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Conway may have broken key ethics rule by touting Ivanka Trump's products, experts say — President Trump's official counselor, Kellyanne Conway, may have broken a key ethics rule Thursday morning when she told TV audiences to “go buy Ivanka's stuff.” — Federal employees are banned …
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Kellyanne Conway on Ivanka Trump's Fashion Line: ‘Go Buy It Today!’ — After Nordstrom decided to drop Ivanka Trump's fashion line from its department stores, a number of retailers have recently followed suit. — Neiman Marcus, Belk, Jet, ShopStyle, Home Shopping Network …

CREW FILES ETHICS COMPLAINTS AGAINST KELLYANNE CONWAY — Washington, DC—Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway's official endorsement of Ivanka Trump's products from the White House this morning was an apparent violation of federal law, ethics regulations and other standards of conduct …
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Cummings Asks Chaffetz to Refer Top Trump Aide for Potential Disciplinary Action
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Ex-ethics czar: Kellyanne Conway faces ‘a range of penalties’ for promoting Ivanka's brand on Fox
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Kellyanne Conway under fire for promoting Ivanka's brand
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Kellyanne Conway tells America to 'buy Ivanka's stuff,' may have violated federal law
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Kellyanne Conway Tells Americans To Buy Ivanka Trump's Products
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Exclusive: In call with Putin, Trump denounced Obama-era nuclear arms treaty - sources — In his first call as president with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump denounced a treaty that caps U.S. and Russian deployment of nuclear warheads as a bad deal for the United States …
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The Mysterious Disappearance of the Biggest Scandal in Washington — The biggest election-related scandal since Watergate occurred last year, and it has largely disappeared from the political-media landscape of Washington. — According to the consensus assessment of US intelligence agencies …
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She Showed Up Yearly to Meet Immigration Agents. Now They've Deported Her. — PHOENIX — For eight years, Guadalupe García de Rayos had checked in at the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement office here, a requirement since she was caught using a fake Social Security number during …
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TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PREPARES TO EXECUTE “VICIOUS” EXECUTIVE ORDER ON DEPORTATIONS
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Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus Want You to Know They Are Friends — “We're just finishing,” Steve Bannon told me. “Reince is giving me my daily back massage.” — The two men burst into a fit of conspiratorial laughter. — “Off the record!” Reince Priebus said. — “Off the record!”
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Trump White House besieged by leaks
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Trump struggling to fill one of the worst jobs in Washington
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Blumenthal: We're careening ‘toward a constitutional crisis’ … (D-Conn.) on Thursday warned that the country is heading toward a “constitutional crisis,” moments after President Trump attacked him for sharing Trump's Supreme Court nominee's concerns with the president's attacks on judges.
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Trump falsely accuses senator of misrepresenting Gorsuch criticism
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Trump contradicts Gorsuch spokesman, accuses Blumenthal of misrepresenting comments
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California Farmers Backed Trump, but Now Fear Losing Field Workers — MERCED, Calif. — Jeff Marchini and others in the Central Valley here bet their farms on the election of Donald J. Trump. His message of reducing regulations and taxes appealed to this Republican stronghold …
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California Farmers Surprised That Trump Is Anti-Immigrant
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John McCain's brutal rejoinder to Sean Spicer — Donald Trump took on Sen. John McCain's status as a war hero and won the GOP nomination anyway. — Sean Spicer took on John McCain's expertise on military matters and got this: … The White House press secretary took an extraordinary position Wednesday …


The most disproportionately common injury in every state — What can medical codes tell us about getting hurt in America? — Every time you go to the doctor, your diagnosis is recorded as a medical code. They're notoriously complicated—more than 3,000 ICD codes are used just to describe physical injuries.
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Secrecy surrounds White House cybersecurity staff shakeup — The Obama-appointed chief information security officer was charged with keeping the president and his staff safe from cyber-threats posed by hackers and nation-state attackers. — The chief information security officer …
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Can What Worked in 2016 Translate to 2018? — There's been lots of uncertainty and confusion in these first three weeks of the Trump Administration. But one thing is quite clear: Trump is going to run his White House like he ran his campaign. That means a chaotic and conflict driven …
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CNN's Chris Cuomo: ‘I see being called fake news as the equivalent of the n-word for journalists’ … Attacks on the press for being ‘fake news’ have become a staple of President Trump's rhetoric, with CNN — hosts/reporters included — often being called out by name.


Presidential Executive Order on a Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety — TASK FORCE ON CRIME REDUCTION AND PUBLIC SAFETY — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to reduce crime and restore public safety …
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Trump: ‘Phenomenal’ Tax Cut Package Coming in 2-3 Weeks — 'We're going to be announcing something I would say over the next two or three weeks that will be phenomenal' — President Trump to his conservative critics: I read you loud and clear! — After coming under criticism from many on the right …
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“Great News!”: White Nationalists See Sessions' Attorney General Confirmation As Major Step Toward Achieving Their Racist Goals — Jeff Sessions Confirmed By U.S. Senate For Attorney General Post — Sessions Confirmed On “A Near-Party-Line Vote.” Jeff Sessions, who has served …
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Democrat moves to force House debate on Trump's alleged business conflicts and Russia ties — BALTIMORE — In an escalation of Democratic efforts to highlight questions about President Trump's potential conflicts of interest and alleged ties to Russia, a senior House Democrat is dusting off …
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Inside Chuck Schumer's Plan to Take on President Trump — Put Chuck Schumer and Donald Trump in a room together and you can't miss the connection. They are the leaders of rival parties, sharp opponents on Twitter and in the press, but they live by the same words, as big and bold as the city that made them.
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Trump Does Not Know What Civil Forfeiture Is, but He Likes It — In a meeting with county sheriffs from around the country on Tuesday, President Trump jokingly (we hope!) threatened to “destroy [the] career” of a Texas legislator who proposed requiring the government to obtain a conviction …
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STEVE BOOM, 48 — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos would make almost any list of the world's most powerful people. In retail, he's clearly on top, and in tech, he's close to it. In book publishing, he would be the undisputed No. 1 for 10 years running. In addition to a $65 billion stake in Amazon …
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Steve Bannon Wanted Mel Gibson for His Movie About Nazis, Abortion, ‘Mutants’ — More than a decade before Stephen K. Bannon became one of President Donald Trump's closest White House aides, he tried to make an epic documentary-style film about the eugenics movement, Adolf Hitler, “blood purity …
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Donald Trump's Cabinet Won't Include Chairman of CEA — The White House Council of Economic Advisers is being demoted by the Trump administration, which said in a statement Wednesday that the president's cabinet won't include the chairman of the CEA, an official that President Donald Trump also has yet to name.
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Should House Democrats write off rural congressional districts? — BALTIMORE — Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney has one of the most sensitive jobs in Washington. — The third-term Democrat, representing New York's Hudson Valley, is leading a review into what House Democrats did wrong in 2016.
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