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President Donald Trump is ending a program that has allowed approximately 3,600 Liberians to stay in the U.S. for over two decades, giving them one year from now to leave the country or face deportation. It's the latest example of Trump ending a program that's protected tens of thousands of immigrants from various countries from deportation and kept them in the U.S. legally.

Frustrated that the latest spending bill only allocates $1.6 billion for border security, President Donald Trump has suggested on Twitter and in a meeting with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., that the military should shell out for his $25 billion border wall. There's just one problem with that: Doing so would require an act of Congress. A Senate Appropriations Committee aide told ABC News there is no authority that the committee is aware of that would allow the Department of Defense to do this without c

President Second Amendment. “The second amendment will never be repealed,” Trump tweeted Wednesday.

The TAKE with MaryAlice Parks The White House yesterday could have tried to allay the fears of immigrants, civil right activists, and Democrats worried that the last-minute addition to the 2020 census -- a question on citizenship -- will significantly dampen immigrant participation. Press secretary Sarah Sanders could have said the White House wants everyone, regardless of status, to still partici

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Capital Source Nick Rizzo went to jail in the 1990s for what federal prosecutors said at the time was the “largest case of campaign fraud in the history of this country.”  Capital Source The short-lived and often-parodied former White House press secretary will speak at a $250-per-head fund-raiser downtown next month.  capital source Kathleen O’Connor Ives, who first won election in 2012, said it’s time for a “new chapter,” and pointed to devoting more attention to her family.  CAPITAL SOURCE Anthony Amore, a Republican, had been planning a run for the state House of Representatives, but has s

President Trump has fired David Shulkin, tweeting that White House doctor Ronny Jackson is his nominee to be the next Veterans Affairs secretary.  The talks suggest that President Trump’s lawyers were concerned about what Mike Flynn and Paul Manafort might reveal were they to cut a deal in exchange for leniency.

President Trump has fired David Shulkin, tweeting that White House doctor Ronny Jackson is his nominee to be the next Veterans Affairs secretary.  The talks suggest that President Trump’s lawyers were concerned about what Mike Flynn and Paul Manafort might reveal were they to cut a deal in exchange for leniency.

President Trump has fired David Shulkin, tweeting that White House doctor Ronny Jackson is his nominee to be the next Veterans Affairs secretary.  The talks suggest that President Trump’s lawyers were concerned about what Mike Flynn and Paul Manafort might reveal were they to cut a deal in exchange for leniency.

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