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On Monday night, President Donald Trump was in North Carolina to stump for Dan Bishop, a Republican who is competing with Democrat Dan McCready in a special election on Tuesday to fill the Congress seat vacated by former 9th District Rep. Mark Harris (R-NC) after evidence emerged that the Harris campaign was involved in a ballot tampering scheme. But in a sign of just how brazen Trump’s lies can be,…

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LONDON — Britain’s embattled Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered yet another political defeat on Monday as he failed for a second time to convince lawmakers to back his call for an election to solve the Brexit deadlock. Johnson’s bid failed, with 293 Members of Parliament supporting the motion, 46 voting against it and multiple abstentions. The prime minister needed two-thirds of support of the House of Commons, at least 434…

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LONDON — Britain’s embattled Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered yet another political defeat on Monday as he failed for a second time to convince lawmakers to back his call for an election to solve the Brexit deadlock. Johnson’s bid failed, with 293 Members of Parliament supporting the motion, 46 voting against it and multiple abstentions. The prime minister needed two-thirds of support of the House of Commons, at least 434…

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LONDON — Britain’s embattled Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered yet another political defeat on Monday as he failed for a second time to convince lawmakers to back his call for an election to solve the Brexit deadlock. Johnson’s bid failed, with 293 Members of Parliament supporting the motion, 46 voting against it and multiple abstentions. The prime minister needed two-thirds of support of the House of Commons, at least 434…

On Saturday morning, a cruise ship carried 1,435 evacuees from the devastated Bahamas into the port at West Palm Beach, Florida. Most of those on board were Bahamian citizens, but more than 40 nations were represented among the refugees welcomed into the U.S. that morning. Another ferry, carrying hundreds more evacuees, arrived after midnight on Sunday. That ferry also brought a disturbing story of a ferry operator who wrongly kicked…

Karen DeYoung Josh Dawsey Missy Ryan September 9 at 8:21 PM President Trump said Monday that negotiations with the Taliban “are dead” and indicated that he had no further interest in meeting with the group over an end to the Afghanistan war. “I’m not looking to discuss it,” he said. “I’m not discussing anything.” Trump appeared to provide the definitive response to at least one question officials across his administration…

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BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A rescue team has heard noises from inside a cargo ship where four crew members are missing after their huge vessel overturned and caught fire, but the flames and smoke have so far prevented the rescuers from safely penetrating the unstable vessel, the U.S. Coast Guard said. “They heard noises, but we can’t confirm that it’s signs of life,” Petty Officer 3rd class Ryan Dickinson told…

Dozens of Bahamians trying to evacuate from the hurricane-wrecked islands were told to get off a ferry headed towards Florida last weekend, and were told that was because they did not have U.S. visas. But the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency said on Monday afternoon at a White House press briefing that they would grant entry into the U.S. to anyone from the Bahamas on “humanitarian reasons.” “We will…

SoftBank reportedly asks WeWork to shelve IPO SoftBank, WeWork’s biggest outside investor, is urging the startup to shelve its initial public offering, according to a Monday report from the Financial Times. Technologyread more

President Donald Trump. | Win McNamee/Getty Images white house By QUINT FORGEY 09/09/2019 04:13 PM EDT President Donald Trump on Monday dismissed his trio of challengers for the Republican presidential nomination as “a laughingstock,” and defended the decisions by GOP leaders in a handful of states to scrap their 2020 primaries and caucuses. “The three people are a total joke. They’re a joke. They’re a laughingstock,” Trump told reporters outside…