Monday's Headlines: The ‘shackles’ Trump took off ICE are going on to immigrants who thought they were safe
Scott Pruitt's travel practices — secretive, costly and frequent — distinguish his EPA tenure; Trump plan will drop GOP's traditional goal of balancing budget within 10 years; New...
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The Trump administration promised to target immigrant gang members and drug dealers, and detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers surged. But the biggest jump in arrests has been of immigrants with no criminal convictions. Critics say such detentions are the agency's attempt to meet the president's unrealistic goals.
Agency records show that wherever Pruitt's schedule takes him, he often flies with a much more expensive first or business-class ticket, citing unspecified security concerns. An EPA spokeswoman said all of the administrator's expenses have been approved by federal ethics officials.
President Trump is remaking the Republican economic playbook in his own image, abandoning ideological consistency in favor of a debt-busting strategy that will upend how Washington taxes and spends trillions of dollars each year. Trump is slated to announce today a new budget plan that will no longer seek to eliminate the deficit over the next decade, forfeiting a major Republican goal.
By David J. Lynch and Damian Paletta • Read more »
The decision to relinquish the GOP's longtime objective of balancing the budget reflects the massive tax cuts and spending boosts signed into law by President Trump over the past month and a half.
Nagasu, snubbed for a spot on the 2014 Sochi team many thought she had earned, got her redemption in spectacular fashion, making U.S. figure skating history by becoming the first American woman to successfully execute the very difficult jump in the Olympics. Nagasu's performance led the Americans to a bronze medal in team figure skating.
The unusual deal was brokered in "in some broken language of smiles and handshakes and high-fives," said Chris Mazdzer, who eventually won a historic silver on his own sled.
Israeli airstrikes offer one more illustration of the geopolitical misery afflicting Syria. As the country approaches a seventh year of conflict, the war is growing more complicated.
Several U.S. cities have announced that they will open supervised drug-consumption sites like those in Canada despite risking a confrontation with the Justice Department. "We just have to do what's best for the client, and we hope the federal government will understand," an official in San Francisco said.
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The new districts generally respect county and municipal boundaries and don't "wander seemingly arbitrarily across Pennsylvania," as the state's Supreme Court wrote. Unfortunately for voters, the new districts show just as much partisan bias as the ones the court found illegal.
There are those who wonder why it has suddenly become so wrong to wrap your arms around another person — like, say, a co-worker — and hold them in a warm embrace. Then there are others who want to know: Why in the world did anyone ever think it was right?
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