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Senators Strike Bipartisan Deal on Immigration Despite Veto Threat

The bipartisan measure would include $25 billion for the president’s proposed wall at the Mexican border and offer a path to citizenship for 1.8 million of the young undocumented immigrants, but would preclude their parents from becoming citizens, Mr. Graham said. But in a morning statement, Mr. Trump urged senators to oppose any bill that did not also embrace the “four pillars” of his immigration approach, which includes a rewrite of the nation’s immigration laws that would close the…

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Michael D. Cohen, Trump’s Longtime Lawyer, Says He Paid Stormy Daniels Out of His Own Pocket

Mr. Cohen’s statement about what he called “a private transaction” was the first time that he had acknowledged a role in the payment, which was first reported in January by The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Cohen said that he had given a similar statement to the Federal Election Commission in response to a complaint filed by the government watchdog group Common Cause, which contended that the payment, made through a limited liability company that Mr. Cohen established, was an…

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It Took Trump to Make Superchunk Go Political

“It was about time,” said Ms. Ballance, who along with Mr. McCaughan also runs the respected independent record label Merge. “It’s all very Mac-driven. He’s always got ideas, and after a while, he resurfaces with stuff written.” It helps when he’s angry, she added. The album’s primary emotion at times is a blinding, sputtering fury. On the squalling “I Got Cut,” Mr. McCaughan spews bile from the start: “All these old men won’t die too soon.” But there’s a…

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The Trump Administration Is Optimistic About Economic Growth. Be Skeptical.

Advertisement President Trump has been nothing if not bold in his promises to generate supercharged economic growth. When a report showed a strong 3.3 percent growth rate last fall, he said, “I see no reason why we don’t go to 4 percent, 5 percent, and even 6 percent,” and he has spoken wistfully of emerging economies where growth can reach higher than that. Even if you treat those musings as presidential bombast, his administration is making detailed projections that…

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Trump’s Military Parade Could Cost $30 Million

.@RepBarbaraLee: “How much is that parade going to cost and where is that money coming from?”@mickmulvaneyomb: “I’ve seen various different cost estimates from between I think $10 million and $30 million depending on the size of the parade.” pic.twitter.com/vsgO02PMPi Powered by WPeMatico

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U.S. May Seek to Put Pakistan on Terrorism-Finance List

But his optimistic tone faded as he recalled a meeting with United States Treasury officials this month. The Pakistani delegation walked away with the impression that “they are still going to put us on the gray list,” he said, calling the Trump administration’s foreign policy inconsistent. That would undermine moderates in the country, he said. “We’ll have egg on our faces,” Mr. Ismail added. “We pushed for these reforms, although many thought we wouldn’t be successful changing Washington’s behavior.”…

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The F.B.I., Domestic Abuse and the White House: A Timeline of the Rob Porter Scandal

Advertisement Rob Porter, the White House staff secretary who was forced to resign after accusations of spousal abuse, amassed job titles in multiple Senate offices before joining President Trump’s staff.Published OnFeb. 14, 2018CreditImage by Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images WASHINGTON — For more than a week, the White House has shifted its story about how and when members of the Trump administration learned about the domestic abuse allegations that forced Rob Porter, one of President Trump’s top aides,…

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A Citizenship Question on the Census May Be Bad for Your Health

In a December document first reported by ProPublica, the Department of Justice argued that inquiring about citizenship status in the decennial census was critical to enforcing Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which protects against racial discrimination in voting. Measuring the total number of citizens of voting age in a region is vital to understanding voting rights violations, the department argued. On Monday, 19 Democratic and independent state attorneys general and one governor, John W. Hickenlooper of Colorado,…

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Global News at 5:30: Feb 13 | Watch News Videos Online

February 13 2018 8:44pm Global News at 5:30 on Global Toronto for Tuesday, February 13, 2018. Hosted by Alan Carter and Farah Nasser. ‘ }); } else { var rel_id = svp.releaseInfo.contentId+””; if( typeof gnca_social_share_collection ); } }; // don’t do on IE, doesn’t work yet if ( !gNews.Common.isIE && !gNews.Common.isTrident && gNews.Common.isFlash ) {…

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