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At other times, Mr. Trump has been more direct in telling his supporters to ignore the news. “What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening,” Mr. Trump said last July to a gathering at a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention. Alex Woloch, an English professor at Stanford University who has written extensively […]

Eight other people have been punished as a result of the ambush, Pentagon officials said on Wednesday, including Maj. Gen. J. Marcus Hicks, the head of Special Operations forces in Africa, who had been previously scheduled to retire in the coming weeks. Col. Bradley D. Moses, then the commander of the 3rd Special Forces Group,

Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who has shunned today’s Democratic Party orthodoxy on issues from crime to compromising with Republicans, again broke with his party’s base and many of his campaign rivals on Wednesday when his campaign confirmed that he still backs the Hyde Amendment, a measure that prohibits the use of federal

Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, slowly gaining ground in the crowded Democratic presidential primary, appeared on MSNBC on Wednesday for a friendly town-hall event, which gave her ample opportunity to describe her signature policies and deliver some of her most reliable applause lines. But first came a question about the political news of the day:

He added that the dialogue focused on Mexico’s proposals on migration, rather than the tariffs. While Mr. Trump insists he is committed to imposing tariffs, the president faces intense opposition not only from Democrats, but also from business executives, economists and members of his own party, who say tariffs are the wrong approach to dealing

The young politicians of tomorrow are growing up with social media today – so should they be filtering what they post to suit their political futures? Emily Hewertson doesn’t think so. She’s 19, and like many girls her age she likes clubbing and Instagram – but she’s also a member of the Conservative party, an

June 5, 2019 President Trump’s plan to force Mexico to take a tougher approach to enforcement of its border, by ramping up tariffs on its products, will ripple through the United States, with consumers around the country paying more for cars, TVs, bluejeans, beer, fresh vegetables and other products. For state economies, the impact of

The shadow business secretary claimed the prime minister was “silent” when Donald Trump said on Tuesday that “everything was on the table” when it came to future US involvement in the NHS. After welcoming Rebecca Long Bailey standing in for Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn at PMQs, Cabinet Office minister David Lidington said the NHS was

“The V.A. certainly does not have the best track record implementing new I.T. systems,” said Representative Phil Roe of Tennessee, the top Republican on the House veterans committee. “It’s important to remember that while June 6 is a major milestone, many of the other shifts the law requires have either already been implemented or are

The SNP’s Kirsty Blackman asked why the UK government was “so obsessed” with a US-trade deal that would put “Scotland’s NHS at risk”. And she said the Scottish government would “never allow our precious NHS to be signed away in a Tory-Trump trade deal”. But Conservative David Lidington claimed it was the SNP’s “obsession” with