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WASHINGTON — Customs and Border Protection has compiled a list of 59 mostly American reporters, attorneys and activists for border agents to stop for questioning when crossing the U.S-Mexican border at San Diego-area checkpoints, and agents have questioned or arrested at least 21 of them, according to documents obtained by NBC station KNSD-TV and interviews with people on the list. Several people on the list confirmed to NBC News that…

President Donald Trump fired back at the Democratic National Committee after it decided to exclude the Fox News Channel from broadcasting any of its candidates’ debates during the 2020 US presidential primary. The DNC’s decision to blacklist Fox News prompted a response from other journalists, some of whom suggested it was not a good look for the party. Bret Baier, Martha MacCallum, and Chris Wallace are all anchors whose respective…

The prosecutors followed up with Mr. Cohen to ask for additional details about the pardon discussions, the people said, though there is no indication that they suspect anyone involved in the conversations of wrongdoing. ABC News reported on Wednesday that lawyers claiming to have ties to Mr. Giuliani sought out Mr. Cohen to discuss his options as prosecutors closed in on him last year. It was not clear that Mr….

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Following a report about the close relationship between the network and the Trump White House, DNC Chairman Tom Perez said the party will not allow Fox News to host any of its primary debates in 2020. Charles Dharapak/AP hide caption toggle caption Charles Dharapak/AP Following a report about the close relationship between the network and the Trump White House, DNC Chairman Tom Perez said the party will not allow Fox…

<!– –> × SEARCH QUOTES Politics President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen on Wednesday gave the House Intelligence Committee documents that reveal alleged editing to the statement he used to lie to Congress in 2017 about efforts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow during the presidential election, a source familiar with the matter told CNBC. Cohen testified last week in public before another House committee…

Rep. Rashida Tlaib joined protesters with CREDO Action and By the People, a new advocacy group pushing for the impeachment of President Trump. Together they urged members of Congress to begin impeachment proceedings. (Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib) Freshman Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib appeared to clash with party leadership on Wednesday after joining protesters to say she’d introduce a resolution this month urging the Judiciary Committee to move forward with impeachment proceedings against President Trump. Tlaib,…

LORDSTOWN, Ohio - The idling of the GM Lordstown plant goes to the heart of one of GM’s most significant problems, according to Kristin Dziczek of the Center for Automotive Research.  “They have about a million units of underutilized capacity across their whole production footprint in the U.S,  and  Lordstown at 450,000 units is almost half of that,” Dziczek said.  The head of GM North America says the idling of Lordstown is…

CLOSE A new poll may not favor impeaching President Trump but that doesn’t mean there aren’t concerns from American voters. Veuer’s Justin Kircher has the story. Buzz60, Buzz60 One of the first polls conducted since President Donald Trump’s former attorney implicated him in illegal activity was released Tuesday, and most of the results were not very good for the president.  A poll from Quinnipiac University National found 64 percent of American voters…

DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen says the current cybersecurity threat is “blinking red” and is possibly the “highest threat that we face in the homeland.” Here’s her exchange with Rep. John Katko: Katko: With respect to cybersecurity, which I’m the ranking member of that subcommittee right now, there’s a bill that we’re going to be submitting next week that suggests and asks that a cybersecurity infrastructure advisory committee be created, similar…

As the trade deficit widens, Mr. Trump’s focus on it has resulted in a particular irony: By his own metric, the president is failing to right America’s global trading relationships. Yet many of the president’s critics don’t blame him for this, saying some fluctuations in the trade deficit are largely beyond his control. Several global economic factors explain the widening of the global trade deficit last year. China’s slowdown has…

Anne Gearan Robert Costa March 6 at 9:02 AM Secretary of State Mike Pompeo grew testy in a recent newspaper interview when asked to explain why President Trump would take North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “at his word” about the death of a U.S. college student taken prisoner in North Korea. National security adviser John Bolton, making the rounds of Sunday talk shows, flatly refused to offer his personal…

The United States faces a major humanitarian crisis with its southwestern border at a security “breaking point” as tens of thousands of mostly Central Americans increasingly try to enter the country. More than 76,000 migrants crossed the border without authorisation last month, nearly double the number from the same period in 2018, officials said. The figures suggest harsher regulations and detention policies implemented by the American government –…

Michael Cohen, former attorney and fixer for President Trump, testifies before the House oversight committee on Capitol Hill Feb. 27, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Michael Cohen, former attorney and fixer for President Trump, testifies before the House oversight committee on Capitol Hill Feb. 27, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Michael Cohen is scheduled to return to Capitol Hill…

Michael Cohen, former attorney and fixer for President Trump, testifies before the House oversight committee on Capitol Hill Feb. 27, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Michael Cohen, former attorney and fixer for President Trump, testifies before the House oversight committee on Capitol Hill Feb. 27, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Michael Cohen is scheduled to return to Capitol Hill…

Michael Cohen, former attorney and fixer for President Trump, testifies before the House oversight committee on Capitol Hill Feb. 27, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Michael Cohen, former attorney and fixer for President Trump, testifies before the House oversight committee on Capitol Hill Feb. 27, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Michael Cohen is scheduled to return to Capitol Hill…

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Hillary Clinton on Tuesday was quick to fire back after President Trump mocked her for not running in 2020. The exchange started with a tweet by Trump: “‘(Crooked) Hillary Clinton confirms she will not run in 2020, rules out a third bid for White House.’ Aw-shucks, does that mean I won’t get to run against her again? She will be sorely missed!” Minutes later, Clinton posted a “Mean Girls” meme on Twitter. The New York Daily News notes her tweet included a GIF…

California has an assisted-suicide law. It was in effect when Stephon Clark went running into his grandmother’s backyard nearly a year ago, pursued by two Sacramento police officers who shot and killed him there. But the state’s End of Life Option Act didn’t apply to Clark. Sacramento district attorney Anne Marie Schubert, who announced Sunday that she wouldn’t charge his killers with a crime, knew that Clark wasn’t terminally ill….

Border cops encountered more than 76,000 people they say tried to illegally cross from Mexico into the U.S. in February, making it the highest level of illegal immigration the U.S. has seen in one month since 2007. The number shot up from 58,000 who were arrested and turned away at ports in January. The monthly rate has slowly crept up from 17,000 during President Trump’s third month in office in…