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Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, said Sunday that his words were taken out of context when he acknowledged on Thursday that military aid to Ukraine was being tied to President Trump seeking a political favor. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, said Sunday that his words were taken out of context when he acknowledged on…

Video Trump cancels plans to host G7 Summit at his Florida resort Former Arkansas Republican Gov. Mike Huckabee weighs in on the media’s reaction to President Trump’s proposal to host the G7 Summit at his Florida resort. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said President Trump “made the right move” when he announced that his administration will no longer consider hosting the 2020 G-7 summit at his personal resort in Doral, Fla….

Video Trump cancels plans to host G7 Summit at his Florida resort Former Arkansas Republican Gov. Mike Huckabee weighs in on the media’s reaction to President Trump’s proposal to host the G7 Summit at his Florida resort. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said President Trump “made the right move” when he announced that his administration will no longer consider hosting the 2020 G-7 summit at his personal resort in Doral, Fla….

Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, said Sunday that his words were taken out of context when he acknowledged on Thursday that military aid to Ukraine was being tied to President Trump seeking a political favor. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, said Sunday that his words were taken out of context when he acknowledged on…

A controlled demolition was initially set to take place Friday, but officials decided to hold off after crews inspecting the structures realized that bringing them down would be more hazardous than they originally believed. After tweaking their plans, crews could begin the operation as early as noon Sunday, officials said.

A panel on MSNBC Live mocked Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard for not explicitly denying Hillary Clinton’s accusation that she is a Russian asset. Clinton, 71, said that the Hawaii congresswoman is being groomed by Moscow to run as a third-party spoiler candidate in 2020 to help President Trump win reelection. Gabbard has since hit back at the 2016 presidential candidate. “One thing that was interesting about Tulsi Gabbard’s response,…

Johnson grudgingly asked for an extension to the deadline late on Saturday night, but EU leaders don’t necessarily have to accept it. Some have ruled out giving Britain more time, piling pressure on U.K. lawmakers to accept the current deal. But it’s unlikely they would want a no-deal scenario and the potential economic hit it could mean for both sides of the English Channel. Brussels could offer a technical extension…

President Donald Trump has retreated from a plan to host next year’s G7 summit at his Miami resort amid criticism that it was a brazen attempt to use his position to benefit his private businesses. Critics — including Democrats and Republicans — widely panned the choice, announced Thursday, as one of the starkest examples of self-dealing in a presidency that has taken the practice to unprecedented levels. Saturday, Trump said…

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Johnson grudgingly asked for an extension to the deadline late on Saturday night, but EU leaders don’t necessarily have to accept it. Some have ruled out giving Britain more time, piling pressure on U.K. lawmakers to accept the current deal. But it’s unlikely they would want a no-deal scenario and the potential economic hit it could mean for both sides of the English Channel. Brussels could offer a technical extension…

Sunday’s protest, initially planned to show opposition to a recently enacted law  banning the use of face masks at public gatherings, continued for hours from a starting point in the Tsim Sha Tsui neighborhood. April, 27, and her boyfriend, William, 29, stood near a park where protesters first gathered. The two said they had held off getting married or having kids out of concern over the direction of Hong Kong…

The union, which has been fighting to gain more influence over the direction of the school system, has rejected the Board of Education’s offer of 16% base-pay raises over five years. The union instead wants 15% over three years. But even as state law mostly restricts teachers to striking over pay and compensation issues, union leaders have pushed back on those restrictions, highlighting demands related to staffing, class sizes and…

Trump abandoned his plan to host the next G-7 summit at his Doral, Miami, golf resort, on Saturday. Alex Sanz/AP hide caption toggle caption Alex Sanz/AP Trump abandoned his plan to host the next G-7 summit at his Doral, Miami, golf resort, on Saturday. Alex Sanz/AP President Trump announced that he’s dropping his plan to host next year’s Group of Seven meeting of the leaders of the world’s biggest economies…

Johnson grudgingly asked for an extension to the deadline late on Saturday night, but EU leaders don’t necessarily have to accept it. Some have ruled out giving Britain more time, piling pressure on U.K. lawmakers to accept the current deal. But it’s unlikely they would want a no-deal scenario and the potential economic hit it could mean for both sides of the English Channel. Brussels could offer a technical extension…

“Our bipartisan delegation is visiting Jordan at a critical time for the security and stability of the region,” Ms. Pelosi’s office said in a statement. “With the deepening crisis in Syria after Turkey’s incursion, our delegation has engaged in vital discussions about the impact to regional stability, increased flow of refugees, and the dangerous opening that has been provided to ISIS, Iran and Russia.” The delegation also discussed issues like…

As soon as Mexican security forces arrived at the home, the Sinaloa cartel mobilized, dispatching convoys of gunmen in pickup trucks with mounted machine guns, seizing main roads and highways. At least 49 prisoners escaped from detention. Meanwhile, the Mexican soldiers and police had no backup, according to Durazo. 

Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiPelosi arrives in Jordan with bipartisan congressional delegation Trump says his Doral resort will no longer host G-7 after backlash Scrap House defense authorization provision benefitting Russia MORE (D-Calif.) arrived in Jordan on Saturday, where the House’s top Democrat is leading a bipartisan delegation of lawmakers to meet with top Jordanian officials. A statement from the Speaker’s office Saturday night confirmed that Pelosi and a number of lawmakers including…

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Britain‘s parliament has inflicted a humiliating defeat on Boris Johnson days after he returned from Brussels with a deal aimed at ending the Brexit deadlock ahead of the October 31 deadline for the UK to quit the European Union. Reflecting fears among MPs that the prime minister may have sought to engineer withdrawal without a deal – which economists say would be disastrous – they voted by 322 to 306 to withhold backing for his plans on Saturday.  Johnson later sent the…

Two progressive heavyweights, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Michael Moore, endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in New York City on Saturday as he re-emerged on the campaign trail after having a heart attack earlier this month. “I am more than ready to take on the greed and corruption of the corporate elite and their apologists,” Sanders told thousand of supporters in Queens. “I am more ready than ever to help create…