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By Eli Yokley Top Stories The Border Patrol arrested 16,658 family members in September, the highest one-month total on record. The 80 percent increase from July comes as large groups of Central Americans have been crossing the Rio Grande and the deserts of Arizona, leaving President Donald Trump in a furious state, according to White […]
By Eli Yokley Top Stories Special counsel Robert Mueller is ready to issue a report on his Russia investigation after the November midterm elections amid pressure from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to wrap up the probe, according to sources. Mueller is close to making findings on whether there was collusion between Russia and Trump’s […]
By Eli Yokley Top Stories As Saudi Arabia prepares an alternative explanation for journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance, Prince Khalid bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States and the younger brother of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, will not be returning to Washington after leaving last week, according to two unnamed sources. The Saudis […]
By Eli Yokley This morning, Morning Consult is launching new sports and entertainment verticals. Subscribe now to get the first editions of the newsletters: Morning Consult Sports | Morning Consult Entertainment Top Stories Trump is expected to name Pat Cipollone, a former Justice Department attorney under President George H.W. Bush, to succeed White House counsel […]
By Eli Yokley Week in Review The Trump administration Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, will leave her post at the end of the year, President Donald Trump announced alongside her Tuesday. Dina Powell, a Goldman Sachs executive who previously served in the Trump administration as deputy national security adviser, has withdrawn from […]
By Eli Yokley Top Stories Senate leaders struck a deal to confirm a bloc of 15 judges nominated by President Donald Trump, and legislators likely won’t return until one week after the Nov. 6 midterm elections. While the agreement helps vulnerable members — many of whom are Democrats — who need more time to campaign […]
By Eli Yokley Top Stories U.S. intelligence intercepts, detailed by U.S. officials familiar with them, show Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordering an operation to lure Jamal Khashoggi – the journalist who went missing last week after visiting the Saudi consulate in Turkey – back to Saudi Arabia from his home in Virginia and then detain him. Officials […]
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