237-187: House passed American Dream and Promise Act providing permanent status with a path to citizenship to DREAMers as well as Temporary Protected Status or Deferred Enforced Departure recipients.
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators will try to force nearly two dozen votes rebuking the Trump administration’s decision to declare a national emergency to circumvent Congress and sell billions of dollars of munitions to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
In the past few weeks, Trump and Pompeo have gone all out to signal, both in statements and via potential intermediaries, that they are ready to talk https://t.co/1JfUEiFynq via @lrozen
NEW: House Dems lost the first round in court in their fight with Trump over his plan to fund border construction — a federal judge ruled the court couldn't get in the middle of a fight like this between Congress and the executive branch https://t.co/s3bqFD7WU4pic.twitter.com/AMLSGrKfdo
At Westminster Abbey, President Trump "paused at the white marble slab commemorating Lord Byron, the poet politician, and asked what stone the flooring was made from." pic.twitter.com/jAFaBeuJRr
Worth noting too: the president of the United States just called for an economic boycott of one of the country's largest telecommunications firm as a way of pressuring a media organization to cover him in a way that he approves of. https://t.co/Jqjar4So8K
BREAKING NEWS from #AJCGloFo: Reps. Brenda Lawrence (D-MI), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), and Lee Zeldin (R-NY) announce the launch of the bipartisan Congressional Black-Jewish Caucus, which AJC helped facilitate. pic.twitter.com/k4WotWBsLu
Bathed in late afternoon sun, secretary of state Mike Pompeo boarded a steamboat on Lake Geneva. He was there for drinks and nibbles with the King of Holland and the head of Nato, a glamorous end to a busy day at the Bilderberg summit.
“Mr Amin is in no doubt that "despite occasional clashes with each other, the Taliban and the military are doing the same thing.”
Uncovering #Pakistan's secret human rights abuses by @MohammadIlyasKhhttps://t.co/6gNzxYYlyM
My linked article has interestingly caused disagreement between Nate Silver and Matt Stoller on Twitter about interpretation of the 2016 election:
If the 2016 election was a referendum on Obama, Clinton would have won in a near-landslide. Voters on the 2016 exit poll approved of Obama by an 8-point margin (53-45), larger than his margin of victory in 2008. https://t.co/Dg3B2MafIZ
A city worker fired on colleagues as he stalked several floors of the building before dying in a shootout with the police. “This is the most devastating day in the history of Virginia Beach,” Mayor Robert M. Dyer said.
