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G.O.P. Senator ‘Disturbed’ by McConnell’s ‘Total Coordination’ with White House

WASHINGTON — Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska expressed unease in an interview broadcast on Tuesday with the Senate majority leader’s vow of “total coordination” with the White House on impeachment proceedings against President Trump, a potentially significant crack in Republican unity. Ms. Murkowski, a moderate with an independent streak, told Anchorage’s NBC affiliate KTUU she […]

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Trump Complains About Impeachment After Christmas Eve Message to Troops

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump spent Christmas Eve morning complaining that Democrats had treated him unfairly during the impeachment inquiry and insisting that Republican leaders in the Senate should run a trial however they see fit. “It’s up to Mitch McConnell, and we have the majority and now they want McConnell to do

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Democrats Who Flipped Seats in 2018 Have a 2020 Playbook: Focus on Drug Costs

WASHINGTON — The high costs of health care are a driving force animating House Democrats in the swing districts that will decide control of Congress next year, with the electoral consequences of their votes to impeach President Trump unclear and a court ruling that left the fate of the Affordable Care Act in limbo. From

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Pentagon Eyes Africa Drawdown as First Step in Global Troop Shift

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper is weighing proposals for a major reduction — or even a complete pullout — of American forces from West Africa as the first phase of reviewing global deployments that could reshuffle thousands of troops around the world, according to officials familiar with internal deliberations. The discussions of a

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G.O.P. Lawmaker Had Visions of a Christian Alternative Government

In 2014, Mr. Shea co-founded the Coalition of Western States, a group of conservative state lawmakers, sheriffs and others formed to counter what its advocates said was a “war on rural America” waged by an overreaching federal government. More recently, Mr. Shea has advanced a political campaign to cleave Washington State in half, hoping to

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House Democrats Demand Answers as Migrant Deaths Continue to Rise

WASHINGTON — House Democrats demanded documents from the Department of Homeland Security on Monday to investigate a “troubling pattern of abuse and poor treatment” of migrants, after the death of a 16-year-old Guatemalan detainee and other new revelations. In letters sent to immigration and homeland security officials, the House Oversight and Reform Committee demanded to

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