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WASHINGTON — Like a feuding family that still shares a dinner table, President Donald Trump will join Senate Republicans at lunch Tuesday in the ornate Mansfield Room at the U.S. Capitol. Pass the gravy and a side of awkward. But any discomfort is expected to dissipate quickly, thanks to a dish every Republican senator can […]

President Donald Trump brought up a campaign promise during a March meeting with the U.S. senators from Alaska, asking whether he could roll back President Barack Obama’s 2015 decision to rename the tallest mountain on the continent, spokespeople for the senators confirmed to Newsweek on Monday. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan were meeting with

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday vowed there would be “no change” to rules for 401(k) plans, seeking to douse speculation that the Republican tax overhaul bill being drafted by Congress would include new limits on retirement savings. “This has always been a great and popular middle class tax break that works, and it

WASHINGTON — As more states and counties take immigration policy into their own hands, California is stepping up its fight to protect immigrants in the country illegally by not only refusing to detain immigrants slated for deportation, but now also by declining to tell federal immigration officials when they will be released from local jails.

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — One of the early lessons taught to Americans under the heading of civics concerns the separation of powers and checks and balances. It was an innovation when written into the Constitution close to the end of the 18th century, and continues to operate. Donald Trump’s problems with Congress, despite his party’s

All five of America’s living former presidents took the stage Saturday at a benefit concert in Texas to raise money for victims of the hurricane-ravaged southern US and Caribbean. Former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter appeared together onstage for the national anthem, then took their seats

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says the Trump administration has faced an unprecedented level of “hostility” from the press. Mrs. Sanders was responding to comments from New York Times White House reporter Glenn Thrush, who called the perceived tension between the media and the White House “overstated.” “I know Glenn well, but you