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Trump was in the room during hush money discussions with tabloid publisher
A source confirmed to NBC News that Trump was the "other member of the campaign" present when Michael Cohen and David Pecker agreed to silence women.
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Donald Trump's suffocating presence and unhinged executive power is the product of history
Given the presidency's evolution, Donald Trump, the overlord of American politics, is not a fluke, or some historic anomaly. He’s an inevitability.
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Exclusive: Paul Manafort advised White House on how to attack and discredit investigation of President Trump
We now have details as to how the indicted former campaign manager worked with the president to undermine federal law enforcement.
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The EPA is planning to jeopardize the water quality for 117 million Americans
The Trump administration unveiled a proposal on Tuesday weakening federal water protections for millions of acres of streams, wetlands, and waterways that will likely affect the drinking water for more than one-third of Americans. While the Trump administration specifically targeted the 2015 Obama-era rule known as the Clean Water Rule, or Waters of the United States, the proposal goes further in rolling back environmental oversight than has occurred with any president since Ronald Reagan.
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Ryan Zinke Is Leaving The Interior Department, Trump Tweets
Ryan Zinke is out as Secretary of the Interior. Zinke will be leaving the Trump administration at the end of the year; his successor is expected to be announced next week. On Saturday morning President Trump tweeted that Zinke is leaving after serving for almost two years. He said Zinke has accomplished much during his tenure, and thanked him for his service.
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Donald Trump wants the courts to determine if it is legal for 'Saturday Night Live' to 'belittle' him
President Trump says the justice system should stop investigating his administration and go after the real enemy – “Saturday Night Live.” During a series of Sunday morning tweets attacking everyone from his former attorney Michael Cohen to Hillary Clinton, the President slipped in the suggestion that NBC’s long-running comedy skit program should be “tested in courts,” seemingly for its alleged “collusion” with Democratic party interests.
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Trump's trade war could cost every middle-class American family $453 and could eliminate 292,000 US jobs
President Donald Trump's trade battles are projected to hit middle-class families hard, according to a new study, especially if the president follows through on all of his threats. According to a report from the conservative-leaning Tax Foundation, current tariffs will cause a squeeze for middle-class Americans — and lead to fewer jobs in the US. The think tank also estimated that the economic pain of the tariffs would get much worse in the event Trump follows through on all tariffs he has threatened.
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'A shocking pattern of illegality': Trump Foundation shuts down
President Donald Trump has agreed to shut down his embattled personal charity amid allegations that he used it for his personal and political benefit.
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Is there anything Trump touches that isn't corrupt?
Every new question we ask reveals that this President and this presidency is even more rotten than we realised.
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MSNBC's Chris Matthews predicts Mueller will let Ivanka and Don Jr. avoid prison if Trump resigns
"But what if the prosecutor . . . were to say he would let the children walk if the old man does the same?"
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Flake to co-introduce bipartisan climate bill
Outgoing GOP Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) introduced a carbon pricing bill Wednesday that aims to help cut climate change causing emissions. The landmark bill would charge fossil fuel companies a tax for their carbon dioxide emissions. The bill is a companion to legislation introduced by a bipartisan group in the House in November.
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House adjourns, ensuring a government shutdown
The U.S. House of Representatives adjourned just before 7 p.m. on Friday night (0000 GMT on Saturday), leaving the Capitol before approving government funding and thereby ensuring a government shutdown. The House is set to return from recess at noon on Saturday. The failure by the U.S. Congress and President Donald Trump to agree to a government spending bill by midnight will shutdown several federal agencies.
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The U.S. government partially shutdown early Saturday after lawmakers failed to reach a spending deal that centered on whether to fund construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border
U.S. Government Shutdown Over Border Wall Funding. Negotiations between White House officials, congressional leaders to continue Saturday. The discussions focused on the package of seven spending bills that would fund the government through September, including a bipartisan Senate measure funding the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the border wall.
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Dan Rather asks Trump what’s more ‘marginal’: ‘Believing in Santa at age 7 or not believing in climate change at age 72?'
Former longtime CBS News anchor Dan Rather on Tuesday knocked President Trump after the president's Christmas Eve phone call with a 7-year-old went viral due to Trump asking a 7-year-old girl if she believed in Santa Claus. Rather used Trump's language from the call in which the president asked if it was "marginal" for a 7-yeard-old to believe in Santa.
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Cell signal puts Cohen outside Prague around time of purported Russian meeting
One of Michael Cohen’s mobile phones briefly lit up cell towers in late summer of 2016 in the vicinity of Prague, undercutting his denials that he secretly met there with Russian officials, four people have told McClatchy.
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Michelle & Barack Obama Are The Most Admired People In America
Nearly two years after leaving the White House, Michelle and Barack Obama still hold the hearts of the American people. A new Gallup poll released Thursday found that the former first couple are the most admired woman and man in the country. Michelle, who is currently promoting her bestselling memoir Becoming, dethroned former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton for the first time in 17 years. Clinton — who's also been in the public eye as first lady, U.S. senator...
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Cell signal puts Cohen outside Prague around time of purported Russian meeting
A mobile phone traced to President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen briefly sent signals ricocheting off cell towers in the Prague area in late summer 2016, at the height of the presidential campaign, leaving an electronic record to support claims that Cohen met secretly there with Russian officials, four people with knowledge of the matter say.
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President Trump’s Retreat on the Environment Is Affecting Communities Across America
In just two years, Trump has unleashed a regulatory rollback with little parallel in the past half-century.
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Cyberbullying is now a crime in Michigan punishable by jail time
We've got bad news for you, Metro Times trolls: Cyberbullying is now a crime in Michigan. On Thursday, Gov. Rick Snyder signed into law a bill sponsored by Rep. Pete Lucido, R-Shelby Township that formally defines cyberbullying as a misdemeanor crime punishable by 93 days in jail and a $500 fine. Public Act 457 of 2018 will take effect in March.
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A Holiday Mystery: Why Did John Roberts Intervene in the Mueller Probe?
A mysterious grand jury subpoena case has been working itself through the D.C. courts since August. Doughty reporting by Politico linked the grand jury case to special counsel Robert Mueller. Some of us, connecting the dots, wondered whether Mueller’s antagonist in this secret subpoena battle might be President Donald Trump himself. Speculation heightened two weeks ago when the D.C. Circuit cleared an entire floor of reporters assembled for the oral argument, in order to protect the identity of the litigants.
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