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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday will ask the U.S. Congress for an additional $8.6 billion to help pay for the wall he promised to build on the southern border with Mexico to combat illegal immigration and drug trafficking, officials familiar with his 2020 budget request told Reuters. The demand is more than six times what Congress allocated for border projects in each of the past two fiscal years,…

CLOSE President Donald Trump has branded as “disgraceful” the resolution passed after Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s comments suggesting House supporters of Israel have dual allegiances. (March 8) AP Fox News host Jeanine Pirro on Saturday questioned whether Rep. Ilhan Omar’s use of a hijab, a head covering traditionally worn by Muslim women, signaled that she held beliefs that are “antithetical” to the Constitution.   Pirro made the comments during an opening statement for…

Pete Buttigieg said gaining the legal ability to marry his husband gave him a personal view of the importance of policy decisions by politicians “who had power over me and millions of others.” Buttigieg, who came out as gay during his 2015 re-election campaign, said he entered politics “in Mike Pence’s Indiana” at a time that “you could either be out, or you could be in office, but you couldn’t…

The man then turned the tape over to law enforcement, according to attorney Gloria Allred. She and her client, Gary Dennis, would not discuss the specifics of the tape during a news conference in New York. But Allred said it appeared to show a separate incident from the 10 counts of aggravated sexual abuse that Kelly faced in Chicago, though she acknowledged she could not be “100% certain” that the…

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CLOSE Eight prototypes of Donald Trump’s border wall between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico were demolished Wednesday. A large hydraulic jackhammer pounded the concrete and steel panels until the slabs fell into small clouds of dust. (Feb 26) AP Congressional Democrats refused President Donald Trump’s newest request for border wall funding even before the White House officially made it.  In response to media reports Sunday that the president plans to…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-CortezAlexandria Ocasio-CortezBill Nye comes out in support of Green New Deal: Ocasio-Cortez ‘gets it’ Ocasio-Cortez on moderates: ‘We view cynicism as an intellectually superior attitude’ Klobuchar says she’ll ‘use humor’ in campaigning against Trump MORE (D-N.Y.) said Saturday that in the United States, “if you don’t have a job, you are left to die.” Ocasio-Cortez, who made the remark at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, added that…

White House national security adviser John Bolton said Sunday that “momentum” is on the side of the U.S.-backed National Assembly in Venezuela and that President Nicolas Maduro “fears” that if he orders the arrest of opposition leader Juan Guaido, “it would not be obeyed.” “I think momentum is on Guaido’s side. Reports in the press that stress that the military hasn’t shifted [from Maduro to Guaido] miss the point…

Senior GOP officials are warning that the president’s popularity has taken a hit in Texas, and a Beto O’Rourke nomination in 2020 could put the state in play for the first time in decades. | Tom Fox-Pool/Getty Images 2020 Elections The Club for Growth sees the ex-Texas congressman as a serious threat to Donald Trump, and they’re treating him accordingly. By ALEX ISENSTADT 03/10/2019 04:00 PM EDT A prominent conservative…

Wreckage lies at the scene of an Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed shortly after takeoff at Hejere near Bishoftu, or Debre Zeit, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia Sunday, March 10, 2019. The Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed shortly after takeoff from Ethiopia’s capital on Sunday morning, killing all 157 on board, authorities said, as grieving families rushed to airports in Addis Ababa and the destination,…

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Larry Kudlow, the head of Mr. Trump’s National Economic Council, confirmed the request for wall money on “Fox News Sunday.” Mr. Kudlow added that he supposes “there will be” a fight over that spending in Congress. “I would just say that the whole issue of the wall and border security is of paramount importance,” Mr. Kudlow said. “We have a crisis down there.” Mr. Kudlow also defended proposed cuts to…

Video Cohen will likely be referred on perjury charges, top Democrat says Freshman Congresswoman Katie Hill, Democratic member of the House Oversight Committee, shares insight on ‘Fox News Sunday.’ A top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee told “Fox News Sunday” that she believes the panel’s chairman, Rep. Elijah Cummings, will “end up referring” former Trump attorney Michael Cohen to the Department of Justice for a perjury investigation, after numerous contradictions…

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AUSTIN, Texas — A freshman congresswoman drew bigger crowds at South by Southwest than any presidential candidate, and no one was surprised because it was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The annual festival of music, film and tech has gotten political this year, with more than a half-dozen declared and potential 2020 candidates of all political stripes making the pilgrimage to this mecca for upwardly mobile young techies and hipsters. But Ocasio-Cortez, the…

Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky Mr. Massie joined his colleagues in criticizing the scope of the measure, asking on Twitter, “Now that the resolution protects just about every group on the planet, can we add ‘babies on the day of their birth’ as a protected class?” Representative Steven M. Palazzo of Mississippi A spokeswoman for Mr. Palazzo did not respond to a request for comment. Representative Mike Rogers of Alabama…

Former Vice President Joe BidenJoseph (Joe) Robinette BidenBiden holds slim lead over Sanders in Iowa: poll Sunday shows preview: 2020 field begins to take shape Warren struggles to gain traction amid Sanders surge MORE has a slim 2-point edge ahead of Sen. Bernie SandersBernard (Bernie) SandersSanders pledges to support Democratic nominee in 2020 Biden holds slim lead over Sanders in Iowa: poll Sunday shows preview: 2020 field begins to take shape…

Search-and-rescue teams looking for a Marine missing after a scheduled back country ski trip in the central California mountains found his car late Friday, but still have not located the serviceman, according to the Inyo County Sheriff. First Lt. Matthew Kraft was planning to hike the Kearsarge Pass trail on Feb. 24 and was scheduled to end his trip on March 4 or March 5 near Bridgeport, California, the Inyo…

Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont top the list of favored Democrats to run for president in 2020, according to a new poll of likely Iowa caucusgoers. The CNN/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll said 27% favored Biden and 25% favored Sanders. The two Democrats were the only to crack more than 10% support, out of a field of 20 potential candidates. Former Vice President Joe Biden…