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In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court upheld President Trump’s ban on travel from several mostly Muslim countries.   Ground Game The law upheld by the court is a scaled-back version from what President Trump originally proposed nearly three years ago.  Several celebrities and nearly 50 other members of the Kennedy family also plan to participate in the fast.

A restaurant owner’s refusal to serve White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is snowballing into more than a partisan food fight, highlighting a deepening divide that’s made its way from political arenas to dining tables. The Virginia restaurant’s move on Friday ignited an orgy of recriminations and debate about where the line is between personal disagreement and harassment, and underlined how the Trump era is reshaping social norms because of today’s extraordinary political polarization. The controversy, Axelrod wrote on Twitter, is a “triumph” for Trump’s “vision of America: Now

A House Republican on Monday introduced a measure to censure Rep. MORE (D-Calif.) and called on her to resign following her comments calling on Democrats to publicly confront officials in the Trump administration. "If you think we're rallying now you ain't seen nothing yet," Waters told supporters at a rally in Los Angeles over the weekend.

Rep. MORE (D-Calif.) on Monday defended her calls for supporters to confront Trump administration officials in public places, but emphasized that she believes in peaceful protests.  Waters took questions on Monday hours after MORE attacked her on Twitter, calling her “low IQ” and insinuating that she could face harassment for her remarks.  “I have nothing to do with the way people decide to protest. Protest is the democratic way as long as it is peaceful,” Waters said. “I believe in peaceful protest.

A Virginia restaurant’s decision to not serve White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders reverberated throughout Washington on Monday, as MORE seized on the story and Democratic leaders sought to distance their party from a liberal firebrand’s decision to cheer it on. Trump focused on the brewing controversy as a way to shift the focus from his administration’s “zero tolerance” border policy and onto the actions of his fiercest critics. The president tweeted his disgust on Monday morning with The Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Va., and then followed his miss

House GOP leaders will push ahead with a vote Wednesday on their compromise immigration bill, making one last effort to pass the measure even as key lawmakers express pessimism they have any shot of success. Lead negotiators took the weekend to make changes to the bill in an effort to secure 218 Republican votes.

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The TAKE with Rick Klein "This will solve the problem," President signing an order he claimed he couldn’t sign, and by changing a policy his administration claimed wasn’t a policy at all. The disturbing images that led to this point. Trump typically moves on as quickly as news cycles, and he’ll claim to have acted decisively and definitively. But this episode proves a broader point: The White House was not a

The TAKE with Rick Klein The first lady’s jacket may suggest otherwise, but this week the American people answered the question emphatically: They care. Just as important, their voices mattered.