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2018年12月28日 星期五

Tipsheet: Trump, Dems dig-in as shutdown heads into second week

 
 
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Trump, Dems dig-in as shutdown heads into second week
BY NIV ELIS
President Trump and congressional Democrats are digging deeper into their trenches over funding for a wall on the Mexican border, prolonging a government shutdown that seems almost certain to head into the next year.

Both the House and Senate on Thursday conducted brief, minutes-long pro forma sessions before quickly gaveling out.
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Shutdown to drag into next week — and next year
BY JULIEGRACE BRUFKE
The partial government shutdown will drag into next week after the Senate adjourned until Monday and House GOP leaders said they did not expect a vote this week to reopen the government.
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North Carolina lawmakers override veto of elections bill
BY MAX GREENWOOD
The North Carolina General Assembly voted on Thursday to override Gov. Roy Cooper's veto of an elections law bill, a move that could have repercussions for the contested House race in the state's 9th District.
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The Memo: Trump puts isolationism at center stage
BY NIALL STANAGE
President Trump’s embrace of isolationism has been a hallmark of his presidency.
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EPA braces to run out of funds by week's end as shutdown continues
BY MIRANDA GREEN
 
A week after the government failed to agree on a final funding bill, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is preparing to follow suit and shut down.
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Giuliani backtracks: Trump will not give Mueller any more written answers
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Rudy Giuliani, who is representing President Trump in the Russia investigation, is walking back on comments in which he said that Trump “might agree” to give more written answers to questions from special counsel Robert Mueller.
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Poll: More Americans blame Trump for shutdown than Democrats
BY ARIS FOLLEY
More Americans blame President Trump than Democrats for the six-day partial government shutdown, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos pollreleased on Thursday.
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Trump bragged to troops about 10 percent pay raise that they have not received
BY MORGAN GSTALTER
President Trump on Wednesday bragged to troops in Iraq that he had given them a 10 percent pay raise, calling it “one of the largest pay raises” the troops have ever received and calling it the first hike in more than a decade.
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FDA chief calls for meeting with CEOs of e-cigarette companies amid crackdown
BY NATHANIEL WEIXEL
The head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday called for a meeting with executives from top e-cigarette companies to discuss their commitments to help stop a rise in teen vaping.
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Giuliani says he would ‘love’ to see Trump declassify Russia docs
BY TESS BONN
Rudy Giuliani said Thursday that he would "love" to see President Trump declassify documents on the Russia investigation "if it could be done properly."
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Another migrant child death, we need a border truth commission
BY ELIZABETH OGLESBY
Opinion | Americans awoke on Christmas morning to hear that another Guatemalan child, 8-year-old Felipe Alonzo-Gómez, died in the custody of the Border Patrol on Christmas Eve. This follows the death on Dec. 8 of 7-year-old asylum seeker Jakelin Caal Maquín, also while in Border Patrol custody. Caal Maquin's body was laid to rest in Guatemala on Christmas Day. 
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Oh, the lengths media will go to sour Trump's Christmas visit to troops
BY JOE CONCHA
Opinion | Forget bias. Forget animus. Forget missing a self-awareness gene. And forget attempts to outdo yesterday's hyperbole with uber-hyperbole. Because, when it comes to coverage of the Trump administration and the figure at the top of it, what many in our media have become is utterly, tediously predictable. 
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CNN: Trump buoyed by Wall Street's gains after rough December
BY KEVIN LIPTAK
President Donald Trump been buoyed by two days of market boosts and made an enthusiastic round of phone calls to advisers from Air Force One on his way back from Iraq after markets closed sharply higher Wednesday, people familiar with the matter say.
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The Washington Post: Trump’s visit to Iraq prompts concerns about politicization of military
BY PAUL SONNE and PHILIP RUCKER
A day after President Trump’s surprise visit to American forces in Iraq and Germany, questions persisted about whether he had jeopardized the political neutrality of the U.S. military by leveling partisan attacks and signing red “Make America Great Again” hats for the troops.
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Bloomberg: Powell has lot to lose and little to gain in sit-down with Trump
BY CHRISTOPHER CONDON and JEANNA SMIALEK
Of all the holiday gatherings Jerome Powell gets invited to, a sit-down in the Oval Office might be one of the last he’d want to attend.
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The New York Times: New York sky turns bright blue after transformer explosion
BY MATT STEVENS, RICK ROJAS and JACEY FORTIN
There was a boom; then a hum. The lights flickered. A giant plume of smoke filled the New York City sky, and turned it blue.
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ABC News: US troop withdrawal from Syria could take several months
BY LUIS MARTINEZ
A week after President Trump's surprising announcement that he was withdrawing U.S. troops from Syria, the U.S. military is drafting a withdrawal plan that could have U.S. troops leaving over several months, according to U.S. officials, who stressed that no final decisions have been made about the planned pace of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria.
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