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Looking at where things stand ahead of a midnight Friday deadline, all signs are pointing to a partial government shutdown. Typically, when trying to assess outcomes of Congressional standoffs, it’s best to look past some of the details and consider the bottom line political motivations and incentives for the key players. Right now, we’re in a situation in which the Republican-controlled Senate passed a bill to temporarily keep government open…

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Pope Francis told a gathering of cardinals Friday that clergy who break their vows by sexually abusing children are similar to Judas Iscariot, the disciple who betrayed Jesus Christ. Vatican Pool/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Vatican Pool/Getty Images Pope Francis told a gathering of cardinals Friday that clergy who break their vows by sexually abusing children are similar to Judas Iscariot, the disciple who betrayed Jesus Christ. Vatican Pool/Getty…

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Video Howard Kurtz: Why Trump base is rebelling over hot-button issues ‘MediaBuzz’ host Howard Kurtz weighs in on some conservative media and Trump’s base becoming angry over the president’s decision to pull American troops out of Syria as well as his decision to back off on border wall funding. In the space of 48 hours, President Trump has got some of his conservative supporters pretty riled up. His tentative decision…

A grassroots online campaign to fund President Trump’s proposed border wall roared past $8.7 million on Thursday, but questions remained about whether the feds would be able to accept the gift. As of Thursday evening, 143,821 people had donated $8,742,182 toward Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage’s GoFundMe campaign, titled We the People Will Fund the Wall, just a little over three days after its launch. The pledge drive aims to…

BEIRUT — The United States’ Kurdish allies had been gearing up for a new fight for weeks, digging trenches and defense tunnels in northeastern Syria in preparation for an offensive Turkey’s president warned was imminent. On the ground, U.S. troops were bringing in reinforcements through the border with Iraq, beefing up patrols and observation points to prevent friction between the Turks and their Kurdish partners. Then, in a surprise announcement,…

Deputies in West Virginia on Thursday were looking for one of four people who entered an inactive coal mine earlier this month, prompting a days-long rescue effort, the Raleigh County Sheriff’s Office said. The sheriff’s office said in a statement that they had arrest warrants for Eddie Williams Jr., who is charged with entering without breaking, conspiracy and giving false information to law enforcement. Williams and three others, Kayla Williams,…

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WASHINGTON — The House passed a stopgap measure Thursday night to fund the government that includes $5 billion for a border wall sought by President Donald Trump. The bill is expected to be rejected in the Senate, and does little to prevent a shutdown on Saturday. The vote of 217 to 185 on Thursday night puts the House at odds with the Senate, which on Wednesday night passed a funding…

President Trump arrives Thursday to speak during a bill-signing ceremony in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Philip Rucker Robert Costa Josh Dawsey December 20 at 8:40 PM President Trump began Thursday under siege, listening to howls of indignation from conservatives over his border wall and thrusting the government toward a shutdown. He ended it by announcing the exit of the man U.S. allies see…

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The Trump administration has taken another step toward selling leases to drill oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In this photo from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, caribou migrate onto the coastal plain of the refuge in northeast Alaska. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/AP hide caption toggle caption U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/AP The Trump administration has taken another step toward selling leases to drill oil in the…

Looking at where things stand ahead of a midnight Friday deadline, all signs are pointing to a partial government shutdown. Typically, when trying to assess outcomes of Congressional standoffs, it’s best to look past some of the details and consider the bottom line political motivations and incentives for the key players. Right now, we’re in a situation in which the Republican-controlled Senate passed a bill to temporarily keep government open…

You should greatly lament President Trump’s announcement on Thursday that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is resigning. A scholar and retired four-star Marine general with the extremely unsuited nickname, “Mad Dog,” Mattis is universally respected by U.S. allies and universally feared by U.S. foes. In his resignation letter, Mattis noted that Trump deserves a defense secretary who is in closer alignment with his own views. While Mattis’ letter pointed out the…

Mr. Putin reiterated the Kremlin position that American forces have no legal right to be in Syria, in that they were neither invited by Damascus, as the Russian forces were, nor authorized by the United Nations Security Council. The American decision to withdraw represented at least a tactical victory for Mr. Putin, who intervened in Syria in September 2015 with the primary goal of re-establishing Russia as a power to…

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Campus of Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa.(Photo: aimintang, Getty Images) A former chemistry major at Lehigh University, who allegedly vandalized his longtime roommate’s property with racist graffiti, was charged with attempted homicide Thursday after he also allegedly poisoned the roommate over several months by mixing toxic amounts of thallium into his food and drink, prosecutors said.  North Hampton County District Attorney John Morganelli announced the charges at a press conference, calling the…