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Mitt Romney’s surprising New Year’s Day column criticizing Donald Trump was a brave, bold, and bracing corrective for a president run amok. Romney’s first paragraph lays out his case well: “The Trump presidency made a deep descent in December. The departures of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, the appointment of senior persons of lesser experience, the abandonment of allies who fight beside…

Washington is emerging from the holiday season consumed by the ongoing government shutdown. President Trump wants $5 billion for a border wall, Democrats don’t, and neither side appears willing to blink. The only thing that will save the country from a damaging and prolonged shutdown (although note that there are arguments for letting this happen) is a solution that will allow both sides to save face, a compromise that gives…

<!– –> × MENU SEARCH QUOTES Politics The partial government shutdown entered its 12th day Wednesday, as bipartisan congressional leaders prepared to go to the White House for a briefing on President Donald Trump‘s proposed border wall. Nine federal departments remain unfunded and hundreds of thousands of federal workers face missing paychecks amid an impasse over funding for the barrier. Democrats have pledged to pass spending legislation without wall money…

Netflix removed an episode of a comedy show that was critical of Saudi Arabia and accused the country of covering up the killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi to protect its crown prince. The episode of Hasan Minhaj’s “Patriot Act” that was removed from Saudi Arabia criticized Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and cast doubt on Saudi Arabia’s efforts to distance itself from the death of Khashoggi, who was killed…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Police in Washington, D.C., say a U.S. Marine has been shot and killed inside of the Marine Barracks in Washington. News outlets report that police say a male Marine was shot early Tuesday morning in an apparent accident and later pronounced dead. Police haven’t said why the shooting was accidental. Marine Corps spokesman Chief Gunnery Sgt. John says the man did not shoot himself. The Marine Corps…

TIJUANA, Mexico — U.S. authorities fired tear gas into Mexico during the first hours of the new year to repel about 150 migrants who tried to breach the border fence in Tijuana. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement later Tuesday that the gas was used to target rock throwers apart from the migrants who were trying to cross. “No agents witnessed any of the migrants at the…

Video Democrats seek to separate shutdown from border wall standoff, plan to introduce spending bills to reopen government As the fight over the federal government shutdown entered the new year, President Trump on Tuesday expressed his desire to “make a deal” with House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi over funding for his border wall. “Border Security and the Wall ‘thing’ and Shutdown is not where Nancy Pelosi wanted to start her…

Image copyright EPA Image caption Mr Xi said unification was inevitable for China’s rejuvenation Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged the people of Taiwan to accept it “must and will be” reunited with China. In a speech marking 40 years since the start of improving ties, he reiterated Beijing’s call for peaceful unification on a one-country-two-systems basis. However, he also warned that China reserved the right to use force. While…

Video Mitt Romney on Trump 2020: I’ll decide down the road Mitt Romney, former presidential candidate and a Republican senator-elect in Utah, has written a scathing op-ed for The Washington Post, saying President Trump “has not risen to the mantle of the office.” Published in The Post on Tuesday, Romney’s piece reiterated past thoughts about Trump. That is, while Trump wasn’t his first choice to be the Republican Party’s presidential nominee…

For minimum-wage earners, port truckers, farm laborers, sexual harassment victims, nursing mothers, high-powered female executives and workers injured on the job, 2019 offers reason to celebrate.

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Trump, too, was merely a symptom of a larger disease, a product of declining faith among Americans in their democratic institutions. And Bolsonaro adopted many of Trump’s strategies: He, too, encouraged violence against critics, appealed to nativist and racist fears, and suggested that if he lost, it would be the result of political rivals’ shenanigans. He also called for imprisoning not just his opponent, but activists who worked on the left. He…

A 10-month old boy was rescued alive after spending more than 35 hours in subzero conditions buried under the rubble of a collapsed building in Russia. Emergency crews temporarily suspended their search for survivors Tuesday amid fears that remnants of the 10-story apartment block were too unstable following the deadly New Year’s Eve gas explosion. But a short time later rescuers heard a child crying and rushed to save it,…

Tony D. Albert was arrested and booked on a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of marijuana. (Guadalupe County Jail) Deanna Paul January 1 at 8:49 AM This story has updated. It was Sunday morning in Seguin, Tex., when a restaurant employee noticed something amiss: A man was wandering around donned in sunglasses and a surgical mask, carrying something that too closely resembled a…

When it comes to pulling troops out of Syria or building the wall, President Trump claims that he is just doing what he said he would do. But perhaps that’s the problem. The old joke about the key to being a politician is to never give a straight answer. If asked about border security, don’t promise anything specific, let alone a border wall, built with concrete and paid for by…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Tuesday he hopes to extend his high-stakes nuclear summitry with President Donald Trump into 2019, but also warns Washington not to test North Koreans’ patience with sanctions and pressure. During his televised New Year’s speech, Kim said he’s ready to meet with Trump at any time to produce an outcome “welcomed by the international community.” However, he said…

President Donald Trump responded to Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Monday announcement that she is forming an exploratory committee for a potential 2020 presidential run. During a phone interview with Fox News contributor Pete Hegseth asked Trump whether or not Warren can win. “Well, that I don’t know,” Trump responded. “You’d have to ask her psychiatrist.” Trump made this comment during an interview for Fox News’ “All-American New Year” special that airs…

A reveler celebrates as confetti falls during a New Year’s celebration in New York’s Times Square, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger) The world ushered in 2019 in a variety of ways, with major capitals and cultural centers drawing the most revelers – and attention. In New York, rainy weather didn’t dampen the spirits of those gathered at Times Square, who were at least grateful for temperatures in the…

Police say the man arrested carrying a gun in Seguin was seeking a church in the small East Texas town of Vidor to “fulfill a prophecy” Monday afternoon the Seguin Police Department released more information about the arrest of Tony Dwayne Albert II that happened early Sunday morning including the name of the church and its location. “During the preliminary interview with Albert he revealed that he…