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Trump says reports on his own press conference with Putin were fake news
President Donald Trump has lashed out at the media for its “fake news” coverage of his press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin, commenting that the press didn’t cover his closed-door meeting with the leader. Speaking following a backlash over comments he made about Russia’s election meddling, in which he appeared to suggest he believed Putin over the information of his own intelligence agencies, Trump complained that media reports had got things wrong.
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Mueller releases list of more than 500 pieces of evidence against Manafort
Special counsel Robert Mueller's office on Wednesday released an itemized list of evidence prosecutors are considering for use against Paul Manafort as the former Trump aide's Washington D.C. trial approaches.
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After three days, Trump rejects Putin's 'incredible offer' to help Russia interrogate Americans
The White House on Thursday said President Donald Trump would not accept an "incredible offer" from Russian President Vladimir Putin. During the Helsinki summit between the two leaders on Monday, Putin offered to permit U.S. investigators to interrogate Russians charged with hacking during the 2016 election, in exchange for the United States agreeing to allow the Kremlin to interrogate U.S. citizens about unspecified crimes.
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Michael Cohen Secretly Taped Trump Discussing Payment to Playboy Model
President Trump’s longtime lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, secretly recorded a conversation with Mr. Trump two months before the presidential election in which they discussed payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump, according to lawyers and others familiar with the recording. The F.B.I. seized the recording this year during a raid on Mr. Cohen’s office. The Justice Department is investigating Mr. Cohen’s involvement in paying women to tamp down embarrassing news stories about Mr. Trump ahead of the 2016 election.
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Michael Cohen Secretly Taped Trump Discussing Payment to Playboy Model
The F.B.I. seized the recording in a raid. Its existence recording highlights the potential legal and political danger that Mr. Cohen represents to the president.
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Opinion: The entire Republican Party is becoming a Russian asset
It's not just Trump.
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The Russia Investigations: How Many More Maria Butinas Are There?
In a week even Hollywood couldn't have scripted, the feds launch their case against a Russian accused of infiltrating U.S. politics. And the deputy attorney general speaks out on foreign interference.
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Donald Trump will never meet with Vladimir Putin privately again, says Lindsey Graham
Senator Lindsey Graham said Thursday that neither President Donald Trump nor any other president after him will ever again have a behind-closed-doors meeting with a foreign leader. At the same time, Graham shot down the suggestion that the interpreter who sat in with Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin should appear before Congress.
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U.S. loses bid to end children's climate change lawsuit
A federal appeals court in San Francisco on Friday rejected the Trump administration’s renewed bid to dismiss a lawsuit by young activists who say the U.S. government is ignoring the perils of climate change.
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Trump 'ready' to tax all Chinese imports
US President Donald Trump says he is ready to intensify his trade war with China by slapping tariffs on all $500bn of imports from the country. "I'm ready to go to 500," he said in an interview with the CNBC channel. Mr Trump's comments come before the most recent round of US tariffs has had time to take effect.
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The Untold Story of Otto Warmbier, American Hostage
What happened to U.S. college student Otto Warmbier—who was sent home brain-damaged from North Korea—is more shocking than anyone knew.
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The World Burns. Sarah Sanders Says This Is Fine.
On wednesday, two representatives of the United States government held press briefings, both of them touching on one of the most astonishing news stories of the Trump presidency—a series of events that had begun two days earlier, when Donald Trump traveled to Helsinki to meet, behind closed doors, with Vladimir Putin.
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Trump is going after California’s clean car mandate
The Trump administration is planning a proposal that would seize control away from California regulators and prevent them from enforcing the state’s own emissions standards.
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Trump: I'm 'concerned' Russia may interfere in midterms to help Democrats
President Trump on Tuesday said he is "very concerned" that Russia will attempt to interfere in this year's midterm elections, claiming Moscow "will be pushing very hard" to support Democrats.
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Ivanka Trump closes fashion brand
President Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, is closing down her fashion brand.
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Administration announces $12 billion in aid to farmers hurt by Trump's trade war
The federal government will dole out up to $12 billion in "temporary relief" to struggling farmers who have been hurt by President Donald Trump's tariffs and trade war, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue told reporters the total amount was "in line" with the estimated impact from retaliatory tariffs on U.S. agricultural exports.
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Giuliani on Trump-Cohen audio: 'I've dealt with much worse tapes than this'
President Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday downplayed the relevance of the audio released by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's legal team on Tuesday night. The audio recording, released by Cohen's attorney Lanny Davis to CNN, captures a conversation between President Trump and Cohen about a payment tied to a former Playboy model alleging an affair with Trump.
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Trump tells supporters, 'What you're seeing ... is not what's happening'
When looking for phrases that define Trump's presidency, you could do worse than his declaration yesterday: "What you're seeing ... is not what's happening."
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Sacha Baron Cohen's Dirty Tactics Are Exactly What America Needs
His right-wing victims cry foul. All he does is convince them to be honest.
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Evidence Shows Hackers Changed Votes in the 2016 Election But No One Will Admit It
Regardless of how many episodes of Law & Order one may have seen, most laypeople rarely understand the definition of circumstantial evidence. West’s Encyclopedia of American Law states: “There is a public perception that such evidence is weak (‘all they have is circumstantial evidence’), but the probable conclusion from the circumstances may be so strong that there can be little doubt as to a vital fact.”
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