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US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says husband's attack highlights 'fear' in heated political climate
•The man accused of the attack, David DePape, 42, allegedly intended to tie up Pelosi and break her kneecaps, but found only her 82-year-old husband
US president Joe Biden plays down recession talk, talks up fighting inflation
•The desire to accentuate the positive reflected the political tensions that are already playing out in the runup to the midterm elections
US president Joe Biden plans more public outreach, less legislation for his second year in office
•The persistence of coronavirus, rising inflation and Congressional gridlock have exacted a bitter toll on Biden's approval rating and threatened a midterm routing for his party, but the US president sees no need for a major shift in direction
Donald Trump cancels Christmas holiday party after skipping correspondents' dinner; US president continues 'war on tradition'
Fp Staff •Since taking office in January 2016, US president Donald has not only continued — and in some ways expanded — the wars of his predecessors, but even opened up a new front: A war on tradition
US briefly shuts San Ysidro border as migrants try to cross over from Mexico; tear gas used to disperse crowd
•US officials briefly closed a border crossing in southern California on Sunday after hundreds of migrants, part of the "caravan" condemned by President Donald Trump, tried to breach a fence from the Mexican city of Tijuana, authorities announced.
Democrats to investigate Ivanka Trump's private email use in White House in next Congress
•Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the likely incoming chairman of the Oversight panel, said Tuesday that he will resume that bipartisan investigation, which was dropped by Republicans. And he will pressure President Donald Trump's administration to turn over records about the use of private email for public business by Ivanka Trump, Kushner, and other senior officials.
Donald Trump defends Ivanka Trump personal email use but nobody's buying the story; the irony is just too much
Nikhila Natrajan •‘Crooked Hillary’ - a moniker widely regarded by political strategists as being the most effective one Donald Trump came up with to attack Hillary Clinton during the 2016 US elections has come back to haunt an embattled White House which is into full-on damage control mode after Washington Post broke a bombshell story about Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and a top White House adviser, sending “hundreds of emails” about government business from a personal email account last year.
Migrant caravan groups, which were Donald Trump's midterm election drumbeat, begin arriving at hardened US border
•Migrants in a caravan of Central Americans scrambled to reach the U.S. border, catching rides on buses and trucks for hundreds of miles in the last leg of their journey Wednesday as the first sizable groups began arriving in the border city of Tijuana.
Donald Trump likely to oust US Homeland Security boss Kirstjen Nielsen; wants 'John Wayne' brand hardliner as replacement
Nikhila Natrajan •Kirstjen Nielsen, the top immigration official in the Trump administration, is likely being booted out. “It’s no longer ‘if’, it’s ‘when’”, is the buzz at the White House which offered no comment on “personnel issues”. Trump has long understood to have had problems with Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen - a protege of Trump’s chief of staff John Kelly who has been the DHS Secretary’s champion from well before her appointment.
Donald Trump denies asylum for immigrants at US border who enter outside ports of entry: All you need to know
•US president Donald Trump ordered Friday that anyone who enters the U.S. illegally from Mexico by going around official border crossings is ineligible for asylum.