Article snippet: Renée Graham Now that California’s Kamala Harris has announced for president, conspiracy theorists are making up the same lies about her citizenship that Barack Obama faced. Michael A. Cohen President Trump made a deal to end the shutdown, but plutocrats have made it clear forever what they think of the American worker. What She Said What’s a Beacon Hill lawmaker supposed to look like anyway? Tram Nguyen and her colleagues are challenging assumptions. The Senate, in a stinging bipartisan rebuke to President Trump, advanced legislation to express strong opposition to the withdrawal of US military forces from Syria and Afghanistan. Warren’s office was mum on what exactly she would announce, but she is widely expected to say that she is officially running for president. Political Notebook Trump’s executive order is meant to be an economic shot-in-the-arm for workers held up as symbols of the president’s tough-on-trade stance. President Trump lashed out at his intelligence chiefs Wednesday after they told Congress that North Korea is unlikely to dismantle its nuclear arsenal and the Iran deal is working. US intelligence agencies told Congress on Tuesday that North Korea is unlikely to dismantle its nuclear arsenal, that ISIS remains a threat and that the Iran nuclear deal is working. Senator Elizabeth Warren is pushing a novel tax idea as one of the first major proposals of her nascent presidental campaign: A tax on the wealth of the super rich. ... Link to the full article to read more