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Shutdown threatens rural hospitals, veterans’ care as Democrats block GOP plan, Emmer warns

The No. 3 House Republican is accusing Democrats of making a hypocritical argument in their resistance to the GOP’s federal funding bill. The government shutdown is in its thirteenth day with Republicans and Democrats still unable to agree on a path forward. The Trump administration is taking steps to prevent the military from missing paychecks

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Trump says Hamas may release 20 hostages ‘a little bit early’ as he heads to Middle East

President Donald Trump said Sunday that Hamas may release the 20 hostages it is holding ‘a little bit early.’ Trump spoke with reporters aboard Air Force One en route to the Middle East, where he was asked about the latest on the hostages and when they might be released. ‘So, they have the hostages —

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Trump refuses to rule out striking Venezuela. What’s next for Trump’s war on drugs?

President Donald Trump has launched an unprecedented war against cartels and has threatened narco-terrorists, saying he will ‘blow you out of existence’ as his administration seeks to curb the influx of drugs into the U.S.  The White House sent lawmakers a memo Sept. 30 informing them that the U.S. is now participating in a ‘non-international

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Instead of impeachment, Dems are using Article II challenges to impede Trump this time

Democrats tenaciously working to thwart the second Trump administration seemingly have thrown out their playbook from the president’s first administration — abandoning repeated attempts to impeach President Donald Trump in favor of broadening their focus on leveraging Article II of the Constitution to impede MAGA policies.  Democrats, since the early days of Trump’s second presidency,

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Trump heralds ‘golden age of the Middle East’ in address to Israeli Knesset hours after hostages come home

President Donald Trump thanked Israeli lawmakers for their enthusiastic welcome in the Knesset on Monday as the nation celebrated the release of all 20 living hostages from Hamas captivity. ‘After two harrowing years in darkness and captivity, 20 courageous hostages are returning to the glorious embrace of their families,’ Trump said. ‘Twenty-eight more precious loved

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Thatcher at 100: Lessons in civility, strength and enduring alliances

Monday marks the 100th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher’s birth – an occasion that brings together leaders and supporters from across the Atlantic to pay tribute to her life.  We at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute are honored to participate in the celebration, an occasion that also invites us to reflect on her legacy and connection with Ronald Reagan in the context of our modern era. Namely, what made her partnership with President Reagan so effective, and what might it teach

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Trump starts week in Middle East, overseeing historic peace agreement

President Donald Trump will spend the first part of the week in the Middle East to oversee a historic peace deal between Israel and Hamas, a landmark agreement expected to end the two-year war in Gaza and bring home the remaining hostages. Before boarding Air Force One, Trump told reporters that the hostages could be

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Netanyahu calls Trump Israel’s ‘greatest friend’ as final living hostages released

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday praised President Donald Trump as the ‘greatest friend’ Israel has ever had, as Hamas released the last 20 living hostages under the new peace deal. ‘No American president has ever done more for Israel,’ Netanyahu said. ‘It ain’t even close.’ He thanked Trump for ‘standing up for Israel’

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Squad 2.0: Meet America’s next wave of radical Democrats shaping the party’s future

Galvanized by President Donald Trump’s sweeping second-term agenda, a new generation of progressive Democrats is working to redefine the party’s future. The original ‘Squad,’ a group of young, left-wing lawmakers, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018 as a referendum on Trump’s first term.  Now, with Trump

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New York Republicans blast Schumer, Gillibrand over shutdown: ‘You’ve abdicated your responsibility’

Republicans in New York’s congressional delegation are pressing their two Democratic senators to end the ongoing government shutdown, casting their opposition to the GOP’s funding bill as ‘radical and harmful’ to residents of the Empire State. The government shutdown has entered its eleventh day with Republicans and Democrats still unable to agree on a path

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