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WASHINGTON — Republicans narrowly advanced their campaign to roll back the Affordable Care Act on Tuesday, as the Senate voted by a slim margin to begin debating legislation to repeal and potentially replace large sections of the 2010 law signed by President Barack Obama. But the partisan 51-50 vote — with Vice President Mike Pence […]

A federal appeals court on Tuesday blocked enforcement of a strict concealed-carry law in the nation’s capital that required gun owners to prove a “good reason” in order to obtain permits allowing them to carry handguns for self-defense. In a 2-1 decision, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has ordered lower courts to

Jared Kushner’s explanations for his contacts with Russians during last year’s election sound like lies, according to a former assistant special prosecutor who worked on Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal and investigation. Jill Wine-Banks, who has been highly critical of President Donald Trump and his administration while claiming impeachment is around the corner, claimed Monday during

Decried by 70 artists who called for boycott, play by peace activist produced with Israeli government funding graces the Lincoln Center Festival with nary a demonstrator in sight By Jordan Hoffman NEW YORK — What if they threw a protest and nobody came? The annual Lincoln Center Festival got a bit of additional publicity earlier

Now that President Donald Trump has had his fun with the Boy Scouts, it’s up to their parents to clean up his mess. Many critics of the president’s campaign-rally-disguised-as-a-jamboree address called on the Boy Scouts to denounce the rhetoric. (Trump encouraged booing of former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, lamented

President Donald Trump brought his bombastic politics to a Boy Scouts event Monday in West Virginia, drawing cheers from the children gathered at the event and prompting comparisons between his rousing rhetoric and Nazi youth rallies from some liberal activists and journalists. The president, the first sitting U.S. commander-in-chief to address the group since George

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions confronted increasing questions about his future as he faced fresh public slaps from his boss, President Donald Trump, and new calls to testify about his conversations with the Russian ambassador last year. Sessions, the first senator to endorse Trump, was a strong influence during the campaign. A longtime advocate