Tuesday's Headlines: House prepares to vote on overturning Trump’s emergency declaration
Indian fighter jets cross into Pakistani territory, launch targeted airstrike; Cardinal George Pell, most senior Catholic to be charged with sex abuse, is convicted; North Korean...
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Congress has never sought to cancel a national emergency declared by the president. The House is expected to pass the resolution, but Republicans want to ensure the margin isn't veto-proof.
Pell was convicted in Australia of molesting two choirboys moments after celebrating Mass in 1996. The December verdict was suppressed by a gag order until now.
Kim Jong Un received a red-carpet reception from Vietnamese officials after his 65-hour, 2,500-mile train journey from Pyongyang. Kim, accompanied by his younger sister, Kim Yo Jong, was given a bouquet of flowers and greeted by an honor guard dressed in white uniforms and black boots.
As a government lawyer, Kagan fought to preserve a cross memorial. On the bench, she has vigorously backed prohibitions on government establishment of religion.
Several states are considering laws that would make it tougher for parents to opt out of immunizing their children, and Congress is planning hearings on outbreaks across the country.
Monday's filing came after a weekend sentencing memo by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III that recommended no specific sentence for Manafort but called President Trump's former campaign chairman a bold, hardened criminal who "repeatedly and brazenly violated the law."
The Prettyman Courthouse in Washington, with its walls of polished stone and paint the color of manila envelopes, has become the public's only live window into an investigation that could potentially bring down a sitting president.
For Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Jared Kushner's visit is evidence of Mohammed's global rehabilitation after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The racially tinged incident, which occurred last week, is yet another public confrontation to become referendum on racism in the United States after being filmed.
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