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Russian Collusion Investigation: It Was Hillary Clinton All Along
It's beginning to look as if claims of monstrous collusion between Russian officials and U.S. political operatives are true. Is Donald Trump in trouble? No, but Hillary Clinton may be.
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Ex-Reagan official: If Mueller had nothing, Trump 'would ignore him'
A former official from several Republican administrations said he believes President Trump’s repeated attacks on special counsel Robert Mueller and the Russia investigation are a sign that Trump is worried the investigation is closing in on him. Peter Wehner, who worked in President Reagan’s administration and both Bush administrations, said Monday on CNN that the stronger the case is that Mueller has, “the more vitriolic, the more acrimonious, the more libelous” Trump and his supporters will be in their attacks on the special counsel.
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Who’s Afraid of Tom Arnold?
On his new show, Roseanne Barr’s ex-husband is hunting for evidence to take down Trump. Inside a Hollywood outcast’s manic quest
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U.S. and Mexico to set up joint team to fight drug cartels
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and Mexico will set up a joint team in Chicago targeting Mexican drug cartels and their leaders and finances, to try to stem a flow of drugs that has led to a spike in U.S. overdose deaths, officials said on Wednesday.
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Almost 350 news outlets to publish editorials denouncing Trump's 'dirty war' on press
Participation comes after a push organized by the Boston Globe to run coordinated editorials denouncing Trump’s attacks on the media
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Trump could try to revoke Robert Mueller's security clearance next, top Democrat warns
Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, warned on Wednesday that President Trump revoking former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance could set a precedent for taking similar action against special counsel Robert Mueller. "I worry whether this precedence will lead to the president trying to take away Mueller and his whole team's security clearances. This is clearly another effort to silence critics and not allow the Mueller investigation...
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John Brennan: Trump revoked my clearance to scare others
The former CIA director fired back at the president in a fiery op-ed.
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Trump's military parade postponed amid news it could cost $92m
The military parade Donald Trump ordered up for Veterans Day won’t happen in 2018, says the US defense department. Col Rob Manning, a Pentagon spokesman, said Thursday that the military and the White House “have now agreed to explore opportunities in 2019”. US officials had told the Associated Press earlier Thursday that the parade would cost about $92m, citing preliminary estimates more than three times the price first suggested by the White House.
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Why Republicans Just Impeached the Entire West Virginia Supreme Court
It’s not just about the $32,000 couch. By Mark Joseph Stern.
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Trump backed 'space force' after months of lobbying by officials with ties to aerospace industry
When President Trump spoke to Marines at Air Station Miramar in San Diego on March 13, he threw out an idea that he suggested had just come to him. "You know, I was saying it the other day, because we're doing a tremendous amount of work in space — I said maybe we need a new force. We'll call it the ‘space force,’" he told the crowd. "And I was not really serious. And then I said what a great idea — maybe we'll have to do that."
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Mueller Probe Looks at Trump Fundraiser Pay-to-Play With China, Malaysia
The special counsel's team is looking into whether Elliott Broidy, former vice chair of the Trump Victory Committee, has been involved in using his connections in the Trump administration to engage in influence peddling and to seek kickbacks from abroad.
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Rudy Giuliani Stuns NBC's Chuck Todd: 'Truth Isn't Truth'
“Mr. Mayor, do you realize... this is going to become a bad meme," Todd told the president's lawyer.
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'Truth isn't truth,' says Rudy Giuliani
President Donald Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has raised eyebrows by claiming that "truth isn't truth" during a television interview. Mr Giuliani was arguing that Mr Trump should not testify to the Russia probe, as he might be "trapped into perjury". "Truth is truth", NBC host Chuck Todd countered. Mr Giuliani denied this was the case, and said two rival versions of events were in contention.
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Taiwan President Stops in U.S. as Relations Warm, Angering China
President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan visited Houston over the weekend, her second brief stop in the United States in one week, a sign of efforts to deepen relations between Washington and Taipei despite vehement opposition from China. Ms. Tsai stopped in Los Angeles last Monday, on her way to Paraguay and Belize, and then in Houston on Saturday on her way back home. During the earlier stop, she met with three California lawmakers, including one, Representative Brad Sherman, a Democrat...
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Twitter was supposed to spread democracy, not Trump’s ravings
Here’s the $64,000 question for our time: how did digital technologies go from being instruments for spreading democracy to tools for undermining it? Or, to put it a different way, how did social media go from empowering free speech to becoming a cornerstone of authoritarian power?
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Trump’s former personal attorney, reaches tentative plea deal: Sources
ABC News has learned that Michael Cohen has tentatively reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York.
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Author of Trump-Russia dossier wins libel case in US court
Suit against Christopher Steele by three Russian oligarchs thrown out by judge
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Rep. Duncan Hunter and his wife indicted in use of campaign funds for personal expensesal expenses
Rep. Duncan Hunter and his wife, Margaret, were indicted Tuesday on charges related to the misuse of $250,000 worth of campaign funds for personal expenses and the filing of false campaign finance records. The charges of wire fraud, falsifying records, campaign finance violations and conspiracy were the culmination of a Department of Justice investigation that has stretched for more than a year, during which the Republican congressman from California has maintained his innocence. The Justice Department said the Hunters are scheduled to be arraigned Thursday morning in federal court in San Diego.
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Cohen's lawyer says he's completely flipped and will give evidence that Trump colluded with Russia
Lanny Davis, the attorney representing President Donald Trump's former longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen, said Wednesday that Cohen knew of efforts by Trump to conspire with Russia to corrupt the 2016 presidential election. Davis had previously teased that Cohen had "knowledge on certain subjects that should be of interest to the special counsel," but he came right out and suggested a smoking gun on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday morning.
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Opinion | Congress, Do Your Job
Congressional Republicans have been operating under a see-no-evil policy with President Trump: ignoring his lying, his subversions of democratic norms and his attacks on government institutions or, when that’s not possible, dismissing such outrages as empty bluster — as Trump being Trump. This brazenly partisan act has become even more strained since Tuesday, when Michael Cohen, the president’s longtime lawyer and fixer, directly implicated the president in criminal activity. Mr. Cohen asserted in a plea deal with federal prosecutors that, in the closing weeks of the 2016 campaign, Mr. Trump directed him to use illegal...
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