The House already passed legislation making no mention of a raise, effectively endorsing the freeze that President Trump proposed in February. The Senate passed a competing measure allowing a 1.9 percent increase.
Advisers worry that President Trump has neither the staff nor the strategy to protect himself if Democrats take over the House, which would empower them to shower the administration with subpoenas or even pursue impeachment charges.
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President Trump says White House counsel Donald McGahn didn't stop him from firing either his attorney general or the special counsel. So, did something else?
The president's push for a deal is a negotiating tactic and an attempt to move something before the new Mexican president takes office. But the deal is really going to come down to Congress.
Sinema, now 42, credits those years of living in poverty with shaping her political philosophy — that people should "work really hard and pull yourself up by your bootstraps" and be able to turn to the government for help when they are most vulnerable.
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"What we're talking about here are the kinds of changes that disrupt everybody's lives," a paleo-ecologist said of the findings of a new report published in the journal Science.
An NFL player and a Russian dissident will honor the late senator, reflecting a not-so-subtle trolling of the president. Even a gospel reading is a final call to arms against autocrats.
Public pronouncements by Syrian and Russian officials foreshadow a devastating attack if diplomacy and aid groups' pleas for restraint are not heeded. A U.N. envoy warned that the people of Idlib province are facing the prospect of a "perfect storm."
Baseball finds room to celebrate the proverbial "cups of coffee" — players whose big league careers last for one measly game, or less. But it's safe to say no fate was worse than Brian Mazone's, his defining moment washed away by the most universal, unsparing and unpredictable of forces.
The former National Security Agency contractor who was jailed for leaking a classified document about Russian interference in the 2016 election was sentenced to 63 months in prison as part of a plea deal.
A wave of summer shootings has propelled Chicago, once again, to the forefront of the debate over guns and violence. While homicides routinely go unsolved in the city, perpetrators of nonfatal shootings are even less likely to be brought to justice.
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