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Trump Says He'd Meet With North Korea's Kim If Situation's Right — ‘I would be honored to do it’ under the right circumstances — North Korea has become Trump's top foreign policy challenge — President Donald Trump said he would meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un amid heightened tensions …
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Trump: ‘You make a mistake here, there is nothing to work out’ … Hours shy of his 100th day in power, President Trump strides into the Oval Office. The energy in the world's most famous room changes instantly and perceptibly as he sits down. — It's a little after 3 in the afternoon.
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Trump's totally bizarre claim about avoiding the Civil War
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First on CNN: Trump administration ending Michelle Obama's girls education program — Washington (CNN)The Trump administration is discontinuing a signature girls education initiative championed by former first lady Michelle Obama, according to officials. — The “Let Girls Learn” program …
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Trump unwinding Michelle Obama's school lunch program rules — Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue took steps Monday to roll back healthy school lunch standards promoted by former first lady Michelle Obama — in one of his first regulatory acts. — In an interim final rule …


Why did Trump win? New research by Democrats offers a worrisome answer. — As the Democratic Party rebuilds itself for the 2018 and 2020 elections, Democratic strategists have been preoccupied with a pressing question: Why did so many voters who backed Barack Obama in 2012 switch …
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Democrats say they now know exactly why Clinton lost
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Sean Hannity Eyes Fox News Exit, Insiders Say … Sean Hannity is looking to leave Fox News, according to sources, following the resignation of Fox News co-president Bill Shine officially on Monday. — Shine was Hannity's his long-time ally whom he personally recommended the network hire two decades ago to produce Hannity & Colmes.
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Fox News Executive Departs Amid Turmoil
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Fox News co-president exits network
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Bill Shine Out at Fox News, Suzanne Scott Becomes President of Programming
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Wilbur Ross Says Syria Missile Strike Was ‘After-Dinner Entertainment’ at Mar-a-Lago — Speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference on Monday, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross recalled the scene at Mar-a-Lago on April 6, when the summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping was interrupted by the strike on Syria.


Trump: ‘Why was there the Civil War?’ — President Trump during an interview that airs Monday questioned why the country had a Civil War and suggested former President Andrew Jackson could have prevented it had he served later. — “I mean had Andrew Jackson been a little bit later you wouldn't have had the Civil War.
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Trump: ‘Why was there the Civil War?’
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Trump's Peculiar Understanding of the Civil War
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Why There Was a Civil War — President Trump has peppered …
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Trump on Obama surveillance claims: 'I don't stand by anything' — President Donald Trump said his allegation that he was illegally surveilled by former President Barack Obama has “been proven very strongly” and that that surveillance has negated the relatively warm relationship …
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WATCH: Trump angrily walks away from interview after reporter presses for Obama wiretapping evidence
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Trump Abruptly Ends CBS Interview After Wiretap Question
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What If Climate Scientists Are Guessing Wrong? — Newest New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, a conservative refugee from the increasingly Trumpist Wall Street Journal editorial page, uses his first column to imply, without quite stating outright, that somebody (the world?
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Trump Says He's Considering Moves to Break Up Wall Street Banks — President says in interview he is weighing revival of 1933 law — Top administration officials back return of Glass-Steagall Act — President Donald Trump said he is actively considering breaking up giant Wall Street banks …
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Trump Wants Health-Care Bill to Protect Pre-Existing Conditions — President says it will be ‘every bit as good’ as Obamacare — GOP leaders mulling vote on health bill later this week — President Donald Trump said Monday the Republican health-care bill being negotiated in Congress ultimately …
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GOP suffers surprise defection on Obamacare repeal
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Kirsten Gillibrand on 2020 White House Bid: 'I'm Ruling It Out' — Less than a month after Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election, the lists went up: Ten Potential Democratic Candidates for 2020; 11 Democrats Who Could Defeat President Trump in 2020; Which Democrats Will Run for President in 2020?


The FBI translator who went rogue and married an ISIS terrorist — 8pm ET TONIGHT: Watch AC 360 to learn more about the FBI employee who married an ISIS terrorist. — An FBI translator with a top-secret security clearance traveled to Syria in 2014 and married a key ISIS operative …

A black teen was shot and killed by police near Dallas. His death has just been ruled a homicide. — A 15-year-old boy was shot and killed by police in a Dallas suburb was shot in the head by a rifle, Dallas County Medical Examiner's office said. — The medical examiner's office said Monday …
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Texas Police Shoot and Kill Student, 15
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EMS: 1 dead, 3 injured in stabbing at UT campus; suspect in custody — One person is dead and three others have been taken to the hospital after a reported stabbing attack on the University of Texas campus Monday afternoon, according to Austin-Travis County EMS.
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‘Alt-Left’ Strategist Bannon Isn't Going Anywhere, Trump Says — Infighting has subsided, Trump says in Oval Office interview — President says Bannon is ‘very decent guy’ getting a ‘bad rap’ — President Donald Trump on Monday dismissed widespread reports that his administration is riven by discord …
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With Trump In The White House, MSNBC Is Resisting The Resistance — For a TV executive, Andy Lack has an unusual problem: sky-high ratings. — WASHINGTON On Friday, readers of the new morning email put out by Mike Allen awoke to a little nugget of news. “One of your favorites is getting …
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The Daily 202: Eight ways Trump got rolled in his first budget negotiation — THE BIG IDEA: Perhaps the best negotiators are not the people who tell everyone that they are the best negotiators. — A spending agreement was reached last night that will keep the government funded through the end of September.
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Conservatives prepare for Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement — Entire Neil Gorsuch swearing-in ceremony — Kennedy, a centrist conservative, controls the outcome of cases like no other justice in more than a decade — The political and legal stakes of replacing Kennedy would be higher …
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Gay-Conversion Therapy Ban Survives as Supreme Court Rejects Appeal
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Raw, unedited rescue: ‘Dear Jesus, please let this baby breathe’ — TEXAS TORNADO: When Good Samaritans arrived, an infant and a 2-year old were nearly dead. These strangers saved their lives yesterday, near Myrtle Springs. Video: Tom Mitchell … What a rescue — one that's tough to watch.
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