Drug lord El Chapo has his day in court, and will be back for his trial — next year

Drug lord El Chapo has his day in court, and will be back for his trial — next yearFriday morning, Joaquin Guzman Loera was taken from his solitary confinement cell in lower Manhattan and escorted by a police motorcade across the Brooklyn Bridge to the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, where heavy security signaled the impending arrival of someone important. Well before Guzman’s hearing began, reporters had already filled the courtroom’s press box and much of the overflow room across the hall, where a live feed of the proceedings played on two TVs and a large projector screen.

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Paul Ryan tries to rebrand new health care plan as more Republicans defect

Paul Ryan tries to rebrand new health care plan as more Republicans defectHouse Speaker Paul Ryan and his deputies attempted to rebrand the party’s troubled health care plan as providing “layers of protection” for people with preexisting conditions, even as members of their caucus continued to defect from backing the legislation. Ryan told reporters Tuesday morning. Republic Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the majority whip, read aloud a letter from a constituent with a preexisting condition who said Obamacare did not help him.

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Historians react to Trump’s Civil War comments: ‘That’s entirely wrong in every respect’

Historians react to Trump’s Civil War comments: ‘That’s entirely wrong in every respect’Historians Monday valiantly tried, and mostly failed, to understand and interpret President Trump’s remarks about President Andrew Jackson. Among other comments, Trump seemed to assert that Jackson, who died in 1845, could have prevented the Civil War, which began in 1861, and that the causes of the bloodiest conflict in the nation’s history have not been addressed or discussed. “I mean, had Andrew Jackson been a little later, you wouldn’t have had the Civil War,” said Trump in an interview with the Washington Examiner’s Salena Zito.

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