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An agreement would break with long-standing asylum rules and place a formidable new barrier in the path of Central American migrants attempting to reach the United States.   Capital Source After failing to generate much attention as a candidate, Brianna Wu is looking ahead. “I’m focused on 2020. I’m going to win this time,” Wu said this week.   Representative Brian Higgins of New York said he had changed his mind after securing an ‘‘agreement in principle’’ that Democrats would undertake a ‘‘serious good faith effort’’ to advance legislation lowering the Medicare eligibility age to 50.

An agreement would break with long-standing asylum rules and place a formidable new barrier in the path of Central American migrants attempting to reach the United States.   Capital Source After failing to generate much attention as a candidate, Brianna Wu is looking ahead. “I’m focused on 2020. I’m going to win this time,” Wu said this week.   Representative Brian Higgins of New York said he had changed his mind after securing an ‘‘agreement in principle’’ that Democrats would undertake a ‘‘serious good faith effort’’ to advance legislation lowering the Medicare eligibility age to 50.

An agreement would break with long-standing asylum rules and place a formidable new barrier in the path of Central American migrants attempting to reach the United States.   Capital Source After failing to generate much attention as a candidate, Brianna Wu is looking ahead. “I’m focused on 2020. I’m going to win this time,” Wu said this week.   Representative Brian Higgins of New York said he had changed his mind after securing an ‘‘agreement in principle’’ that Democrats would undertake a ‘‘serious good faith effort’’ to advance legislation lowering the Medicare eligibility age to 50.

An agreement would break with long-standing asylum rules and place a formidable new barrier in the path of Central American migrants attempting to reach the United States.   Capital Source After failing to generate much attention as a candidate, Brianna Wu is looking ahead. “I’m focused on 2020. I’m going to win this time,” Wu said this week.   Representative Brian Higgins of New York said he had changed his mind after securing an ‘‘agreement in principle’’ that Democrats would undertake a ‘‘serious good faith effort’’ to advance legislation lowering the Medicare eligibility age to 50.

If Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s colleagues hoped she would tone it down once she arrived in Washington, they were mistaken. The freshman firebrand Democrat from the Bronx made it clear she will not sit back, stay quiet and defer to more senior lawmakers. In her first two weeks on the job, the congresswoman-elect joined a climate-change protest outside Democratic Leader MORE (D-N.Y.), the caucus chairman often discussed as a future Speaker, in a stunning primary victory, making her an instant rockstar on the left. And since arriving on Capitol Hill last week,

The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to take up the president's transgender military ban. Solicitor General Noel Francisco filed a petition to Supreme Court justices Friday asking them to hear the issue currently being debated in three lower courts in order to have the case decided quicker, according to CNN. Francisco also argued that the injunctions issued by lower courts warrant review for harming the military. Trump first announced on Twitter his intention to ban tra

Democrats are aggressively targeting another Senate seat in the Deep South in next Tuesday’s runoff election after scoring a major win in Alabama last year, as embattled Sen.

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A new climate report from the federal government released Friday warns that current global and regional efforts to stave off the devastating effects of climate change are insufficient.  The report, the first of its kind released under the Trump administration, finds that climate change is expected to interrupt the way people live day-to-day as it ravages infrastructure, impacts human health, poses challenges to the global economy and threatens the world's energy supply.   The Global Change Research Act of 1990 mandates that the federal gov

“I have always been and remain a staunch advocate of comprehensive immigration reform that’s true to our values and treats every person with dignity, provides a pathway to full and equal citizenship… and brings millions of hardworking people into the formal economy, fixes the family visa backlog, upholds the rule of law, and protects our borders and national security,” she tweeted. “We passed bipartisan comprehensive reform when I was a senator, but House Republicans killed it.