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Joe Biden and Donald Trump traded verbal jabs Saturday over a bipartisan plan for border reform aimed at stemming a surge in migrants crossing into the United States from Mexico.

With immigration one of the hottest electoral issues in what increasingly looks like a Trump-Biden rematch for the White House this year, the fate of the bill being negotiated by the Senate has become a high-stakes battleground.

The U.S. Federal Reserve is widely expected to start cutting interest rates in the coming months, as inflation edges closer to its long-run target of two percent.

What is less clear, however, is when the first of those cuts will come.

Thousands marched Saturday in an anti-abortion rally in Texas, demanding providers of the procedure "stay away" from the conservative US state.

"Pro-life" activists gathered outside the state Capitol in Austin, carrying signs with slogans reading "Abortion hurts women" and "Pray to end abortion."

Appearing on MSNBC with host Ali Velshi, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin claimed Donald Trump is finally running into some major headwinds as he makes his third run for the presidency and a major one is questions about his mental decline.

According to the journalist, even Republicans are starting to admit the former president is not all there — something that has become a major talking point in South Carolina Republican Nikki Haley's campaign.

Pointing to President Joe Biden's re-election campaign, she told the host, "The economy is pretty good and it's been good for a while, of course, but you wouldn't know it from some of the coverage. Now, I think that has shifted quite dramatically and Biden is getting some recognition."

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Adding, "I think there's a lot of things that we don't normally credit with for President Biden, and the last is that it's becoming pretty apparent, even to Republicans, that he [Trump] has got a screw loose."

"He slurs his words, he gets confused. That's what Nikki Haley has been exploiting finally," she elaborated. "It's not going to help her with the Republican base, but it sure is going to provide a lot of material for President Biden in the general election."

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Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's refusal to end her bid for the 2024 Republican Party presidential nomination has gotten under Donald Trump's skin as it forces him to spend more time on the campaign trail as he battles his myriad legal problems.

According to a report from the Guardian's David Smith, the former president is "consumed with rage" at Haley because her refusal to drop out is keeping his campaign from making a "pivot" to taking on President Joe Biden and instead finds itself having to fend off her increasing attacks.

U.S. Rep. Pete Stauber (R-MN) was served a "reality check" by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg on Friday, after the pro-Trump election-denying Republican repeatedly took credit this week for a massive infrastructure project in his home state, funded by President Joe Biden's legislation the Minnesota Congressman voted against.

"Reality check: I approved this because it’s a deserving project, consistent with President Biden’s priorities. This is happening because the Biden infrastructure package passed, despite your 'no' vote," wrote Secretary Buttigieg on social media, in response to Rep. Staubert's video providing what he claimed was a "fact check."

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is likely to make a "full recovery" from prostate cancer and his prognosis is "excellent," two doctors said after he was seen at Walter Reed hospital for a follow-up appointment.

Austin controversially kept US President Joe Biden in the dark about the cancer diagnosis for weeks, and did not inform either the commander-in-chief or Congress until days after he was hospitalized on January 1 for complications from his treatment.

The United States, which ships more liquefied natural gas than any other country, is hitting pause on approving new export facilities, the Biden administration announced Friday in a step seen as vital to tackling the climate crisis.

It comes as President Joe Biden looks to shore up youth voters energized by environmental issues in a tough election rematch this year.

The prospect of a free presidential election in Venezuela was dealt a heavy blow Friday when the country’s highest court upheld a ban on the candidacy of María Corina Machado, a longtime government foe and winner of the primary held by the opposition faction backed by the United States.

The ruling came months after President Nicolás Maduro and the U.S.-backed opposition reached an agreement aimed at leveling the playing field ahead of the election later this year. The deal led Washington to ease economic sanctions on Maduro’s government.