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Democrats send counteroffer on to White House on DHS funding as partial shutdown continues

(WASHINGTON) -- As the partial government shutdown continues, Democrats have sent their counteroffer to Republicans and the White House -- outlining their demands to fund the Department of Homeland Security and reform the embattled agency.The specifics of the proposal, sent late Monday, remain unclear. ...
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Top Trump Homeland Security spokesperson to depart with immigration crackdown under scrutiny

By Ted Hesson and Jasper Ward WASHINGTON, Feb 17 (Reuters) - U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin will leave the department, two Trump administration officials told Reuters, a move that comes as public support for President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown has dwindled. McLaughlin became ...
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There was ‘a bridge called Jesse Jackson’ across decades of civil rights advocacy

CHICAGO (AP) - From the moment the Rev. Jesse Jackson stepped forward as torchbearer to what was then a largely Southern civil rights struggle - a movement with much unfinished business - he created a bridge. From the South's fight with Jim Crow to the ...
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New subpoenas issued in inquiry on response to 2016 Russian election interference, AP sources say

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department has issued new subpoenas in a Florida-based investigation into perceived adversaries of President Donald Trump and the U.S. government response to Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. An initial wave ...
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CBS host Stephen Colbert says network barred airing interview with Texas US Senate candidate

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Feb 17 (Reuters) - CBS late-night show host Stephen Colbert said on Monday that the network's lawyers barred him from airing an interview with Democratic Texas State Representative James Talarico, who is running for his party's nomination for the U.S. Senate. "Donald ...
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Goldman, Nasdaq CEOs to headline Mar-a-Lago crypto ‘forum’ hosted by Don Jr. and Eric Trump

By Lawrence Delevingne and Michelle Conlin Feb 17 (Reuters) - On Wednesday, prominent Wall Street executives and investors will convene to discuss the "future of finance and technology" alongside federal officials and U.S. lawmakers at President Donald Trump's private Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. Expected ...
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Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader and US presidential hopeful, dies at 84

By Will Dunham Washington, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Charismatic U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr and twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, has died at ...
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How some Democrats are using scripture to try to reach Christian voters in US midterms

By Helen Coster and Joseph Ax Feb 17 (Reuters) - Sarah Trone Garriott, an Iowa state senator and Lutheran minister, has never shied away from putting faith at the center of her political campaigns. This year, she is among an unusually high number of Democrats running ...
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AP Was There: A profile of Jesse Jackson as he prepared his 1984 campaign for the presidency

CHICAGO (AP) - The Rev. Jesse Jackson was profiled by The Associated Press when he was a 41-year-old civil rights activist preparing his historic 1984 campaign for the presidency. The AP is republishing that story, by the late AP writer Sharon Cohen, as it ...
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Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon, dies at age 84

(NEW YORK) -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader, Baptist minister and pioneering politician who launched two bids for the U.S. presidency, died on Tuesday morning at the age of 84, his family said in a statement."Our father was a servant leader ...
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New Mexico approves comprehensive probe of Epstein’s Zorro Ranch

By Erica Stapleton and Andrew Hay SANTA FE, Feb 16 (Reuters) - New Mexico lawmakers on Monday passed legislation to launch what they said was the first full investigation into what happened at Zorro Ranch, where the late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is accused ...
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Trump slams energy deal between California and Britain, Politico reports

Feb 16 - President Donald Trump denounced a clean energy agreement between the United Kingdom and California Governor Gavin Newsom hours after it was signed on Monday, Politico reported. In an interview with the outlet, Trump said it was "inappropriate" for Britain to be dealing ...
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