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Senate Majority Leader on Tuesday that he will give an immigration bill a vote, but it won't be attached to a spending deal. "It is still my view that I will call up a DACA related immigration bill that ... the president will sign and that it will not be a part of any overall spending agreement," McConnell told reporters, referring to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Congress has less than two weeks to meet a Jan.

After studying thousands of couples, the psychologist Eli Finkel has an explanation for the decline in people’s satisfaction with their marriages over the past four decades: It’s a matter of emotional supply and demand. Many people are looking to their partners to replace the companionship and emotional support once provided by extended families and local institutions like churches, bowling leagues, bridge groups, fraternal lodges and garden clubs.

President Trump huddled for about an hour with top officials from New York and New Jersey at the White House on Thursday, including Senators Chris Christie, to discuss the future of a multibillion-dollar tunnel between the two states. The so-called Gateway project, to build a train tunnel under the Hudson River, is considered the linchpin of transportation infrastructure in the region and a top priority for many officials from the two states.

It looks like a legal matter mainly, with police investigating, prosecutors deliberating, journalists digging and shady associates cutting deals.

President Donald Trump wants to bring feuding Persian Gulf leaders to Camp David for a show of solidarity with the United States. But there are strings attached: No breakthrough in the Qatar crisis, no Camp David. A potential summit of the six-country Gulf Cooperation Council in May at the prestigious presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains will be scuttled unless Qatar and neighbors United Arab Emirates and Bahrain are on track to resolve the nearly year-long spat.

President Donald Trump says he thinks it's great that China's president now holds that office for life and muses that maybe the U.S. will do the same someday. Trump's remarks were met with laughter and applause during a luncheon for Republican donors Saturday at his South Florida estate. CNN said it obtained a recording of the remarks. Chinese President

The Florida Senate agreed to advance a bill that would increase school safety and restrict gun purchases during a rare Saturday session that often turned into a debate on gun control and arming teachers in the aftermath of last month's Parkland school shootings. The Senate spent nearly eight hours debating dozens of amendments to the 100-page bill before finally approving the legislation for a final vote on Monday.

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capital source Weld filed a suit against Governor Charlie Baker seeking to overturn the winner-take-all system governing the Electoral College vote for presidential elections.   Capital Source Linda Dorcena Forry will announce Thursday night that she’s backing Nick Collins, her formal rival, in the May 1 special election.  Capital Source Scott Lively is appealing to the popular Democrat, citing “due process.”  Wu was the first Asian-American woman on the City Council and the first woman of color to become its president.