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Republicans have so far spurned most of Democrats' demands to rein in federal agents carrying out President Trump's immigration crackdown, threatening a homeland security funding bill ahead of a Friday deadline.
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Michael Reiter, a former Palm Beach police chief, described a 2006 conversation with Donald Trump to the F.B.I. years later, according to a newly released document.
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Dozens of measures sprinkled throughout the recently enacted spending package seek to tie the Trump administration's hands on funding, an act of quiet bipartisan resistance to efforts to trample congressional power.
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Before the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, allegations against four others shot at by federal immigration agents failed to withstand scrutiny.
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The president left some governors, including Maryland's Wes Moore, off the guest list for an event that has traditionally been bipartisan.
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The ruling from a Trump-appointed federal judge is the third in recent weeks to reject the administration's demand for voters' personal data from nearly every state.
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A federal judge weighing whether the project may proceed has focused on whether the administration can use private donations to bypass congressional approval.
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The president is said to be eager to increase his involvement but has yet to approve a spending plan for his $300 million-plus war chest.
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The White House did not say why Democratic governors were not invited to the meeting with Trump. In addition, at least two Democrats were uninvited to a dinner, their offices said.
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Approval of the measure kicked off what promises to be a difficult negotiation between Democrats and President Trump over their demands to rein in immigration agents.
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The ruling pauses the Trump administration's plan to end a program that has allowed more than 350,000 people from Haiti to remain in the United States.
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In the aftermath of the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, Venezuela has agreed to submit a monthly budget to the Trump administration, which will release money from an account funded by oil sales. It's a deal for the interim government led by Delcy Rodriguéz that historian Greg Grandin calls "governing under the blade." In a further shift away from the nation-building foreign policy of the past several decades of U.S. power, "what the United States is planning for Venezuela is basically to run the country as a vassal state," he says. "This is an arrangement with transactional details that we've never seen before."
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