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Former White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders took to Twitter Saturday and blasted House Democrats for “wasting time on their impeachment sham” instead of passing the U.S.-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade deal. Saturday, November 30, 2019, marked the one-year anniversary of President Trump, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s signing of the USMCA. “With our signatures today, we will formally declare the intention of our countries to replace NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement], a truly groundbreaking achievement,” Trump

House Intelligence Committee members are expected to review their report regarding the ongoing impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump’s telephone call with the leader of Ukraine, according to a report. Politico said Saturday that members will be granted up to a 24-hour review period and are slated to sign off on the report Tuesday.

BLOOMER, Wis. — Marc Boettcher’s day started before dawn, when he fired up the hammer mill that ground up corn for a mixture he fed to the steers in his barn. There was an empty room where he used to milk dairy cows until he sold them a couple of years back, but on a cold morning this summer, much of the barn was full of cattle — curious, anxious, and endearingly weird — who jostled one another to get a look at him. One left him a gift of manure in the drinking trough.

NEW LONDON, Wis. — Once it was clear that an evangelical Christian such as Ben Carson or Ted Cruz was not going to be the Republican nominee in 2016, Linda Behm prayed. Behm is evangelical, too, with curly gray hair and a calendar filled with volunteer shifts at a thrift store and a food pantry in this small community an hour away from Green Bay. She wasn’t sure about supporting Donald J.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — Joe Biden launched an eight-day bus tour of Iowa on Saturday projecting confidence, ignoring his many Democratic presidential competitors and pledging that he will unseat President Donald Trump in 2020. The former vice president pledged first to win the Feb.

NEW LONDON, Wis. — After it was clear that neither of her preferred candidates, Ben Carson and Ted Cruz, was going to be elected president in 2016, Linda Behm prayed. Behm is an evangelical Christian and keeps a calendar filled with volunteer shifts at a thrift store and a food pantry in this small community an hour away from Green Bay. She wasn’t sure about supporting Donald J. Trump, the New York business magnate with a penchant for insults and crude behavior.

WASHINGTON - House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., set a Tuesday meeting to approve the release of a report expected to detail the panel’s findings on President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine. In keeping with committee rules, panel members are expected to be able to review the report starting at 6 p.m. Monday, 24 hours before the scheduled meeting.

MORE on Thursday made a surprise trip to Afghanistan, his first to the nation as president, to visit troops for the Thanksgiving holiday. Trump held a meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, during which he announced that he has restarted peace talks with the Taliban, and that he’d like to reduce the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan to 8,600, down from a current total of less than 14,000. Trump arrived at Bagram Airfield, the largest U.S. base in Afghanistan, and was expected to be on the ground for roughly 2 1/2 hours.

Police in London responded to what they described as a "terror-related" stabbing Friday that left multiple people injured and a suspect dead near London Bridge. A BBC reporter said he witnessed a group of men engaged in a fight on the bridge. When police arrived, shots were then fired, he said. Police said on Twitter that they had detained a man in connection with the stabbing, saying he had been shot by officers.

An adviser to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) hit back at Rep. warned that Kemp could face a primary challenger if he doesn't appoint Trump's preferred candidate to a soon-to-be open Senate seat.  "Mind your own business.