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Has the Democratic Party reduced its chances of denying President Trump a second term by continuing to concentrate on throwing him out before the end of his first? You can make a good case that it has. Democrats have been itching to oust Trump since the days before he took the oath of office. Obama administration law enforcement and intelligence agencies launched investigations into candidate Trump’s campaign, contrary to the…

Democrats seeking the party’s 2020 presidential nomination are starting to come out in defense of Rep. Ilhan Omar, and in the process, they are normalizing anti-Semitism. Leading Democratic candidates Sens. Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren have all come out defending Omar and pointing fingers at her critics, despite a series of statements she has made targeting American Jews. Omar has been unrepentant over statements she made lamenting the…

Huawei Rotating Chairman Guo Ping, center, speaks in front of other executives during a press conference in Shenzhen, China’s Guangdong province on Thursday. Kin Cheung/AP hide caption toggle caption Kin Cheung/AP Huawei Rotating Chairman Guo Ping, center, speaks in front of other executives during a press conference in Shenzhen, China’s Guangdong province on Thursday. Kin Cheung/AP Chinese telecom manufacturer Huawei is suing the U.S. government, arguing Congress violated the Constitution…

President Donald Trump walks with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un during a break in talks in Hanoi on Feb. 28, 2019. | Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Defense By ASSOCIATED PRESS 03/07/2019 12:19 AM EST SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s state TV has aired a documentary glorifying leader Kim Jong Un’s recent visit to Vietnam that omitted the failed nuclear negotiations with President Donald Trump. The footage’s release Wednesday came amid…

President Donald Trump fired back at the Democratic National Committee after it decided to exclude the Fox News Channel from broadcasting any of its candidates’ debates during the 2020 US presidential primary. The DNC’s decision to blacklist Fox News prompted a response from other journalists, some of whom suggested it was not a good look for the party. Bret Baier, Martha MacCallum, and Chris Wallace are all anchors whose respective…

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“The U.S. Congress has repeatedly failed to produce any evidence to support its restrictions on Huawei products,” Guo Ping, Huawei’s rotating chairman, said in a statement announcing the filing of the lawsuit. “We are compelled to take this legal action as a proper and last resort.” The lawsuit, which was filed in a United States District Court in Plano, Tex., where Huawei has its American headquarters, argues that part of…

Has the Democratic Party reduced its chances of denying President Trump a second term by continuing to concentrate on throwing him out before the end of his first? You can make a good case that it has. Democrats have been itching to oust Trump since the days before he took the oath of office. Obama administration law enforcement and intelligence agencies launched investigations into candidate Trump’s campaign, contrary to the…

WASHINGTON — Customs and Border Protection has compiled a list of 59 mostly American reporters, attorneys and activists for border agents to stop for questioning when crossing the U.S-Mexican border at San Diego-area checkpoints, and agents have questioned or arrested at least 21 of them, according to documents obtained by NBC station KNSD-TV and interviews with people on the list. Several people on the list confirmed to NBC News that…

President Donald Trump fired back at the Democratic National Committee after it decided to exclude the Fox News Channel from broadcasting any of its candidates’ debates during the 2020 US presidential primary. The DNC’s decision to blacklist Fox News prompted a response from other journalists, some of whom suggested it was not a good look for the party. Bret Baier, Martha MacCallum, and Chris Wallace are all anchors whose respective…

The prosecutors followed up with Mr. Cohen to ask for additional details about the pardon discussions, the people said, though there is no indication that they suspect anyone involved in the conversations of wrongdoing. ABC News reported on Wednesday that lawyers claiming to have ties to Mr. Giuliani sought out Mr. Cohen to discuss his options as prosecutors closed in on him last year. It was not clear that Mr….

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Following a report about the close relationship between the network and the Trump White House, DNC Chairman Tom Perez said the party will not allow Fox News to host any of its primary debates in 2020. Charles Dharapak/AP hide caption toggle caption Charles Dharapak/AP Following a report about the close relationship between the network and the Trump White House, DNC Chairman Tom Perez said the party will not allow Fox…

<!– –> × SEARCH QUOTES Politics President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen on Wednesday gave the House Intelligence Committee documents that reveal alleged editing to the statement he used to lie to Congress in 2017 about efforts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow during the presidential election, a source familiar with the matter told CNBC. Cohen testified last week in public before another House committee…

Rep. Rashida Tlaib joined protesters with CREDO Action and By the People, a new advocacy group pushing for the impeachment of President Trump. Together they urged members of Congress to begin impeachment proceedings. (Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib) Freshman Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib appeared to clash with party leadership on Wednesday after joining protesters to say she’d introduce a resolution this month urging the Judiciary Committee to move forward with impeachment proceedings against President Trump. Tlaib,…

LORDSTOWN, Ohio - The idling of the GM Lordstown plant goes to the heart of one of GM’s most significant problems, according to Kristin Dziczek of the Center for Automotive Research.  “They have about a million units of underutilized capacity across their whole production footprint in the U.S,  and  Lordstown at 450,000 units is almost half of that,” Dziczek said.  The head of GM North America says the idling of Lordstown is…

CLOSE A new poll may not favor impeaching President Trump but that doesn’t mean there aren’t concerns from American voters. Veuer’s Justin Kircher has the story. Buzz60, Buzz60 One of the first polls conducted since President Donald Trump’s former attorney implicated him in illegal activity was released Tuesday, and most of the results were not very good for the president.  A poll from Quinnipiac University National found 64 percent of American voters…

DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen says the current cybersecurity threat is “blinking red” and is possibly the “highest threat that we face in the homeland.” Here’s her exchange with Rep. John Katko: Katko: With respect to cybersecurity, which I’m the ranking member of that subcommittee right now, there’s a bill that we’re going to be submitting next week that suggests and asks that a cybersecurity infrastructure advisory committee be created, similar…

As the trade deficit widens, Mr. Trump’s focus on it has resulted in a particular irony: By his own metric, the president is failing to right America’s global trading relationships. Yet many of the president’s critics don’t blame him for this, saying some fluctuations in the trade deficit are largely beyond his control. Several global economic factors explain the widening of the global trade deficit last year. China’s slowdown has…

Anne Gearan Robert Costa March 6 at 9:02 AM Secretary of State Mike Pompeo grew testy in a recent newspaper interview when asked to explain why President Trump would take North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “at his word” about the death of a U.S. college student taken prisoner in North Korea. National security adviser John Bolton, making the rounds of Sunday talk shows, flatly refused to offer his personal…