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Trump pretended that Congress hadn't just demolished his wall

Analysis: Lawmakers refused to authorize funding to pay for the president's big campaign promise. Then he took the stage in El Paso.

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Big businesses promised wage hikes from Trump's tax cuts. What actually happened?

Corporations are using savings from the 2017 tax law to continue to buy back billions in stock after trumpeting employee bonuses and benefits.

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National Enquirer publisher asked if it needed to register as Saudi agent

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who has accused AMI of blackmailing him, has questioned whether Saudi Arabia was involved, which the kingdom denies.

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Flight attendants union warns of possible airport chaos if there's another shutdown

Talks between Republicans and Democrats stalled over the weekend, increasing fears negotiators won't be able to strike a deal.

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So far, Republicans aren't twisting the knife in Virginia

"Republicans are being much more intellectually honest surrounding these scandals in Virginia," Marco Rubio's presidential campaign manager told NBC News.

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Too close for comfort: Trump, Beto O'Rourke to hold dueling El Paso rallies

The president and the possible 2020 Democratic presidential candidate will be leading events a half-mile away from each other.

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Newspaper drops cartoonist over vulgar Trump message

"I own it. I did it," Said cartoonist Wiley Miller. "It's what I felt at the time."

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Why the Trump admin wants more detention space for migrants and Democrats want a cap

ICE is already holding more migrants than Congress authorized. It is authorized to hold 40,000, but there were 49,057 immigrants in detention as of Feb. 6.

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Unite or fight? Dueling Democrats offer divergent messages for 2020

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.

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First Read's Morning Clips: Trump versus Schiff

A roundup of the most important political news stories of the day.

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Freshman Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar accused of sending 'anti-Semitic' tweets

Omar has previously taken heat for her views regarding Israel.

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2020 Democrats find their own ways to respond to Trump attacks

Presidential hopefuls are grappling with how to respond to the volatile attacks hurled against them by President Trump.

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Search party: Moderate Dems seek one of their own to win 2020 primary, topple Trump

Biden, Klobuchar, Brown, O'Rourke, Bloomberg, someone else? Who can own the middle as other candidates tack hard to the left.

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Fact check: Trump claims a wall made El Paso safe. Data shows otherwise.

Crime in the city, where Trump plans to hold a campaign rally Monday night, had been falling since 1993, but a border fence wasn't completed until 2009.

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Warren launches 2020 bid with call to ignore 'cowards' who call change 'radical'

Warren's decision to launch campaign where striking works clashed violently with factory owners says a lot about what kind of campaign she wants to run.

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California governor to order National Guard troops back from Mexico border

Gov. Gavin Newsom's move comes a week after the governor of New Mexico withdrew most of her state's troops from the southern border.

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Rep. Walter Jones, N.C. Republican and Iraq war critic, dies at 76

The popularizer of the term "Freedom Fries" wound up writing thousands of letters to dead service members' families, apologizing for voting for the war.

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Adam Schiff steps into Trump's line of fire

The president had plenty of criticism for the new House Intelligence Committee chairman after probes expanded.

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Nobody 'tougher than me': Booker pitches 2020 'unity' message

The New Jersey Democrat stuck to a message of love, hope and unity, but didn't shy away from thorny issues like race in his first visit to Iowa as a 2020 candidate.

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Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar announces run for president

"We are all tired of the shutdowns and the putdowns, the gridlock and the grandstanding," she said.