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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump considering executive order on citizenship question for Census US women’s soccer star Alex Morgan says verdict on Trump White House invite will be team decision China renews demands that US lift all tariffs for trade deal MORE avoided infusing partisan rhetoric into his rainy July 4 speech on the National Mall, though he still received energetic applause from a drenched crowd of supporters. At his long-planned…

The Justice Department signaled to a federal judge in Maryland Friday that the Trump administration is still fighting to place the citizenship question on the census, something Mr. Trump insists he wants. The Justice Department, unsurprisingly, was unable to provide a different rationale for adding the question, as the Supreme Court has insisted is necessary to successfully and legally do so. U.S. District Judge George Hazel had given the Justice…

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The magnitude-6.4 quake, which caused damage in some cities, was centered near Ridgecrest, about 150 miles north of Los Angeles. In a state especially prone to tremors, only 13% of homeowners have earthquake insurance, according to the California Department of Insurance. Others who have renter’s or homeowner’s insurance mistakenly believe they’re covered for earthquakes.

President Trump on Friday blamed inclement weather and a malfunctioning teleprompter for flubbing part of his Independence Day speech. During the rain-soaked “Salute to America” event, Trump made a reference to nonexistent airports during the American Revolution, a comment he walked back a day later. “We had a lot of rain,” Trump told reporters on the South Lawn. “I stood in the rain. The teleprompter went out. The teleprompter kept going…

CLOSE A magnitude 6.4 earthquake rocked Southern California, triggering fires and a hospital evacuation. USA TODAY Hundreds of aftershocks rumbled in Southern California on Friday, the day after the region was rocked by the strongest earthquake in two decades, igniting fires, triggering a hospital evacuation and raising concerns about an even more powerful jolt. Most of the aftershocks ranked in the magnitude 2-to-3 range, with a few in the magnitude 3-to-4 range,…

(CNN)With jets roaring overhead and a poncho-clad crowd before him, President Donald Trump implored Americans to come together Thursday in a show of national pride — a rare unifying message from a deeply divisive President that came after days of controversy and criticism over his precedent-shattering military spectacle on the National Mall. ‘);$vidEndSlate.removeClass(‘video__end-slate–inactive’).addClass(‘video__end-slate–active’);}};CNN.autoPlayVideoExist = (CNN.autoPlayVideoExist === true) ? true : false;var configObj = {thumb: ‘none’,video: ‘world/2018/02/07/trump-military-parade-russia-china-france-north-korea-lon-orig-ejk.cnn’,width: ‘100%’,height: ‘100%’,section: ‘domestic’,profile: ‘expansion’,network:…

President Trump stuck to the script at his “Salute to America” event, striking a patriotic tone in a largely apolitical speech running approximately 45 minutes — including the flyovers — behind bulletproof glass on the National Mall.   The President took an opportunity to boast, calling the US “the most exceptional nation in the history of the world.” He recognized each branch of the military at the beginning of his speech:…

WASHINGTON — As Donald Trump supporters and opponents confronted each other during a hot and rainy Fourth of July, Trump himself stressed holiday themes and paid tribute to the military during a speech that largely avoided politics. “Our nation is stronger today than it ever was before,” Trump said at one point in his speech at the Lincoln Memorial, echoing a claim he has made often on the campaign trail. “As long as…

Video Kayleigh McEnany on the Ingraham Angle Kayleigh McEnany on the Ingraham Angle Critics of President Trump’s planned “Salute to America” celebration are letting their disdain for the Republican get in the way of celebrating the Fourth of July, according to the president’s reelection campaign spokeswoman. There is no reason to object to the president’s Thursday evening celebration at the Lincoln Memorial, Trump 2020 national press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Wednesday…

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SAN DIEGO (AP) — An appeals court on Wednesday upheld a freeze on Pentagon money to build a border wall with Mexico, casting doubt on President Donald Trump’s ability to make good on a signature campaign promise before the 2020 election. A divided three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco agreed with a lower court ruling that prevented the government from tapping Defense Department…

Dan Lamothe Colby Itkowitz July 3 at 7:28 PM The B-2 bomber could cost $700,000. Two F-22s fighters, about $300,000. The Blue Angels demonstration team, close to $320,000. And two F-35 jets, upward of $660,000. These figures, based on a conservative analysis using Pentagon flight-cost estimates and other military data about the aircraft, highlight something the Trump administration has left murky as it plans its Independence Day celebration in Washington:…

Sen. Kamala Harris flexed her law enforcement experience, saying she would be prepared to take on “a predator” like the president. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images 2020 elections By CAITLIN OPRYSKO 07/03/2019 05:32 PM EDT Kamala Harris on Wednesday debuted a new line of attack against President Donald Trump, saying that her background as a prosecutor made her uniquely suited to take on “a predator” like the president. At an Iowa…

One week after her story drew national attention, Marshae Jones, the Alabama woman who faced criminal charges after a shooting caused her to miscarry, will not be prosecuted, the Alabama district attorney announced Wednesday. “After viewing the facts of this case and the applicable state law I have determined that it is not in the best interest of justice to pursue prosecution of Ms. Jones on the manslaughter charge for…

“All honor to Jefferson – to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very…

Aside from Inauguration Day, there is absolutely nothing to get excited about when the National Mall and the most important roads in Washington are shut down to accommodate some festival, marathon, or parade. President Trump now wants to compound the misery by carting in military tanks and armored vehicles so that they can sit in the heat for his “Salute to America” event on Independence Day. D.C. is already the…

Video Iran says it has breached nuclear deal stockpile limit What happens now? Young Voices senior contributor John Dale Grover weighs in. Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani warned European nations Wednesday that Tehran will “take the next step” in increasing its uranium enrichment closer to weapons-grade levels this coming Sunday if they do not offer a new deal by then, adding that they will increase it to “any amount that we want”….

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Video Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blasts conditions at migrant detention centers Border Patrol pushes back, says Democratic lawmaker’s accusations aren’t true; reaction and analysis on ‘The Five.’ As the president of the National Border Patrol Council, the union representing 16,000 Border Patrol agents, I am personally and professionally offended by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s outrageous, inflammatory and false claims about the dedicated law enforcement officers I represent. Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., once again tweeted…