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Fox News reporter showered with ridicule for wearing a tactical vest at the border: ‘Thinks he’s headed to a war zone’

While shooting a segment for Fox News at the border on Thursday, correspondent Lawrence Jones wore what appeared to be a tactical vest while on camera, as he showed in a picture posted to Twitter: Coming up on @FoxNews live

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NATO seeks new ways to counter Russia ‘aggression’

The 29 NATO nations looked Thursday for new ways to counter what they described as rising aggression by Russia as the alliance celebrated its 70th birthday. Despite rifts between the United States with allies Germany and Turkey, foreign ministers from

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Congress ends US support for Yemen war, Trump likely to veto

US lawmakers voted Thursday to end military support for the bloody Saudi-led war in Yemen, dealing a harsh bipartisan rebuke to Donald Trump and taking the historic step of curtailing a president’s war-making powers. The House of Representatives voted 247

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A very shaken and angry Donald Trump lashes out

President Donald Trump is clearly shaken and angered by multiple developments over the past 48 hours. The Democrats have formally requested six years of his tax returns, and are ready to formally subpoena the full Mueller report. And after nearly two years of

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Mike Pence to meet with ICE officials in Houston during Texas visit Friday

Vice President Mike Pence is coming to Texas on Friday for a series of stops that now includes an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Houston. A White House official says Pence will make a late morning visit to ICE’s

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More than 5,600 migrant kids are living in Texas shelters

The number of children in Texas shelters remained relatively flat even as the number of migrants arriving at the border has surged. Federal officials say apprehensions and denials of entry were expected to reach more than 100,000 throughout the southwest

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Mike Pence tears into Germany, Turkey on NATO anniversary

Tensions soared Wednesday between the United States and two of its NATO partners, Germany and Turkey, as the alliance opened a 70th birthday celebration aimed at showing a united front against a resurgent Russia. Hours before foreign ministers from the

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House Appropriations Committee publicly mocks secretary of commerce’s reason for refusing to testify

House Appropriations Committee Forced to Explain to the Secretary of Commerce It’s Actually His Job to Appear Before Congress Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross has had a challenging time testifying before Congressional committees. The 81-year old multi-millionaire (who once claimed to

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The Trump administration’s attempts to defund the Special Olympics, explained

The federal government has long covered about a tenth of the Special Olympics’ budget. This nonprofit that gives athletes with intellectual disabilities a chance to train and compete in a wide variety of sports gets most of the rest of

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Five potential impacts if President Trump closed the US-Mexico border

In response to a surge of Central American migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, President Donald Trump is threatening to close the Southern border unless Mexico stops the record number of asylum-seekers. Across the country, experts and interest groups opposed to a border

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