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A President Not Sure of What He Wants Complicates the Shutdown Impasse — WASHINGTON — When President Trump mused last year about protecting immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children, calling them “these incredible kids,” aides implored him privately to stop talking about them so sympathetically.
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Senate to vote on Monday on ending shutdown — Washington (CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pledged Sunday to take up legislation to address the expiring Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program if enough Democrats vote to re-open the government, and scheduled a key vote for noon Monday.
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Graham: Stephen Miller makes immigration deal impossible — (S.C.) warned on Sunday that the White House staff is undercutting President Trump — and Congress's ability to get a deal on immigration. — “Every time we have a proposal it is only yanked back by staff members.


Senate to vote at noon on whether to end government shutdown — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)The Senate is scheduled to have a key vote at noon Monday on a bill to reopen the government and fund it for three weeks, though it's unclear if this plan will win over enough Democrats to pass.
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Stephen Miller: Immigration agitator and White House survivor — Stephen Miller, one of the few remaining original advisers to President Trump, invited a small group of writers and editors from Breitbart News to the White House last fall for a conversation on immigration.


‘Dealmaker in chief’ largely absent in weekend shutdown negotiations — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — “I had to stay here in DC, which I'm becoming pretty proficient at,” Trump told donors by video on Saturday — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump may be presiding over the first government shutdown ever …
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White House, Graham Trade Barbs Amid Stalemate (7:27 p.m.)
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Shutdown's Crux: Democrats' Deep-Rooted Distrust of G.O.P. on Immigration
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Senate to vote Monday on plan to reopen government
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Women and independents drive advantage for Democrats ahead of midterm elections, Post-ABC poll finds — Strong support from women and independents is fueling Democrats' large early advantage ahead of this year's congressional elections, a sign that two groups that have recoiled …
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Democrats solidify their lead in midterm elections matchup (POLL) — Democrats have solidified their position in the November midterm elections in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, maintaining a 12-point lead among registered voters while improving to a wide 14-point advantage among likely voters in congressional preference.


Newly released texts between ex-Mueller team members suggest they knew outcome of Clinton email probe in advance — The Justice Department has given various congressional committees nearly 400 pages of additional text messages between two FBI officials who were removed from Special Counsel …
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FBI ‘Failed To Preserve’ Five Months Of Text Messages Between Anti-Trump FBI Agents
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The Obama Administration's ‘Brazen Plot To Exonerate Hillary Clinton’ …
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Senator says FBI lost crucial texts tied to Clinton probe
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More texts turned over from FBI agent taken off Mueller team
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Paul Ryan Collected $500,000 In Koch Contributions Days After House Passed Tax Law — That's peanuts compared with what the Koch brothers will save. — Just days after the House passed its version of the federal tax law slashing corporate tax rates, House Speaker Paul Ryan collected nearly $500,000 …
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Chief Justice John Roberts Has Changed A Little Bit. And That Could Be A Big Deal. — Chief Justice John Roberts last year. — Win Mcnamee / Getty Images — WASHINGTON — Thirteen years into the job, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. remains a conservative — but he has shifted …


Does This Man Know More Than Robert Mueller? — It's 10:45 p.m. Rio de Janeiro time. Glenn Greenwald and I are finishing dinner at a deserted bistro in Ipanema. The restaurant, which serves its sweating beer bottles in metal buckets and goes heavy on the protein, is almost aggressively unremarkable …
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‘Defiance Disorder’: Another new book describes chaos in Trump's White House — In late July, the White House had just finished an official policy review on transgender individuals serving in the military and President Trump and his then-chief of staff, Reince Priebus, had agreed to meet …
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China, Unhampered by Rules, Races Ahead in Gene-Editing Trials — U.S. scientists helped devise the Crispr biotechnology tool. First to test it in humans are Chinese doctors — HANGZHOU, China—In a hospital west of Shanghai, Wu Shixiu since March has been trying to treat cancer patients using a promising new gene-editing tool.


Team Trump Bypassed DHS Analysts to Produce Bogus Terror Report … The document didn't mince words. It claimed three-quarters of “international terrorism” convicts were immigrants, an assertion meant to bolster Donald Trump's cherished Muslim-focused ban on entering the country.
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Police union slashes number of ‘get out of jail free’ cards issued — The city's police-officers union is cracking down on the number of “get out of jail free” courtesy cards distributed to cops to give to family and friends. — Patrolmen's Benevolent Association boss Pat Lynch slashed …
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