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Steve Bannon Is Out of Trump's Doghouse and Leading the Charge Against Mueller — Why does Trump double-down every time it seems like he should retreat? Because Steve Bannon is back in his boss's good graces. — On May 22, just as a strange photo of President Trump, Saudi king Salman …
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Donald Trump Jr. just contradicted a whole bunch of White House denials of Russian contacts — (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) — Donald Trump Jr. acknowledged Sunday that he met with a Russian lawyer who had promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton in June 2016.
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How a Pageant Led to Trump Son's Meeting With Russian Lawyer — During the summer of 2013, Donald J. Trump mused about whether President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia would meet him at the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow that fall. “If so, will he become my new best friend?” Mr. Trump posted on Twitter.
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Meeting between Trump Jr. and Russian lawyer was requested by Russian pop star whose family is close to Putin
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Schiff: House Intelligence Committee ‘Will Want to Question’ Trump Jr.
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Open Door to Moscow? New Facts in the Potential Criminal Case of Trump Campaign Coordination with Russia

The Note: Fire peers out from Trump-Russia smoke
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CNN's Cuomo, Conway clash over Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with Russian lawyer
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The latest Trump/Russia leaks came from inside the White House
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The Times ‘exposé’ on Donald Trump Jr. is a big yawn
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Comey's private memos on Trump conversations contained classified material — More than half of the memos former FBI chief James Comey wrote as personal recollections of his conversations with President Trump about the Russia investigation have been determined to contain classified information …
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Trump accuses James Comey of breaking the law — based on a misleading Fox News report — President Trump's first day back in the office after his brief trip to Europe began, as so many do, with a flurry of tweets. It seems that Trump, as he so often does, tuned into “Fox and Friends” …


Senate GOP aims to release new health bill by week's end — Senate Republicans are hoping to unveil a revamped draft of their legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare by the end of this week, though there are major questions about how it will address roiling GOP disagreement over a proposal touted by conservative senators.
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How Trumpcare Dies — Republicans' health care legislation is on the fritz.
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Republicans' best play amid health bill chaos is failure
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The only way for Senate Republicans to repeal Obamacare? Ignore everything they've said
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Jared Kushner Tried and Failed to Get a Half-Billion Dollar Bailout From Qatar — Not long before a major crisis ripped through the Middle East, pitting the United States and a bloc of Gulf countries against Qatar, Jared Kushner's real estate company had unsuccessfully sought …
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When Will the Planet Be Too Hot For Humans? Much, Much Sooner Than You Imagine. — Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think. … It is, I promise, worse than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated …
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Sharp Partisan Divisions in Views of National Institutions — Republicans increasingly say colleges have negative impact on U.S. — Republicans and Democrats offer starkly different assessments of the impact of several of the nation's leading institutions - including the news media …


President Trump's enemies list — Donald Trump is less than six months into his presidency, yet one of the organizing principles of his political operation is already becoming clear: payback. — In private, Trump has spoken of spending $10 million of his own money to defeat an incumbent senator …
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Monmouth University Polling Institute — New Jersey — Choice Words for “Beachgate” — Most think state is now worse off because of Gov. Christie — West Long Branch, NJ - The past few weeks have been no day at the beach for New Jersey's governor... except for that day at the beach, of course.
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Tory MP Anne Marie Morris Recorded Saying Brexit No Deal Is A ‘N***** In A Woodpile’ — No reaction from other Tory MPs on the panel. — Deputy Political Editor, HuffPost UK — A Tory Brexiteer has described the UK leaving the EU without a deal as a “real n*****r in the woodpile” at a meeting of eurosceptics in Central London.
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Federal prosecutors step up probe of land deal pushed by wife of Bernie Sanders — A federal investigation into a land deal led by Jane Sanders, the wife and political adviser of Sen. Bernie Sanders, has accelerated in recent months — with prosecutors hauling off more than a dozen boxes …
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Lena Dunham selling the dress she wore the night Trump won — Lena Dunham is selling the dress she says she cried in on election night last year, when President Trump defeated Hillary Clinton — The Kenzo ruffle-accented printed dress is one of more than a hundred items up for grabs from the former …
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Dem seeks to block funding for cyber effort with Russia — Two Democratic lawmakers in the House have introduced amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act hammering President Trump's posture toward Russia. — Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) introduced an amendment blocking funding …
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Does Trump Have a Point About Obama and Russia? — Did President Barack Obama “choke,” as his successor has now taken to claiming, by failing to respond more aggressively to the Russian hacking of the 2016 elections? — For President Donald Trump to say so carries more than a whiff …
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Bear attacks camp staffer at Glacier View Ranch Christian retreat northwest of Boulder — Eric Lupher, Amanda del Castillo — UPDATE: Officials said Monday they have killed a bear believed to be the one that attacked a camper. Get the latest details here.
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Actor-comedian George Lopez sent a message to President Donald Trump: instead of deporting Latinos to make America's streets safer, he should “deport the police.” — In a post published on his Instagram Friday, Lopez is seen standing next to a caption that reads, “The Trump administration …
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Medicaid cuts could affect coverage of special needs kids — The new Senate health bill would drastically affect children who depend on Medicaid to cover their special medical needs, even though Senate Republicans tried to shield them, reports Kaiser Health News.
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