Virginia Democrats promised swift action on a host of liberal policy proposals now that they’ve won full control of state government for the first time in more than two decades. Democratic leaders said Virginians should expect a higher minimum wage, ...

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The White House signaled President Donald Trump’s blunt thumbs-down to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plan allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices. Her office’s sharp retort: “Working people won’t like it if he sells them out.” Despite the House impeachment inquiry, ...

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President Donald Trump’s move last year to tax imported steel triggered jeers but also cheers. Its goal — to raise steel prices — threatened to hurt the legions of U.S. manufacturers that depend on steel. But at least it would ...

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The Trump administration has accelerated the pace of its environmental rollbacks for the country’s coal-fired power plants, proposing to weaken two Obama-era rules aimed at cleaning up dangerous heavy metals and ash from coal plants and keeping them from washing ...

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The U.S. is deeply committed to doing business with Southeast Asia, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said at a conference on the sidelines of a regional summit that President Donald Trump chose not to attend. Ross and other American officials showcased ...

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For more than two years President Donald Trump has talked about pulling the United States out of the landmark Paris climate agreement. Starting Monday he finally can do something about it. Even then, though, the withdrawal process takes a year ...

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Women’s rights, gun control and climate change have drawn masses of demonstrators into the streets during President Donald Trump’s first term, but one prominent cause has been missing so far: impeachment. Though some liberal groups have been advocating for Trump’s ...

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President Donald Trump is confronting the limits of his main impeachment defense. As the probe hits the one-month mark, Trump and his aides have largely ignored the details of the Ukraine allegations against him. Instead, they’re loudly objecting to the ...

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Reality got blurred this week in a haze of claims as President Donald Trump attacked Barack Obama’s climate policies. Here’s a look at some of the president’s statements on the subject, delivered Wednesday in Pennsylvania when he addressed an energy-industry ...

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President Donald Trump is raising record amounts of cash for his 2020 reelection. But that fundraising might isn’t spilling over to the most vulnerable Republicans fighting to hold onto their seats in a narrowly divided Senate. During the third quarter, ...

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Maybe it was a quid pro quo after all. A top U.S. diplomat told House impeachment investigators that President Donald Trump was withholding military aid to Ukraine unless the country’s president went public with a promise to investigate Democrats. William ...

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