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Apr 24, 2018
With critical political deadlines fast approaching, the Trump administration is racing to strike a deal on a revamped North American Free Trade Agreement by early May — with an eye toward forcing a congressional vote on a new pact by the end of the year.
After months of making little progress,...
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Apr 23, 2018
Travis Reinking, who was arrested Monday on suspicion of gunning down four people at a Waffle House restaurant in Nashville, had displayed increasingly bizarre behavior in recent years, once complaining to relatives that he was being stalked by pop singer Taylor Swift.
Reinking was taken into custody...
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Apr 23, 2018
On Feb. 6, conservative media personality Sean Hannity brought his longtime financial advisor, William Lako, on his popular radio show to talk about money.
"For 25 years, you've watched me start with nothing, right, pretty much?" Hannity asked Lako. "Yes, I did," replied Lako.
Since Hannity started...
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Apr 23, 2018
She is either complicit in her husband's worst instincts or a victim of them, either struggling in an anachronistic job or confidently doing precisely what she wants to do with it. Fifteen months after she became first lady, Melania Trump remains a mystery.
In the span of several days ending Tuesday,...
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Apr 23, 2018
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved CIA Director Mike Pompeo as secretary of State on party lines Monday after a Republican holdout changed his mind at the last minute, avoiding an embarrassing defeat for President Trump.
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky had vowed to oppose Pompeo, but Paul...
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Apr 23, 2018
The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in an arcane dispute over administrative judges that poses a potentially far-reaching question about the president's power: Can such executive branch officials have independent authority to act or must they be subject to control and removal by the president?
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Apr 23, 2018
Scores of calls poured in last week. Puerto Ricans displaced by Hurricane Maria were anxiously contacting lawmakers and advocates, fearful they were about to lose federal assistance that has allowed them to live in hotels since the storm ravaged the island seven months ago.
The government had warned...
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Apr 22, 2018
President Trump pushed back Sunday against criticism that his decision to hold face-to-face talks with North Korea's leader amounted to a major concession to Pyongyang, with no gain for Washington in return.
"Wow, we haven't given up anything," the president tweeted from his Florida resort.
In...
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Apr 22, 2018
President Trump faces a European double bill this week as a crucial deadline looms for a decision on whether to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, arriving back to back, will bring a unified message: Save the deal.
"I don't...
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Apr 22, 2018
Within minutes of North Korea's announcement that it was suspending nuclear and missile tests and closing a test site, President Trump proclaimed a victory of sorts.
"Big progress!" he tweeted, eager to bask in the glow of credit for having influenced a significant reversal by a traditionally intractable...
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Apr 21, 2018
Barbara Pierce Bush was remembered Saturday for the strength of character and wit that made her one of the most popular first ladies in U.S. history, as she was laid to rest by the political clan she built, including the husband and son she helped reach the presidency.
"She was our teacher and...
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Apr 20, 2018
Democrats gave President Trump another potential legal headache Friday, filing a federal lawsuit that alleges an illegal election conspiracy between his presidential campaign, the Russian government, the WikiLeaks organization and others.
The lawsuit seeks unspecified financial damages, probably...
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Apr 20, 2018
They are among the most storied memos in recent Washington history.
Under pressure from Republicans, the Justice Department on Thursday sent Congress the seven memos, spanning 15 pages, that then-FBI Director James B. Comey wrote over four months early last year about his interactions with President...
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Apr 20, 2018
A federal judge in California postponed a ruling on a request by President Trump and his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, who is now the subject of a federal investigation, for a 90-day delay of a lawsuit filed against them by porn star Stormy Daniels.
U.S. District Judge S. James Otero took the...
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Apr 20, 2018
President Trump's rhetorical attacks against James Comey, the man he fired as FBI director, have escalated in both frequency and viciousness.
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Apr 20, 2018
The Senate's top Democrat announced Friday that he is introducing legislation to decriminalize marijuana, the first time that a leader of either party in Congress has endorsed a rollback of one of the country's oldest drug laws.
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) in a statement...
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Apr 20, 2018
Most Beverly Hills lawyers are seldom accused of extortion.
For Keith M. Davidson, however, it's not so rare: He is fighting three civil suits by television personalities alleging extortion.
Davidson is the attorney who negotiated payments to porn star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen...
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Apr 20, 2018
Down at the water's edge in southwestern Brooklyn, in a refurbished industrial building, lines spilled out the doorways of eateries peddling $7 avocado toast and $12 pulled pork sandwiches.
On this cold winter's day, families lunched at tables inside faux-Native American tents set up in an outdoor...
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Apr 20, 2018
In any other administration, the news regarding North Korea — a secret mission by the CIA director to meet with Kim Jong Un, followed by tantalizing hints of North Korean negotiating flexibility — would have blotted out all other topics this week.
This being the Trump administration, the Korea...
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Apr 19, 2018
President Trump hired New York's former mayor, Rudolph W. Giuliani, as one of his new lawyers Thursday, turning to one of his oldest political allies as two federal investigations have reached deep into his inner circle.
Trump said Giuliani would help him left the cloud of investigations that has...
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Apr 19, 2018
Trying to find its way out of a legal thicket, the Trump administration wants to send to Saudi Arabia a U.S. citizen who was captured on the battlefield in Syria last fall and is suspected of supporting Islamic State.
Lawyers for the American, who is identified only as John Doe in court papers,...
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Apr 19, 2018
Next month, the nation's biggest coffee chain will close thousands of its U.S. stores for an afternoon to tell 175,000 employees that they may have been racist without realizing it.
That is the premise behind at least 8,000 "racial-bias education" seminars that Starbucks will hold May 29 at its...
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Apr 19, 2018
Andrew McCabe, the FBI official who became a target for President Trump, now faces the possibility of criminal charges — the latest fallout from an internal watchdog report that found he lied to investigators.
The findings of that report, by the inspector general of the Justice Department, were...
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Apr 19, 2018
Paul Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman, came under scrutiny by the special counsel because prosecutors suspected he might be a back channel between the Trump campaign and Russian efforts to interfere in the U.S. election, a Justice Department lawyer said Thursday.
The disclosure...
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Apr 19, 2018
No criminal charges will be filed against the doctor and other associates who gave pain pills to Prince before the music megastar died of an accidental opioid overdose, officials announced Thursday.
The doctor, who maintains his innocence and continues to practice, agreed to pay a $30,000 civil...
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Jan 31, 2018
President Trump opened his State of the Union speech Tuesday night with a plea for unity forged on common ground. By the end of his address, it was clear how little he would give up for it.
Trump said he was "extending an open hand" to opposition Democrats gathered in the chamber. By the end of...
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Jan 31, 2018
Porn actress Stormy Daniels stopped just short of saying on television Tuesday night that she had sex with President Trump in the early days of his marriage to Melania Trump.
In an appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," Daniels said she did not authorize a signed statement under her name denying the...
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Jan 31, 2018
President Trump tried to shed the polarizing image and words that have stunted his popularity and thwarted his ability to pass bipartisan legislation, recasting himself on Tuesday as a unifying figure in his first State of the Union address.
"Tonight, I call upon all of us to set aside our differences,...
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Jan 31, 2018
For over an hour Tuesday night, Presidential Trump vied with pugnacious Trump.
The White House had promised a conciliatory and uplifting State of the Union address, which stood to reason. It's one thing to inveigh against the mess Trump said he inherited a year ago and another to laud the job he...
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Jan 30, 2018
President Trump gave his first State of the Union address on Monday as our political reporters and editors gave their analysis and commentary. See more of our coverage and our fact checks. David Lauter And that, Brian, will be a theme we'll be returning to throughout the year. Well, we've heard...
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Jan 30, 2018
President Trump likes to boast about the records he has achieved, but there's at least one mark the White House tries to downplay - the president has amassed an unprecedented number of inaccurate statements. The Times' staff analyzed the State of the Union on Tuesday to try to separate truths from...
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Jan 30, 2018
The Nevada board that regulates gambling announced Tuesday that it was opening an investigation into sweeping claims of sexual misconduct by casino mogul Steve Wynn.
The announcement by the powerful Nevada Gaming Control Board came four days after the Wall Street Journal published a story that...
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Jan 30, 2018
It's been more than four months since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, packing winds that flattened thousands of homes, killed scores of people and severely damaged the island's infrastructure.
Though criticized for what some island residents said was a slow, inadequate response, the Federal...
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Jan 30, 2018
Times journalists are annotating this speech. If you see a passage highlighted in yellow, you can click on it to see what we have to say about it. You can also highlight passages and leave your own comments.
Below are the remarks as prepared for delivery:
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members...
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Jan 30, 2018
Authorities were looking into an additional "person of interest" following the mass shooting in Las Vegas that killed 58 people and wounded hundreds of others, according to search warrants unsealed by a Nevada judge Tuesday.
Though Stephen Paddock has been identified as the lone gunman in the Oct....
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Jan 30, 2018
Hawaii's state emergency manager resigned Tuesday after officials said a recent false alarm warning of an incoming missile was triggered by an employee who got confused during an unplanned drill and thought the state was really under attack.
State and federal inquiries into the Jan. 13 incident...
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Jan 30, 2018
President Trump will deliver his first State of the Union address Tuesday night. The White House released the following excerpts ahead of the speech.
Trump seeks to set the agenda for his second year, hoping to alter a threatening tide »
Together, we are building a safe, strong and proud America.
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Jan 30, 2018
Porn actress Stormy Daniels will spice up the commentary after Tuesday night's State of the Union address with an appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," but expect more winking than talking about her alleged affair with President Trump.
When Daniels sat down last week for an on-camera interview with...
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Jan 30, 2018
President Trump is known for breaking norms, but on Tuesday night he complies with a century-old tradition — delivering his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, as well as the Supreme Court, foreign diplomats and a national television audience. Nearly a year ago, he...
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Jan 30, 2018
President Trump has spent the last year trampling many of the courtesies and customs associated with his office and the swampy bog, Washington, D.C., he now calls home.
But there is one ritual that holds fast: the State of the Union address, set for delivery Tuesday night to a joint session of...
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Jan 30, 2018
Americans probably will hear a lot about the economy in President Trump's State of the Union address Tuesday. Here's context for some of the comments he's likely to make, based on his recent public statements.
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Jan 30, 2018
Former combat pilot Martha McSally was put off by Donald Trump when he ran for president.
The Republican congresswoman from Tucson called his boasts of sexually assaulting women disgusting. She opposed his plan to stop Muslims from entering the United States. She condemned his threat to ditch European...
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Jan 29, 2018
President Trump will try to bring his pitchman's A-game to his first State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress and a national television audience, though even the strongest performance may not sway many voters.
Trump will have about 60 minutes of prime time Tuesday night to...
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Jan 29, 2018
As President Trump seethes about the investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, he's been able to count on rock-solid support from his Republican allies in Congress, who, amplified by conservative commentators on Fox News, have increasingly labored in recent weeks to raise public doubts...
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Jan 29, 2018
The Trump administration says it will lift a partial ban on refugees from 11 countries, but subject them to tough new security measures before allowing them to enter the U.S.
In October, Trump ordered an effective freeze for 90 days on new refugees coming from what the administration termed "high-risk"...
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Jan 29, 2018
President Trump's chief trade official Monday offered a modicum of optimism about the ongoing talks to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement, even as he shot down two key Canadian proposals and blasted a recent trade action by Canada as a "massive attack on all of our trade laws."
The...
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Jan 28, 2018
Before the police shot and killed her husband, Jeanette Finicum didn't know anything about ranching.
Since then, she's learned how to castrate cattle, drive a backhoe and a forklift — the kind of work her husband, Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, used to do, before he joined the ill-fated armed occupation...
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Jan 28, 2018
Despite new protestations from the White House that President Trump has no plans to fire Robert S. Mueller III, two leading Republican senators on Sunday called for legislation to protect the special counsel leading the Russia investigation.
"I've got legislation protecting Mr. Mueller, and I'll...
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Jan 28, 2018
Decades ago, Lake Michigan teemed with nutrients and green algae, casting a brownish-green hue that resembled the mouth of an inland river rather than a vast, open-water lake.
Back then, the lake's swampy complexion was less than inviting to swimmers and kayakers, but it supported a robust fishing...
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Jan 27, 2018
The inside of the strip club looked festive with red, white and blue balloons tied to golden handrails. A few USA placards had been set up on tables. Patriotism and porn were about to hook up in Sin City.
For hours, the crowd inside waited. Outside, the Little Darlings' marquee burned bright in...
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Jan 27, 2018
President Trump, in his first State of the Union address Tuesday night, will call for overhauling immigration and spending more on the military and infrastructure. But his vision will confront political realities and budget constraints created by Republicans' recent tax cuts, which he'll tout as...
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Jan 26, 2018
At least half a dozen times, President Trump by his actions has invited scrutiny for possible obstruction of justice in the Russia probe, and now comes a report that last year he ordered the firing of the very man investigating him.
That man, special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, ultimately will...
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Jan 26, 2018
In response to a deadly school shooting in western Kentucky this week, some state lawmakers are pushing to pass a bill that would allow school districts to appoint campus staff members to become armed guards.
On Tuesday, authorities said a 15-year-old boy shot and killed two students and wounded...
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Jan 26, 2018
There's a lot of disagreement over whether President Trump can or will be charged with obstruction of justice. But there's no question that he's tried to impede or control the Russia investigation. Here's a look at what he's done.
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Jan 26, 2018
President Trump gave his salesman's pitch for America on Friday before an international crowd of corporate and political titans, and took credit for its economic success, even as he was shadowed by fresh clouds from home about his heightened jeopardy in the Russia investigation and opposition to...
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Jan 26, 2018
President Trump still hasn't cracked the 3% solution for the U.S. economy.
Despite frequently boasting that his policies have caused growth to take off, government data released Friday showed the economy slowed at the end of last year after expanding at a 3% annual pace from April through September.
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Jan 26, 2018
Hunched over a microphone in his radio studio, Jay Sekulow worked himself into a fury over revelations that the FBI didn't save five months of text messages between a senior agent and a lawyer who initially worked on the criminal investigation of President Trump's campaign and White House.
"This...
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Jan 25, 2018
President Trump ordered the firing of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III last June, but he backed off after White House Counsel Donald McGahn threatened to resign, according to a report Thursday in the New York Times.
The newspaper reports that Trump demanded Mueller's firing just weeks after...
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Jan 25, 2018
The engineer at the throttle of an Amtrak train that flew off a curve and crashed in Washington state last month, killing three and injuring dozens, has told federal investigators he missed — or misinterpreted — a sign that might have alerted him to the passenger train's dangerous speed, nearly...
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Jan 25, 2018
President Trump is testing the loyalty of his most ardent conservative supporters, proposing a pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million young immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children, while demanding that Democrats support $25 billion for border security, including his proposed border...
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Jan 25, 2018
It is the job of U.S. Border Patrol agents to capture people crossing into the country illegally. In Arizona this month, they chose another target: one of the many volunteers who provide food, water and other supplies aimed at helping migrants survive in the desert.
Scott Warren, 35, a faculty...
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Jan 25, 2018
The machine gun dealer was drinking his quad shot white mocha in the Starbucks at the Sands Expo Center, searching for his friend.
It took a few minutes, a few quick texts but then Jonathan Babb saw Matthew Ingle weaving his way past a couple of men in cowboy hats and some suits. After Ingle settled...
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