内容摘要：WASHINGTON (AP) — It was just past 3 a.m., a few hours before the House vote on

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was just past 3 a.m., a few hours before the House vote on

A Trump settlement with Paramount has precedence. The Walt Disney Co. decided in December toa Trump libel lawsuit against ABC News over a statement made by the network’s George Stephanopoulos regarding a sexual assault case against Trump.

The new administration has been battling with the media over several fronts, including:over curtailing access because the agency has not followed Trump’s wishes to rename the Gulf of Mexico.—Making efforts to shut down government-run news services like the

David Bauder writes about media for the AP. Follow him at, a longtime White House executive chef who recently retired after nearly three decades of preparing meals for five presidents and their guests, says first families are “just regular people” when they’re at home in the private living areas of the Executive Mansion.

“It’s not what you see on the news,” she told The Associated Press in an interview.

Preparing the first families’ meals was among Comerford’s many culinary responsibilities. Meals mostly would be prepared in the main kitchen, then finished off in the residence kitchen on the second floor.“Republicans need to UNIFY,” Trump posted on social media before departing for a trip to the Middle East.

Trump said when he returns to Washington, “we will work together on any and all outstanding issues, but there shouldn’t be many — The Bill is GREAT. We have no alternative, WE MUST WIN!”But one key Republican, Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, implored his party

, arguing that cutting health care to pay for tax breaks is both “morally wrong and politically suicidal.”“If Republicans want to be a working-class party — if we want to be a majority party — we must ignore calls to cut Medicaid and start delivering on America’s promise for America’s working people,” Hawley wrote in The New York Times.