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US President Donald Trump made a statement on Saturday in a bid to end the partial US government shutdown, proposing a 3-year legislative relief for the so-called Dreamer immigrants that could protect them from deportation. The US president also offered protections for immigrants who hold temporary protected status.

On Friday, Trump tweeted that he will deliver a speech concerning what he calls a "Humanitarian Crisis" on the southern US border with Mexico, as well as the shutdown. Later in a separate video statement, the US president urged Democrats to "take the politics out" of the border situation and "get to work and make a deal".

While some celebrities simply kept quiet about the march on social media, others outright refused to attend.

The 'World still needs NATO' wrote German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen in an impassioned appeal to support the increasingly unpopular military bloc.

Striking Los Angeles, California, teachers and the school district are to resume negotiations Saturday, after protests drawing thousands to City Hall have stretched into their fifth day.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - US President Donald Trump is expected to ask for the $5.7 billion he needs to build a wall on the southern border in exchange for extended protections for two groups of migrants that Democrats want to be covered, local media said Saturday.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that great progress was made at his meeting with North Korean Vice Chairman Kim Yong Chol.

The annual Women’s March is taking place on Saturday for the third time; the first march ran the day after the inauguration of the US President Donald Trump, and became a historic event.

Michael Cohen, the US president's long-time fixer, was sentenced to three years in prison last month for tax evasion and paying hush money to Trump's alleged mistresses. Cohen earlier confessed to lying to Congress about the timing of Trump's business negotiations with Russia, but a recent report claims he did so at the behest of his boss.

Pelosi and Schumer are especially opposed to US President Donald Trump's demand for funds to build a wall along the southern US border with Mexico. The standoff in Congress led to the ongoing partial shutdown of the US federal government back in December.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - US President Donald Trump on Saturday lashed out at Mexico for staying idle while a third caravan of Central American migrants is approaching the southern US border.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - US President Donald Trump announced Saturday a trip to the Dover air force base in Delaware to meet the families of who he described as four very special people who died serving the country.

Just like the two previous shutdowns of 2018, the third budget crisis of Donald Trump's presidency was triggered by stark disagreements between the Republicans and the Democrats over border security. Trump has threatened that the ongoing shutdown could last "even years" if he does not receive the funding he needs for his long-promised border wall.

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif slammed the arrest of Marzieh Hashemi as "an unacceptable political act that tramples on freedom of speech". Tehran also condemned the "inhuman treatment of her in jail".

BuzzFeed's damning claim was seen by the mainstream media as a huge development in the alleged Russian collusion story, but it was labelled "not accurate" by Robert Mueller's office.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Russian embassy in the United States said that A. Zhukov had been charged with conspiring for the purposes of carrying out computer fraud, noting that the consulate general staff would visit him in the US jail in the near future.

Pittsburgh police responded on Friday night to the incident at the Family Dollar store in Penn Hills.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office has denied the veracity of BuzzFeed News' incredible claims.

US President Donald Trump has said the situation at the US-Mexican border a “humanitarian crisis” and urged Democrats to approve funding for tightening border security.

Since the historic meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un in June, the denuclearization talks have reportedly stalled, with Pyongyang demanding immediate sanctions relief and Washington urging North Korea to take more steps to dismantle its nuclear infrastructure.