This is the practice of presidents refusing to spend funds that Congress has appropriated, shifting power to the White House.

G et your $TRUMP now,” came the message from America’s president-elect three days before his inauguration. The ...

T HREE YEARS ago the French Socialist Party was crushed into irrelevance. The party that supplied two modern ...

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M ore than any other country, Donald Trump went after Mexico on his first day in office. He ordered its criminal gangs to be ...

Tom Homan was in Dallas talking about a new agency he was helping to set up. It would eventually be known as Immigration and ...

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Poland assumed the six-month presidency of the EU Council. Its theme, unsurprisingly, is security. With Russia advancing on ...

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