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Few lawmakers truly embraced the Puerto Rico rescue package. But they knew the bill was the only alternative.

Donald Trump has broken with the Republican Party.

Democratic members of the Federal Election Commission, in a decision to be made public on Thursday, voted last month to punish Fox News over criteria changes for the network’s first Republican presidential primary debate – but were blocked by Republican commissioners.

The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to place a $1.2 billion bond measure before voters to raise money to fight homelessness.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch met privately with former President Bill Clinton in Arizona on Tuesday, but Ms. Lynch told reporters that the two didn’t discuss the investigation into his wife’s email use as secretary of state.

Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer said Wednesday on “Special Report with Bret Baier” that as both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have expressed concerns about the Trans-Pacific Partnership and trade deals more generally, our allies have a lot to lose come 2017.

Democratic members of the Federal Election Commission, in a decision to be made public on Thursday, voted last month to punish Fox News over criteria changes for the network’s first Republican presidential primary debate – but were blocked by Republican commissioners.

An increasing number of voters say the terrorists are winning the war against the United States. Over half think profiling and stricter gun laws would make the country safer. Meanwhile, 4-in-10 voters say shootings like the one in Orlando make them feel they need to own a gun.

Donald Trump has had a few rocky weeks on the campaign trail, and it shows in the latest Fox News Poll. Just over half of Republicans would rather have someone besides Trump as their nominee, and his support in the presidential ballot test has dropped seven points since May.

At least 20 pages of a Trump Institute Instructional book were plagiarized in large part from a real estate manual published a decade earlier, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

Canadian lawmakers directed chants of "Four more years!"

The Senate approved a financial rescue package for Puerto Rico Wednesday, sending the measure to President Obama's desk two days before the island was to default on a $2 billion debt payment.

President Obama pushed back Wednesday on Donald Trump’s calls to overhaul or abandon international trade agreements, saying at a summit in Canada that any move to “pull up the draw bridge” would be bad for the country.

The relaxation of rules on protest marches during the upcoming Republican National Convention and the shrinking of a designated event zone downtown is an "important victory" for free speech rights, a civil rights group said Wednesday.

CIA Director John Brennan said Wednesday that the attack in Istanbul has the earmarks of strikes by Islamic State militants and that the group is likely trying to hit the United States in the Middle East and on U.S. soil.

An effort to get the legendary Delta Queen riverboat back afloat on the Mississippi River and its tributaries got a boost Wednesday when the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee agreed to reinstate an exemption for the 89-year-old vessel.

Long-time Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin said under oath Tuesday that Clinton as secretary of state didn’t want emails sent and received on her private computer server to be accessible to "anybody” and suggested the unusual communication setup created problems --including a potential hacking incident and missing at least one important message.

The Democratic Party's draft platform calls for the Justice Department to join several state prosecutors in investigating whether fossil fuel companies misled the public on global warming -- marking an escalation in a controversial campaign that critics liken to censorship.

In the thick of mosquito season, Congress is about to start its holiday break with no deal on money to combat the Zika virus -- and no signs that a compromise is looming in the five-month debate.

Democrats are thinking this will be an easy victory over Trump, but they may want to think again.