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Image copyright AFP Image caption President Trump promised to “never surrender American sovereignty to anyone” US President Donald Trump has said he will withdraw his country from the international Arms Trade Treaty. The agreement, signed by Barack Obama in 2013, aims to regulate the sale of weapons between countries. The US National Rifle Association says the treaty amounts to international gun control, and is a threat to America’s second amendment…

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WASHINGTON — DC stands for “Death of Comedy,” so the old beltway joke goes. Comedian Samantha Bee sought to change that on Friday night. The late-night host of TBS’ “Full Frontal” visited Washington for the second year to roast President Donald Trump at the “Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner,” Bee’s alternative to the annual black-tie White House Correspondents’ Association gala. Samantha Bee attends “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” Not…

Sen. Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenPresenting the 2020 Democratic bracket The Memo: Trump’s media dominance challenged by 2020 Dems Biden to face pressure on Medicare for All MORE (D-Mass.) took a swipe at fellow 2020 presidential candidate former Vice President Joe BidenJoseph (Joe) Robinette BidenTrump defends Charlottesville comments Trump: ‘I am a young, vibrant man’ The Hill’s Morning Report — Biden takes aim at Trump, early battlegrounds MORE on Friday over…

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Police investigate the scene of the car crash on El Camino Real and Sunnyvale Saratoga Roads in Sunnyvale, on April 23, 2019. Police investigate the scene of the car crash on El Camino Real and Sunnyvale Saratoga Roads in Sunnyvale, on April 23, 2019. Photo: Cody Glenn Caption Close Police investigate the scene of the car crash on El Camino Real and Sunnyvale Saratoga Roads in Sunnyvale, on April 23,…

MILWAUKEE — Two weeks ago, Wisconsin was covered in snow. Despite the nice spring weather, it appears snow is on its way back. According to Storm Team 4 Meteorologist Brian Niznansky, southeast Wisconsin is expected to get up to 6 inches of snow Saturday. Today’s Storm Team 4Cast Here is how the storm breaks down Saturday and early Sunday: Between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., the snow and rain will…

INDIANAPOLIS, April 26 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Friday announced at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting that the United States will drop out of an international arms treaty signed in 2013 by then-President Barack Obama but opposed by the NRA and other conservative groups. Trump told members of the gun lobby that he intends to revoke the status of the United States as a signatory of the Arms…

LAKEWOOD, Colo. — Colorado officials say four people have died after a semi-truck hauling lumber plowed into vehicles on Interstate 70, causing a fire so intense that it melted the roadway and metal off of cars. Authorities had to wait until daylight Friday to confirm the death toll from Thursday’s 28-vehicle pileup because of the devastation caused by the fire. Six people were taken to hospitals with injuries. Their conditions…

RICHARD HAASS, CFR: And I wanted to begin with the special counsel, Mr. Mueller, who described Russian interference in the 2016 election, to use his phrase, sweeping and systematic. Is that a view you subscribe to? CHRISTOPHER WRAY, FBI DIRECTOR: Well, I think everybody has their own adjectives. I do think that Russia poses a very significant counterintelligence threat, certainly in the cyber arena, certainly what we call the…

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President Trump shakes hands with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, right, at the White House in October. (Susan Walsh/AP) Matt Zapotosky Josh Dawsey Devlin Barrett April 26 at 3:20 PM Rod J. Rosenstein, again, was in danger of losing his job. The New York Times had just reported that — in the heated days after James B. Comey was fired as FBI director — the deputy attorney general had suggested…

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President Trump on Friday defended saying there were “very fine people on both sides” of the deadly clashes in Charlottesville, Va., between white nationalists and counterprotesters in 2017. The president spoke outside the White House a day after former Vice President Joe Biden launched his presidential bid with a video condemning Trump for the controversial remarks. “I was talking about people that felt very strongly about the monument to Robert E. Lee, a…

After months of speculation, former Vice President Joe Biden has finally entered the 2020 presidential race. In a campaign announcement video he released Thursday morning, Biden said, “The core values of this nation, our standing in the world, our very democracy, everything that has made America — America — is at stake. That’s why today I’m announcing my candidacy for president of the United States.” This is Biden’s third presidential…

Mr. Biden largely sidestepped a question about how a Biden presidency would differ from the Obama administration, only saying that the two men disagreed on the “implementation” and “timing of some things.” He said that he had asked Mr. Obama not to endorse him in the 2020 race because “I didn’t want it to look like he was putting his thumb on the scale here.” Asked if he would apologize…

Greg Jaffe Missy Ryan Nick Miroff April 26 at 11:20 AM The Pentagon is preparing to approve a loosening of rules that bar troops from interacting with migrants entering the United States, expanding the military’s involvement in President Trump’s operation along the southern border. Senior Defense Department officials have recommended that acting defense secretary Patrick Shanahan approve a new request from the Department of Homeland Security to provide military lawyers,…

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s entrance into the 2020 presidential election will provide Democrats a choice: Do they want a reset, or do they want a revolution? As Democrats have spent the past several months outlining the sweeping changes they want to make to the United States, more than anything, Biden’s candidacy represents a promise to go back to a pre-Trump era in American politics where things were a bit…

Video Out of control semi-truck plows into stopped traffic killing multiple people At least a dozen cars, three semi-trucks involved in crash in Denver, Colorado. Multiple people died Thursday when a semitrailer plowed into stationary traffic that resulted in explosions and flames on a Colorado freeway, authorities said. The fiery crash occurred just before 5 p.m. in the Denver suburb of Lakewood when a truck driver lost control while traveling…