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The Man Who Wrote the Book That Terrifies the NFL
Mark Leibovich spent years digging under the skin of Washington, D.C.’s power brokers. When he turned his attention to the world of pro football for a new book, he found an awfully familiar set of characters.
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DeSantis Warns Florida Not to ‘Monkey This Up,’ and Many Hear a Racist Dog Whistle
The Republican nominee for governor in Florida drew condemnation from Democrats for a comment about his opponent, Andrew Gillum.
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Political Scientists Reassure Americans That Stripping Minorities Of Citizenship Usually Where Descent Into Fascism Peters Out
CHAPEL HILL, NC—Responding to concern about the Trump administration accusing hundreds of Hispanic people living near the U.S.–Mexico border of having fraudulent birth certificates and revoking their passports, political scientists reassured Americans Thursday that stripping minority groups of their citizenship is usually where the descent into fascism peters out. “I know people might be worried that a targeted effort by a country’s leaders to erode the civil liberties and question the citizenship of a specific minority group is some ominous sign of even worse things to come, but in nearly all cases, this actually represents the low-...
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Trump calls Mueller investigation 'illegal'
President Donald Trump on Thursday said the Russia collusion investigation headed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller is 'illegal' as the probe continues to hone in on his inner circle. Trump told Bloomberg News in an interview that Mueller's appointment last year to investigate his 2016 election campaign for possible collusion with Russia was wrong. 'I view it differently. I view it as an illegal investigation,' he told Bloomberg. He cited unnamed 'great scholars' who say that 'there never should have been a special counsel,' according to the news agency.
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Two prosecutors leave Mueller's office
Prosecutors Ryan Dickey and Brian Richardson are no longer working for the office of special counsel Robert Mueller, the Justice Department confirmed. Both lawyers were relatively junior but frequently spotted members of Mueller's corps. Both have worked on court cases that Mueller opened as part of his investigation into Russian interference and coordination with the Trump campaign in the 2016 presidential election.
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Google is under siege from conservatives, as a senior Republican demands an inquiry into its market dominance
Senior Republican Senator Orrin Hatch has written to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), urging the competition body to open a new antitrust investigation into Google. Hatch, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate, argued that Google had become "more dominant" since the FTC last investigated Google's conduct in 2013 without major repercussions for the firm. Hatch is a member of the Senate's antitrust committee.
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Google is under siege from conservatives as a senior Republican demands an inquiry into its market dominance
Sen. Orrin Hatch wants the Federal Trade Commision to investigate Google following news reports that have highlighted problematic behavior and its dominance in search and advertising. It follows President Donald Trump's attacks this week.
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Inside The Trump Administration’s Secret War On Weed
The Marijuana Policy Coordination Committee wants to counteract positive marijuana messages and identify problems with state legalization initiatives, according to documents obtained by BuzzFeed News.
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WTO Head Warns Trump: U.S. Exit Would Cause World Economy To Descend Into Chaos
In an Oval Office interview this week, as the Guardian reported, President Trump vowed to withdraw from the World Trade Organization (WTO) if it doesn’t “shape up,” calling the agreement establishing the body “the single worst trade deal ever made.” While the POTUS does not shy away from hyperbole, especially in his protectionist trade rhetoric, his threats were taken seriously by Roberto Azevedo, the WTO’s director general, who suggested in an interview with Bloomberg that the economy would descend into chaos, if the U.S. was to withdraw from the organization.
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Trump admits to explosive off-the-record comments on Canada
President Trump told reporters he was not offering Canada any concessions in NAFTA negotiations but couldn't say so publicly because it would kill the deal, he confirmed in a tweet which featured an accusation that Bloomberg had "BLATANTLY VIOLATED" an agreement that the remark was off-the-record.
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Donald Trump to visit Ireland and France in November
Donald Trump will visit Ireland in November, it was confirmed on Friday. The president will also visit France to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the first world war. The exact timing of the European trip was not announced. The leader of the Irish Labour party promised to oppose the visit. In a statement, the White House press secretary, Sarah Sanders, said Trump’s time in Ireland would “renew the deep and historic ties between our two nations”.
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Papadopoulos says Trump "approved" his proposed meeting with Putin ahead of the 2016 election
Former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos claims Donald Trump supported his proposal of a meeting with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Papadopoulos, a former foreign policy aide to Trump’s campaign, has pled guilty to misleading FBI agents probing allegations of collusion between Russia and Trump officials.
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Not Seeking Re-Election
The former congressman and White House chief of staff will not seek a third term in office in 2019. "This has been the job of a lifetime, but it is not a job for a lifetime," he said.
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Trump ordered his 2020 elections banners in China now to avoid paying tariffs he is going to slam on China
Hypocrisy level: maximum
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I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration
I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.
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Ajit Pai Is Suddenly Very Concerned About Whether Tech Companies Are Censoring Conservatives
Federal Communications Commission chair Ajit Pai, the Donald Trump administration plant behind the repeal of net neutrality, is now very concerned about the neutrality of other tech companies.
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Nancy Pelosi Doesn’t Care What You Think of Her
And she isn’t going anywhere
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The End Finally Comes for Alex Jones
Twitter’s permanent ban is an important symbolic gesture.
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Obama on Trump: How hard can it be to say 'Nazis are bad'?
Former President Obama tore into President Trump on Friday over what he said was his failure to stand up to Nazi sympathizers.
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Papadopoulos sentenced to 14 days in jail for lying to FBI in Mueller probe
"The president of the United States hindered this investigation more than George Papadopoulos ever could," a lawyer for Papadopoulos said.
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