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President Trump’s new guidelines will abandon an Obama administration policy that called on universities to consider race as a factor in diversifying their campuses.   Another member of President Trump’s administration was confronted by a member of the public, this time in a tea shop in Washington, D.C.  Names Representative Joe Kennedy III says he isn’t looking ahead to 2020 in his cover interview with the magazine.

President Trump’s new guidelines will abandon an Obama administration policy that called on universities to consider race as a factor in diversifying their campuses.   Another member of President Trump’s administration was confronted by a member of the public, this time in a tea shop in Washington, D.C.  Names Representative Joe Kennedy III says he isn’t looking ahead to 2020 in his cover interview with the magazine.

MORE said Monday he has interviewed four potential Supreme Court nominees as he moves closer to picking a replacement for retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. 

Speaking during a White House meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Trump said he plans to meet with two or three more candidates before making a final decision “over the next few days.”

“They are outstanding people. They are really incredible people in so many different ways,” Trump told reporters. “I had a very, very interesting morning.”

MORE is defending his plans to levy billions of tariffs on the nation's closest trading partners even as allies retaliate one-by-one. Trump and his top administration officials remain steadfast on his protectionist trade policies, arguing that growing trade deficits prove the the United States has been losing on the global stage for years. The United States has levied hefty steel and aluminum tariffs for national security reasons on all but a handful of countries, hit China with duties over the alleged theft of intellectual property and is contemplating another round

Michael Cohen has legal tongues wagging after a new interview in which he appears to give the signal that he could flip on MORE’s investigation. Cohen, the longtime personal lawyer and “fixer” to Trump, once professed that he would “take a bullet for the president.” But in an interview released Monday by ABC News, he appeared to be singing a different tune. “My wife, my daughter and my son have my first loyalty and always will,” Cohen told ABC’s George

MORE’s policies. Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known colloquially as AMLO, campaigned on a radical anti-corruption ticket. But his campaign approach to U.S.-Mexico relations was in many ways similar to that of his opponents, as Trump and his policies remain deeply unpopular across Mexico’s political spectrum. "AMLO was actually quite restrained about the United States during the campaign; all candidates were critical [of Trump]," said Earl Anthony Wayne, who was U.S.

Senate Democratic Leader MORE (N.Y.) is under pressure from the left to whip Democrats hard to oppose any Supreme Court nominee who might vote to overturn Roe v.

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The TAKE with Rick Klein Now it’s really on – and then some, and then some again. The battle for Justice Anthony Kennedy’s swing seat on the Supreme Court will play out with different rules governing a familiar game.