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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.

As President Donald Trump calls for an end to immigration to the U.S. based on extended family ties, the legal status of his mother and father-in-law faces new scrutiny as they move closer toward naturalization and U.S. citizenship. First Lady Slovenia, according to their lawyer Michael Wildes. “I can confirm that Mrs. Trump’s parents are both lawfully admitted to the United States as permanent residents,” Wildes said in a statement to ABC News.

deadly mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida galvanized a national conversation on gun policy reform. In a highly anticipated speech, he made the case that there is room for the gun lobby and gun control advocates to find common ground. "The NRA does care," he told the gathering at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. In a speech to a pro-Trump and pro-gun rights crowd, LaPierre defended the

President Donald Trump continued to push the idea of arming teachers in schools during a meeting with state and local officials at the White House Thursday but also said having "active shooter drills is a very negative thing." "I mean if I'm a child and I'm 10 years old and they say we're gonna have an active shooter drill and they say 'what's that?' and I say 'well, people may come in and shoot you,' I think that's a very negative thing to be honest. I don't like it," Trump said. "I'd much rather have a hardened school. I don't like it.

Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, a former Navy SEAL whose victory in his first run for public office made him a rising Republican political figure, was indicted Thursday on a felony invasion of privacy charge stemming from an affair he had in 2015. Greitens has acknowledged an extramarital relationship, but denied an allegation that he blackmailed the woman. ALLEGATIONS AND INDICTMENT Prosecutors say a St.

A federal grand jury in Virginia has handed up a new 32-count indictment against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his former top aide, Rick Gates. In all, the two men face 16 counts related to filing false individual income tax returns, seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts, five counts of bank fraud conspiracy, and four counts of bank fraud. Manafort and Gates are accused of hiding te

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capital source The suit was filed by former Massachusetts governor William F. Weld and two other plaintiffs.  capital source The long trek back from political gadfly to elected office just might be in the cards for Althea Garrison.  Such introductory events are typically bare bones, but Republican John Kingston’s October event was top shelf.   capital source “He’s proven to be a great steward for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,” president Sean M.

President Trump also said Thursday afternoon that active shooter drills at schools ‘‘are a very negative thing.’’  President Trump’s call to arm teachers drew swift and fierce opposition from teachers, school officials, and Governor Charlie Baker.  I modestly propose that in addition to arming teachers, we should allow students to carry their own weapons.   Former president Barack Obama is offering words of encouragement to the Parkland shooting survivors-turned-activists.

President Trump also said Thursday afternoon that active shooter drills at schools ‘‘are a very negative thing.’’  President Trump’s call to arm teachers drew swift and fierce opposition from teachers, school officials, and Governor Charlie Baker.  I modestly propose that in addition to arming teachers, we should allow students to carry their own weapons.   Former president Barack Obama is offering words of encouragement to the Parkland shooting survivors-turned-activists.