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White House senior adviser Stephen Miller on Jan.

Dems, GOP raise concerns about national emergency

White House senior adviser Stephen Miller, an immigration hard-liner, defended President Donald Trump's decision to declare a national emergency to redirect taxpayer funds for a southern border wall.

Politics 1600: Trump never gets tired of make-believe winning
The president has a knack for finding ways to avoid declaring a loss, even when he's backed into a corner and signing a bill that fails to meet his core demand.
2/17/19
Nation Aurora shooter's permit was revoked but gun wasn't seized
An initial background check failed to detect a felony conviction that should have barred the man who killed five co-workers and wounded six other people at a suburban Chicago manufacturing plant from buying the gun.
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Nation Disgraced ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner released from prison
Disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner has been released from federal prison after being convicted of having illicit online contact with a 15-year-old girl in 2017.
2/17/19
Nation 13 quotes that stood out in Trump's State of the Union
Here are 13 quotes that stood out from President Donald Trump's second State of the Union address.
2/6/19
New York De Blasio on presidential run: 'I have not ruled it out'
New York City's mayor said that he was not ruling out a 2020 presidential bid, while calling out Amazon for its "arbitrary" decision to back out of a deal to construct a corporate campus in Queens amid pressure from activists and politicians.
2/17/19
Nation McCabe: 'Crime may have been committed' by Trump
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe told "60 Minutes" that a "crime may have been committed" when President Donald Trump fired the FBI director and tried publicly to undermine an investigation into his campaign's ties to Russia.
2/17/19
TV Trump criticizes 'SNL' after it spoofs him again
But the president's denunciation of the sketch-comedy program, calling it a "total Republican hit" job, sparked a backlash over First Amendment rights.
2/17/19
Nation Fact check: Trump's State of the Union claims
President Trump laced his speech with puffed-up numbers and partial truths Tuesday as he hailed an "economic miracle," warned of human traffickers flooding across the border and appeared to place Afghanistan in the Middle East instead of where it is, Asia.
2/6/19
Obituaries Society grande dame Lee Radziwill dies at 85
Lee Radziwill, who parlayed her cachet as the younger sister of former first lady Jacqueline ...
2/17/19
Editorial Editorial: The morphing U.S. presidency
Happy Presidents Day, a celebration of stellar car deals and the sanctity of the Oval ...
2/17/19
Nation Brands struggle with racial insensitivity
Retailers and top fashion brands like Gucci and Prada keep apologizing for products that smack ...
2/17/19
Nation Potential privacy lapse found in 2010 census data
An internal team at the Census Bureau found that basic personal information collected from more than 100 million Americans during the 2010 head count could be reconstructed from obscured data, but with lots of mistakes, a top agency official disclosed Saturday.
2/16/19