Senate votes against Trump border emergency

WASHINGTON -- In a stunning rebuke, a dozen defecting Republicans joined Senate Democrats to block the national emergency that U.S. President Donald Trump declared so he could build his border wall with Mexico. The rejection capped a week of confrontation with the White House as both parties in Congress strained to exert their power in new ways. The 59-41 tally Thursday, following the Senate's vote a day earlier to end U.S. involvement in the war in Yemen, promised to force Trump into the first