President Trump told his party to fall in line behind a health insurance overhaul, and demanded a Friday vote on a bill that appeared to lack a majority to pass. Read about how the other side thinks. We have collected political writing from around the web and across ideologies. People close to President Trump say he is grappling with bouts of self-doubt as his hopes for a quick health-care victory unravel. President Trump doubled down on his claim that Barack Obama ordered his phones wiretapped, and mischaracterized Times reporting as proof. A look at several passages from the president’s interview with Time magazine, published on Thursday, and analysis on what they show about him. The order, sent to all American embassies, would make it tougher for millions of visitors to enter the United States, marking the first sign of the president’s “extreme vetting.” Judge Neil M. Gorsuch appears to be short, at least for now, of the eight Senate votes he must earn from the Democratic caucus to reach the 60-vote threshold. On Wednesday, Representative Devin Nunes said he had received information that Mr. Trump or aides may have been “incidentally” caught up in foreign surveillance. Critics had questioned whether the president was violating a lease provision because his hotel was in a federal building, but the G.S.A. said no. After failing to find widespread voter fraud, Republican state lawmakers are calling for tighter restrictions on voting based on perception of tainted ballots. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. The Senate voted to overturn regulations that required telecom companies to ask permission before tracking users’ behavior, beginning a repeal of Obama-era regulations. Leaked details about the spy agency’s cyberweapons programs suggest the agency had developed spy tools for older Mac software, and had worked on a newer version last year. A search was underway for another migrant vessel believed to have run into trouble in the same part of the Mediterranean. U.N. peacekeeping officials have asked the Security Council to open an investigation into human rights violations. The authorities said the suspect, a teenage citizen of the United States and Israel, masked the origin of his calls. His lawyer said he suffered from a brain tumor that affected his behavior. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack carried out by Khalid Masood, 52, who had a criminal record but was not on any police-monitoring lists. Keith Palmer, Aysha Frade, Kurt Cochran — an American citizen — and an unidentified 75-year-old man died in Wednesday's terrorist attack in London. James Harris Jackson, a white Army veteran from Baltimore, fatally stabbed Timothy Caughman after traveling to New York specifically to kill a black man. The popular 1990s series receives a big-screen reboot, and five new teenage superheroes face off against the latest alien threat. The pope officially recognized a miracle linked to a young brother and sister who said, 100 years ago, that the Virgin Mary had appeared to them in Portugal. The singing scenery of “Miss Saigon” is back on Broadway, with political corrections and a newly proportioned cast. More Recent Articles |
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