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Video Sen. Rand Paul: It’s a mistake to keep ramping things up in the Middle East Foreign Relations Committee member Sen. Rand Paul on U.S. sending additional troops to Middle East amid tensions with Iran. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky, said a war with Iran would be an even bigger mistake than the war with Iraq, and pushed for Congress to get involved in the process of approval. Paul appeared on “Your…

The White House is arguing that former aide Hope HicksHope Charlotte HicksWhite House says Hope Hicks ‘immune’ from compelled congressional testimony White House says Hope Hicks ‘immune’ from compelled congressional testimony Democrats banking on Hicks testimony to advance Trump probes MORE is “absolutely immune” from being compelled by Congress to testify about her time working in the Trump administration, in an effort to limit her closed-door interview Wednesday. White House…

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(CNN)Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi was the victim of a “deliberate, premeditated execution,” a United Nations special rapporteur has concluded in the first independent investigation into his death. ‘);$vidEndSlate.removeClass(‘video__end-slate–inactive’).addClass(‘video__end-slate–active’);}};CNN.autoPlayVideoExist = (CNN.autoPlayVideoExist === true) ? true : false;var configObj = {thumb: ‘none’,video: ‘world/2019/05/17/hatice-cengiz-khashoggi-amanpour.cnn’,width: ‘100%’,height: ‘100%’,section: ‘domestic’,profile: ‘expansion’,network: ‘cnn’,markupId: ‘body-text_23’,theoplayer: {allowNativeFullscreen: true},adsection: ‘const-article-inpage’,frameWidth: ‘100%’,frameHeight: ‘100%’,posterImageOverride: {“mini”:{“width”:220,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190517165637-hatice-cengiz-amanpour-2-small-169.jpg”,”height”:124},”xsmall”:{“width”:307,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190517165637-hatice-cengiz-amanpour-2-medium-plus-169.jpg”,”height”:173},”small”:{“width”:460,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190517165637-hatice-cengiz-amanpour-2-large-169.jpg”,”height”:259},”medium”:{“width”:780,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190517165637-hatice-cengiz-amanpour-2-exlarge-169.jpg”,”height”:438},”large”:{“width”:1100,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190517165637-hatice-cengiz-amanpour-2-super-169.jpg”,”height”:619},”full16x9″:{“width”:1600,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190517165637-hatice-cengiz-amanpour-2-full-169.jpg”,”height”:900},”mini1x1″:{“width”:120,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190517165637-hatice-cengiz-amanpour-2-small-11.jpg”,”height”:120}}},autoStartVideo = false,isVideoReplayClicked = false,callbackObj,containerEl,currentVideoCollection = [],currentVideoCollectionId = ”,isLivePlayer = false,mediaMetadataCallbacks,mobilePinnedView = null,moveToNextTimeout,mutePlayerEnabled = false,nextVideoId = ”,nextVideoUrl…

Early Sunday, Skylar Martin of Hanover, Virginia, was taken to the hospital after she spent six miserable hours in her room and lost consciousness at a resort in the Dominican Republic. Martin and her husband were married last month, and they were in the country on their honeymoon. “I had a fever,” Martin told NBC affiliate WWBT of Richmond, Virginia. “I was in and out of consciousness for a while….

Video Sen. Rand Paul: It’s a mistake to keep ramping things up in the Middle East Foreign Relations Committee member Sen. Rand Paul on U.S. sending additional troops to Middle East amid tensions with Iran. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky, said a war with Iran would be an even bigger mistake than the war with Iraq, and pushed for Congress to get involved in the process of approval. Paul appeared on “Your…

The White House is arguing that former aide Hope HicksHope Charlotte HicksWhite House says Hope Hicks ‘immune’ from compelled congressional testimony White House says Hope Hicks ‘immune’ from compelled congressional testimony Democrats banking on Hicks testimony to advance Trump probes MORE is “absolutely immune” from being compelled by Congress to testify about her time working in the Trump administration, in an effort to limit her closed-door interview Wednesday. White House…

Video PresidentTrump reveals new campaign slogan President Trump formally announced to a crowd in Orlando Tuesday night he is running for re-election in 2020 and appeared to embrace the new campaign slogan “Keep America Great.” His supporters cheered him at televised watch parties from coast to coast. They are girding their loins for a major fight with whoever the Democrats nominate to challenge him next year. Trump approaches this race with…

Missy Ryan Greg Jaffe John Hudson June 18 at 7:35 PM Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has privately delivered warnings intended for Iranian leaders that any attack by Tehran or its proxies resulting in the death of even one American service member will generate a military counterattack, U.S. officials said. The potential for a significant military response to even an isolated event has fueled a broader internal debate among top…

Chinese President Xi Jinping needs a trade deal to strengthen his weakening economy. President Trump needs a deal prior to the 2020 elections. That’s the context for Trump’s optimistic tweet on Tuesday morning. Had a very good telephone conversation with President Xi of China. We will be having an extended meeting next week at the G-20 in Japan. Our respective teams will begin talks prior to our meeting. — Donald…

Flames consume a home in Paradise, Calif. PG&E will pay the town and other jurisdictions $1 billion for wildfire damages caused by its equipment. Noah Berger/AP hide caption toggle caption Noah Berger/AP Flames consume a home in Paradise, Calif. PG&E will pay the town and other jurisdictions $1 billion for wildfire damages caused by its equipment. Noah Berger/AP California utility giant Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has agreed to…

President Trump tweeted Monday night that Immigration and Customs Enforcement will begin removing “millions” of undocumented immigrants. Mr. Trump insisted Tuesday the immigration roundup would begin next week, targeting people who have open deportation orders. “When people come into our country and they come in illegally, they have to go out,” he said. The president has been pushing immigration officials to take a harder line and recently appointed Mark Morgan…

Campaign chief Brad Parscale predicts “landslide” victory in 2020 Mr. Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale is predicting the president will win even more electoral votes than in 2016, saying he expects “an electoral landslide” while dismissing independent polling that shows the president trailing top Democrats. Parscale made the comments in an interview with CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett, hours ahead of Mr. Trump’s rally in Orlando. Trump campaign…

Mark Esper, 55, served in the 101st Airborne Division during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo Defense By ELIANA JOHNSON, WESLEY MORGAN and CONNOR O’BRIEN 06/18/2019 04:38 PM EDT Updated 06/18/2019 06:14 PM EDT 2019-06-18T06:14-0400 Army Secretary Mark Esper, who’s been tapped to be the new acting secretary of Defense, is a former aerospace executive like the departing Pat Shanahan. But he comes to the job with…

More than a decade after the exoneration of five black and Latino teens accused of raping a woman in Central Park, President Donald Trump indicated on Tuesday that he still doesn’t accept their innocence. Nor does he think he owes them an apology for publicly calling for their executions. The teenagers, known as the Central Park 5, were exonerated by DNA evidence and a confession from the true perpetrator in…

Paul Manafort, the longtime Republican consultant who spent five months as President Donald Trump’s campaign chairman during the 2016 election, has been spared from an expected transfer to Rikers Island prison in New York, following a highly unusual intervention by the Justice Department. Manafort, who is currently serving a federal prison sentence in Pennsylvania, was expected to be transferred to the infamous jail complex as he waited state charges brought against…

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In the months that he has served as President Trump’s acting secretary of defense, Patrick Shanahan has worked to keep domestic violence incidents within his family private. His wife was arrested after punching him in the face, and his son was arrested after a separate incident in which he hit his mother with a baseball bat. Public disclosure of the nearly decade-old episodes would re-traumatize his young adult children, Shanahan…

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President Trump says millions of people living in the country illegally will be deported, beginning next week. In a pair of tweets Monday night — the eve of formally announcing his re-election bid — Mr. Trump said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would next week “begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States.” “They will be removed as…