This may have been the last chance congressional Republicans had to overhaul Barack Obama's health-care law as special budget rules that allowed them to proceed without Democratic support expire Friday.
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The influential Republican from Tennessee announced that he will not run for reelection in 2018. Corker was once considered an ally of President Trump, but the two of them have clashed since then.
King Salman decreed that a government body draw up guidelines and implement the policy by next June, according to state media. The conservative Muslim kingdom has been criticized around the world for banning women from driving.
North Korean government officials have been quietly trying to arrange talks with Republican-linked analysts in Washington, in an apparent attempt to make sense of President Trump and his confusing messages to Kim Jong Un's regime.
Here in Van Zandt County, people love President Trump. And they love the National Football League. So when the two entities clashed over the weekend, here's how Trump fans in Cowboys country handled the controversy.
The devastation in the central mountains outside San Juan was among Puerto Rico's worst, and thousands of residents are sequestered in a toppled town, away from local officials, federal help, food, fuel, water and medicine. And as the first FEMA officials arrive, they're unable to provide the help that the community needs.
The president announced that he would visit Puerto Rico next week to get a firsthand look at the "devastated" island, which remains without power and where residents are facing food shortages. His assessment that the administration is doing "a great job" was at odds with many reports on the ground and ran counter to a growing chorus of critics.
The Justice Department unsealed indictments charging coaches at four Division I schools with accepting bribes to steer athletes toward the professional services of several business managers, financial advisers and representatives of a major international sportswear company.
The president's remarks mark a departure from the official position of the United States, which, as recently as Monday, was that a planned nonbinding Catalonia referendum Sunday to separate from Spain was an internal matter.
In a speech to the oil industry, the interior secretary said that workers in Washington are reluctant to relax regulations to permit increased mining for coal and drilling for natural gas and oil on public land.
The Environmental Protection Agency sought a customized soundproof booth that Administrator Scott Pruitt can use to communicate without fear of monitoring. No previous EPA administrators had such a setup.
Overwhelmingly, across party lines, people feel that the current tax system is rigged in favor of the wealthy and that the wealthiest are likely to be the biggest beneficiaries.
The solid points that Attorney General Jeff Sessions made in his address at Georgetown University were thoroughly obscured by the billowing clouds of hypocrisy.
The primary race to fill Attorney General Jeff Session's former Senate seat is a proxy fight between the current Republican leadership in Washington and the movement that swept President Trump into office.
Juvenile Batten disease had stolen their ability to see and to swallow, to move and to remember. For three of Les and Celeste Chappell's children life support was only prolonging the inevitable. So the family made a difficult decision.
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