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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Sunday that “sickening events have become far too normal” following recent shootings, including at Brown University in Rhode Island and in Sydney, Australia. “The Jewish people have been collectively demonized — increasingly so in the last few years — and this tragedy in Sydney shows the abject danger...

Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), the former chair of the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that the Trump administration has not communicated its goals regarding Venezuela to Congress. “The president has not been clear, and he has not certainly been communicating with Congress,” Turner told host Martha Raddatz on ABC News’s “This Week.” Turner added that...

President Trump’s approval rating has dropped slightly, according to a poll released Sunday. In the NBC News Decision Desk poll, 42 percent said they either “strongly approve” or “somewhat approve” when it comes to “the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president,” down 2 points from a poll that began in mid-August and...

Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S., called for ironclad security guarantees for her country as part of a deal to end its war against Russia. “It should be legally binding in every form, which would not allow its reversal in anytime of the history. And I'm sure that [the] United States leadership [will] make...

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Some Republicans are hoping to pursue another partisan legislative package to boost the party ahead of the midterm elections, but President Trump and GOP leaders are signaling that nothing will come close to the scope of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Trump said last week that Republicans “don’t need” another big package to move...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright expressed optimism that electricity prices will eventually come down. “Very soon, you'll see a stop of the rise of electricity prices. And with the continuation of [the Trump administration’s] policies of energy addition, you will see declines in electricity prices later this term,” Wright told host Jacqui Heinrich on “Fox News...

White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, who’s on the shortlist to chair the Federal Reserve, said President Trump would not get a say in interest rate decisions at the Fed if he were selected to lead the independent agency. In an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” the president’s top economic adviser...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Sunday that nationwide redistricting might result in “more violence in this country” amid a redistricting battle that has roiled multiple states. “Do you support Republicans trying to redraw maps mid-decade?” NBC News’s Kristen Welker asked Paul on “Meet the Press.” “You know, it's this escalation on both sides. You know,...

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) is unsure about what President Trump’s endgame is in Venezuela, but he certainly does not want troops on the ground.  “I do not know what this president's goal vis-a-vis Venezuela is,” Warner told host Martha Raddatz on ABC News’s “This Week.” Warner, a member of the Gang of Eight — comprising...

Alex Ryvchin, the co-CEO of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, called the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday a “logical conclusion” to the rising antisemitism in his country. “Look, in a way, this was the logical conclusion to what's been simmering in this country for two years,” Ryvchin...

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) predicted in a recent interview that the United States will have its first female president “within this next generation.” “Democrats have nominated two women for president, and they both lost to Donald Trump. What's the lesson of that experience? And do you think a woman will be elected president...

Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado said she supports President Trump’s aggressive approach in dealing with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and said she thinks the government’s days are “numbered.” In an interview that aired Sunday on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” the Venezuelan opposition leader was asked if she supports the U.S. increasing sanctions...

Indiana Sen. Jim Banks (R) expressed disappointment in his state’s Senate after it rejected a new House map that would favor the GOP. “This was a missed opportunity,” Banks told host Jacqui Heinrich on “Fox News Sunday.” “I supported the president. I thought that midcycle redistricting in Indiana made sense.” The Indiana Senate rejected the...