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China naval gun ready for warfare by 2025: US intelligence

Mark Ralston | AFP | Getty Images Chinese sailors form an honor guard during a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on September 6, 2012. WASHINGTON — China tested the world’s most powerful naval gun earlier this month, and it is expected to be ready …

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Boeing earnings q4 2018

Boeing shares surged more than 6 percent in premarket trading from Tuesday’s close of $364.91 a share. Trade tensions between the U.S. and China have recently rattled Boeing’s stock, although the company’s shares largely recovered November and December losses in January after several big contract wins. Chairman and CEO Dennis …

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Trump pal Roger Stone pleads not guilty in Mueller case

Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to President Donald Trump, arrives at the Prettyman United States Courthouse before facing charges from Special Counsel Robert Mueller that he lied to Congress and engaged in witness tampering January 29, 2019 in Washington, DC. A self-described ‘political dirty-trickster,’ Stone …

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Americans don’t want Trump to use national emergency for border wall

Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump arrives to speak in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Jan. 25, 2019. President Donald Trump shouldn’t expect much support from Americans if he declares a national emergency to build his proposed border …

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Judge abruptly cancels Paul Manafort’s sentencing in Virginia case

Mark Wilson | Getty Images Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort arrives at the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse for a hearing on June 15, 2018 in Washington, DC. A federal judge Monday canceled former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort’s sentencing in his Virginia case, which was scheduled for Feb. …

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Trump on government shutdown, border wall funding deal: WSJ

Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, January 23, 2019. President Donald Trump said another government shutdown is “certainly an option” as he expressed skepticism that Congress would reach a deal to fund the border wall he has requested, …

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Bill to reopen government expected to pass House and Senate on Friday

Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said a bill to reopen large swaths of the federal government is …

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Senate votes to reopen government and end shutdown

Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call Group | Getty Images Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., talks with reporters outside the Senate chamber about a continuing resolution to re-open the government on Friday, January 25, 2019. The Senate passed legislation Friday to end the longest government shutdown ever. The vote sends …

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Steve Bannon is high-ranking Trump official mentioned in Roger Stone indictment

Jacquelyn Martin | AP Former White House strategist Steve Bannon leaves a House Intelligence Committee meeting where he was interviewed behind closed doors on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018, in Washington. Former White House chief strategist and Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon is the “high-ranking Trump campaign official” in …

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Experts say Trump’s border wall will take years longer than he claims

Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump (C) is shown border wall prototypes in San Diego, California on March 13, 2018. President Trump claimed this week that his long-promised wall — the solution for what he describes as an illegal immigration crisis at America’s southern border — …

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