Author: David Nakamura
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On Long Island, Trump to highlight violence from MS-13 gang to push Congress on immigration
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump will travel Friday to Suffolk County on Long Island to highlight a rise in violent crimes by the transnational gang MS-13, as the White House launches a renewed push to Congress to beef up funding for border security measures. Trump’s visit to a county racked by violence attributed to the…
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In tweet storm, Trump decries ‘illegal leaks’ and asserts ‘all agree’ he has complete power to pardon
NORFOLK — A defiant President Trump unleashed a flurry of nearly a dozen tweets Saturday morning, asserting that he has the “complete power to pardon” aides, family members and possibly even himself — an apparent response to the special counsel’s widening Russia probe — and decrying “illegal leaks” in the “FAKE NEWS.” The president also…
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32 million more Americans would be uninsured by 2026 under Senate measure heading to a vote next week, CBO projects
Congressional budget analysts estimated Wednesday that a Senate plan to repeal part of the Affordable Care Act with no immediate replacement would increase the number of people without health coverage by 17 million next year and 32 million at the end of a decade. The forecast by the Congressional Budget Office of the impact on…
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Amid immigration setbacks, one Trump strategy seems to be working: Fear
In many ways, President Trump’s attempts to implement his hard-line immigration policies have not gone very well in his first three months. His travel ban aimed at some Muslim-majority countries has been blocked by the courts, his U.S.-Mexico border wall has gone nowhere in Congress, and he has retreated, at least for now, on his…
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Trump to CPAC: ‘Now you finally have a president, finally’
President Trump declared himself among friends as he delivered a campaign-style speech Friday at an annual gathering of conservative activists, where he told the crowd that the movement he built during his campaign represents the future of the Republican Party. “Now you finally have a president, finally,” Trump said, later promising that “the forgotten men…
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Trump order barring refugees, migrants from Muslim countries triggers chaos, outrage
President Trump’s executive order barring refugees and migrants from predominantly Muslim countries from entry into the United States rippled across the world on Saturday, causing widespread confusion, triggering outrage among immigrant advocates and leading to the detention at U.S. airports of people flying into the country. In addition to blocking all entries from seven countries,…
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Obama: Time needed to solve challenges decades in the making
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — President Barack Obama appealed to the nation Thursday night for another four years in office, asserting that his policies are returning the country to economic prosperity and outlining a series of second-term goals that he said would cut the deficit, increase manufacturing jobs, reduce dependence on foreign oil and slow the growth…