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Other NATIONAL HEADLINESBuckle up! There are multiple reports that the Justice Department is preparing for special counsel Robert Mueller to deliver his report on connections between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia as soon as next week - https://cnn.it/2It9PWT
The House will vote on a resolution condemning President Donald Trump's emergency declaration. Democrats want to put Republican lawmakers on the record over Trump's declaration. The Senate would be forced to hold a vote on the resolution - https://politi.co/2IqPotB Nearly 6-in-10 Americans disapprove of Trump's emergency declaration. A new poll found 59% of Americans oppose President Trump's declaration of a national emergency to build a wall on the Mexican border - http://bit.ly/2Iv5B0L Terrifying! A Coast Guard officer arrested last week allegedly wanted to conduct a mass killing, targeting prominent Democrats and journalists - https://nbcnews.to/2IqH1hK Migrant families are still being separated at the border. A Texas civil rights group says the separations are often occurring over "uncorroborated allegations" of crimes - https://nbcnews.to/2Iv4K03 Supreme Court smacks down civil forfeiture. The court ruled unanimously the Constitution places limits on the ability of states and localities to take and keep cash and private property used in the commission of crimes - https://nyti.ms/2IoF4SD Michael Cohen will testify publicly before Congress next week. President Trump's former personal lawyer will appear before the House Oversight Committee on Feb. 27 - https://wapo.st/2Is6ZkQ Democratic presidential candidates are already under assault on social media. A wide-ranging disinformation campaign aimed at Democratic 2020 presidential candidates is already underway. There are signs the effort is being driven, at least in part, by foreign state actors - https://politi.co/2IsTYaM An Alabama woman who joined ISIS will not be allowed to return to the U.S. The American-born woman wants to come back to America, but President Trump tweeted she will not be allowed back in the country - https://nyti.ms/2Iukxw9 House Democrats say the Education Department tried to quash a probe into Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. A senior official tried to oust the department's independent watchdog who was looking into DeVos' decision to reinstate an accreditor that had been stripped of its certification by the Obama administration - https://nbcnews.to/2IriI2V Ocasio-Cortez derangement syndrome? Fox News has run more coverage on freshman Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez than any 2020 Democratic presidential candidate - https://wapo.st/2IujFaM Southwest Airlines says the government shutdown cost them $60 million in revenue. That's more than four times what they originally forecasted - http://bit.ly/2Io8ctk Blatant racism. A review of hundreds of college yearbooks from the 1970s and 1980s found many published shocking images of racism, including students in blackface and dressed as members of the Ku Klux Klan - http://bit.ly/2Io49gC ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY1842 - John Greenough is granted the first patent for the sewing machine. 1848 - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto. 1866 - Lucy Hobbs Taylor becomes the first American woman to graduate from dental school. 1878 - The New Haven, Conn., Telephone Co. published the first phone directory. It listed 50 subscribers. 1855 - The Washington Monument is dedicated. 1953 - Researchers Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. 1965 - Black Muslim leader Malcolm X was assassinated at a rally in New York. 1972 - President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations. 1975 - Watergate scandal: Former Attorney General John Mitchell and former White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison. Policy NewsBishop responds to U.S. Space Force directiveOn February 19, President Trump issued Space Policy Directive-4: Establishment of the United States Space Force. Following the release of the Presidential Memoranda, Rep. Rob Bishop (UT-01) issued the statement below.... More National Headlines
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