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Trump rips Paul Ryan as 'lame duck failure' with 'poor leadership'

"He quit Congress because he didn't know how to Win," Trump wrote of the former House Speaker in a late-night tweetstorm.

12/07/2019

USA

Trump folds on adding citizenship question to census

Analysis: Democratic-leaning constituencies celebrated Trump's capitulation on the citizenship question as a big political loss for the president who'd pushed so hard for its inclusion.

12/07/2019

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Democrats claim victory as Trump retreats on census citizenship question

The reaction came quickly after President Donald Trump announced that he was backing down on his demands to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census.

12/07/2019

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Money, time, bad results: Citizenship question would have been a gov't nightmare

Former Census Bureau directors and federal experts said the president would have faced major hurdles

12/07/2019

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Trump touts the 'power' of controversial social media activists at White House summit

The president blasted social media companies for "terrible bias" and accused them of manipulating his content during remarks at the White House Thursday.

12/07/2019

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NBC/WSJ poll: Biden, Warren top 2020 Democratic field

Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders round out the top four candidates in the first NBC/WSJ post-debate poll.

11/07/2019

USA

Jeffrey Epstein seeks $77 million bail package in New York sex-trafficking case

Federal prosecutors in New York proposed that Epstein remain behind bars without bond for allegedly preying on dozens of underage girls from 2002 to 2005.

11/07/2019

USA

House Judiciary Committee votes to authorize subpoenas for Trump officials

The measure gives panel chairman Jerry Nadler the power to subpoena potential witnesses in its investigation into potential obstruction and abuse of power by President Donald Trump.

11/07/2019

USA

Pelosi on rising tensions with Ocasio-Cortez: 'I've said what I'm going to say'

The House speaker confirmed Thursday that a tweet from the New York congresswoman's chief of staff prompted her to issue a warning to her caucus this week.

11/07/2019

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Key questions and answers about Trump's census announcement

The announcement comes just two weeks after the Supreme Court rebuffed the administration's justification for including the question.

11/07/2019

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Is pushing for a citizenship census question almost as valuable for Trump as getting one?

First Read is your briefing from "Meet the Press" and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.

11/07/2019

USA

Trump expected to order citizenship question added to the census

Trump and A.G. William Barr have said they'd soon announce how the administration intends to ask the citizenship question as part of the census process.

11/07/2019

USA

House Democrats seek documents from for-profit companies detaining migrants

The House Oversight and Reform Committee is asking for in-depth business information from companies managing detention centers at the southern border.

11/07/2019

USA

Bipartisan warning to Trump: Don't tread on Congress on arms sales

"Don't make the mistake of thinking that it is simply Democrats who are concerned about this," said GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.

11/07/2019

USA

Second judge hands Trump census defeat, won't allow lawyers off citizenship case

The Maryland federal judge said the current attorneys have to stay on the job unless the Justice Department provides more information.

10/07/2019

USA

Prosecutors can file secret evidence in Mar-a-Lago intruder case, judge says

Yujing Zhang, a Chinese national, was arrested for trespassing at Mar-a-Lago in March. She is being investigated as a possible spy.

10/07/2019

USA

Pelosi warns Democrats slamming colleagues: 'Do not tweet' your complaints!

The House speaker made the closed-door comments amid party divisions that came into sharp relief over the border bill vote.

10/07/2019

USA

Trump's costly July Fourth event bankrupted Washington's security, anti-terror fund

Mayor Muriel Bowser said in a letter to the president that she wants the federal government to reimburse D.C. millions of dollars.

10/07/2019

USA

Labor Secretary Acosta to hold news conference after Epstein fallout

Acosta, who served as a U.S attorney in Florida, secured the federal non-prosecution agreement against Epstein in 2008, which critics have blasted as too lenient.

10/07/2019

USA

Appeals court dismisses emoluments clause case against Trump

A three judge panel said the state attorneys general's "interest in enforcing" the emoluments clause was "so attenuated and abstract."

10/07/2019