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Bush Family's Texas Home Eyed for National Park Designation
The Texas house where former U.S. President George W. Bush spent his childhood is under study for possible designation as a national park, the National Park Service said Friday.
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Dick Thornburgh, Former US Attorney General and Pa. Governor, Dies at 88
Dick Thornburgh served as Governor of Pennsylvania from 1979-1987 and later served as U.S. Attorney General in Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush’s administrations.
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The Inaugural Oath Presidential Mashup
Watch presidents of the United States take the oath of office on their Inauguration Days through the years.
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Jenna Bush Hager Emotionally Recalls Her Grandfather's Outgoing Letter to Bill Clinton
On the Today Show Jenna Bush Hagar recalls the letter George H.W. Bush wrote to his successor, Bill Clinton, in 1993 after it was shared widely on social media
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Longtime Presidential Adviser Brent Scowcroft Dies at 95
Brent Scowcroft, who played a prominent role in American foreign policy as national security adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush and was a Republican voice against the 2003 invasion of Iraq, has died. He was 95.
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Appeals Court Orders Dismissal of Case Against Michael Flynn
A divided federal appeals court on Wednesday ordered the dismissal of the criminal case against President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, turning back efforts by a judge to scrutinize the Justice Department’s extraordinary decision to drop the prosecution.
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Court Appears Reluctant to Order Dismissal of Flynn Case
A federal appeals court appears skeptical of arguments that it should order the dismissal of the criminal case against former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn
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30 Years After US Invasion, Panamanian Families Seek Answers
Thirty years after the U.S. invasion that ousted dictator Manuel Noriega, relatives of Panamanians who disappeared have new hope for answers about the fate of their loved ones. Their hope lies in a Truth Commmission established in 2016 that has compiled evidence leading to the exhumation of anonymous bodies early next year at a Panama City cemetery. The remains will...
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Grandson of Late President Bush Runs for Congress in Texas
Pierce Bush, a grandson of former President George H.W. Bush, launched a Texas congressional run on Monday and aligned himself with President Donald Trump, who his late grandfather blasted as a “blowhard” and voted against in the 2016 campaign. In an interview with The Associated Press, he pushed back on whether that support was difficult to summon in the face...
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Trump Jabs at Impeachment Probe Before Pardoning Thanksgiving Turkeys
President Donald Trump popped off a few impeachment jokes as he continued the 30-year-old tradition of pardoning a Thanksgiving turkey. Trump’s latest act of clemency Tuesday benefits Butter, a 47-pound turkey wished a “lot of luck” by the president. Trump also said he was sparing Bread, Butter’s partner, from being served up on a Thanksgiving table near you.
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EPA Prosecutions of Polluters Approach Quarter-Century Lows
Criminal prosecution and convictions of polluters have fallen to quarter-century lows under the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency, deepening three years of overall enforcement declines, according to Justice Department statistics. And while the administration says it’s focusing on quality over quantity in pollution cases, using its enforcement resources to go after the biggest and worst offenders, an Associated Press analysis...
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Service Organization Commissions Statue of Bush's Dog Sully
A program that trains and places service dogs with disabled military veterans has commissioned a statue of the late George H.W. Bush’s service dog for the 41st president’s library.
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For Kurds, US Pull-Back Feels Like Being Abandoned Once More
For Syria’s Kurds, the United States’ abrupt pull-back from positions in northeast Syria carries a sharp sting, reviving the community’s memories over being abandoned in the past by the Americans and other international allies on whose support they had pinned their aspirations. The Kurdish-led forces have been the U.S.’ partner in fighting the Islamic State group for nearly four years....
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Former President Jimmy Carter ‘Feels Fine' After Fall
Former President Jimmy Carter had a black eye and 14 stitches after falling at his Georgia home on Sunday, but made it to an evening concert in Tennessee to rally volunteers ahead of his 36th home building project for Habitat for Humanity. The 39th president fell earlier in the day at his Plains, Georgia, home and required the stitches above...
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Manager: Trump Family Building ‘Dynasty' for Decades to Come
President Donald Trump’s campaign manager predicted Saturday that the president and his family will become “a dynasty that will last for decades,” transforming the Republican Party while hewing to conservative values. Speaking to a convention of Republican Party delegates in Indian Wells, California, Brad Parscale also said the campaign’s goal is to build a national army of 2 million trained...
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Democrats Now No. 1 in Former California GOP Stronghold
There are now more registered Democrats than Republicans in a populous Southern California county long known as a GOP stronghold
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Jenna Bush Hager Welcomes Her 3rd Child — and Her 1st Son!
Jenna Bush Hager has welcomed a new member to the family! The TODAY with Hoda & Jenna co-host and daughter of former President George W. Bush gave birth Friday to her third child, a baby boy named Henry Harold “Hal” Hager. She and her husband, Henry Hager, also have two daughters, Mila, 6, and Poppy, 3. The 7-pound, 5-ounce bundle...
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‘Have We No Decency?' National Cathedral Responds to President Trump's ‘Racist' Remarks
Washington National Cathedral leaders are responding to President Donald Trump’s repeated attacks on representatives of color, asking if Americans have had enough of “violent dehumanizing words” from the White House.
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US Government Says Federal Death Penalty Will Resume
The federal government will resume executing death-row inmates for the first time since 2003, ending an informal moratorium even as the nation sees a broad shift away from capital punishment.
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Resumed Federal Executions Raise Death Penalty's 2020 Stakes
The question to Michael Dukakis, the Democratic presidential candidate in 1988, was brutally personal. “If Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?” Bernard Shaw, a CNN anchor, asked, referring to the Massachusetts governor’s wife. Dukakis said he wouldn’t favor it because “I don’t see any evidence that it is a...