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Donald Trump Jr. in legal danger for Russia meeting about Clinton dirt — Donald Trump Jr. is in a legal danger zone following his acknowledgment that he met during the heat of the 2016 presidential campaign with a Russian lawyer with Kremlin ties who offered to deliver damaging information about Hillary Clinton.
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Exclusive: Donald Trump Jr. hires N.Y. lawyer for Russia probes — Donald Trump Jr., the president's son, has hired New York lawyer Alan Futerfas to represent him in connection with Russia-related investigations, the lawyer and Trump Jr.'s office said on Monday.
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The latest Trump/Russia leaks came from inside the White House
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Steve Bannon Is Out of Trump's Doghouse and Leading the Charge Against Mueller
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Donald Trump Jr. just contradicted a whole bunch of White House denials of Russian contacts
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Meeting between Trump Jr. and Russian lawyer was requested by Russian pop star whose family is close to Putin

GOP senator: Trump Jr. should be interviewed by Senate Intel panel
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How the Miss Universe Pageant Led to Trump Team's Meeting With Russian Lawyer
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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 …
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Poll: Majority Of Republicans Now Say Colleges Are Bad For America
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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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Senate GOP eyes ObamaCare repeal vote next week
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How Trumpcare Dies — Republicans' health care legislation is on the fritz.
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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” …
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Comey friend: No memos given to me were marked classified
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Comey's private memos on Trump conversations contained classified material
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Comey associate denies leaked memos contained classified information
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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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Could Donald Trump Have Been Elected As a Democrat? — During the Republican presidential primary, the traditional conservative Republican counterattack on Donald Trump defined him as an ideologically alien figure. Trump, conservatives insisted, was a “liberal Republican,” or …
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California Democrats plunge into ‘civil war’
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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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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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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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Another poll shows Christie as least popular governor in New Jersey history
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This is the website of the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation. — Learn more about these two components of the ACLU.
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Trump's Trolls Are Waging War on America's Civil Servants — Alt-right bloggers are singling out government employees deemed hostile to the president's agenda. — On June 11, alt-right blogger Mike Cernovich published an article attacking an assistant to National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster …
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Ed Perlmutter to drop out of Colorado governor's race, sources say — Decision coming just weeks after entry of fellow Democratic congressman Jared Polis into the race — WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter plans to announce Tuesday that he will end his run for Colorado governor …
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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 …


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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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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Exclusive — Mark Meadows Draws Line in the Sand: Next Spending Bill Must Fund President Trump's Border Wall — House Freedom Caucus chairman Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) told Breitbart News exclusively that the next government spending bill must fund President Donald Trump's promised border wall …
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One of the Biggest Reasons Republicans Stick by Trump — They blocked Obama's court nominees for years. Now they're filling those seats, starting a huge shift rightward for the judiciary. — Although he's been thwarted so far on his legislative agenda before Congress, most notably on health care …
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