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FBI refused White House request to knock down recent Trump-Russia stories
The FBI rejected a recent White House request to publicly knock down media reports about communications between Donald Trump's associates and Russians known to US intelligence during the 2016 presidential campaign, multiple US officials briefed on the matter tell CNN.
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Arizona Senate votes to seize assets of those who plan, participate in protests that turn violent
Arizona Senate votes to seize assets of those who plan, participate in protests that turn violent. What's to stop the state or someone else from hiring agents provocateurs to damage property, thereby giving the state an excuse to strip peaceful protestors of their homes and assets?
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White House blocks CNN, other news organizations from press briefing
The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Politico were also excluded.
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Marijuana Industry Angered by White House Reversal
Renewed federal enforcement will kill jobs and damage a $6 billion business in states where recreational use is legal, proponents say.
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Judge Won't Let Texas Defund Planned Parenthood
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Trump says he won't attend White House Correspondents Dinner
President Trump will not attend the annual White House Correspondents Dinner in April, he tweeted on Saturday.
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Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media
With links to Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage, the rightwing American computer scientist is at the heart of a multimillion-dollar propaganda network
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Sean Spicer Launches Witch Hunt Over The 'Secure' App He Just Said Was No Big Deal
So here's a story that goes from weird to bizarre in record time. A few weeks ago, Axios was among the first to report that White House staffers were using an app called "Confide" to make use of its disappearing message feature...
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Donald Trump forms agency to publish list of crimes by immigrants
Donald Trump will form a new agency to publish a regular list of all crimes committed by immigrants.
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Barack Obama Is Returning to Politics to Fight Gerrymandering
There's no rest for the weary or Barack Obama.
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Sessions met with Russian envoy twice last year, encounters he later did not disclose
The attorney general did not disclose the encounters during his confirmation hearing.
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Obama Administration Rushed to Preserve Intelligence of Russian Election Hacking
Obama administration officials scrambled to ensure intelligence of connections between the Trump campaign and Russian officials was preserved after they left office.
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High Noon’s Secret Backstory
In this adaptation from his new book, *High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic (Bloomsbury), Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Glenn Frankel reveals how power and politics shaped—and almost scuttled—a cinematic landmark.
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From “Corrupt Clinton?” to “Nothing to See Here”: a tale of two Fox News email chyrons
A set of screengrabs making the rounds on Twitter is an amazing encapsulation of the Fox News approach to political email scandals.
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Trump accuses Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower
President Trump on Saturday claimed President Obama had his “wires tapped” in Trump Tower before Election Day, tweeting the accusation without offering evidence. “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” he wrote.
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Donald Trump has spent almost a third of his days as President in Mar-a-Lago
Donald Trump has spent almost a third of his time in office in his Florida estate in Mar-a-Lago as the “Winter White House” has become the US President’s weekend getaway. Since his inauguration, Donald Trump would have spent 14 days in the 126-room estate, where his family enjoys private quarters, out of his first 44 days in office.
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If Trump Tower Was Wiretapped, Trump Can Declassify That Right Now
Presidents have the power to declassify anything at any time, so Trump could immediately make public any government records of such surveillance.
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Revised executive order bans travelers from six Muslim-majority countries from getting new visas
The president is expected to sign his new, more limited rule Monday.
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Why does Google think Obama is planning a coup d'etat?
Google's featured snippets are often alarmingly bad.
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Khizr Khan travel privileges reportedly under review
Khan was scheduled to speak “on what we can do about the appalling turn of events in Washington."
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