Evening Edition: North Korea fires first missile in more than two months
Senate Republican tax plan clears hurdle with help from two key GOP holdouts; Pelosi, Schumer pull out of meeting after Trump says 'I don't see a deal' with Democrats
It appeared to be another intercontinental ballistic missile, the Pentagon said, and it traveled about 620 miles before landing off the coast of Japan, in the latest sign that Kim Jong Un's regime is pressing ahead with its stated goal of being able to strike the United States mainland.
Republicans successfully sent their tax bill to the Senate floor Tuesday with support from all 12 Republicans on the Senate budget panel, including Bob Corker (Tenn.) and Ron Johnson (Wis.). It was unclear before the vote whether either senator would vote to advance the bill.
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Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Charles E. Schumer said they would focus on negotiating with top GOP lawmakers after the president signaled that he was unlikely to yield to Democrats on government spending and other concerns.
Ahmed Abu Khattala, accused of being a ringleader of the attacks that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, was found not guilty of the most serious charges against him. The jury deliberated for five days after a seven-week trial that tested detention and interrogation policies developed under the Obama administration for dealing with terrorism suspects seized overseas.
The video tweeted by James O'Keefe was heavily edited, a tactic for which Project Veritas has drawn criticism. The Post also filmed the encounter and released it.
During his Senate confirmation hearing, Jerome Powell expressed concern about America's debt, inequality, inflation and making bank regulations more efficient.
President Trump must say by Friday whether the embassy will be moved from Tel Aviv to disputed Jerusalem, and Vice President Pence's remarks suggest Trump may move ahead with a relocation plan.
Desk work is both indoors and far less physically strenuous, so one might reasonably conclude that white-collar workers are less vulnerable to the effects of air pollution. But that's not the case, a new study finds.
Billionaire political donors Charles and David Koch will pay about $650 million in Meredith Corp.'s deal to buy the media company that owns Time, People, Fortune and Sports Illustrated. But the pair will be passive investors, says the company leading the purchase.
The first daughter called for more efforts to help women start businesses and contribute to the global economy, but there was no mention of her company's use of low-wage garment workers.
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