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The 115th Congress appears to have given up, with both the House and Senate failing to reach a deal to end the ongoing government shutdown. This likely punts the showdown over the border wall to the 116th Congress where Trump will face off against a Democratic majority in the House. An agreement won’t be pretty, but it would be a good lesson for Trump and one that could set the…

The Trump administration EPA says regulations to reduce power plant emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants are too costly and should no longer be considered legally “appropriate and necessary.” Matt Brown/AP hide caption toggle caption Matt Brown/AP The Trump administration EPA says regulations to reduce power plant emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants are too costly and should no longer be considered legally “appropriate and necessary.”…

Gustavo Perez Arriaga, the man accused of shooting and killing Newman Police Corporal Ronil ‘Ron’ Singh has been captured. The Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office says that Arriaga was taken into custody in Cpl. Singh’s handcuffs in Kern County on early Friday morning. The suspect’s brother, 25-year-old Adrian Virgen and a co-worker 32-year-old Erik Razo Quiroz were also arrested on “accessory after the fact” charges for attempting to protect Arriaga. Authorities…

President Donald Trump posed with members of a Navy Seals special ops team in Iraq this week, then reportedly exposed information about them on Twitter that’s usually classified. The location of such a deployment, as well as the identities or identifiable faces of service members, are usually classified, Defense Department sources told Newsweek magazine.   A president has the power to declassify such information, but Trump’s exposure of the team online…

A former Lehigh University student charged with poisoning his roommate posted $200,000 cash bail and hoped to be deported to China to avoid prosecution, a prosecutor said Thursday. Yukai Yang, 23, was back in local custody after authorities learned of the plan and had him returned from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody to the Northampton County Jail in Pennsylvania.  Prosecutors are now asking a judge to keep Yang…

President TrumpDonald John TrumpWatergate reporter pens op-ed on ‘inevitability’ of Trump’s impeachment Jemele Hill says calling Trump a white supremacist is like ‘saying water is wet’ Former MSNBC host says midterms marked turning point for Democrats MORE on Friday threatened to “close the Southern Border entirely” if Democrats do not agree to provide money to “finish” building a wall on the Mexican border. Trump made the threat as a partial government shutdown…

President TrumpDonald John TrumpWatergate reporter pens op-ed on ‘inevitability’ of Trump’s impeachment Jemele Hill says calling Trump a white supremacist is like ‘saying water is wet’ Former MSNBC host says midterms marked turning point for Democrats MORE on Friday threatened to “close the Southern Border entirely” if Democrats do not agree to provide money to “finish” building a wall on the Mexican border. Trump made the threat as a partial government shutdown…

President TrumpDonald John TrumpWatergate reporter pens op-ed on ‘inevitability’ of Trump’s impeachment Jemele Hill says calling Trump a white supremacist is like ‘saying water is wet’ Former MSNBC host says midterms marked turning point for Democrats MORE on Friday threatened to “close the Southern Border entirely” if Democrats do not agree to provide money to “finish” building a wall on the Mexican border. Trump made the threat as a partial government shutdown…

CLOSE Trump made a secret trip to visit with military members at the Al-Asad Air base in Iraq on Wednesday. But while addressing troops, Trump shared some inaccurate details about the raises they have been offered under his administration. Time President Donald Trump speaks to members of the military during an unannounced trip to Al Asad Air Base in Iraq, Dec.26, 2018.(Photo: Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images) WASHINGTON – In his…

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Syria’s military announced Friday it had entered the flash-point Kurdish-held town of Manbij and raised the national flag there, where Turkey has threatened an offensive. A Kurdish official said the government troops arrived only at the front lines. Ilham Ahmed, the senior Kurdish official, said U.S. troops haven’t withdrawn from Manbij. U.S. troops patrol the tense front lines between Manbij and adjacent towns, where Turkey-backed fighters have been based. She…

Video Search for missing Colorado mom leads 800 miles away to Idaho where her cellphone last pinged Authorities say they have discovered new evidence near the location where Kelsey Berreth’s phone pinged after she went missing on Thanksgiving Day; Claudia Cowan has the latest. The 1-year-old daughter of Kelsey Berreth, the Colorado mom who’s presumed murdered, and Patrick Michael Frazee, the man charged in the killing, will stay with her maternal…

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For a press that regularly laments President Trump’s lack of graciousness, you’d think newsrooms would try harder to show those virtues themselves. Early Wednesday morning, the day after Christmas, the president and first lady Melania Trump arrived in Iraq, surprising American troops with a personal visit. The president was cheered and applauded as he took to the stage and spoke to service members stationed far from home. After his remarks,…

More photos of the man suspected of killing a Newman Police Department corporal emerged late Thursday night. The Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department released the photos as detectives were working into the night trying to catch the man they believe shot and killed Ronil Singh, 33, during a traffic stop in Newman early Wednesday morning. Sgt. Tom Letras, a spokesman for the sheriff’s department, confirmed the photos were of the suspect,…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Both chambers of the U.S. Congress convened for only a few minutes late on Thursday, but took no steps to end a partial federal government shutdown before adjourning until next week. Showing little sense of urgency over the shutdown, now in its sixth day, the Senate and the House of Representatives did nothing to restore funding for the roughly 20 percent of the government affected. The shutdown…