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Hawaii judge declines to narrow travel ban injunction
District Judge Derrick Watson rejected the Justice Department's request to narrow his order.
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Cruz: I negotiated health care at Mar-a-Lago
Cruz didn't say what specifically he talked about with Trump's staff, other than they discussed ways to lower costs for consumers.
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Schiff, defending Trump-Russia probe, cites 'direct evidence' of deception
Schiff said he was "surprised" to hear former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper say there was no evidence of coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.
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Collins says Trump 'owes us' a wiretapping explanation
"I don't know the basis for President Trump's assertion, Collins said.
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Mulvaney: Trump's budget shows 'compassion' to supporters
"The president knows who his voters are," Mulvaney said.
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Nunes: There 'never was' evidence of a wiretap at Trump Tower
"If you take the president literally, it didn't happen," the House Intel chair says.
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Ryan: Health care bill must do more for older people
The House speaker said he's seeking changes to the GOP health care bill to provide more assistance to those in their 50s and 60s.
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Western Democrats spearhead Trump resistance
The party's center of gravity may be moving away from the East.
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Democrats under fire as Gorsuch hearings begin
Activists tell lawmakers they better go hard after Trump's Supreme Court nominee.
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How to fix Obamacare with this one amazing trick
Forcing young, mostly healthy Americans off their parents' coverage could help Republicans make good on their promise to salvage the health care system.
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Bush announces launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom, March 19, 2003
The U.S.-led invasion that, according to Bush, was aimed at ridding Iraq of its dictator, Saddam Hussein, and eliminating its ability to store, develop and deploy its stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.
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Trump's 'major meeting' on veterans affairs doesn't happen
The White House did not respond to a question as to why the meeting did not occur.
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How the U.K. spying claim traveled from an ex-CIA blogger to Trump’s White House
Former intelligence analyst Larry Johnson, who has long attacked the U.S. intel community, is standing by his allegation that triggered a feud with America’s closest ally.
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Gorsuch recommended to Justice Dept. that federal judges visit Gitmo
The e-mails shed further light on Gorsuch’s involvement in the national security policies of the George W. Bush administration.
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Protective barrier outside White House breached, drawing Secret Service response
According to a Fox News report, Secret Service cleared Lafayette Park.
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Feinstein on potential for Trump ouster: 'I think he's gonna get himself out'
Feinstein, though, stopped short of suggesting that Trump should be impeached.
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Tillerson says North Korea nuclear program is 'imminent' threat, as China urges talks
Tillerson also said that U.S.-China relations appear to be at a historic inflection point that must be carefully managed.
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Trump in tweet: Germany owes U.S. 'vast sums of money' for NATO
Trump has consistently said on the campaign trail and as president that countries that fall under NATO auspices are not paying their way.
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Tillerson rebuts 'fatigue' reports: South Korea 'never invited us for dinner'
The Korea Herald cited Seoul officials saying that Tillerson opted not to dine with the officials as a result of "fatigue."
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Feds ask Hawaii judge to narrow Trump travel ban injunction
The Trump administration is asking a federal judge in Hawaii to narrow the temporary restraining order he issued Wednesday blocking key parts of President Donald Trump's revised travel ban directive.
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Trump's sons run the business — and keep tweeting about their dad
Donald Jr. and Eric can't talk to their father about government, but that doesn't stop them from supporting his policies in public.
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GOP assault on Obamacare rattles workers in California's 'gig economy'
The unraveling of Obamacare is expected to shake workers in non-permanent jobs around the country, but probably no place is more affected than California.
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Elizabeth Warren finally busts out of her media bubble
With re-election on the horizon, the media-dodging senator is suddenly open and accessible to local reporters.
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Senate Republicans: From 'hell no' to 'not so sure' on Obamacare
The GOP Senate class of 2014 was elected on a pledge to repeal the health care law. Now they're sounding a lot less adamant.
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Chester Arthur breaks Senate tie: March 18, 1881
On this day in 1881, Vice President Chester Arthur broke a 37-37 tie to cast the deciding vote over competing Republican and Democratic slates of Senate committee chairmen and members. But the Democrats refused to budge on replacing the officers they had chosen in the previous Congress. The ensuing stalemate froze Senate business for the next two months.
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9th Circuit judges in nasty feud over Trump travel ban
Jurists trade charges and counter-charges over ruling that kept block on executive order.
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Secret Service: White House fence jumper evaded arrest for 16 minutes
"The men and women of the Secret Service are extremely disappointed and angry in how the events of March 10th transpired," they say.
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Lewandowski raising money for PAC to 'drain the swamp'
Trump’s former campaign manager, who owns a lobbying firm, launches a super PAC to help president.
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House Intel chief 'satisfied' with probe disputing Trump wiretap claims
Nunes said Wednesday that he doesn’t think “there was an actual tap of Trump Tower."
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Obamacare repeal's abortion language could hit procedural snag, GOP warned
The Family Research Council told GOP lawmakers it won't support the repeal effort if the anti-abortion language is struck.
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Ernst declines to ask for King's resignation over 'babies' tweet
“We don’t condone that language, we try to speak respectfully," Ernst says of King.
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Trump Organization: First Treasury donation on hotel stays to come in 2018
The voluntary payments are aimed at avoiding constitutional questions
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Bennet, Gardner to introduce Gorsuch at confirmation hearing
It’s long been tradition that a nominee’s home-state senators give the introduction during the high-profile confirmation hearings.
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Trump advisers want concessions for coal if U.S. stays in climate pact
The White House may be willing to remain in the Paris agreement if it can win support for technologies to reduce greenhouse gases from fossil fuels.
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Sources: Trump to nominate former flight surgeon Mark Green as Army secretary
A source close to Green said that he's currently filling out intensive background checks that the White House personnel office and FBI will review.
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Trump’s media diet causes global heartburn
The president and his aides’ habit of ripping from right-wing media is offending foreign allies and flummoxing fellow Republicans.
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Appropriators: Too late for Trump's fiscal 2017 cuts
A single page of the president's budget now threatens to derail Congress’ most pressing spending deal.
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Priebus talk with FBI appears to break White House rules
Trump’s policy requires that staffers get a lawyer’s approval before discussing a pending investigation.
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Secret Service laptop, pins, radio stolen
Computer containing sensitive security information was still missing Friday afternoon.
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Arkansas lawmakers vote to remove Robert E. Lee from holiday honoring MLK
Once the bill is signed into law, Mississippi and Alabama will be the only states that honor Lee and King on the same day.
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Trump administration appeals travel ban ruling
The administration is appealing a Maryland federal judge's ruling blocking a key part of Trump's revised travel ban executive order.
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Brazile: Leaking town hall topics to Clinton campaign 'mistake I will forever regret'
“Staff were harassed, morale suffered, and we lost weeks of planning," she adds.
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Trump cracks that he and Merkel share experience of Obama spying on them
Many Republicans are reportedly frustrated that Trump continues to advance the unproven theory.
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Liberals swarm to #BoycottHawaii in rare social-media victory
Taking page from Trump supporters, critics take over a hashtag created to support the revised travel ban.
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Trump accuses German reporter of citing 'fake news'
Trump did not directly address the reporter’s question about his disdain for the media.
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White House reassures U.K. that wiretapping claim won't be repeated
British Prime Minister Theresa May’s spokesman told reporters Friday that the U.K. government had told the White House that the claims were “ridiculous and should be ignored.”
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Sen. Ernst calls for Trump to release his tax returns
“The president is working for the American people, I believe he is,” Ernst said. “But when it’s warranted I’m going to stand up and say something.”
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White House links to Washington Post satire slamming budget
The administration’s "1600 Daily" update linked to Alexandra Petri’s opinion piece titled "Trump’s budget makes perfect sense and will fix America, and I will tell you why.”
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In awkward exchange, Trump seems to ignore Merkel's handshake request
It is unclear whether or not Trump heard the chancellor.
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Kellyanne Conway’s husband emerges as front-runner to head DOJ's civil division
Conway, a partner at the firm Watchtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, was previously considered for the post of solicitor general.