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10/22/2018 Reuters Politics
U.S. President Donald Trump set aside his old feud with Senator Ted Cruz on Monday and headlined a packed rally to help the fellow Republican in his tight race in Texas with rising Democratic star Beto O'Rourke just two weeks before the Nov. 6 elections.
10/22/2018 Reuters Politics
The following statements were posted to the verified personal Twitter account of U.S. President Donald Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
10/22/2018 Washington Examiner Politics
President Trump has sharpened his midterm message to voters, warning that handing Congress to the Democrats will invite a Venezuela-style socialist calamity that will wreck the economy.
10/22/2018 Washington Examiner Politics
Will the president help or harm GOP's election prospects?
10/22/2018 Washington Examiner Politics
Sir Roger Scruton talks to Washington Examiner's Editorial Director Hugo Gurdon.
10/22/2018 Washington Post Politics
The president plans to keep focusing on immigration and a migrant caravan as his best contrast with Democrats ahead of Election Day, advisers said.
10/22/2018 Washington Post Politics
The president plans to keep focusing on immigration and a migrant caravan as his best contrast with Democrats ahead of Election Day, advisers said.
10/22/2018 Washington Post Politics
Putting their bitter 2016 primary rivalry behind them, President Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) praised each other onstage in Houston.
10/22/2018 Washington Post Politics
Several states and civil rights groups have filed lawsuits against including a citizenship question in 2020 Census.
10/22/2018 Reuters Politics
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that he was still not satisfied with what he has heard from Saudi Arabia about the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, but did not want to lose investment from Riyadh.
10/22/2018 Reuters Politics
CIA Director Gina Haspel was traveling to Turkey on Monday to help investigate the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, two sources familiar with the matter said, as security agencies examined what role Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman may have played in the case.
10/22/2018 Reuters Politics
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday blocked a judge's order forcing Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to give a deposition in a lawsuit by 18 states challenging a planned question in the 2020 census that would ask respondents whether they are U.S. citizens.
10/22/2018 Washington Post Politics
The government had asked the Supreme Court to block questioning of Ross as part of a lawsuit filed by several states and groups seeking to stop the Trump administration from adding a question to the census about the respondent’s citizenship status. The plaintiffs say the question will discourage immigrants from filling out the forms. Ross […]
10/22/2018 Washington Post Politics
The ad, which comes two months after McCain’s death, highlights the faces of a diverse country and features audio of the Arizona Republican saying, “We stand for truth against falsehood.”
10/22/2018 Washington Post Politics
His decorations included the Distinguished Service Medal and two Navy Distinguished Public Service Awards.
10/22/2018 Washington Post Politics
Republicans hope to retain their congressional majorities by playing on fears about migrants. Democrats are trying to maintain a focus on health care ahead of the election.
10/22/2018 Washington Post Politics
The president’s announcement, aimed at the middle class, comes shortly before elections.
10/22/2018 Washington Post Politics
Recent gathering of experts on personnel policies also supports Trump administration plan to break up Office of Personnel Management, senior management official says.
10/22/2018 Reuters Politics
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that transgender issues were in flux and he aims to protect the country after a report that his administration was considering defining gender as male or female based on genitalia at birth drew widespread condemnation.
10/22/2018 Washington Post Politics
The members want to know what the U.S. intelligence community knew, when and if they had a duty to warn Khashoggi of potential threats to his life.
10/22/2018 Reuters Politics
President Donald Trump told USA Today in an interview on Monday he believes the death of Jamal Khashoggi was "a plot gone awry," after the journalist died in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
10/22/2018 Reuters Politics
CIA Director Gina Haspel is traveling to Turkey on Monday to work on the investigation into the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.
10/22/2018 Reuters Politics
A New Hampshire judge on Monday put on hold a law requiring some voters to present proof of residency when they register, saying it would lengthen lines at polling places and make it difficult for students, disabled voters and others to cast ballots.
10/22/2018 Reuters Politics
U.S. President Donald Trump, speaking to reporters at the White House as he left on a campaign trip to Texas, said on Monday his administration planned to produce a resolution within two weeks calling for a 10 percent tax cut for middle-income people.
10/22/2018 Reuters Politics
Russia said on Monday it would be forced to respond in kind to restore the military balance with the United States if President Donald Trump carried through on a threat to quit a nuclear arms treaty and began developing new missiles.
10/22/2018 Reuters Politics
Germany will seek NATO's help to maintain a nuclear arms treaty between Russia and the United States, and is ready to take action to force Moscow to comply with the pact, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Tuesday.
10/22/2018 Washington Post Politics
In a series of tweets, the president also again blamed Democrats for immigration woes in the United States.
10/22/2018 Washington Post Politics
It will be the first time that George Papadopoulos, one of the first people in President Trump’s orbit to fall under FBI investigation, has spoken to congressional investigators.
10/22/2018 Washington Post Politics
Democrats argue the move will further undermine access to care for people with preexisting conditions.
10/22/2018 Reuters Politics
U.S. national security adviser John Bolton said on Monday that Russian meddling in U.S. elections did not have any effect on the outcome, but told Russian officials that it did "sow enormous distrust of Russia" in the United States.
10/22/2018 Washington Post Politics
Critics said Brat should have used quotation marks or put Bernanke’s words into his own.
10/22/2018 Reuters Politics
Under an unusual arrangement, Paul Manafort's attorney has kept Donald Trump informed about the former campaign chairman's meetings with prosecutors investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and, according to Trump's lawyer, Manafort has not said anything damaging about the president.
10/22/2018 Reuters Politics
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday called the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul a "monstrosity" and vowed to halt all German arms exports to Riyadh until the case is cleared up.
10/22/2018 Reuters Politics
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in Riyadh on Monday, Saudi state TV said in a tweet.
10/22/2018 Washington Post Politics
Fear of immigrants coming to the U.S. once again moves to the forefront of Republican electoral strategy.
10/22/2018 Washington Post Politics
The exchange was captured on the student's phone, which continued recording video even after Perdue had taken it.
10/22/2018 Reuters Politics
British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said on Monday it was not credible for Saudi authorities to claim that journalist Jamal Khashoggi died in a fight.
10/22/2018 Reuters Politics
The United States wants to know all the details of how Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed and talks on that are continuing with Saudi authorities, U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton was quoted as saying on Monday.
10/22/2018 Reuters Politics
President Donald Trump warned on Monday that the United States intended to build up its arsenal of nuclear weapons to pressure Russia and China.
10/22/2018 Reuters Politics
President Donald Trump said Washington would withdraw from a landmark Cold War-era treaty that eliminated nuclear missiles from Europe because Russia was violating the pact, triggering a warning of retaliatory measures from Moscow.
10/22/2018 Washington Post Politics
Steve Doocy asked a panel of independent voters to imagine a migrant caravan of up to 20,000 people storming the border. The panel did not cooperate.
10/22/2018 Washington Post Politics
Steve Doocy asked a panel of independent voters to imagine a migrant caravan of up to 20,000 people storming the border. The panel did not cooperate.
10/22/2018 Washington Examiner Politics
Rep. Keith Ellison, Democratic candidate for attorney general in Minnesota, is trying to divert scrutiny surrounding his domestic assault allegations by pointing instead to all the claims against President Trump.
10/22/2018 Washington Examiner Politics
Republicans appear to be shoring up their hold on the Senate with just over two weeks to go before the midterm elections.
10/22/2018 Washington Post Politics
Trump is as popular as or more popular than 7 of the last 17 presidents to face midterm elections. But everyone below him got drubbed in the midterms.
10/22/2018 Washington Examiner Politics
Liberal New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof pointed to the work of anti-Trump writers as a sign that voters should reject the Republican Party in the midterm elections next month, and help blow up the GOP.
10/22/2018 Washington Examiner Politics
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., likely didn’t think she’d be defending her supposedly “vindicating” DNA report nearly one week after its release, but that’s exactly what she had to do this weekend during a debate against her re-election opponent, Rep. Geoff Diehl, R-Mass.
10/21/2018 Washington Examiner Politics
I’ve worked out why we loathe each other so much — why democracy throughout the West, and especially in the United States, has become so partisan, so adversarial, so angry.
10/19/2018 Washington Examiner Politics
It looks like Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is going for it.
10/19/2018 Washington Examiner Politics
In an idea stolen from a viral tweet, Elle magazine's Twitter account posted that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are splitting up. That wasn't true, but the link took readers to a voter registration website.