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Nancy Pelosi was perched on the end of a sofa in the Oval Office when the balance of power in Donald Trump’s Washington decisively shifted in her favour. . The event in early December began as a simple photo call with Trump – the first attempt at bipartisan dialogue after the midterm elections saw Democrats take back control of the House of Representatives. The president was in domineering form, making…

Asylum seekers stand at a bus stop after they were dropped off by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Greyhound bus station in El Paso, Texas on Dec. 23. Paul Ratje/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Paul Ratje/AFP/Getty Images Asylum seekers stand at a bus stop after they were dropped off by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Greyhound bus station in El Paso, Texas on Dec. 23. Paul Ratje/AFP/Getty…

Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is showing yet again that she isn’t one to shy away from snapping back at her critics, even if it’s from a member of her own party. In a recent CNN interview, outgoing Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., expressed confusion about why Ocasio-Cortez has become so popular among Democrats, saying, “I’m a little confused why she’s the thing.” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted her dismay with that wording on Saturday….

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PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) –  DoubleTree by Hilton employees accused of racially profiling a guest in a Portland hotel lobby were fired Saturday morning. The hotel posted on their Twitter that the two men involved were fired stating, “their actions were inconsistent with our standards & values.” We have terminated the employment of the two men involved in the mistreatment of Mr. Massey. Their actions were inconsistent with our standards &…

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Roughly 420,000 federal employees are working without pay, and another 380,000 have been furloughed and are temporarily out of a job. Although lawmakers have typically approved backpay retroactively after previous shutdowns, there is no guarantee a divided Congress would do so this time.

RABAT (Reuters) – Morocco arrested a Swiss national on Saturday in connection with the killing of two Scandinavian women, the counter-terrorism agency said. Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, from Denmark, and Maren Ueland, 28, from Norway were found dead early on Dec. 17 near the village of Imlil in the Atlas Mountains. The man arrested is also suspected of “involvement in recruiting Moroccan and sub-Saharan nationals to carry out terrorist plots…

Congressional Republicans have ended their probe into allegations of political bias within the Federal Bureau of Investigation just days before Democrats take over the House of Representatives. The investigation focused on whether or not the FBI and the Department of Justice exhibited bias when handling probes into former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and President Donald Trump’s relationship with Russia. The probe was led…

Mr. Trump has complained repeatedly about Democrats on Twitter since the shutdown began, remaining in the White House instead of taking a planned extended trip to his private club, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla. But he has made no effort to reach out to the incoming Democratic House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, in several days. The president dug in further on Saturday, claiming: “For those that naïvely ask why didn’t the…

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Video President Trump and first lady Melania Trump makes surprise visit to US troops and senior military leadership in Iraq Media outlets this week, having first fawned over former first lady Michelle Obama’s choice of glitzy boots, quickly offered a different take when it came to current first lady Melania Trump’s fashion choices — going from fan boy to “Mean Girl.” Earlier this month, while promoting her new book “Becoming,” Mrs….

President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met earlier this month during the Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A trade war has dominated U.S.-China relations for much of this year. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP hide caption toggle caption Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met earlier this month during the Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A trade war has dominated U.S.-China…

Video Rep. Gowdy reacts to Mueller probe filings House Republicans unceremoniously ended their investigation into the way the FBI and the Department of Justice handled Hillary Clinton’s email scandal and the bias allegations against President Trump. The House probe was led by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the Judiciary Committee and sought to look into allegations that the FBI and the DOJ were biased against Trump during…

The 115th Congress appears to have given up, with both the House and Senate failing to reach a deal to end the ongoing government shutdown. This likely punts the showdown over the border wall to the 116th Congress where Trump will face off against a Democratic majority in the House. An agreement won’t be pretty, but it would be a good lesson for Trump and one that could set the…

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Abdallah Hassan had died at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland. His mother Shaima Swileh was kept out of the US until December by President Donald Trump’s travel ban. Swileh was let in following a lawsuit from the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The 2-year-old son of a Yemeni woman who sued the Trump administration to let her into the country to be with the ailing boy has died. The Council…

“We lost too many women, Republican women, in the suburbs and we lost men and women,” she said. “We must win hearts and minds, and we can do it.” One big question mark for how bad life could get for Republicans is the approach taken by Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the longtime Democratic leader and presumptive speaker. When she first ran the House from 2007 to 2011, Ms. Pelosi…

Spending billions of dollars to build hundreds of miles of additional walling — or “steel slats” or whatever you want to call it — on the US-Mexico border is a bad idea. That’s a critical, underrated feature of the current standoff that has led President Trump to partially shut down the government. After all, if the president of the United States wants a $5 billion appropriation for a pet project…