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Bigger than ever, and more diverse: Team USA at the 2018 Winter Olympics
This year's team is the most diverse of any U.S. winter squad, in terms of both race and gender: The 108 women on this team are the most of any U.S. team at a Winter Games.
7 years ago
Senators reach two-year budget deal
Senate leaders have reached a bipartisan budget agreement to increase military and domestic spending levels for two-years.
7 years ago
NPR poll: 2-in-3 support legal status for DREAMers; majority oppose building a wall
Partisan dividing lines were sharp, the survey found, and clearly run throughout the immigration debate.
7 years ago
2020 Census will ask white people more about their ethnicities
The data play a critical role in drawing legislative districts, enforcing civil rights laws and analyzing health statistics.
7 years ago
Nunes memo: What’s in it and what’s not
After days of buildup amid a political firestorm, House Republicans released a controversial memo on Friday.
7 years ago
Controversial Nunes memo released following formal approval from Trump
Read the memo below.
7 years ago
Philadelphia, nation mark 50 years since deaths of Memphis sanitation workers
The deaths of Echol Cole and Robert Walker ignited the strike that drew the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis where he was assassinated in April 1968.
7 years ago
What you need to know about the GOP snooping memo controversy
The latest political sandstorm in the Russia saga is over four pages of paper that have never seen the light of day.
7 years ago
Train carrying GOP lawmakers strikes trash truck; 1 killed
Officials gave varying figures on the number hurt. But Amtrak said two crew members and three passengers were taken to a hospital with minor injuries.
7 years ago
CDC Director resigns due to ‘complex’ financial entanglements
Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, resigned Wednesday following reports that she bought shares in a tobacco company.
7 years ago
Trump’s acoustic demagoguery stokes our state of disunion
The biggest thigh-slapper of last night's State of the Union was Trump's apparent belief that unplugging his vocal amplifier would somehow soften his demagoguery.
7 years ago
Trump State of the Union unites on infrastructure, divides on immigration
President Trump's State of the Union united Democrats and Republicans on infrastructure, but immigration proposal is doing the opposite.
7 years ago
Trump calls for optimism in spite of warnings of danger in State of the Union
Trump addressed the nation with tensions running high on Capitol Hill.
7 years ago
FEMA to end food and water aid for Puerto Rico
The decision to end the delivery of aid is part of the agency's broader plan to transition away from the emergency response phase of its work on the island.
7 years ago