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President Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum imports will take effect in 15 days, with Canada and Mexico indefinitely exempted from the duties.  “Oh, he’s still alive,” a steel worker said after President Trump told him that the man’s father was looking down on him from heaven.  One person who attended the Thursday White House meeting described it as ‘‘respectful but contentious.’’  President Trump had a laurel and a dig for one of his favorite “globalists” Thursday as he bid top economic adviser Gary Cohn farewell.  The hearing stemmed from a lawsuit filed in July by people who were blo

President Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum imports will take effect in 15 days, with Canada and Mexico indefinitely exempted from the duties.  “Oh, he’s still alive,” a steel worker said after President Trump told him that the man’s father was looking down on him from heaven.  One person who attended the Thursday White House meeting described it as ‘‘respectful but contentious.’’  President Trump had a laurel and a dig for one of his favorite “globalists” Thursday as he bid top economic adviser Gary Cohn farewell.  The hearing stemmed from a lawsuit filed in July by people who were blo

President Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum imports will take effect in 15 days, with Canada and Mexico indefinitely exempted from the duties.  “Oh, he’s still alive,” a steel worker said after President Trump told him that the man’s father was looking down on him from heaven.  One person who attended the Thursday White House meeting described it as ‘‘respectful but contentious.’’  President Trump had a laurel and a dig for one of his favorite “globalists” Thursday as he bid top economic adviser Gary Cohn farewell.  The hearing stemmed from a lawsuit filed in July by people who were blo

MORE’s populist supporters are shedding no tears over the departure of Gary Cohn as chief economic adviser, but it is a different story among the broader universe of Republicans. Lawmakers and other experts are worried about the former Goldman Sachs executive’s departure, fearing it removes one of the more seasoned and realistic voices from Trump’s orbit. One veteran of former President George W.

Attorney General MORE on Wednesday announced a new lawsuit against the state of California, escalating a war of words between the conservative administration and the liberal capital of the so-called resistance. Sessions on Wednesday announced the administration would sue the Golden State over three laws that hinder its ability to enforce federal immigration laws. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the Eastern District of California and announced Wednesday by Sessions before law enforcement officers in Sacramento, is only the latest in a string of decisions the Trump admini

The White House on Wednesday denied that MORE had an affair with adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, who is aggressively pursuing legal avenues to free herself from a contract that prohibits her from talking about their alleged relationship. “The president has addressed these directly and made very well clear that none of these allegations are true,” press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said during a White House briefing.

The New York Times. Trump reportedly told White House counsel Don McGahn he should issue a statement denying a previous Times report that said Mueller’s team had learned the president once asked McGahn to fire Mueller.  Trump also reportedly asked former chief of staff MORE during a December meeting how his interview with Mueller’s team had gone and if the investigators had been “nice.” Priebus, according to the Times, told Trump that they had conducted

GOP nerves are on edge over the direction of MORE’s economic policy, given the prospects for new tariffs and the resignation of Gary Cohn, whom they viewed as a voice of reason within the administration. For a GOP used to dealing with pro-trade Republican presidents, the threat to impose a 25 percent tariff on steel imports and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum imports has been a thunderbolt. It has left lawmakers worried about what could come next and whether Trump might follow through on threats to rip up the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Canada and

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions dramatically escalated the Trump administration's war with California on Wednesday, suing over its so-called sanctuary state law and clashing with Democratic Gov.

The Republican Jewish Coalition is calling for the resignation of seven Democratic members of Congress whom it claims are "connected" to controversial Nation of Islam leader Maxine Waters, D-Calif.; Danny Davis, D-Ill.; Andre Carson, D-Ind.; Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y.; and Al Green, D-Texas. The aforementioned lawmakers have at one point in their careers while in the House -- but not necessarily anytime recently nor with any frequency -- met Farrakhan.