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CLOSE After a bipartisan vote on border security legislation, senators appeared split over President Donald Trump’s plan to declare a national emergency, allowing him to build more of his border wall. (Feb. 14) AP WASHINGTON – There’s always a tweet.  In 2014, President Donald Trump railed against then President Barack Obama over his use of executive power on immigration. Fast forward five years and Trump is expected to do the same thing.  “Repubs…

Video President Trump and Beto O’Rourke hold dueling rallies in El Paso, Texas Former Texas Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke said Thursday that he would “absolutely” support tearing down existing barriers along the southern border with Mexico, in a full-throated embrace of open-borders rhetoric that has left conservatives wondering where other potential 2020 Democratic White House hopefuls stand on the issue. O’Rourke’s comments came as the House and Senate passed a…

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has decided to embrace his inner Harry Reid and greenlight President Trump’s emergency declaration. As John Yoo noted earlier this month, the courts may find that Trump is within his rights to mobilize the military to build the wall when his gambit is inevitably challenged for its legality. Even Youngstown v. Sawyer, which reversed former President Harry Truman’s seizure of private steel mills to…

Immigration advocates are suing the Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen — and other individuals and U.S. agencies — over the Trump administration’s newly implemented “Migrant Protection Protocols” initiative, which forces some asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while they await immigration court dates. Many refer to the initiative as the “Remain in Mexico” policy.  The Southern Poverty Law Center and American Civil Liberties Union officially challenged the…

President Ivan Duque of Colombia meets President Trump at the White House on Wednesday. I believe Trump may use Duque’s visit or its immediate aftermath to announce the deployment of a limited number of U.S. Army or Marine personnel to the Colombian border with Venezuela. Interim Venezuelan President Juan Guaido has now set a Feb. 23 date for when his followers will attempt to force U.S. aid convoys through the…

The memo from Dr. Conley also said Mr. Trump was never under sedation or anesthesia during his checkup. It was not clear whether he either did not have a colonoscopy, which the White House had said he was due for in the coming year, or had a virtual colonoscopy, which can be conducted without anesthesia. In 2010, Mr. Obama underwent a virtual colonoscopy. Dr. Conley also said physical exams did…

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s announcement that not only would President Trump declare a national emergency to build a border wall, and that he would support it, is going to come back to haunt conservatives. As I noted last month, the possibility of an emergency declaration became a lot more likely when Trump caved on border wall funding to end the government shutdown, thus making him feel he had to…

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s announcement that not only would President Trump declare a national emergency to build a border wall, and that he would support it, is going to come back to haunt conservatives. As I noted last month, the possibility of an emergency declaration became a lot more likely when Trump caved on border wall funding to end the government shutdown, thus making him feel he had to…

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s announcement that not only would President Trump declare a national emergency to build a border wall, and that he would support it, is going to come back to haunt conservatives. As I noted last month, the possibility of an emergency declaration became a lot more likely when Trump caved on border wall funding to end the government shutdown, thus making him feel he had to…

There are new revelations about what took place in Washington during the extraordinary period from May 9, 2017, when President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, to May 17, 2017 when Trump-Russia special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed. The short version is: The reports were true. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein really did discuss wearing a wire to secretly record the president. Rosenstein and others did discuss invoking the 25th…

Congressional negotiators unveiled a bill early Thursday morning that will let Trump build the steel slat border fence he has talked about for weeks, with only a few limitations on where it can be built. Trump for several weeks has said he can live with a steel slat fence instead of the concrete border wall he campaigned on, and the bill as submitted will give him up to $1.375 billion…

William Barr, pictured during a meeting on Capitol Hill on Jan. 9, has been confirmed as the next attorney general of the United States. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images William Barr, pictured during a meeting on Capitol Hill on Jan. 9, has been confirmed as the next attorney general of the United States. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Updated at 1:45 p.m. ET The Senate voted 54-45…

An independent federal agency announced that it would close two coal plants, including one that buys its fuel from one of President Donald Trump’s campaign contributors, despite public pressure from the president to keep it open. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) said Thursday that it had decided to close two outdated coal plants over the next few years, including one in Kentucky that bought much of its fuel from Murray…

“There were meetings at the Justice Department at which it was discussed whether the vice president and a majority of the cabinet could be brought together to remove the president of the United States under the 25th Amendment,” Mr. Pelley said. “These were the eight days from Comey’s firing to the point that Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel. And the highest levels of American law enforcement were trying to…

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A bicyclist is seen attempting to fend off the rain with an umbrella in Malibu on Jan. 7, 2016. (Credit: KTLA) A bicyclist is seen attempting to fend off the rain with an umbrella in Malibu on Jan. 7, 2016. (Credit: KTLA) The Latest on storms hitting the West (all times local): 8:22 a.m. The storm impacting Southern California has disrupted a major golf tournament and has shut down two…

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Video Judge voids Paul Manafort’s plea deal Judge says Manafort ‘intentionally’ lied to Mueller investigators. A federal judge on Wednesday found that Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign manager, “intentionally” lied to Special Counsel Robert Mueller in response to some, but not all, of their inquiries — a ruling that voids his plea deal and exposes Manafort, at a minimum, to a harsher sentence. In her decision, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman…