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In rallying the nation against drug addiction Thursday, President Trump spoke in unusually personal terms about the death of his older brother Fred from alcoholism, and about the lesson it holds for him in the value of abstinence. To an audience at the White House, Mr. Trump recalled his older brother as a “great guy.”

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has a new Breitbart column out, and in it he cites a man whom the Southern Poverty Law Center has called a member of the Holocaust denial movement. Kobach’s piece makes the case that immigrants commit a disproportionate share of crimes. He uses a San

The Trump administration is floating a 40-percent hike in gas taxes to fund a $1 trillion infrastructure package, a regressive tax that would disproportionately hurt the low- and middle-income Americans who comprise the president’s political base. Gary Cohen, whom President Donald Trump appointed as director of the National Economic Council, raised the idea when he

BALTIMORE — The state agency charged with protecting Maryland’s history has concluded that Baltimore officials didn’t have the legal authority to remove three statues commemorating the Confederacy and says it reserves the right to order the city to put them back. Elizabeth Hughes, director of the Maryland Historical Trust, shared the trustees’ conclusions in an

WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Thursday gave final approval to a 2018 GOP budget resolution, allowing for a $1.5-trillion deficit increase that sets the stage for President Donald Trump’s tax cuts. Republicans overcame internal divisions about the budget but must still resolve differences over the coming tax package, which is scheduled to be unveiled next