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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The governor of New Mexico ordered the withdrawal of the majority of the state’s National Guard troops from the U.S. border with Mexico on Tuesday, in a move that challenges President Trump’s description of a security crisis. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced the partial withdrawal shortly before Trump’s State of the Union address. Her Republican predecessor deployed National Guard troops to the border in April…

President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) As President Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union address Tuesday night, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi couldn’t help but shift her attention on multiple occasions from the president to several pieces of paper she was holding. Pelosi’s interest in the papers caught the attention of…

President TrumpDonald John TrumpSix takeaways from the State of the Union Ocasio-Cortez rejects criticism that she wasn’t ‘spirited and warm’ during Trump speech Lawmakers say Trump’s infrastructure vision lacks political momentum MORE called on lawmakers during his State of the Union address Tuesday night to ban “late-term” abortions, a policy that won’t pass a divided Congress. “To defend the dignity of every person, I am asking the Congress to pass legislation to prohibit…

Image caption Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai: “Peace is more difficult than war” The Taliban official who has led the group’s peace negotiations with the US has told the BBC the insurgents do not want to seize “the whole country by [military] power”. “It will not bring peace to Afghanistan,” Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai said. However, he said the group would not agree to a ceasefire until foreign forces were withdrawn…

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was conspicuously absent from President Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday. Ginsburg, who turns 86 next month, has been working from home in recent weeks as she recovers from treatment for cancer. Her son said this week she has been out walking and sees a personal trainer twice a week. She appeared in public Monday for the first time since her recent…

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For some, Stacey Abrams would seem an unlikely choice to give the Democrats’ response to the State of the Union. One of the most closely-watched candidates of the 2018 cycle, Abrams lost her race to then-Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp. Delivering the State of the Union address is a high-profile assignment typically is reserved for party luminaries with a long record of solid election wins. Abrams’ was far from…

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump used his second State of the Union address on Tuesday to push the familiar themes of his administration – urging a wall along the border with Mexico, pressing for an end to foreign wars and claiming credit for an expanding economy – using familiar arguments. Not all of them were true.  Trump told lawmakers he wanted them to build a border wall, suggested they had already voted…

President Trump declared in his State of the Union speech that America will “never be a socialist country,” a clear rebuke of a new generation of Democrats and socialists like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. “Here, in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country,” Trump told Congress Tuesday night. “We are born free, and we will stay free. Tonight, we renew our resolve…

The pilot whose twin-engine plane crashed into a Southern California home on Sunday, killing him and four people on the ground, was not a retired Chicago Police Department officer as authorities initially believed. Antonio Pastini, 75, of Gardnerville, Nevada, piloted the plane that crashed into a single-family home in a residential section of Yorba Linda, California. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office on Monday identified Pastini as a former Chicago police…

Trump’s speech runs about 5,000 words 7:12 p.m.: President Trump’s speech runs about 5,000 words — easily an hour in length, depending upon the applause he receives. Aides say chief White House speechwriter Stephen Miller started drafting the address three weeks ago. Counselor Kellyanne Conway, daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner weighed in throughout the process. The president spent about four to five hours on practice sessions and revisions…

Stacey Abrams hit the jackpot when she was picked to deliver the Democrats’ response to President Trump’s State of the Union Address: She’s a female minority who can’t be held politically accountable for anything because she doesn’t hold any office. ABC News on Monday ran the headline, “For Democrats, Stacey Abrams sends key message on gender and race in [State of the Union] response.” A news article in the New…

Gov. Ralph Northam’s now-infamous blackface-KKK yearbook photo may soon end his career. A large swath of the public, including many prominent liberals, progressives, and Democratic politicians, are demanding that the Virginia Democrat step down. Even notable institutions like the editorial board of the Richmond Times-Dispatch immediately called for Northam to step aside. Northam now claims he wasn’t actually in the 1984 picture. If it’s later proven that he is in…

“Imaad knows nothing about a subpoena, other than what’s been written,” Zuberi spokesman Steve Rabinowitz told The Times on Monday in a written statement. “It’s well known that after supporting President Obama and Hillary Clinton, that Imaad gave generously and directly to the Trump inaugural. But many others gave substantially more. For what it’s worth, Imaad, as always, gave only his own money from his own resources. If, in fact,…

Alex Horton February 5 at 2:43 PM William Brown had errands to run on a chilly Texas evening, and his grandmother was happy to lend him her light-blue Lincoln Town Car. Brown stopped at a store selling vaporizer smoking pens outside Fort Worth on Jan. 27. He sat alone in the parked car, put his lips to a pen, and soon after, an explosion sent shards of metal into his…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A woman freed from federal prison after President Donald Trump cut short her life sentence for drug offenses and a Delaware boy allegedly bullied because his last name is Trump headline a varied group of 13 guests who will sit with first lady Melania Trump for the State of the Union address. Alice Marie Johnson, 63, served more than two decades of a life sentence without parole…

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Video Elizabeth Warren calls out billionaire ‘freeloaders’, apologizes to Cherokee nation Sen. Warren introduces ‘ultra-millionaire’ tax and apologizes for her DNA test ; David Spunt reports. Democratic presidential hopeful and class warrior Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is still worth millions, new financial records show — as she pushes a new wealth tax aimed at millionaires and billionaires. According to Warren’s presidential candidate personal financial disclosure, obtained by The Center for…

Snow levels dropped to around 4,000 feet in Southern California and will continue to dip to as low as 2,500 feet Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, which could result in snow in the Antelope Valley hills, according to the weather service.