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Hundreds of students gathered on Capitol Hill Friday to argue for gun control ahead of a Saturday march expected to bring hundreds of thousands to Washington, D.C. Flanked by a handful of Democratic lawmakers, including former Rep.

MORE on Friday signed a $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill, averting a government shutdown just hours after he created drama and uncertainty by threatening a veto.  Trump blasted the measure as “ridiculous,” in large part because it contained only a fraction of the money he asked for a wall along the Mexican border and did not include a fix for young immigrants covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program he spiked last year.  But the president begrudgingly signed the bill, citing the reversal of military spending cuts that he said put the na

MORE is moving aggressively to reshape his team, and the unexpected moves are causing turmoil within his embattled staff.
 
The president’s supporters are cheering his decision to replace national security adviser H.R. McMaster with former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, whose views are more in line with those of the president. 

House Minority Leader MORE (D-Calif.) condemned the Trump administration's move late Friday to ban most transgender Americans from serving in the U.S.

MORE is moving ahead with his plan to ban most transgender people from serving in the military, with limited exceptions, following up on a proposal he called for last summer. The White House issued a memorandum late Friday on policies determined by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, stating that transgender people are "disqualified from military service except under limited circumstances." The memo, filed in U.S.

President transgender individuals is supposed to go into effect Friday but it’s unclear if the White House will announce any new policy. Defense Secretary James Mattis sent his private recommendation to the White House a month ago but it hasn't been revealed. After the president's tweets, March 23 was the date set in the presi

Karen McDougal, the former Playboy centerfold model who alleges she had a 10-month romantic affair with Donald Trump, pushed back tonight against White House claims that there was no truth to her allegations of a previous relationship with the president. "I think somebody's lying," McDougal told CNN. "And I can tell you, it's not me." McDougal’s interview –- after a decade of silence -- comes just two days after she filed a lawsuit in state court in California, seeking to invalidate a contract she signed with American Media, Inc., the parent company of the National Enquirer.

President Donald Trump on Friday sent a shockwave through Washington with a surprise tweet threatening to veto the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill passed by Congress. "I am considering a VETO of the Omnibus Spending Bill based on the fact that the 800,000 plus DACA recipients have been totally abandoned by government shutdown. The House approved its version Thursday in a 256 to 167 vote. Government funding expires at midnight.

President Trump signed the bill just hours after saying he was considering a veto. He also warned Congress that he will ‘‘never sign another bill like this again.”  Ensconced in the relative luxury of Air Force Two, Vice President Mike Pence has been able to ride out some of the rockiest patches of Trump’s tumultuous presidency.   The young adviser to then-candidate Donald Trump had the campaign’s blessing for some of his foreign outreach, documents show.  John Bolton is outspoken and hawkish. And soon he’ll have the ear of the president.

President Trump signed the bill just hours after saying he was considering a veto. He also warned Congress that he will ‘‘never sign another bill like this again.”  Ensconced in the relative luxury of Air Force Two, Vice President Mike Pence has been able to ride out some of the rockiest patches of Trump’s tumultuous presidency.   The young adviser to then-candidate Donald Trump had the campaign’s blessing for some of his foreign outreach, documents show.  John Bolton is outspoken and hawkish. And soon he’ll have the ear of the president.