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NEW YORK (AP) — After nearly three months of testimony about a vast drug-smuggling conspiracy steeped in violence, a jury began deliberations Monday at the U.S. trial of the infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. The day ended without jurors reaching a verdict for Guzman, who faces life in prison if convicted. They were to resume deliberations Tuesday morning. The jury has heard months of testimony about Guzman’s…

Rosalind S. Helderman Michael Kranish February 4 at 10:55 PM Federal prosecutors in New York on Monday delivered a sweeping request for documents related to donations and spending by President Trump’s inaugural committee, a sign of a deepening criminal investigation into activities related to the nonprofit organization. A wide-ranging subpoena served on the inaugural committee Monday seeks an array of documents, including all information related to inaugural donors, vendors, contractors,…

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Video Will Trump use State of the Union address to declare a national emergency to build his proposed border wall? President Donald Trump on Monday unveiled who he’s invited as guests to attend his second State of the Union address. The White House invited 13 people to attend the address Tuesday night on Capitol Hill. The invitees come from many different backgrounds, including a young boy who shares the same last…

Lawmakers in Richmond insisted that, despite the tumult, they were trying to work as normal. This week is among the most crucial for the General Assembly, because Tuesday is “crossover day,” the moment on the legislative calendar when the two chambers swap their passed bills. And as sunset neared on the Jefferson-designed Capitol, the House of Delegates was in session, considering a bill about embryos and assisted conception as its…

David Bernhardt, a former oil and gas and water lobbyist, will be nominated to run the interior department, Donald Trump tweeted. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) I am pleased to announce that David Bernhardt, Acting Secretary of the Interior, will be nominated as Secretary of the Interior. David has done a fantastic job from the day he arrived, and we look forward to having his nomination officially confirmed! February 4, 2019…

Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam should not resign because he was an idiot in the past. He should resign because he is an idiot in the present. On Feb. 1, a 35-year-old photo reportedly showing Northam dressed either in blackface or Ku Klux Klan regalia first surfaced on the right-wing news site Big League Politics. Competing newsrooms, including the Virginian-Pilot, soon confirmed that the photo came from Northam’s page in…

Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam should not resign because he was an idiot in the past. He should resign because he is an idiot in the present. On Feb. 1, a 35-year-old photo reportedly showing Northam dressed either in blackface or Ku Klux Klan regalia first surfaced on the right-wing news site Big League Politics. Competing newsrooms, including the Virginian-Pilot, soon confirmed that the photo came from Northam’s page in…

Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam should not resign because he was an idiot in the past. He should resign because he is an idiot in the present. On Feb. 1, a 35-year-old photo reportedly showing Northam dressed either in blackface or Ku Klux Klan regalia first surfaced on the right-wing news site Big League Politics. Competing newsrooms, including the Virginian-Pilot, soon confirmed that the photo came from Northam’s page in…

If the Washington Post didn’t have double standards, it would have no standards at all. Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax’s office issued a statement Monday rejecting claims by a woman who alleges he sexually assaulted her in 2004, when they both attended the Democratic National Convention. Almost as notable as Fairfax’s denial is the fact that the Washington Post was first approached by the alleged victim more than a year…

Senate Minority Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerScott: Emergency declaration not my ‘first choice’ for Trump to build wall The word ‘wall’ is the impediment Hey team, loyalty means we don’t whine ‘Trump is a wimp’ MORE (D-N.Y.) blasted President TrumpDonald John TrumpCivil rights figures kick off Super Bowl with coin toss Congress can avoid trumped up national emergency declaration Howard Dean calls for Northam to resign, rips GOP over…

Image copyright U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Phillip McTaggart Image caption About 5,000 US troops are in Iraq to train, advise and assist Iraqi security forces Iraq’s President Barham Saleh has rebuked Donald Trump over his comments that he wanted to maintain a US military presence there to watch Iran. Mr Trump told CBS on Sunday he intended to keep an “incredible” base being used by US troops to combat…

By Monday morning, Mr. Northam had spent more than 60 hours in deepening political isolation, abandoned by Democrats who quickly came to see his diminished standing as a burden on two fronts: their policy agenda, including matters like teacher pay and tax policy, and their efforts to capture control of the House of Delegates and the Senate this year. Both chambers are within reach for the party, which has made…

Video Do the Covington Catholic High School students have a case to sue for libel? Employment attorney Silvia Stanciu and National Center for Life and Liberty general counsel David Gibbs debate whether or not the Covington Catholic students have a case to sue for libel. More than 50 media organizations, celebrities and politicians were sent letters from lawyers representing the Covington Catholic High School student seen in a controversial viral…

Members of the U.S. military install multiple tiers of concertina wire along the banks of the Rio Grande near the Juarez-Lincoln Bridge at the U.S.-Mexico border in Laredo, Texas in November. Eric Gay/AP hide caption toggle caption Eric Gay/AP Members of the U.S. military install multiple tiers of concertina wire along the banks of the Rio Grande near the Juarez-Lincoln Bridge at the U.S.-Mexico border in Laredo, Texas in November….

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ATLANTA — The New England Patriots grow older. Their quarterback is 41, Their coach is twice as old as the one he faced on Sunday night. This team is so old school you get the feeling it should be playing in the mud against the Pottsville Maroons or the Canton Bulldogs on a field bracketed by wooden goal posts. They win Super Bowls with field goals and guts and the…

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Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D-Va), has not called for embattled Gov. Ralph Northam to resign. Should Northam step aside, Fairfax would become Virginia’s second black Governor. The Washington Post/The Washington Post/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption The Washington Post/The Washington Post/Getty Images Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D-Va), has not called for embattled Gov. Ralph Northam to resign. Should Northam step aside, Fairfax would become Virginia’s second black Governor. The Washington…