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Trump says he wants more immigrants from ‘everywhere’

Cheriss May | NurPhoto | Getty Images President Donald Trump in the East Room of the White House, on Wednesday, January 10, 2018. U.S. President Donald Trump, asked whether he wanted more immigrants from Norway, said on Tuesday that he wanted the United States to draw immigrants from nations around …

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DHS secretary Nielsen says she doesn’t recall Trump vulgarity

Getty Images Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen testifies during a hearing held by the Senate Judiciary Committee January 16, 2018 in Washington, DC. The secretary of the Homeland Security Department is testifying under oath that she “did not hear” President Donald Trump use a certain vulgarity to describe African countries. …

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Steven Mnuchin says Davos World Economic Forum is not for ‘globalists’

Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, DC, January 11, 2018. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin believes a forum in Switzerland that will feature wealthy business executives, world leaders and lawmakers discussing shared solutions …

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North Korean nuke test site showing ‘significant tunneling’ activity

DigitalGlobe | 38 North | Getty Images On December 28, 2017, large numbers of personnel are observed at the Southern Support Area, located south of the Command Center Area. In October, Japan’s Asahi TV reported that as many as 200 North Korean workers may have been killed in a tunnel …

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Trump stresses ‘any’ DACA solution ‘has to include’ a border wall

Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President Donald Trump addresses a joint news conference with Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., January 10, 2018. A judge’s decision Tuesday night to temporarily block Trump’s move to end DACA complicates that timeline. A bipartisan …

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FBI releases internal memos sent to its staff from week of James Comey’s firing

Getty Images Former FBI Director James Comey testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill June 8, 2017, in Washington. The FBI on Wednesday released internal memos circulated to its staff around the time of former Director James Comey’s abrupt firing. The documents …

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Paul Ryan wants a DACA deal with Democrats but more border security

Aaron P. Bernstein | Reuters Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, accompanied by Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), and Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), speaks at a news conference following a closed House Republican conference meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 19, 2017. House Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday he …

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Trump close to decision on Fed vice chair pick, administration official says

Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump speaks about his administration’s National Security Strategy at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC, December 18, 2017. President Donald Trump is close to making a decision on who to nominate as vice chair of the …

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FBI renews 2015 inquiry into Clinton Foundation: Reports

Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, accompanied by her husband former President Bill Clinton, concedes the presidential election at the New Yorker Hotel on November 9, 2016 in New York City. The Department of Justice is reportedly continuing its long-running probe of the nonprofit Clinton …

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Trump’s huge offshore drilling plan unlikely to spark a ‘gold rush’

Those areas also lack the vast infrastructure that has emerged around the U.S. offshore drilling hub in the central Gulf of Mexico. “You have to put in a huge amount of infrastructure, and the return of investment on such infrastructure is not there. The price of oil is too low,” …

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