President Trump and his political team plan to make his years-long quest for a border wall one of the primary thrusts of his reelection effort. Faced with the fact that he has yet to build an inch of the concrete or steel wall he promised, he and and his campaign have begun relying on a rhetorical sleight of hand: speaking the wall into existence.
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Two decades before police said Gary Martin, 45, opened fire at his co-workers, he was convicted of aggravated assault. Authorities said he regularly abused a former girlfriend, at one point hitting her with a baseball bat.
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As LeBron James closes in on Michael Jordan’s scoring mark, NBA players who defended both reveal who they’d pick with the game on the line.
The former archbishop of Washington is the most senior church official in modern times to lose his priestly rights. The Vatican said a canonical process had found McCarrick guilty of two charges: soliciting sex during Confession and committing “sins” with minors and adults.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel led the charge, unleashing a stinging, point-by-point takedown of the president's tendency to treat allies as adversaries. Later, former vice president Joe Biden and Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) offered criticisms of their own.
Sanders has occasionally made public statements defending the president against the suggestion that his campaign colluded with Russia.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had hoped to shorten next Sunday’s broadcast by editing out the award ceremonies for cinematography, film editing, makeup and hairstyling, and live-action shorts.
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