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President Barack Obama set the refugee cap at 110,000 in 2016, his final year in office. Resettlement agencies have until Jan. 21 to submit to the administration their funding proposals, with the consenting letters from state and local governments. Mr. Trump has made the restriction of both legal and illegal immigration a central mission of […]

WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered a triumphant message on Friday as the House moved on legislation, long sought by environmentalists, to force the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate toxic chemicals that can contaminate drinking water. “The Trump Administration’s E.P.A. is breaking its own promises every day that it delays and puts polluters ahead of

DES MOINES — Bernie Sanders edged ahead of his Democratic rivals in Iowa, affirming his resurgence less than four weeks before next month’s caucuses, according to a new poll from The Des Moines Register and CNN. The poll showed that Mr. Sanders was the first choice for 20 percent of would-be caucusgoers, a five percent

Marianne Williamson, the self-help author and spiritual adviser whose long-shot presidential campaign called for reparations and a Department of Peace, announced on Friday that she would drop out of the race. “I stayed in the race to take advantage of every possible opportunity to share our message,” Ms. Williamson said in a message to supporters.

The Trump administration came into office with its top legislative priority clear: Repeal the Affordable Care Act. It failed. Then, when a group of Republican states tried to throw out Obamacare through a lawsuit, the administration agreed that a key part of the law was unconstitutional. But now that defenders of the law have asked

WASHINGTON — The American military unsuccessfully tried to kill a senior Iranian in Yemen on the same day a drone strike took out Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, one of Iran’s most important commanders, according to American officials. The disclosure of a second mission indicated that the Trump administration was attempting to target a larger set

WASHINGTON — Representative Doug Collins of Georgia apologized on Friday for accusing Democrats of being “in love with terrorists,” a claim he hurled during a bitterly partisan dispute over whether to curtail President Trump’s war-making power in Iran. “Let me be clear: I do not believe Democrats are in love with terrorists, and I apologize

So there are strategic reasons for Mr. Buttigieg to emphasize faith. African Americans, especially women, are among the most religious voters in the Democratic Party. And there are entire suburbs full of educated, affluent, churchgoing conservatives — the kind Mr. Buttigieg likes to call “future former Republicans” — who say they would find it difficult

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration slapped another round of sanctions on Iran on Friday and, brushing aside demands from Democrats for evidence, elaborated on its assertions that the decision to kill a top Iranian commander was justified by an imminent threat to United States embassies and other American interests. “We had specific information on an

WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi alerted lawmakers on Friday that she would move next week to transmit to the Senate articles of impeachment against President Trump. In a letter to colleagues Friday morning, the speaker appeared to be moving to end a weekslong impasse over the impeachment process. She did not announce the members of