A day after the president declared he would be proud to let funding lapse for dozens of government agencies if he does not get the money he wants for the wall, congressional Republicans signaled little appetite Wednesday to join his cause.
Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal lawyer, took responsibility for crimes that included tax violations and buying the silence during the 2016 campaign of women who alleged affairs with Trump.
The California congresswoman will support a three-term limit for the top four House Democratic leaders, meaning she would step aside no later than 2022 as party leader. Pelosi's move earned support from seven Democratic holdouts, likely giving her the votes she needs for her election to speaker on Jan. 3.
Smog hangs over Beijing in November. (EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
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The North Carolina Republican is one of President Trump's staunchest allies in the House, and Trump told him he wants him to remain there.
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Cardinal George Pell, who has declared his innocence, had taken a leave of absence from the Vatican’s third-most-powerful position, as the economy minister, to fight the charges.
Lawmakers in the prime minister's Conservative Party had called for a no-confidence vote, a move that had threatened her leadership as she struggles to secure a deal for Britain to leave the European Union.
The vote came after CIA Director Gina Haspel briefed House leaders on the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
“We are living in an age of historical reckoning,” Southern Baptist leader R. Albert Mohler Jr. said.
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At least a dozen of the marine mammals have washed up this fall on the shores near Seattle.
