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Inside story: How Russians hacked the Democrats' emails — WASHINGTON (AP) — It was just before noon in Moscow on March 10, 2016, when the first volley of malicious messages hit the Hillary Clinton campaign. — The first 29 phishing emails were almost all misfires.
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Police Building Case to Arrest Harvey Weinstein in Sexual Assault Case — The police in New York on Friday said that they are investigating the claims of an actress who said Harvey Weinstein sexually attacked her seven years ago, and that they have developed a strong criminal case against him.
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Paz de la Huerta Says Harvey Weinstein Raped Her Twice. Will That Bring Him to Justice? — Why police may now have a case. — In the fall of 2010, actress Paz de la Huerta was at her highest point professionally. Raised in SoHo and on the Lower East Side by a father descended …
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NYPD gathering evidence to arrest Harvey Weinstein, calls rape allegation ‘credible’
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HBO star Paz de la Huerta alleges Harvey Weinstein raped her — twice
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the right mouthpiece for a truth-twisting president — Top of the Ticket cartoon ((David Horsey / Los Angeles Times)) … Donald Trump is lucky to have Sarah Huckabee Sanders as his chief spokesperson. — I wouldn't have said that when she first got the job.
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Conservative Republicans demand Mueller recuse himself over uranium deal — Three conservative House Republicans are expected to file a resolution Friday calling on special counsel Robert S. Mueller III to recuse himself from his probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, accusing him of conflicts of interest.
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Paul Manafort plans to file motion to suppress evidence ‘improperly obtained’ by search warrant or subpoena
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LISTEN: PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP To LARRY O'CONNOR: I'm Very Unhappy the Justice Department Isn't Going After Hillary Clinton — Listen as Larry spoke with President Donald Trump about his relationship with the media, the new tax bill, and his frustration with the Justice Department on investigating Hillary Clinton.
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Trump pushes DOJ on Clinton, won't rule out firing Sessions
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Trump administration releases report finding ‘no convincing alternative explanation’ for climate change — The Trump administration released a dire scientific report Friday detailing the growing threats of climate change. The report stands in stark contrast to the administration's efforts …
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A Deceptive New Report on Climate
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U.S. Report Says Humans Cause Climate Change, Contradicting Top Trump Officials
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Female lawmakers allege harassment by colleagues in House — WASHINGTON (AP) — For years, Republican Rep. Mary Bono endured the increasingly suggestive comments from a fellow lawmaker in the House. But when the congressman approached her on the House floor and told her he'd been thinking about her in the shower, she'd had enough.
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The Republican Tax Plan Is Political Suicide — It is a testament to the power of self-delusion that Republicans have convinced themselves that their political self-interest demands that they pass a deeply unpopular tax-cut plan. The House has designed a proposal that not only violates Senate budget rules …
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Source who is being examined by special counsel: “It's every man for himself” — Less than a week after two top former Trump campaign officials were indicted and another adviser to the campaign had already pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, the pressure on others under scrutiny appears to be growing.
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The Secret Harvard Fellowship of Sean Spicer — “Welcome everyone, just a reminder, our class today will be off the record.” — “Good morning, welcome to this invite-only breakfast, this event will be off the record.” — “Today's private forum will be off the record.” — “This lunch is off the record.”
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Bowe Bergdahl receives dishonorable discharge, avoids jail time — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Fort Bragg, North Carolina (CNN)[Breaking news update, posted at 11:48 a.m.] — US Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has received a dishonorable discharge but will avoid prison time for desertion and misbehavior …
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Bowe Bergdahl Is Dishonorably Discharged, but Avoids Prison for Desertion in Afghanistan
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Person Who Deleted Trump's Twitter Account Said to Be Contractor — Twitter blamed the deletion of President Trump's Twitter account on Thursday night on a rogue customer support employee. That employee has since been hailed in social media as a hero and as a scourge for acting against the president …
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Former Twitter Employee Says Fake Russian Accounts Were Not Taken Seriously
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House Tax-Cut Plan Hurtles Toward Senate Roadblock — ‘Byrd Rule’ would require changes to meet deficit target — Senate Republicans to release their version of bill next week — The draft House tax plan is going nowhere in the Senate as written. — The legislation to enact $1.41 trillion worth …
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Olbermann: I Probably Owe an Apology to George W. Bush — Far-left commentator Keith Olbermann said Friday on “The View” he probably owed George W. Bush an apology based on what the country has comparatively endured with the political rise of President Donald Trump.
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RC Poll: Northam and Gillespie deadlocked; Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General races also tied — With just days remaining in the campaign, Democrat Gubernatorial candidate Ralph Northam and Republican Ed Gillespie are tied (47%-47%), while Libertarian Cliff Hyra garners three percent of likely voters …
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The Things I Shrugged Off Then Horrify Me Now — What do you do when the big bank CEO calls your hotel room at 11 p.m.? — We were at the same resort for a conference. We were friendly but why did he need to know what I was doing at that hour? How did he even get my room number?


We Should Ban Cars From Big Cities. Seriously. — 6,000 Americans were killed by cars while walking city streets last year. As terrorists embrace this deadly power, car-free cities make even more sense. — In the coming days, politicians will try to convince you that what happened …
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Clarifying The Twitter Rules — Online behavior continues to evolve and change, and at Twitter, we have to ensure those changes are reflected in our rules in a way that's easy to adhere to and understand. Today, we're publishing a new version of the Twitter Rules to clarify our policies and how we enforce them.
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Bots stoke racial strife in Virginia governor's race — Twitter bots are swarming into the Virginia governor's race and promoting chatter about a racially charged Democratic ad days before Election Day, according to a report commissioned by allies of Democratic Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam's campaign.


Trump is leading the most corrupt administration in U.S. history, one of first-class kleptocrats — He'd promised to build the wall. To make America great again. To lock her up. Now, in the last weeks of his campaign for president, Donald J. Trump needed one more stirring slogan.