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Supreme Court declines to take on net neutrality challenges

Ronen Tivony | NurPhoto | Getty Images Supporters of net neutrality protest outside a Federal Building in Los Angeles, California on November 28, 2017.  In a setback for industry groups, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday announced that it would not take up challenges to Obama-era “net neutrality” regulations that …

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Tariff payments up 50% in September on Trump trade war: Industry group

Tim Rue | Bloomberg | Getty Images Cargo ship at the Long Beach Container Terminal at the Port of Long Beach in Long Beach, California. WASHINGTON – American businesses are paying much more in tariffs than they did last year, due mainly to President Donald Trump’s aggressive trade policies, according …

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Commerce Department launches audit of steel tariff waivers

Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images A contractor guides a steel beam into place while working on the Korean Air Lines Co. Wilshire Grand hotel and office building in downtown Los Angeles, California. The Commerce Department’s internal watchdog has launched an audit of waivers that companies have received …

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Marsha Blackburn leads Phil Bredesen

Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call Group | Getty Images Chairman Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., conducts a House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee markup in Rayburn Building on June 13, 2018.  Republican Marsha Blackburn has pulled ahead of Democrat Phil Bredesen in the race for Senate in Tennessee, one of …

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Trump reportedly plans to terminate birthright citizenship

Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images News | Getty Images President Donald Trump announces a plan to overhaul how Medicare pays for certain drugs during a speech at the Department of Health and Human Services October 25, 2018 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump told Axios he is planning to terminate …

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Trump slams media as ‘true Enemy of the People’ days after CNN targeted

Nicholas Kamm | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump speaks during an election rally in Murphysboro, Illinois on October 27, 2018.  In the wake of a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue and a series of mail bombings addressed to prominent Democrats and CNN, President Donald Trump said Monday …

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Trump blames ‘bomb stuff’ for slowing GOP momentum in midterms

Nicholas Kamm | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump speaks at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC, on October 25, 2018.  President Donald Trump tweeted on Friday that “this ‘Bomb’ stuff’ has greatly slowed the “momentum” of Republican candidates in early voting in the November …

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Person in custody in connection with mail bomb probe

CNN/Handout | Reuters A package containing a “live explosive device” according to police, received at the Time Warner Center which houses the CNN New York bureau, in New York City, U.S. is shown in this handout picture provided October 24, 2018.  A man in his 50s was arrested in Florida …

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Mattis expected to send hundreds of troops to border

Caitlin O’Hara | AFP | Getty Images Members of the Arizona National Guard listen to instructions on April 9, 2018, at the Papago Park Military Reservation in Phoenix. – Arizona deployed its first 225 National Guard members to the Mexican border on Monday after President Donald Trump ordered thousands of …

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Trump says attempted attacks on Democratic officials are ‘egregious’

Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C. Oct. 17, 2018.  President Donald Trump on Wednesday condemned a series of suspected mail bombing attempts against Democratic officials, saying “threats of political violence of any kind have no …

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