Nov. 2, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where national security officials ponder lessons of the deadly Halloween terror attack in New York. Fred Lucas has President Trump's public thoughts and Robin Simcox suggests next steps. Republicans are split over a tax deduction that rewards government's runaway spending. Rachel del Guidice spotlights a crucial GOP bloc, while Rachel Greszler hammers the break. Plus: Nolan Peterson on Russia's bloody "shadow war" in Ukraine, and Jarrett Stepman on two measures of our culture: the perversion of history and the resurgence of baseball.
In 2015, Australia prevented a vehicular terrorist attack. Here's what the Australians did.
CNN contributor April Ryan actually asked White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders if the administration thought "slavery was wrong."
"We have to get much tougher and we have to get much smarter. And we have to get much less politically correct," says President Trump.
Twenty-four GOP lawmakers from high-tax states voted for the House budget resolution last week, despite pressure to oppose it because of the possible elimination of the state and local tax deduction in the tax reform bill.
One post, published by a page called "Being Patriotic," promoted an apparently phony event in Pennsylvania for "Miners for Trump" and advocated coal-mining jobs.
Instead of having to pay the full cost of their taxes, state and local taxpayers who itemize their deductions can force taxpayers in lower-tax states to pick up a big portion—up to 40 percent—of their taxes.
A Chechen woman who had fought on the side of Ukrainian forces against Russia and its separatist proxies in eastern Ukraine dies in a brazen vehicular ambush on the outskirts of Kyiv.
The signs that a torch is passing are unmistakable.
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