Monday 25 February 2019

Politics A.M. | ‘We fell in love’: Trump and Kim shower praise, stroke egos on path to nuclear negotiations

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'We fell in love': Trump and Kim shower praise, stroke egos on path to nuclear negotiations
President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un enter their second summit this week as unorthodox leaders who are each distrustful of the global establishment, eager to project dominance and determined to maximize his power.
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President Trump's imaginary numbers on military aid to South Korea
For some reason, the president is throwing out wildly inaccurate numbers on U.S. military aid for South Korea.
 
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Power Up: Trump tries for a deal in Hanoi. But he has a slew of problems back home.
Cohen's testimony, a national emergency vote and a possible Mueller report, to name a few.
 
White House to select scientists to counter government climate findings, officials say
The move would be the administration's most forceful effort to challenge the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions are helping drive global warming.
 
Ex-national security officials declare there's 'no factual basis' for Trump's national emergency
A statement on the president's emergency declaration is signed by a bipartisan group of 58 ex-officials, including former secretary of state Madeleine K. Albright and former defense secretary Chuck Hagel.
 
 
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Interactions between top EPA air policy official, former clients prompt Democrats to request ethics probe
In an interview with The Post, Bill Wehrum acknowledged that he met with two former clients at his old firm without consulting in advance with ethics officials, who had cautioned him about such interactions.
 
'We will only get stronger': Inside a liberal leader's balancing act on pushing the House to the left
Some want the Congressional Progressive Caucus to be like the hard-line conservative Freedom Caucus, but its co-chair, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, is taking a more pragmatic approach.
 
Trump delays increase in tariffs on China, citing progress in trade talks
The president's postponement of the March 2 increase comes amid conversations that extended through the weekend in Washington.
 
'Target practice': Critics slam NRA's headline next to Pelosi, Giffords photo in magazine
Pelosi's daughter called the magazine spread "criminal." Parents of kids killed in the Parkland mass shooting compared it to terrorism.
 
 
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Go bold like Trump, Democratic presidential candidates have decided
Swing-for-the-fences ideas are the norm for 2020 candidates, who saw President Trump's boldness as saying more to some voters than Hillary Clinton's incremental proposals.
 
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The Trailer: Lessons from the early days of Campaign 2020 in Iowa
In this edition: On the ground in Iowa, Sen. Michael Bennet says Iowans sound like Colorodans, and Vilsack and Pompeo say they won't run for Senate.
 
In Iowa, the field of Democratic presidential candidates splits into haves and have-nots
Sen. Kamala D. Harris appears before hundreds, and everyone else before dozens, but voters are far from making up their minds.
 
House Democrats will subpoena Mueller if report is not made public, Schiff says
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Democrats will also go to court if necessary.
 
 
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