Evening Edition: Pence leaves White House meeting with no breakthrough seen on shutdown
Graphic: It's not just federal workers in D.C. who aren't getting paid right now; After years of Trump's warnings, a 'crisis' has hit the border but generates little urgency
The three-hour meeting included congressional aides, not the lawmakers whose sign-off would be needed for any deal to end the partial government shutdown. And the vice president did not have President Trump's blessing to float new or specific numbers, according to two Trump aides.
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As a candidate, President Trump insisted on the need for a border wall even as illegal crossings fell. Now officials face a bona fide emergency on the border — a record crush of migrant families is overwhelming holding facilities — and they're struggling to make the case there's truly a problem.
The arrest of former Marine Paul Whelan last week in Russia has raised speculation that he would be exchanged for a Russian national being held by the U.S.
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With the elevation of Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, the conservative and libertarian society has reached an unprecedented peak of power and influence. But its impact on the law goes much deeper.
The recruitment effort is a potent sign of the country's employment troubles. India has one of the fastest-growing major economies in the world, but it is not generating enough jobs — let alone good jobs — for the increasingly educated young people entering the labor force.
Harold Brown, the first scientist to lead the Pentagon, had a Carter administration mandate to cut military spending but instead laid some of the groundwork for the U.S. arms buildup of the 1980s.
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