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Democrats rebelled against the government funding bill Thursday, joining with a handful of Republicans to nearly vote down a measure that would keep federal offices running, but was also packed with policy riders walking back financial reform.

The inelegantly named "cromnibus" appropriations bill would fund the government after current funding expires on Dec. 11. But lawmakers are also

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Thursday that President Barack Obama “needs to step up his game” to rally more Democrats behind legislation that would give him fast-track authority on trade deals.

Boehner told reporters that “there will be strong Republican support for trade promotion authority.”

The bill, which would allow Obama to use expedited procedures to push the

Senator Booker’s message of love and unity has been dismissed by some as too soft. But it’s an approach he honed over nearly two decades of living and working in Newark’s toughest neighborhoods.

The first time New Hampshire state Sen. Martha Hennessey heard Sen. Cory Booker speak, he reminded her of a Baptist preacher. “He was so ‘love and hope,’” she says. “Frankly, I was almost in

The first line of defense for establishment Republicans hoping to keep Donald Trump from carrying their party’s banner this fall is to prevent him from winning the delegates in the remaining primaries this spring. If that fails, the next plan is to deny him a win at the GOP convention in Cleveland by peeling away pledged delegates on the second or third round of balloting. And if that fails, a