Under Trump, Republicans Are Reshaping the Judiciary
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New York Times - Lawyers and lawmakers are working together to install conservative judges on the influential federal appeals courts at a clip not seen in decades.
USA TODAY - Argentina's chainsaw-wielding, self-proclaimed "anarcho-capitalist" president who says he takes most of his political advice from his dogs has appeared to achieve what many political analysts and economists said his radical plans almost c...
New York Times - Lawyers and lawmakers are working together to install conservative judges on the influential federal appeals courts at a clip not seen in decades.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — His party suddenly and bitingly divided, Alabama Republican Roy Moore emphatically rejected increasing pressure to abandon his Senate bid on Friday as fears grew among GOP leaders that a once-safe Senate seat was in jeopardy just a month before a special election.
DANANG, Vietnam (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin shook hands at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit dinner in Vietnam on Friday, even though the White House said there would be no formal meeting.
DANANG, Vietnam (AP) — Promising to put “America first” in his trade practices, President Donald Trump used a speech in Vietnam Friday to denounce multilateral agreements embraced by the region and deliver what appeared to be a rebuke to China, railing against trade practices he says have put Americans out of work.
ABC News - The Senate Finance Committee released its vision for a tax reform bill Thursday afternoon — a proposal that differs from the House of Representatives’ blueprint in several significant ways and sets up a potentially long process of reconciling the two bills if and when they clear their respective committees.
ABC News - Those in the Northeast are breaking out winter hats and mittens for the first time this season as an arctic front is moving through the I-95 corridor Friday and ushering in the coldest air of the season.
Fox News - President Trump, at a lavish state dinner with the Chinese president in Beijing, called out his host country for “very one-sided and unfair” trade deals and urged China to do more to pressure neighboring North Korea – while also saying he can’t “blame” China for having taken advantage of the U.S. all these years
New York Times - RICHMOND, Va. — The American suburbs appear to be in revolt against President Trump after a muscular coalition of college-educated voters and racial and ethnic minorities dealt the Republican Party a thumping rejection on Tuesday and propelled a diverse class of Democrats into office.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria’s army and its allies, spearheaded by Lebanon’s Hezbollah, captured Islamic State’s last stronghold in Syria on Wednesday, a commander in the alliance said, bringing the self-declared caliphate close to complete downfall.
CBS News - The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is offering to airlift victims of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico to the U.S. mainland to reach temporary housing -- a complex operation that would be the first of its kind for the agency.