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President Donald Trump, during a bilateral meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, reaffirmed Friday his plans to build a Mexican border wall and have Mexico pay for it.

The fight for the soul of the Democratic Party is on. In the wake of Hillary Clinton's stunning 2016 loss -- and the resulting complete GOP control of Washington -- the party is in a political desert the likes of which they haven't seen in decades. So, where do they go from here? That conversation is of critical import to how Democrats position themselves vis-a-vis Donald Trump and Republicans in the 2018 midterm elections and who they ultimately choose to be their party's standard-bearer in 2020. In hopes of shedding some light on that running conversation, I'm embarking upon a series of Q&A's with elected officials and party strategists to get their takes on where Democrats should head -- and why.

The State Department has tapped Kurt Volker to be its special representative for Ukraine, the department announced Friday.

US backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) pushing into Raqqa on two fronts are now less than three miles apart from each other, but it could still be weeks if not months before they are able to fully liberate ISIS's once self-declared capital, according to a US defense official directly familiar with the status of the fight.

A Democratic member of President Donald Trump's commission on voter fraud and election integrity says he wants to see the panel "refine" its search.

Republican Sen. Jerry Moran said Thursday he's still opposed to the current Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, telling a packed town hall in northwest Kansas that he's concerned about the bill's impact on the state's rural population.

All eyes will be on President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday when the two controversial world leaders meet for the first time.

A Democratic challenger hoping to unseat Speaker Paul Ryan has gotten a boost from a viral video in recent days, but he's still far from toppling the most powerful member of the House in November 2018.

National outdoor retailer REI is urging its customers to challenge Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke over proposed plans to review what public lands will continue to receive monument classification and federal funding.

President Donald Trump delivered a battle cry to defend Western civilization on Thursday -- but his political vision for the alliance in the West is one that few of its other major leaders would recognize, far less embrace.

The former top US intelligence official on Thursday disagreed with President Donald Trump's claim that foreign actors besides Russia may have attempted to influence the 2016 presidential election.

President Donald Trump still can't commit.

German riot police have clashed with protesters in Hamburg on Thursday evening as world leaders arrived ahead of Friday's G20 summit.

Senate Republican leaders are considering an amendment from conservative GOP Sen. Ted Cruz to help revive a health care bill that currently lacks enough Republican support to pass -- a move that risks alienating moderates in the party.

A group of law enforcement advocates defended the Justice Department's new guidelines on drug prosecution in an op-ed posted Wednesday, writing that the Obama administration's policy of under-charging certain drug offenders had begun to leave a "devastating mark downstream on the safety of communities across the nation."