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The Story: The US Senate held hearings on five of the President-elect's most important appointments on January 19, just the day before he was to...

The Story: Time, a news magazine publishing  since 1923, chooses a Person of the Year (in less enlightened eras this was called its "Man of...

The Story:  On the morning of December 6, at the US Naval Air Station Pensacola, a gunman opened on a crowd, killing three people and...

The Story: Ten candidates for the Democratic Party's 2020 nomination for President of the United States met in Atlanta, Georgia on November 20. Former Vice...

The murder of Jamal Khashoggi was "gruesome" but a United Nations report into the journalist's killing is "flawed," Saudi Arabia's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir said. In an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, al-Jubeir denied that Riyadh…

Saudi Arabia was responsible for the "deliberate, premeditated execution" of Jamal Khashoggi, according to the first independent investigation into the journalist's death. CNN has reached out to the Saudi government for a response to the released report.

Andrew Harnik/AP/REX/Shutterstock President Donald Trump went on a 90-minute extended rant during his rally in Wisconsin on Saturday night, programmed against the White House Correspondents Dinner that he refused to attend. During his unhinged monologue, the president said many ridiculous things that will sap your will to continue living in this nightmare dystopia, including: accusing mothers and doctors of executing newborns, calling the media “sick” and ex-FBI officials “scum,” claiming credit for the “sick” idea of sending undocumented immigrants to sanctuary cities, and doing an impression of the Saudi king’s accent. Speaking about abortion, Trump brought up a lie he’s been touting for a while: that newborn babies are “executed” by their mothers and doctors. He accused Democrats of “aggressively pushing extreme late-term abortion, allowing children to be ripped from their mothers’ womb right up until the moment of birth.” Then, he went even further, saying, “The baby is born, the mother meets with the doctor, they take care of the baby, they wrap the baby beautifully, and then the doctor and the mother determine whether or not they will execute the baby. Here's Trump making another false & unspeakably dangerous claim about abortion: "The baby is born; the mother meets with the doctor. Then the doctor & mother determine whether or not they will execute the baby." “These were dirty players… They’re just leaving because they got caught like nobody ever got caught.” Wow — Trump refers to the FBI and DOJ leaders he's purged from government as "scum" pic.twitter.com/mkjiWZ68cp — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 28, 2019 The president also said he was “proud” of his “sick” idea to ship undocumented immigrants to sanctuary cities. Trump says sending illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities was his “sick idea” https://t.co/vCzpWKoYwh pic.twitter.com/idJYdjpZOT Speaking about America’s relationship with Saudi Arabia, Trump talked about his defense of Saudi King Salman in the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. “I said, King, We are losing our ass defending you, King, and you have a lot of money,” Trump claimed he said to Salman. pic.twitter.com/TVFMHdz9Oo — Tomthunkit™ (@TomthunkitsMind) April 28, 2019 Before the rally, Trump promised it would be “very positive,” unlike the White House Correspondents Dinner.

From Beto O’Rourke to the president’s first veto, it’s been a busy week in American politics. Here are some of the biggest stories you might have missed (and some links if you’d like to read further). ___________________ Congress stood up to the president this week. Additional Reading • G.O.P.’s Attempt to Avoid Emergency Showdown With Trump Is Scuttled, by Trump • How Every Senator Voted on Ending Trump’s National Emergency • Impeaching Trump Is ‘Not Worth It,’ Nancy Pelosi Says An even-more-crowded primary. But will Beto O’Rourke, whose near-miss Senate run in Texas last year propelled him to Democratic stardom, change the polls? His entrance into the race on Thursday adds a relentless campaigner with a small-dollar fund-raising army to the crowded field. Policy issues around the Democratic primary are also coming into focus. Additional Reading • Why Texas Is Nearing Battleground Status (It’s Not Just About Beto) • Milwaukee Picked as Site of 2020 Democratic National Convention • As Hillary Clinton Steps Away, a Political Era for Women Wanes Trump’s record-breaking budget proposal. His budget proposal — totaling $4.75 trillion, a record — calls for cuts to domestic programs like education and environmental protection, while increasing military spending. In the first two months of 2019 alone, they have killed 225.

Good Friday morning. Here are some of the stories making news in Washington and politics today. _____________________ • The Senate voted to overturn President Trump’s national emergency declaration at the southwest border, delivering a bipartisan rebuke for what lawmakers in both parties deemed executive overreach. The 59-41 vote on the House-passed measure sets up the first veto of Mr. Trump’s presidency. • Three votes in Congress this week — rebuking Mr. Trump over Saudi Arabia, blocking his national emergency declaration and demanding a public release of the Mueller report — demonstrated a newfound willingness among some of Mr. Trump’s Republican allies to stand up to him. • Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has been personally pushing China to give the American film industry greater access to its markets. That has raised ethical questions, given his ties to Hollywood. • New evidence suggests that Russian spies used networks run by Aleksej Gubarev, a tech entrepreneur, to hack the Democratic Party in 2016 — much as the so-called Steele dossier, which purported to detail Russian interference in the election, alleged. • Facing billions of dollars in cleanup costs, the Pentagon is pushing the Trump administration to adopt a weaker standard for groundwater pollution caused by chemicals that have commonly been used at military bases. • Afghanistan’s national security adviser accused the American special envoy of seeking personal benefit by sidelining the Afghan government in peace talks with the Taliban, “increasing the legitimacy of the Taliban” and “decreasing the legitimacy of the Afghan government.” _____________________ Today’s On Politics briefing was compiled by Isabella Grullón Paz in New York.

— and then he took selfies with the audience CNN's town hall with Sen. Bernie Sanders just wrapped up. Bernie!" “We’re not going to pay outrageous prices.” Sanders stops short of calling Maduro a "dictator," warns against outside intervention in Venezuela Sen. Bernie Sanders didn't label Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro a “dictator” tonight, despite criticizing his government for failing to hold democratic elections. CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked Sanders, “Why have you stopped short of calling Maduro of Venezuela a dictator?” “It’s fair to say the last election was undemocratic, but there are still democratic operations taking place in that country,” Sanders said. “What I am calling for right now is internationally supervised free elections.” In a tweet on Saturday, Sanders called for a de-escalation of tensions on the country’s border with Colombia. Sanders said he'd support DC becoming the nation's 51st state. Sanders praises Trump's meetings with North Korea's Kim Jong Un Sen. Bernie Sanders — after criticizing President Trump as a "pathological liar" and describing how he is tearing the nation apart — praised the President's summits with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. He said that if Trump's face-to-face meetings result in the denuclearization of North Korea, they're a "good idea." Bernie Sanders explains his Medicare-for-all plan Asked whether Americans will be able to keep private insurance plans through their jobs, Sanders said they won’t need it because Medicare for all will cover all their health care needs. “People like their doctors.