriculture secretary in the Clinton administration.

Clashes between migrants and law enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico border near Tijuana have created a new challenge for lawmakers hoping to placate MORE’s demands for a border wall and prevent a government shutdown. Before border authorities turned to tear gas on Sunday to turn away migrants rushing the border, many lawmakers and aides on Capitol Hill thought Trump would likely sign funding legislation to prevent a shutdown, even if it represented a watered-down border security package. The ugliness on Sunday, Republicans say, is only likely to convince Trump to dig his

General Motors’s plans to slash 15,000 jobs and shutter up to four U.S. factories sparked a firestorm of criticism from Washington on Monday. The company’s plans to massively restructure its business played well with investors, sending GM’s stock rising.

Special Counsel MORE’s one-time campaign chairman, violated his plea agreement by lying to federal prosecutors. “After signing the plea agreement, Manafort committed federal crimes by lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Special Counsel’s Office on a variety of subject matters, which constitute breaches of the agreement,” Mueller's team said in a joint status report with Paul Manafort's defense attorneys filed late Monday. Mueller’s prosecutors asked the judge to schedule a date for sentencing. Manafort was convicted on eight counts of bank and tax fra

MORE. Trump headlined two rallies on behalf of Hyde-Smith ahead of Tuesday's runoff to fill the remaining two years of retired Sen. MORE’s (R) term in a race that’s become unexpectedly competitive in deep-red Mississippi. Hyde-Smith will square off against former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy (D), who's vying to become the first black senator in the state since Reconstruction. “I think it’ll be a very big day for Cindy, but don’t take any chances,” Trump said in Tupelo, Miss., on Monday night. “That’s happened many times before.

They accused Trump of hyping the threat as recently as early November, claiming that the migrants were hundreds of miles away and that only a fraction of the caravan would make it to the border. However, only two weeks later, the first of thousands of migrants arrived at the Mexican border with California. Mexican officials now say almost 9,000 migrants have arrived.