Democrats seized their first two Republican-held seats of the US midterm elections Tuesday, networks projected, flipping House seats in Virginia and Florida seen as crucial to the opposition party’s effort to regain a majority in the chamber. Jennifer Wexton, a Democratic state lawmaker, was ahead of two-term Republican incumbent Barbara Comstock by 57 percent to […]
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Trump orders halt to family separations
President Donald Trump ordered an end to the separation of migrant children from their parents on the US border Wednesday, reversing a tough policy under heavy pressure from his fellow Republicans, Democrats and the international community. The spectacular about-face comes after more than 2,300 children were stripped from their parents and adult relatives after illegally […]
No evidence of ‘spy’ in Trump camp, Democrats say after intel brief
US intelligence agencies offered no evidence to back President Donald Trump’s claim that the FBI planted a “spy” in his campaign, congressional Democrats said Thursday after a closed-door briefing. The Department of Justice and the FBI held two classified meetings with leaders of the Senate and House of Representatives and the heads of the chambers’ […]