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Watching the deliberate, determined partisan negotiating strategies of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., I was reminded of my own experience in the budget negotiations of 1990.President George H. W. Bush had won the 1988 election in part because of his great speech at the Republican National Convention. Americans were thrilled when he said: “I'm…

The Commission on Presidential Debates put the kibosh on the Trump campaign’s request to add a fourth debate to the schedule — though officials said they would consider changes if the Trump and Biden campaigns can come to an agreement. “The Commission has found that three 90-minute debates work well to fulfill the voter education…

TikTok logo is displayed on the smartphone while standing on the U.S. flag in this illustration picture taken, November 8, 2019.Dado Ruvic | ReutersTikTok threatened legal action against an executive order issued by President Donald Trump Thursday that would ban the Chinese social media app from doing business with U.S. firms.The app has been at the…

Where were you when the lights went out?Over 40,000 people temporarily lost their power in Manhattan early Friday following a string of outages in various neighborhoods, according to Con Edison -- the utility company serving New York City."We are investigating a problem on our transmission system that caused three networks in Manhattan to lose their electric supply at about…

The administration’s top border official said Thursday that illegal immigrants have a duty to the world to stop coming to the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying some of them are making the trip knowing they have the disease and risk spreading it far and wide. Mark Morgan, acting head of Customs and Border Protection,…