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Democratic attorneys general in several states said Tuesday they would bring legal action to stop the Trump administration from adding a question on citizenship to the next U.S. census, a question they said would lead to serious undercounts that could reverberate for years to come. The administration said late Tuesday it would include a question on the decennial survey that would ask whether respondents are American citizens.  An undercount could put at risk billions of dollars in federal aid, in programs ranging from health care to education and even law enforcement funding for some states.

MORE’s call for a line-item veto of spending bills is the latest example of his frustration with the rules of Washington. Trump urged Congress to give him the veto power during an event late last week when signing a $1.3 trillion spending bill that included a number of provisions he didn’t like. He also repeated his call for the Senate to end its filibuster rule that means most bills need 60 votes to pass. “To prevent the omnibus situation from ever happening again, I'm calling on Congress to give me a line-item veto for all government spending bills,” Trump said.

The disarray in MORE at a critical juncture in the Russia investigation, experts say.  “It’s just astonishing where things stand,” said Harry Litman, a former deputy assistant attorney general who is now a lecturer at the UCLA School of Law. “You simply must have a strategy that you are following through on. He has literally nothing and, as far as we can tell, even the personnel decisions seem to be taken by watching Fox News.”

Moderate lawmakers in both parties believe their influence will rise after the midterm elections no matter which party takes control of the House. The centrists are projecting that either Democrats or Republicans could have a narrow majority, which would give lawmakers in the middle more power to drive the agenda as leaders come begging for their votes. Coalitions of moderate lawmakers also suspect their ranks will swell next year given the political climate. “If it’s a slim [GOP] majority, we also win,” said Rep.

Amid mounting accusations that data firm Cambridge Analytica misused the Facebook data of up to 50 million user profiles, the U.K.-based firm and its top executives are now also under fire for alleged violations of U.S.

White House announced Monday. The expulsions are in response to the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in Salisbury, U.K., earlier this month, and done in conjunction with up to 16 other Western countries, including Germany, Canada, France, and Ukraine -- the "largest collective expulsion of Russian intelligence officers ever," according to British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. Of the 60 Russians in the U.S., 12 are stationed at the Russian mission to the United Nations, where senior administration official

Porn actress Stormy Daniels has a "litany of more evidence" to back her allegation of an affair with President Donald Trump, her lawyer told "Good Morning America" Monday. On the morning after a much-anticipated TV interview with Daniels, the professional name for 39-year-old Stephanie Clifford, lawyers representing both her and Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, traded threats over the validity of her claims. "We have a litany of more evidence in this case, and it’s going to be disclosed and it’s going to be laid bare for the American public," Clifford's attorney, Michael Avena

Hundreds of thousands of people showed up in force all across the country this weekend to demand action on gun violence in the wake of the February shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. Now, the burgeoning March for Our Lives movement is focusing on turning the student activists' talking points into reality. March for Our Lives organizers are calling on supporters to register to vote, educate themselves on issues and cast a ballot in upcoming elections. "That's what it will take to create real change," March for Our Lives wrote in a tweet Monday morning. Stoneman

The TAKE with MaryAlice Parks The Trump administration started the week attempting to bolster its authority on the world stage - only to have allegations of adultery continue to erode its credibility at home. The White House’s retaliatory steps against the Kremlin Monday were sweeping and noteworthy.

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