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GOP bill would let churches endorse political candidates
Churches should have the right to endorse political candidates and still keep their tax-free status, say House Republicans targeting a law that prohibits such outright politicking from the pulpit. Republicans repeatedly have failed to scrap the law preventing churches and other nonprofits from backing candidates, so now they are trying to starve it. With little fanfare, a House Appropriations subcommittee added a provision that would deny money to the IRS to enforce the 63-year-old law to a bill to fund the Treasury Department, Securities and Exchange Commission and other agencies.
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Amtrak train derails in Washington; no reports of injuries, authorities say
Four cars of the train, which were carrying about 200 passengers, derailed on Sunday around 2:30 p.m. PT near Chambers Bay
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No more holding cell phones with new driving law in effect
Washington drivers will now have to put down their cell phones under a new distracted driving law. The law that went into effect Sunday prohibits drivers from holding electronic devices — including phones, tablets and other electronic gadgets — while behind the wheel. That means no reading incoming text messages while driving, or watching a quick video while stuck in traffic or sitting at a red light.
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US Slaps Iran Firms With Sanctions After Rocket Launch
The United States on Friday imposed new sanctions targeting Iran's ballistic missile programme, one day after Tehran tested a satellite-launch rocket – an act that Washington had called "provocative." The US Treasury singled out six companies owned or controlled by Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group (SHIG), which it said was central to the Islamic republic's missile programme, freezing their US assets and barring US citizens from dealing with them.
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U.S. would like dialogue with North Korea at some point: Tillerson
The United States does not seek to topple the North Korean government and would like dialogue with Pyongyang at some point, but only on the understanding that it can never be a nuclear power, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters at the State Department days after Pyongyang tested its second intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), Tillerson reiterated that Washington sought to persuade North Korea to give up its missile and nuclear weapons programs through peaceful pressure.
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Democrats begin to see Pelosi as a 2018 problem
WASHINGTON — Nancy Pelosi might actually be in trouble. Really? What would ever prompt a conclusion like that?
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North Korea still mastering how to deliver a nuke to US
U.S. intelligence officials are pretty sure North Korea can put a nuclear warhead on an intercontinental missile that could reach the United States. But experts aren’t convinced the bomb could make it all that way intact. They cite lingering questions about North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s nuclear know-how.
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Carl Icahn’s Failed Raid on Washington
Was President Trump’s richest adviser focused on helping the country—or his own bottom line?
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A gay couple was told that their sharing dessert ‘doesn’t go with the ambiance’ at a D.C. restaurant
When a gay couple asked to split a sundae, they said their waiter told them it would be inappropriate for two men to eat from the same bowl.
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Justice Department Narrows Request For Visitor Logs To Inauguration Protest Website
The Justice Department is dropping the most controversial part of its demand for records relating to a website used to coordinate protests during the presidential inauguration. In court filings submitted yesterday, ahead of a hearing Thursday in D.C. Superior Court, the government suggests modifications to the warrant it attained for files from web hosting company DreamHost, which hosted the website DisruptJ20.org. The change in scope was made "in light of factual revelations since July," the filings state.
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1 dead, 3 injured Washington state high school shooting
ROCKFORD, Wash. (AP) — A shooter opened fire at a high school in Washington state Wednesday, killing one person and injuring at least three others, authorities said.
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Over 1 Billion 'Invisible' People Have No Identity Proof: World Bank
More than 1.1 billion people worldwide officially don't exist, going about their daily lives without proof of identity. The issue leaves a significant fraction of the global population deprived of health and education services. Among these "invisible people", many of whom live primarily in Africa and Asia, more than one third are children susceptible to violence whose births have not been registered, the World Bank's "Identification for Development" (ID4D) program recently warned.
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Jared Kushner made a secret visit to Saudi Arabia last week
Jared Kushner made a secret visit to Saudi Arabia last week with other officials from President Donald Trump’s administration for talks on peace in the Middle East. The president’s son-in-law and senior adviser made what was his third trip to the Gulf kingdom this year alone, Politico reported, citing a White House official.
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Russian bombers escorted away from US aircraft carrier
US Navy F/A-18 fighter jets were dispatched from the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and escorted two Russian TU-95 bombers that were approaching the ship on Sunday, according to two US defense officials. The interaction -- which occurred as the Russian bombers flew about 80 miles from the US carrier -- was deemed safe and professional, the officials said, and the Russian aircraft proceeded without incident.
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Trump says will terminate green card lottery program
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would end the popular US green card lottery after a radicalized Uzbek man who entered the country under the program killed eight people in New York. "I am starting the process of terminating the diversity lottery program," Trump told reporters. "We have to do what's right to protect our citizens," he told reporters.
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Washington orders RT America to register as foreign agent by Monday
Washington will apply its Foreign Agents Registration Act to RT America, the channel has announced. The Department of Justice has given the broadcaster until Monday to register as a foreign agent, otherwise the channel’s head faces arrest and its accounts could be frozen. The piece of legislation was adopted in the US in 1938 to counter pro-Nazi agitation on US soil. Washington has made the decision to apply the act towards the company that supplies all services for RT America on its territory...
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Trump donated to Project Veritas before organization tried to trick Washington Post
President Donald Trump donated to an agency with a history of trying to take down liberal organizations, an agency that is now accused of trying to dupe The Washington Post with a fake Roy Moore claim in an undercover operation. The newspaper found out that a woman was lying after contacting reporters with a false claim that she'd become pregnant after having sex with Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore when she was a teenage girl. She claimed he then took her to get an abortion.
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Top US general says Taliban 'living in comfort' in Pakistan
It's been nearly 100 days since President Donald Trump announced his new strategy for Afghanistan and the wider region, a strategy that demanded Pakistan do more to fight the Taliban, but Pakistan has yet to take significant action against the Taliban, according to the commander of US and international forces in Afghanistan.
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Trump reportedly plans to replace Secretary of State Tillerson with CIA director Pompeo
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., would lead the CIA under the plan, according to The New York Times.
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NYT: White House Plans to Fire Tillerson
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson may soon be fired and replaced with CIA Director Mike Pompeo within weeks, a new bombshell report from The New York Times claims. According to the story, the White House has already developed a plan to force out Tillerson, who has an increasingly strained relationship with President Trump. Pompeo, in turn, would be replaced by Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR). The Times did not specify whether Trump had yet approved the plan.
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