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President Donald Trump told the nation’s governors that he would have run into the deadly Florida high school shooting “even if I didn’t have a weapon.”   The donation includes profits from Jan. 20 through Dec. 31, 2017but the company declined to provide a sum or breakdown.   The Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration’s highly unusual bid to get the justices to intervene in the controversy over protections for young immigrants.   Names The former first lady also has a memoir coming out in the fall.

Single-payer health care is gaining ground among Democrats. In a sign of the party’s move to the left on the issue, the Center for American Progress (CAP), a bastion of the Democratic establishment, this week released a plan that comes very close to a single-payer system. That’s a dramatic change from just two years ago, when MORE’s (I-Vt.) push of “Medicare for all” as politically unrealistic. The CAP plan, called "Medicare Extra for All," would provide government-run health insurance for everyone, though people would still have the option of obtaining coverage from

Growing political polarization in the United States is a vulnerability that foreign adversaries are exploiting — and experts worry the trend will accelerate. The threat was brought into sharp relief by the indictment of 13 Russians as part of special counsel MORE’s probe into allegations of collusion between Moscow and the 2016 Trump campaign. The Russian efforts, according to the indictment, were part of a broader effort “to sow discord in the U.S.

Congress returns this week amid intense debate over the best legislative approach to mass shootings.  Lawmakers and MORE have proposed a number of controversial ideas, but so far only a handful of specifics. Sen.

The Senate is weighing a short-term fix for "Dreamers" as lawmakers struggle to break a stalemate that has stalled the chamber's debate.  

The hunt for a fallback option comes ahead of the March 5 deadline created by — Mike Lillis contributed The Hill 1625 K Street, NW Suite 900 Washington DC 20006 | 202-628-8500 tel | 202-628-8503 fax The contents of this site are ©2018 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a subsidiary of News Communications, Inc.

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.

American Indian tribes that say they have been cut out of California's legal marijuana market have raised the possibility of going their own way by establishing pot businesses outside the state-regulated system that is less than two months old. The tribes floated the idea of setting up rival farms and sales shops on reservations after concluding that rules requiring them to be licensed by the state would strip them of authority over their own lands and their right to self-governance. The possibility of the tribes break

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