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About 2,000 personnel will be left in Minnesota, where President Trump's immigration crackdown has generated outrage.
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President Barack Obama called the Indiana Democrat "one of the most influential voices on international relations and American national security."
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President Trump signed a spending package on Tuesday that reopened major parts of the government, as well as fund the Department of Homeland Security as negotiations over restrictions on the administration's immigration crackdown continue.
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In a House committee hearing, the Treasury secretary declined to say if the president has the power to fire a member of the central bank's board.
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As the last major nuclear arms treaty between the United States and Russia expires this week, we speak with arms control expert Dr. Ira Helfand, a steering committee member of Back from the Brink, a national coalition organizing communities across the United States to call for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Helfand is a longtime member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN, which received the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. He is also the immediate past president of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, awarded the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, and a co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility.
"We are in a very, very dangerous moment," says Helfand, who urges major powers to reduce their nuclear arsenals rather than potentially starting a new arms race. "Strength and safety are not the same thing. … If you allow these weapons to continue to exist, it is not a question of if we have a nuclear war — it's just a question of when."
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Democrats flipped a state Senate district that President Donald Trump won by double digits. In a House election, the outcome slimmed the GOP's margin further.
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