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The Senate soundly rejected Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal 0-57 on Tuesday after Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., allowed the resolution, co-sponsored by Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., to come to the floor. In protest of the political move, Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., encouraged Senate Democrats to vote “present” on the resolution instead of “yes,” which all but three of them did. This week’s vote is the latest defeat for what has…

Distinguishing herself in a crowded field of Democrats running for president, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, called Robert Mueller’s decision not to charge Donald Trump with colluding with Russia during the 2016 election “a good thing for our country.” Gabbard, who lags in 2020 polls behind better-known rivals, said in a video posted to her Twitter account that “now that Mueller has reported that his investigation revealed no such collusion, we…

Robert Costa Mike DeBonis March 29 at 5:37 PM President Trump boasted this week that the Republican Party will soon be known as “the party of great health care.” But a growing number of Republicans fear that it risks being tagged as the party of the 1 percent instead — handing Democrats a potent political message as the GOP pushes to gut former president Barack Obama’s health-care law and other popular…

Regulators around the world grounded the Max this month, and airlines are not expected to use them soon. On Friday, Southwest Airlines said it planned its flight schedule through May without its 34 Max jets. Boeing said it could not comment on the black box findings until investigators released their official report, per international aviation agreements. Rosemount Aerospace, a subsidiary of the industrial giant United Technologies based in Burnsville, Minn.,…

Video Investigation launched into Border Patrol custody death A 7-year-old Guatemalan girl who died last year while in U.S. Border Patrol custody passed away after having contracted a bacterial infection, according to her autopsy results released. The report into Jakelin Caal Maquin’s Dec. 8 death showed evidence of streptococcus bacteria in several of her organs and her adrenal gland, The Associated Press reported Friday. The infection ultimately triggered organ failure,…

Attorney General William Barr has said that by mid-April he would release the highly anticipated report of Robert Mueller. He should have a good explanation prepared for any redactions made when the report gets released. Barr’s four-page summary of Mueller’s principal conclusions in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election has President Trump and his supporters claiming vindication, but it also prompted demands to see the full report….

A former Democratic candidate in Nevada has accused former Vice President Joe Biden of inappropriate conduct at a 2014 campaign event. (Getty) A former Democratic candidate in Nevada has accused former Vice President Joe Biden of inappropriate conduct during a 2014 campaign event. Lucy Flores detailed the encounter in a piece she wrote for New York Magazine’s The Cut, which was published on Friday. She claimed the incident happened at a campaign…

During a brief news conference he held at Mar-a-Lago on Friday afternoon, President Donald Trump claimed that closing the border with Mexico would be a “profit-making operation” because of the United States’ trade deficit with its southern neighbor. “I’ll just close the border, and with a deficit like we have with Mexico and have had for many years, closing the border will be a profit-making operation,” Trump said, after he…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—It took less than six minutes to deepen one of the gravest crises in the history of Boeing Co. At 8:37 a.m. on March 10, Captain Yared Getachew and First Officer Ahmed Nur Mohammed were accelerating an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX along runway 07R of Addis Ababa’s highland airport. The flight conditions were perfect—warm…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – On the day that their talks in Hanoi collapsed last month, U.S. President Donald Trump handed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a piece of paper that included a blunt call for the transfer of Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons and bomb fuel to the United States, according to the document seen by Reuters. Trump gave Kim both Korean and English-language versions of the U.S. position at Hanoi’s Metropole…

President Trump is claiming exoneration after special counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence he conspired with Russia. But Trump opponents aren’t ready to concede there was no “collusion” as they prepare to challenge the president in 2020. Without seeing the full Mueller report, it’s impossible to know if Trump colluded, they argue. “There could be no collusion at all, or a lot of collusion that falls one inch short of…

President Trump is claiming exoneration after special counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence he conspired with Russia. But Trump opponents aren’t ready to concede there was no “collusion” as they prepare to challenge the president in 2020. Without seeing the full Mueller report, it’s impossible to know if Trump colluded, they argue. “There could be no collusion at all, or a lot of collusion that falls one inch short of…

President Trump is claiming exoneration after special counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence he conspired with Russia. But Trump opponents aren’t ready to concede there was no “collusion” as they prepare to challenge the president in 2020. Without seeing the full Mueller report, it’s impossible to know if Trump colluded, they argue. “There could be no collusion at all, or a lot of collusion that falls one inch short of…

“We right now have two big caravans coming up from Guatemala, massive caravans, walking right through Mexico,” Mr. Trump said. “Mexico is tough. They can stop them. If they don’t stop them, we’re closing the border.” Americans would feel the effects in other ways. Border control agencies are already reviewing ways to slow down immigration processing at the border. A senior Homeland Security official confirmed on Friday that shutting down…

Media captionTheresa May: The rejection of the EU withdrawal agreement will have “grave” implications MPs have rejected Theresa May’s EU withdrawal agreement on the day the UK was due to leave the EU. The government lost by 344 votes to 286, a margin of 58. It means the UK has missed an EU deadline to delay Brexit to 22 May and leave with a deal. The prime minister said the…

President Trump announced Friday afternoon at Mar-a-Lago that Small Business Administrator Linda McMahon is resigning to help with his reelection efforts. CBS News had previously confirmed that she is leaving to work for America First, the pro-Trump PAC.  “Linda McMahon has done an incredible job as the head of the Small Business Administration, she has been a superstar,” Mr. Trump told reporters at Mar-a-Lago. “… She’ll be leaving, she’s going…

Officials investigating the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX crash believe that a new automated stall-prevention system was activated before the plane dived into the ground, two sources briefed on the investigation told ABC News. The automated system — known as Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS — is suspected to have played a role in both the Ethiopian Airlines crash and last year’s Lion Air crash, which killed 157 and…

Video Theresa May’s Brexit deal suffers third defeat in British Parliament On the day that Britain was originally scheduled to leave the European Union, lawmakers continued their impasse, voting down Prime Minister Theresa May’s stripped-down withdrawal agreement for the third time. The House of Commons voted 334 to 286 against the Brexit deal, triggering the possibility of the so-called “no deal” divorce between the United Kingdom and the EU. Now…

Special counsel Robert Mueller managed to attract a cult-like following over the past two years among Americans eager to see President Trump’s downfall. Despite remaining largely silent during his investigation into possible Russian collusion by the president, Mueller became a hero among many members of the Trump #Resistance, who desperately hoped the special counsel would find enough evidence to make a case for impeachment. But it might be time for…

Video Theresa May’s Brexit deal suffers third defeat in British Parliament On the day that Britain was originally scheduled to leave the European Union, lawmakers continued their impasse, voting down Prime Minister Theresa May’s stripped-down withdrawal agreement for the third time. The House of Commons voted 334 to 286 against the Brexit deal, triggering the possibility of the so-called “no deal” divorce between the United Kingdom and the EU. Now…