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President Trump is the overwhelming choice for the 2020 Republican nomination, according to a Washington Times/CPAC straw poll, which found more than 80 percent support. Mitt Romney, the party's 2012 nominee, was far behind at 6 percent support. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump steers CPAC message in new direction

Two years into the Trump presidential experiment, there's no longer any doubt that the conservative movement has been redefined by President Trump, leaving him with a fiercely loyal base of support as he prepares for a 2020 re-election campaign in perhaps the most hostile environment in modern political history.

March 3, 2019
The official 2019 CPAC Straw Poll shows the vast majority of attendees at the conservative conference back the president's emergency declaration authorizing spending on the border wall. (American Conservative Union)

CPAC straw poll: Biden biggest threat to Trump

Conservatives view former Vice President Joseph R. Biden as the "biggest threat" to President Trump in the 2020 election, according to Saturday's Washington Times/CPAC straw poll. Sens. Bernard Sanders and Kamala Harris were a distant second and third.

March 2, 2019
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., tells reporters at her weekly news conference she's glad Trump didn't go along with North Korea's nuclear demands, but she feels Kim Jong-Un was the "big winner" on the world stage for having another summit with the U.S. president, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019. Pelosi said (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Dems ponder rules change as party unity crumbles

Stung by ongoing defections on some key votes, House Democrats are pondering a quick rules change that would limit the GOP's chances to offer its own amendments to bills -- a move the top Republican said would amount to "a nuclear option."

February 28, 2019
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., flanked by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., left, and Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., speak to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Chuck Schumer praises Donald Trump for ditching North Korea talks

President Trump's decision to walk away from a bad nuclear deal with North Korea won exceptional praise from Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, who said Thursday the president deserves credit for being willing to forgo a weak agreement.

February 28, 2019
"We learned that schools in the United States — from kindergarten to college — have provided a level of access to the Chinese government that the Chinese government has refused to provide to the United States," said Sen. Rob Portman, chairman of the investigative subcommittee. (Associated Press)

‘Confucius Institutes’ on U.S. campuses spur Senate investigation

China has invested more than $150 million over the last decade to establish propaganda-spewing Confucius Institutes at American colleges and universities, using the ostensible cultural centers as a tool to stifle debate in the U.S. about the communist regime's policies, according to a new Senate investigative report Wednesday.

February 27, 2019
A border wall prototype falls during demolition at the border between Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, in San Diego. The government is demolishing eight prototypes of Donald Trump's prized border wall that instantly became powerful symbols of his presidency when they were built nine months after he took office. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Trump wall prototypes torn down

The prototypes built as part of President Trump's border wall competition were torn down Wednesday after officials said they had served their purpose and were standing in the way of building a new section of actual border fencing.

February 27, 2019
Visitors walk around the 40-foot Maryland Peace Cross dedicated to World War I soldiers on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019 in Bladensburg, Md. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Supreme Court ‘Peace Cross’ case tackles religious freedom debate

The Bladensburg Peace Cross, which today stands on public parkland at the center of two major roads in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, is at the center of a raging national controversy over the limits of public memorials, religious freedom, the separation of church and state -- and who wins and loses in debates over tolerance.

February 26, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., accompanied by Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, left, and others, speaks about a resolution to block President Donald Trump's emergency border security declaration on Capitol Hill, Monday, Feb. 25, 2019 in Washington. House Democrats have introduced a resolution to block the national emergency declaration that President Donald Trump issued last week to fund his long-sought wall along the U.S-Mexico border, setting up a fight that could result in Trump's first-ever veto. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

House votes to overturn Trump emergency declaration

The House delivered a searing rebuke Tuesday to President Trump, voting to overturn his border emergency wall building declaration in a floor showdown Democrats said was nothing short of a historic stand against tyranny.

February 26, 2019