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Trump taps Scalia’s son for Labor secretary
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images white house The nomination of Eugene Scalia could become a base-pleaser for Trump, who as a candidate built a relationship with right-leaning evangelical voters after promising to select a reliably conservative judge…
Harris, Biden to face off again as CNN,…
Candidates take the stage for the first Democratic debates of the 2020 election. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are slated to take the stage and face each other anew on July…
Trump officials pressing to slash refugee admissions to…
Protestors come out against migrant detention in New York City. More than 29,000 refugees have completed USCIS interviews, a major step in the process to being granted travel to the U.S. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images…
What Leana Wen’s Firing Reveals About Planned Parenthood
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How Elizabeth Warren would reform Wall Street
Sen. Elizabeth Warrenhas unleashed a torrent of policy papers since formally launching her 2020 campaign in February. | Charles Krupa/AP Photo Elizabeth Warren — whose criticisms of big banks powered her decade-long political ascent from…
Trump likely to tap Scalia’s son for Labor…
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Donald Trump is likely to nominate Eugene Scalia, son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to be the next Labor secretary, according to three sources familiar with the plans.…
How House Democratic factions ended their Twitter feud
House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries initiated the olive branch among his colleagues. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images House Democrats moved to deescalate lingering tensions between the party’s factions on Thursday, in a bid to unify…
Donald Trump’s Code Switch
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Trump’s field-tested strategy: Whip up a frenzy, then…
President Donald Trump has shown no sign of a course correction, despite distancing himself from his supporters’ controversial chant. | M. Scott Mahaskey/Politico white house The president’s latest episode followed a repeated Trump tactic of…
House Democratic factions end their Twitter feud
House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries initiated the olive branch among his colleagues. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images House Democrats moved to de-escalate lingering tensions between the party’s factions on Thursday, in a bid to unify…
