President Trump is trying to bend Congress to his will in the shutdown fight, but many say his negotiating skills are falling short. “It’s like McDonald’s not being able to make a hamburger,” one critic said.
In morning tweets, President Trump accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of behaving irrationally, while he rejected conservative claims that his offer of temporary deportation protections for young immigrants amounts to amnesty.
Rudolph W. Giuliani vehemently denied that President Trump asked his former attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress and said BuzzFeed News should be sued for reporting the allegations.
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With an Atlantic cover and a BuzzFeed News report, an almost-taboo subject in Big Media’s reporting on President Trump broke into the mainstream.
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Joe Davidson was picked to be part of the supportive crowd behind the president at his rallies. He clapped. He cheered. Then, in the midst of the bitter feud to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh, Davidson laughed as the president mocked Kavanaugh's accuser Christine Blasey Ford. After that, all the anger directed at Trump, was felt by Davidson, too.
There was the head-spinning, cross-party, total defeat of the prime minister’s Brexit deal. Then the inglorious rescue of her government. At the center of the chaos, May still stands. Scholars of British politics cannot quite believe it. No leader before has survived such a parliamentary drubbing, described by many as “the worst in history.” But May has. How?
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On Jan. 18, the Black Hebrew Israelites, Catholic high school students attending the March for Life, and a group participating in the Indigenous Peoples March converged on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
Four volunteers for aid group No More Deaths were convicted in Tucson and could face up to six months in federal prison.
The vice president quoted from King’s “I Have a Dream” speech as he defended President Trump’s latest pitch to secure funding for a barrier along the southern border.
This year, the moon will be high in the sky, which makes it the best chance to watch an eclipse in years.
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Sean McVay is the youngest head coach in history to reach the Super Bowl.
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Analysis In this edition: Kirsten Gillibrand on the trail, the Democrats’ secular holiday and the Larry Hogan fan club.
The freeze will follow the weekend’s run-ins with power outages, canceled trains and planes, overnight stays at the airport and traffic jams.
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The Past, Rediscovered Omar ibn Said had been a Muslim scholar in West Africa, where he was abducted in 1807. The Library of Congress has just acquired his memoir, which is believed to be the only known document of its kind.
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Once upon a time, people walked between the United States and Canada over a frozen Niagara Falls. But one day, all of that changed forever.
