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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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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 …


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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The latest Trump/Russia leaks came from inside the White House — Why three White House advisers might have wanted to leak a fuller account of Donald Trump Jr.'s Russian lawyer meeting. — The New York Times had a big scoop Sunday that Donald Trump Jr. took a meeting with a Russian lawyer to try to get dirt on Hillary Clinton.
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How the Miss Universe Pageant Led to Trump Team's Meeting With Russian Lawyer
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Open Door to Moscow? New Facts in the Potential Criminal Case of Trump Campaign Coordination with Russia

Meeting between Trump Jr. and Russian lawyer was requested by Russian pop star whose family is close to Putin

Schiff: House Intelligence Committee ‘Will Want to Question’ Trump Jr.
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Donald Trump Jr. says he'll cooperate with congressional Russia probes
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The Note: Fire peers out from Trump-Russia smoke
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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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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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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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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” …


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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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 …


ACLU Files Federal Lawsuit Over Trump Election Commission Secrecy — WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit today over the lack of transparency by President Trump's election commission. — The lawsuit charges the commission with failing to comply …
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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 …


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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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 …


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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Trump Admin. Lobbied Lawmakers to Weaken Russia Sanctions … Trump administration officials huddled privately on Capitol Hill last week as part of a bid to weaken legislation that would slap new sanctions on Russia and Iran, The Daily Beast has learned. — A top Treasury Department official met …
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Howard Dean: ‘Criminal enterprise’ running the country now — Former Democratic National Committee Chairman (DNC) Howard Dean on Sunday blasted President Trump, saying the U.S. is now being run by “a criminal enterprise.” — “I think at this point, Trump is Trump. He's going to lie.