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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg appears at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 1, 2018. (Ron Sachs / CNP)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 84, nominated by President Bill Clinton, has served since 1993. Court reporters said last month that she seemed to signal her intention to wait out Trump when she hired clerks for terms through 2020.
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President Donald Trump delivering his first State of the Union address in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives, Jan. 30, 2018. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
In the U.N. General Assembly vote last month, 128 countries voted to censure the United States, nine voted against and 35 abstained. Among the majority were many U.S. allies, including some that the Trump administration has cultivated to combat terrorism, and which receive substantial U.S. assistance.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan, flanked by Republican lawmakers, speaking at the U.S. Capitol about the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that was passed this week by the House and Senate, Dec. 21, 2017. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
The bill, which goes into effect for 2018 tax filings, institutes some moderate cuts for individual filers and slashes the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent, which Republicans say will spur business.
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President Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in 2017. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who welcomed the announcement, has said repeatedly that Jerusalem will remain undivided as Israel’s capital. Palestinian officials hope to establish the capital of a Palestinian state in the city’s eastern sector.
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Read More“There is a lot of politics behind the food you eat,” said Johanna Mendelson Forman, who teaches a course at American U. called Conflict Cuisine: An Introduction to War and Peace Around the Dinner Table.
Read MoreRepublicans are wondering what this says about the train that was Trumpism.
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Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, Nov. 7, 2017. (Screenshot from YouTube)
At issue is the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, which would codify the State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism.
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Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, center, is shown at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on June 21, 2017. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating whether President Donald Trump’s campaign had ties with Russia, issued two indictments this week and unsealed a guilty plea.
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The U.S. Supreme Court justices posing for a photo in Washington, D.C., June 1, 2017. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
The new judge, Neil Gorsuch, appears to be comfortably slipping into Antonin Scalia’s slot.
Read MoreThe Trump presidency presents special challenges to apology trackers: Donald just doesn’t do them, but he loves them when he gets them. And sometimes he insists he got them when he didn’t.
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