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President Donald Trump’s ban on military service for some transgender individuals got the go-ahead from the Supreme Court on Tuesday, but a transgender former US Navy SEAL has called “bulls—.” Both the Pentagon and the Department of Justice welcomed the high court’s move to lift an injunction on Trump’s transgender ban, which will allow him to enforce his policy barring certain transgender troops from joining or staying in the military….

While both measures faced long odds, they could usher in a more cooperative tone; if both fail, as expected, the votes could prompt the two sides to negotiate a bipartisan compromise. With the shutdown now in its fifth week, and 800,000 federal workers facing the loss of a second paycheck on Friday, the pressure is growing on parties to reopen the government. Mr. Trump’s proposal, which he promoted in a…

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President Trump has weighed in on the controversy surrounding a confrontation Friday at the base of the Lincoln Memorial involving three groups. The incident was caught on video that went viral. The story behind it has evolved several times since first coming to light, and accounts still differ. The trouble involved a group of five black men shouting vulgar insults while protesting centuries of oppression, dozens of white Catholic high…

Amy Gardner January 22 at 5:22 PM A state judge in North Carolina has declined to certify election results in the 9th Congressional District, citing state election officials’ authority to delay certification while they continue to investigate allegations of election fraud. In a court hearing in Raleigh on Tuesday, Wake County Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway ruled against Republican Mark Harris, who leads Democrat Dan McCready by 905 votes in…

“It is critical,” Lt. Col. Carla M. Gleason said, that the Department of Defense “be permitted to implement personnel policies that it determines are necessary to ensure the most lethal and combat effective fighting force in the world.” The department’s “proposed policy,” she said, “is based on professional military judgment and will ensure that the U.S. Armed Forces remain the most lethal and combat effective fighting force in the world.”…

Madame Speaker, we’re waiting. Over the weekend, President Trump did what he should have done four weeks ago and issued a televised announcement to offer a concession for his wall. In exchange for $5.7 billion in border security funding — mind you, the whole wall will likely cost five times that — the president is prepared to issue three years of legal protections for DACA recipients and Temporary Protected Status…

When a video went viral that supposedly showed white high school students wearing pro-Trump hats getting in the face of an elderly Native American activist, many online compared the teenagers to everything from Nazis to the Ku Klux Klan. The social media mob branded these kids hateful white supremacists immediately and ferociously. When a longer video emerged later showing a fuller context that largely exonerated the students from what they…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up its first gun rights case in nine years, a challenge to New York City’s prohibition on carrying a licensed, locked and unloaded handgun outside the city limits.

“I feel like I’ve done what I came in to do. My kids have a greater claim to my time right now than the public does,” Wess Mitchell, the State Department’s top diplomat for European affairs, told the Washington Post. | Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty Images Foreign Policy Wess Mitchell’s portfolio includes Russia, a sensitive issue given ongoing investigations into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow in 2016. By NAHAL TOOSI…

After Jason Leopold and Anthony Cormier dropped a questionably sourced article charging President Trump with directing his personal attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about the Trump Tower Moscow project, the news cycle centered on examining the credibility of the piece. If special counsel Robert Mueller’s response is indeed accurate, then the BuzzFeed piece was yet another sham, and at least one anonymous source burned Cormier and Leopold, who…

With nearly two years to go, almost anything in the realm of the 2020 presidential election could change from now until Election Day. The one thing that won’t, however, is math. Any Democrat seeking to unseat President Trump will have to achieve at least one of the following: mobilize the base to achieve Obama-level turnout and enthuse the Left, or successfully splinter off ideological agnostics and the suburbs that defected…

“There weren’t a lot of them, but there were conversations,” said Giuliani, who is an attorney for Trump. “Can’t be sure the exact date. … Probably up to ― could be up to as far as October, November.”

“Here in this city, we’re going to lead the way. We’re going to show what can be done,” de Blasio declared. “We’re going to show that working people will get the wages they deserve, the benefits they deserve, the life they deserve.”

Columbia, S.C. – On the steps of the South Carolina State Capitol, Senators Cory Booker and Bernie Sanders on Monday joined local leaders of the state NAACP chapter and called for an end to racial injustice. Only one of them leveled a direct, personal attack on President Trump. “We now have a president of the United States who is a racist,” Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont, told the crowd,…

With nearly two years to go, almost anything in the realm of the 2020 presidential election could change from now until Election Day. The one thing that won’t, however, is math. Any Democrat seeking to unseat President Trump will have to achieve at least one of the following: mobilize the base to achieve Obama-level turnout and enthuse the Left, or successfully splinter off ideological agnostics and the suburbs that defected…

It had all the makings of the perfect 21st century crime. A seemingly incriminating social media video. That red hat. A victim from perhaps the single most oppressed class in American history, a Native American. A villain from its most privileged, a white male. And most damning, that incorrigible and unrelenting smile. But as it turns out, hundreds of thousands or even millions of retweets of an encounter following the…

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However, even before she formally entered the race, Ms. Harris was criticized by her own party. One of Ms. Harris’ top aides, Larry Wallace, resigned in December after revelations that he was involved in a harassment lawsuit and a $400,000 settlement while working for the California Department of Justice. Ms. Harris has said she did not know about the settlement, but apologized and took “full responsibility” for hiring Mr. Wallace….

President Donald Trump extended an epic day of tweeting by paying tribute to Tom Brady and the NFL’s New England Patriots. | Charles Neibergall/AP Photo White House The president’s feed overflowed with messages of support from lawmakers, James Woods and Jacob Wohl’s dad. By QUINT FORGEY 01/20/2019 09:30 PM EST Updated 01/20/2019 11:15 PM EST 2019-01-20T11:15-0500 President Donald Trump rung in Day 30 of the longest government shutdown in U.S….