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Robert Francis Kennedy, slain in Los Angeles 50 years ago this week, seems oddly alive today. His ideas and legacy remain fresh, vibrant, unsettling, and challenging.

First lady MORE is expected to host a reception for Gold Star families alongside her husband on Monday, marking her first public appearance in weeks. The White House schedule for Monday lists the Gold Star Families Memorial Day Reception as a closed-press event and says the first lady will be in attendance alongside MORE. The Hill confirmed with a spokesperson that the first lady was planning on appearing. The first lady has not been seen in public since May 19, when she

After weeks of delay, the Supreme Court is expected to make a decision soon on an unusual request from the Trump administration in a politically charged abortion case.  In early November, Solicitor General Noel Francisco asked the court to toss out a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals order that allowed an unaccompanied immigrant teen in federal custody to obtain an abortion.

MORE's allies and legal experts faced new questions on Sunday about the legal ramifications of the revelation that the president dictated a letter about a 2016 meeting between his campaign aides and a Russian lawyer, even as his lawyers argue he can't obstruct justice in the special counsel's probe. "Jay Sekulow said time and time again directly into the faces of the American people on television — Sarah [Huckabee] Sanders did the same thing, and said in no uncertain terms ...

House Republicans have doubled the number of female candidates they have recruited to run for congressional seats this year as they seek to hold their majority and counter accusations of a gender gap with Democrats. There are 103 Republican women, including incumbents, running for House seats this election — up from 48 in the previous election cycle, according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. The recruitments could be crucial in a year where the majority is likely to be decided in suburban swing districts where college-educated women and independent voters f

New talk of MORE possibly pardoning himself drew pushback from Republicans on the Sunday show circuit this week. Both congressional Republicans and the president's attorney Rudy Giuliani urged caution that a self-issued pardon could be politically problematic for Trump. But Giuliani said the president “probably” has the power to give himself a pardon even though doing so would prove to be difficult. “I think the political ramifications of that would be t

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The TAKE with Rick Klein President Donald Trump is creating his own reality to campaign against – a reality with familiar slogans, yet one that is not real. This alternative reality has: a vast, partisan conspiracy to spy on his campaign and try to bring down the presidency; Democrats apparently scheming to separate parents from their children at a lawless border even while being led by "MS-13 lover Nancy Pelosi"; a Second Amendment in imminent danger of repeal;

The TAKE with Rick Klein President Donald Trump is making it all about … President Donald Trump. It's a fact of Trump's brand of leadership that all politics is personal.