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House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., is surrounded by reporters as he leaves the chamber as President Trump and Congress bicker over terms for funding the government and his demand for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, pushing the government to the brink of a partial shutdown, in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018.

Partial government shutdown set to extend into next Congress

Kelly Cohen · December 27, 2018 9:04 pm

President Trump greets members of the five branches of the military by video conference on Christmas Day, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2018, in the Oval Office of the White House.

Day 6: Trump claims ‘most of the people not getting paid’ during shutdown are Democrats

Kelly Cohen · December 27, 2018 4:20 pm

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, with FBI Director Christopher Wray, speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018.

Justice Department asks courts to pause high-profile cases for shutdown

Kelly Cohen · December 26, 2018 11:40 pm

Syrians stand on trucks at a street in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012. Temperatures dropped to 16 degrees Celsius (60.8 Fahrenheit) in Aleppo. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

National Security

Coalition strikes ISIS targets in Syria ahead of US withdrawal

Kelly Cohen · December 25, 2018 9:49 pm

President Trump is spending Christmas with his family at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

WATCH: Russia’s RT spoofs Trump with Christmas presents video

Kelly Cohen · December 25, 2018 9:26 pm

A man climbs up a section of a U.S.-Mexico border wall in Tijuana, Mexico.

Border Patrol: Guatemalan boy died in custody on Christmas

Kelly Cohen · December 25, 2018 7:17 pm

New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez listens to a speaker at a fundraiser Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, in Los Angeles. The 28-year-old startled the party when she defeated 10-term U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley in a New York City Democratic primary. Ocasio-Cortez is a rising liberal star who is challenging the Democratic Party establishment.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sends Christmas wishes to ‘refugee babies in mangers’

Kelly Cohen · December 25, 2018 6:34 pm

Joe Scarborough: Trump presidency threatens a ‘pandemic … across the world’

Kelly Cohen · December 25, 2018 5:52 pm

President Trump greets members of the five branches of the military by video conference on Christmas Day.

Trump intensifies attack on Fed: ‘They’re raising interest rates too fast’

Kelly Cohen · December 25, 2018 5:00 pm

President Trump greets members of the five branches of the military by video conference on Christmas Day.

Trump demands border wall for Christmas

Kelly Cohen · December 25, 2018 4:02 pm

Pope Francis arrives to deliver the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for 'to the city and to the world' ) Christmas' day blessing from the main balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.

Pope Francis calls for peace in Yemen, Syria in Christmas message

Kelly Cohen · December 25, 2018 3:38 pm

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sits onstage as the third speaker of the David Berg Distinguished Speakers Series, during an event organized by the Museum of the City of New York with WNET-TV held at the New York Academy of Medicine Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018, in New York. NPR legal correspondent Nina Totenberg led a question-and-answer session about Ginsburg's quarter century on the Supreme Court, and about her life.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg back at work days after surgery

Kelly Cohen · December 24, 2018 9:31 pm