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Paul Manafort, Who Once Ran Trump Campaign, Surrenders to F.B.I.
Paul Manafort and his former business associate Rick Gates were told to surrender to federal authorities on Monday morning, according to a person involved in the case.
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Donna Brazile's Curious Account of the 2016 Election
The former DNC chair seems eager to jump on the Bernie Sanders bandwagon, but her claims of ignorance about party favoritism toward Hillary Clinton don’t add up.
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Republicans just introduced a resolution to remove Mueller from the Trump-Russia investigation
A group of Republicans is calling for Robert Mueller to recuse himself as the special counsel investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 US election.
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Trump attorney: We’ll challenge Mueller if he investigates old real estate deals
An attorney representing President Trump in the ongoing investigation into whether his campaign colluded with Russia said in an interview published Saturday that his team would challenge special counsel Robert Mueller if the probe began looking at Trump's former business deals.
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Republican Is Not a Synonym for Racist
Conservatives must reckon with their policies’ discriminatory effects. That would be more likely if liberals stopped carelessly crying bigot.
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Democrats score key election victories
Governor races in Virginia and New Jersey are the first statewide polls since Trump came to power.
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Spicer on public life after the White House: ‘I get treated better’
Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer revealed in an interview published on Wednesday that he has received better treatment in public since leaving the Trump administration.
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Senators push to ditch Social Security numbers in light of Equifax hack
Eyeing more secure alternatives to Social Security numbers, lawmakers in the U.S. are looking abroad. Today, the Senate Commerce Committee questioned former...
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Calorie counts on menus are going to be mandatory in 2018
The biggest nutrition transparency effort in America is finally happening.
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‘One of the most secretive, dark states’: What is Kansas trying to hide?
Kansas may be the most secretive state in the country, a Kansas City Star investigation shows. And it’s only gotten worse under Gov. Sam Brownback. By Laura Bauer, Judy L. Thomas and Max Londberg.
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Another Roy Moore accuser to come forward; alleging sexual assault while she was a minor
Famed attorney Gloria Allred says she and a new accuser who alleges Roy Moore sexually assaulted her as a minor will hold a press conference Monday afternoon.
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Trump's tax plan 'includes tax break for golf course owners'
A version of the Republican tax bill reportedly contains a break allowing golf course owners to obtain millions of dollars in relief. Under what are known as “conservation easements” course owners can write off a proportion of their income for tax purposes, in return for a promise not to build on the land.
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Tony Destructo: A Conspiracy of Stubbornness
Isn't the news better when you "feel it"?
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Woman accuses Al Franken of kissing, groping her without consent
A TV host and sports broadcaster on Thursday accused Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) of kissing and groping her without her consent in 2006.
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FCC plans to vote to overturn U.S. net neutrality rules in December: sources
The head of the Federal Communications Commission is set to unveil plans next week for a final vote to reverse a landmark 2015 net neutrality order barring the blocking or slowing of web content, two people briefed on the plans said.
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Alabama governor: We’d rather have a child molester in the Senate than a Democrat
The Republican Party, from the state to the federal level, is making it painfully apparent just where their values lay.
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Donald Trump’s FCC is a Clear and Present Danger to Democracy
It has rewritten media-ownership rules to benefit giant corporations, including the pro-Trump Sinclair Broadcasting.
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There’s a little-known fund that goes to victims of sexual harassment on the Hill. You pay for it.
The fund that settles sexual harassment cases in the legislative branch is unlimited and funded by taxpayers.
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FCC will block states from passing their own net neutrality laws
After the FCC began its assault on net neutrality earlier this year, several cities and states began looking into ways to protect consumers on their own. Unfortunately, the FCC has decided that it won’t allow that to happen: as part of its proposal to repeal net neutrality, the commission is trying to use its authority to preempt any and all state and local net neutrality regulations.
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Time says Trump is 'incorrect' after president says he rejected Person of the Year overture
President Donald Trump tweeted on Friday that Time called to tell him that he was "probably" going to be named the magazine's person of the year, but that he turned the offer down, an account Time later disputed.
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