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A Split From Trump Indicates That Flynn Is Moving to Cooperate With Mueller — WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Michael T. Flynn, President Trump's former national security adviser, notified the president's legal team in recent days that they could no longer discuss the special counsel's investigation …
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Flynn's lawyer shuts down communications with Trump's team, a sign he may be cooperating with Mueller probe — Michael Flynn speaks during a press briefing at the White House on Feb. 1. A lawyer for the former national security adviser told President Trump's legal team this week …
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Saudi Arabia's Arab Spring, at Last — The crown prince has big plans to bring back a level of tolerance to his society. — RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — I never thought I'd live long enough to write this sentence: The most significant reform process underway anywhere in the Middle East today is in Saudi Arabia.
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Sen. Al Franken vows to regain trust of Minnesota after harassment allegations — 'Let me say again that I'm sorry,' the senator wrote. He apologized for embraces that ‘crossed a line.’ — WASHINGTON - Sen. Al Franken said Thursday that he plans to stay in the U.S. Senate and try to win back Minnesotans' trust.
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Franken pledges to regain trust in Thanksgiving apology — (D-Minn.), who is facing a growing number of allegations of sexual misconduct, issued a new statement on Thursday promising to regain the trust of Minnesotans and apologizing for past behavior. — “I feel terribly that I've …
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Actor Billy Baldwin says President Trump hit on his wife during party at upscale Manhattan hotel — Actor Billy Baldwin claims President Trump hit on his wife during a ritzy hotel party in Manhattan over two decades ago, blasting the commander-in-chief as a “black belt” sexual harasser.
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Here's What Trump Told The Coast Guard When He Visited Them On Thanksgiving — “I said, how good is this plane? They said, well, sir, you can't see it. I said but in a fight. You know, in a fight, like I watch on the movies.” — President Trump visited and addressed the Coast Guard in Riviera Beach …
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Ret. Lieutenant General calls Trump Thanksgiving remarks ‘insulting’
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Trump's Thanksgiving message to troops: 'We're really winning'
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Here's your leftover turkey: The case for Hillary Clinton 2020 — Are you sick of Republicans? Or just right-wingers in general? Do you want to send a message to Washington that you aren't going to buy into their racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic and classist nonsense for one second longer?


There Are No Safe Spaces — A series of sexual harassment allegations has vindicated the demands of student activists. — If we have learned anything from the ongoing, seemingly endless tide of sexual harassment allegations against famous, powerful men, it is that there is no space that is truly safe.

Trump to speak with Erdogan about ‘bringing peace to the mess I inherited’ in Middle East — President Donald Trump tweeted that he'll be speaking with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday to discuss “bringing peace to the mess I inherited in the Middle East.”
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Black Friday Ain't What It Used to Be — On Broadway in Lower Manhattan, stores are advertising their Black Friday deals: 35 percent off at Club Monaco. Fifty percent off at Banana Republic. Steve Madden, inexplicably, will open at 6 a.m. — It's the start of a crucial 30-day period …


North Korea, Re-Listed — If you asked any ordinarily informed citizen if the State Department considered North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism, the answer would likely be “Of course.” And yet for nine years, from the end of the George W. Bush administration until November 20 …