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Michael Flynn's Guilty Plea Sends Donald Trump's Lawyers Scrambling — The President insists that the investigations into Russian meddling amount to nothing more than fake news. But the truth is now emerging. — Last June, less than a month after President Donald Trump fired James Comey …
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Is It Too Late for Robert Mueller to Save Us? — It might not be enough for the special counsel to hand us a smoking gun and an indictment. — We talk a lot these days about how the United States has sorted itself into two distinct media bubbles, and all the ways in which those bubbles become self-reinforcing and reality-denying.
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Trump: I'm not worried about Flynn's guilty plea — President Trump on Saturday addressed for the first time his former national security adviser's admission that he lied to FBI investigators about his contact with Russian officials. — “No, I'm not” worried about what Michael Flynn will tell investigators, Trump told reporters.
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Mueller Investigation: Politics, Not Law Enforcement or Counterintelligence — The end game is the removal of Trump, either by impeachment or by publicly discrediting him and making his reelection politically impossible. — Here's what I'd be tempted to do if I were President Trump …
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Trump keeps playing nice with Mueller, for now
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Flynn Flipped. Who's Next?
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ABC News corrects bombshell Flynn report
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The Flynn Plea: A Quick and Dirty Analysis
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Mueller's swift moves signal mounting legal peril for the White House
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Russia investigation ‘wearing’ on White House, despite spin
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Michael Flynn's Guilty Plea: 10 Key Takeaways
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Flynn's Guilty Plea Looms Over a White House on the Verge of a Tax Cut Success
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A Historic Tax Heist — With barely a vote to spare early Saturday morning, the Senate passed a tax bill confirming that the Republican leaders' primary goal is to enrich the country's elite at the expense of everybody else, including future generations who will end up bearing the cost.
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The GOP's massive tax overhaul is a monstrosity — In a truly wild and dizzying Friday night and Saturday morning in Washington, Senate Republicans committed collective political suicide by passing a deeply detested tax bill they were still writing seemingly moments before they jammed …
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Senate GOP repeals ObamaCare mandate
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GOP passes deeply unpopular tax hike on middle class, sealing their fate for 2018

GOP eyes post-tax-cut changes to welfare, Medicare and Social Security
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Alabama race is neck and neck, with voters divided over Roy Moore allegations, poll finds — Alabama's closely watched U.S. Senate race is a neck-and-neck contest as voter concerns about personal moral conduct weigh on the candidacy of Republican Roy Moore, according to a new Washington Post-Schar School poll.
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GOP's List of Economists Backing Tax Cut Includes Ghosts, Office Assistants, Ex-Felons, and a Sprinkling of Real Economists — Touting support for their tax cut legislation, House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the Senate Finance Committee, and Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, released a letter …
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The Republican tax bill will exacerbate income inequality in America
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Special Giveaways in Tax Cut Bill Benefit Family Members, Colleagues of Key GOP Senators
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She Says She Quit Her Campaign Job After He Harassed Her. Now He's In Congress. — Last year, a 25-year-old woman left her job on Democratic Rep. Ruben Kihuen's campaign because of what she says were repeated unwanted propositions for dates and sex. Responding to these allegations …


Trump Throws a Holiday Party for the Press. Awk-ward. — WASHINGTON — The affair felt dissonant from the start: a festive gathering in the East Wing of the White House, thrown by President Trump for the journalists whose work and profession he lambastes on a near-daily basis.


Next Slide — The public trust is in jeopardy, he said, especially since the election of Republican Donald Trump as president last year. That was one of the worst moments of his lengthy congressional career, he said. — “I understood why some people voted for him, but I was worried …

The Men Who Cost Clinton the Election — Matt Lauer, like Charlie Rose and Mark Halperin before him, is a journalist out of a job after his employer fired him for sexually harassing female colleagues. It's good news that real penalties are now leveled on men who harass …


Kushner Is Leaving Tillerson in the Dark on Middle East Talks, Sources Say — Tillerson worries secret plan could plunge region into chaos — White House rejects accusation State Department isn't informed — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is increasingly alarmed by what he sees …
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Public Radio Icon John Hockenberry Accused of Harrassing Female Colleagues — This story starts differently than most sexual harassment accounts out there. It begins with the accused harasser honorably “retiring” after a successful career, which sets off an investigation—my own …
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Mueller Removed Top F.B.I. Agent Over Possible Anti-Trump Texts — Washington — The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, removed a top F.B.I. agent from his investigation into Russian election meddling after the Justice Department's inspector general began examining whether …