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Image copyright AFP/Getty Image caption President Trump announced the withdrawal of 2,000 US troops from Syria A top Republican has said US President Donald Trump remains committed to defeating Islamic State (IS) in Syria, despite his plan to withdraw US troops. Senator Lindsey Graham suggested the withdrawal had been slowed and he was now reassured of the president’s commitment after meeting him on Sunday. Mr Trump’s troop pullout plan met…

The federal website where consumers can sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act is shown on a computer screen in Washington, D.C., last month. The federal judge in Texas, who earlier this month ruled the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional, said that the law can remain in effect while under appeal. AP hide caption toggle caption AP The federal website where consumers can sign up for health insurance…

President Donald Trump’s often-touted “border wall” has recently been referred to as “beautiful steel slats” by the president, a “beaded curtain” by California Rep. Nancy Pelosi, “semantics” by White House adviser Kellyanne Conway, and “not a wall” by outgoing White House chief of staff John Kelly. Finally, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Sunday that the wall was nothing more than a “metaphor” for border security.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has extended an invitation to U.S. president Donald Trump to discuss policy between the two nations in 2019. The Kremlin confirmed Putin’s note by issuing a statement on Sunday, saying: “In a Christmas and New Year greeting message to President of the United States of America Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin stressed that Russia-US relations are the most important factor behind ensuring strategic stability and international security,…

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The partial shutdown came about when Congress failed to pass seven spending bills, including for the Department of Homeland Security. While House Democrats are considering various options, they appear to be leaning toward funding Homeland Security through a so-called continuing resolution, which would keep spending at current levels, likely through February. The other agencies would be funded through separate measures. Meanwhile, Mr. Graham floated his proposal, which would marry $5…

Image copyright AFP/Getty Image caption President Trump announced the withdrawal of 2,000 US troops from Syria A top Republican has said US President Donald Trump committed to defeating Islamic State (IS) in Syria, despite his decision to withdraw US troops. Senator Lindsey Graham said he was now reassured of the president’s commitment after meeting him on Sunday. Mr Trump’s troops withdrawal plan was met with strong criticism from major allies,…

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Catarina Alonzo Perez, mother of the second Guatemalan child this month to die while in U.S. custody, stands in her kitchen in Yalambojoch, Guatemala, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2018. Felipe was healthy when they left, according to the family. The last time he spoke with his mother was a day before they were taken into detention by border agents. Felipe told his mother that he was fine. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo) YALAMBOJOCH,…

WASHINGTON/BEIJING, Dec 29 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Saturday that he had a “long and very good call” with Chinese President Xi Jinping and that a possible trade deal between the United States and China was progressing well. As a partial shutdown of the U.S. government entered its eighth day, with no quick end in sight, the Republican president was in Washington, sending out tweets…

Video Sen. Lindsey Graham meets with Trump to discuss Syria and the partial government shutdown, says he left encouraged Sen. Graham and the president discussed the importance of a deal with Democrats to end the shutdown and the U.S. troop withdrawal from Syria; Ellison Barber reports. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told reporters Sunday that “I feel pretty good about where we’re headed” in Syria after suggesting that President Trump is…

Video How much can Trump compromise on the wall and still make his base supporters believe that he is keeping his word? Talk radio host Leland Conway says that Trump can make some compromises but still needs to do something big for border security. White House chief of staff John Kelly, who is set to leave the Trump administration within days, flatly asserted in remarks published Sunday that the president’s proposed border…

(WASHINGTON) — The former top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Sunday that withdrawing up to half the 14,000 American troops serving there would reduce the incentive for the Taliban to negotiate a peace deal after more than 17 years of war.Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal said the U.S. has “basically traded away the biggest leverage point we have.” McChrystal’s comments were in response to reports that President Donald Trump had ordered…

Protesters with NYC Fight for $15 gather in front of a McDonalds to rally against fast food executive Andrew Puzder, who was President Trump’s nominee to lead the Labor Department on February 13, 2017 in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty Images Protesters with NYC Fight for $15 gather in front of a McDonalds to rally against fast food executive Andrew Puzder, who was…

California’s giant utility, Pacific Gas and Electric, could face charges up to murder if it is found criminally liable in any of the state’s recent deadly wildfires, the state’s attorney general said in a court filing. State Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s office said PG&E could face the most serious in a range of criminal charges if it is found to have caused any of the recent deadly fires — and…

“To be honest, it’s not a wall,” Kelly said. “The president still says ‘wall’ — oftentimes frankly he’ll say ‘barrier’ or ‘fencing,’ now he’s tended toward steel slats. But we left (the idea of) a solid concrete wall early on in the administration, when we asked people what they needed and where they needed it.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said he hasn’t given up on trying to convince President Trump to rethink pulling U.S. troops out of the Middle East and will broach the topic when he has lunch with Trump on Sunday. “I’m going to ask the president to do something that President Obama would never do: Reconsider. This is being done by President Trump against sound military advice,” Graham said during an interview…

President Trump flipped the script on Robert Mueller, claiming the special counsel’s team should be investigated for possibly obstructing justice. Trump made the assertion Saturday regarding text messages exchanged between two former FBI employees, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, who sparked internal and congressional inquiries into potential bias at the bureau. The president alleged Mueller’s team “deleted” the messages, although an internal watchdog inquiry found this was not the case….

Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez firing back after outgoing Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri recently said about her, “I’m a little confused why she’s the thing.” “Not sure why former Sen. McCaskill keeps going on TV to call me a ‘thing’ and ‘shiny object,’ but it’s pretty disappointing,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Saturday. “McCaskill promised she’d ‘100% back Trump up’ on his anti-immigrant rhetoric & lost. In MO, almost all progressive ballot issues won.” McCaskill made the…

Braxton Moral is scheduled to receive a high school diploma from Ulysses High School and a bachelor’s degree from Harvard in May.(Photo: Julie Moral) Millions of teens across the country next May will join fellow high school students with all the pomp and circumstance to accept their high school diplomas. Young adults on college campuses nationwide will joyfully toss their caps in the air in celebration of earning undergraduate degrees.  One 16-year-old…