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Michael Cohen used Trump company email in Stormy Daniels arrangements — President Donald Trump's personal attorney used his Trump Organization email while arranging to transfer money into an account at a Manhattan bank before he wired $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels to buy her silence.
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The Stormy Daniels Scandal Gets Serious — In January we learned, thanks to The Wall Street Journal, that Michael Cohen, a lawyer for Donald Trump, arranged a $130,000 hush money payment to the pornographic film star known as Stormy Daniels in the closing days of the 2016 presidential campaign.
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ABC: Cohen Brings On Another ‘Pit Bull’ Lawyer To Help With Stormy Daniels NDA

Stormy Daniels Absolutely Slays Trump Trolls on Twitter
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Pro-Trump pastor: Stormy Daniels allegations ‘totally irrelevant’ to evangelical support for Trump
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Woman named in Stormy Daniels' document accused Trump of unwanted advances
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Stormy Daniels' attorney argues ‘cover-ups matter’
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What Will Trump Give Up for Peace with North Korea? — The announcement at the White House on Thursday evening that President Trump will meet the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, within two months raises more questions than it answers. While the unpredictability of a meeting between …
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Trump Is Said to Accept North Korea's Invitation to Discuss Its Nuclear Program — WASHINGTON — North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, has invited President Trump to meet for negotiations over its nuclear program, an audacious diplomatic overture that would bring together two strong-willed …
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Trump's North Korea gambit blindsides U.S. diplomats … President Trump's high-wire gambit to accept a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sets off a scramble among U.S. officials to assemble a team capable of supporting a historic summit of longtime adversaries and determine a viable engagement strategy.
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Tillerson says ‘talks,’ but no ‘negotiations’ with NKorea
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Playbook scoop: Elizabeth Warren goes after Kushner Companies loans
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North Korea sets a dangerous trap for Trump. Disaster is far more likely than a Nobel.
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The Biggest Danger of North Korea Talks
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The endangered GOP senator who thinks Justice Kennedy could save him — Dean Heller knows he's the most vulnerable Republican senator in the country. But he thinks Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy might just help him hang on to his seat. — “Kennedy is going to retire around sometime early summer …


The Economy Is Looking Awfully Strong — Blockbuster job growth in February suggests this economy, already nine years into expansion, may yet have room to run. — There are 39 pages in the Labor Department's February report on the employment situation in the United States …
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155,215,000: Record Number of Americans Employed
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U.S. Added 313,000 Jobs in February. Here's What That Means.
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DNC vice chair Keith Ellison and Louis Farrakhan: ‘No relationship’? … Ellison, vice chair of the Democratic National Committee and one of two Muslim members of Congress, faced questions about his association with Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, when he sought the chairmanship of the DNC in 2017.
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Obama in Talks to Provide Shows for Netflix — WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama is in advanced negotiations with Netflix to produce a series of high-profile shows that will provide him a global platform after his departure from the White House, according to people familiar with the discussions.
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When Smug Liberals Met Conservative Trolls — It's hard to tell who started it. — Was it the populist right, reared in the meme swamps of Reddit and 4chan, who emerged blinking into the daylight of politics and set about baiting anyone who disagreed with their chosen Republican king?
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Disgraced Parkland deputy heard shots inside school building, told cops to stay away — Roundly vilified for not entering a Parkland high school during a mass shooting, Broward Deputy Scot Peterson insisted publicly that he believed that gunfire was happening outside on campus — not from inside the building.


Lloyd Blankfein Prepares to Exit Goldman Sachs as Soon as Year's End — Firm's co-presidents, Harvey Schwartz and David Solomon, are leading candidates to replace the 63-year-old CEO — Lloyd Blankfein is preparing to step down as Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s GS 1.34% chief executive as soon …
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Trump Donor's Meeting With Russian Executive Draws Scrutiny of Special Counsel Mueller — Witness testimony appears to conflict with Blackwater founder's account to House panel — A meeting in the Seychelles weeks before Donald Trump's inauguration between a Russian executive …
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Inside Trump's Trade War: How the Protectionists Beat the Free Traders — From the administration's early days, free-trade-advocate Gary Cohn battled tariff proponent Peter Navarro—while the president waited — WASHINGTON—From his earliest days in office, President Donald Trump instigated …
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Après Cohn, le Deluge?
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A Quiet Exodus: Why Blacks Are Leaving White Evangelical Churches — FORT WORTH — Charmaine Pruitt wrote the names of 12 churches on a sheet of paper, tore the paper into 12 strips, and dropped them into a Ziploc bag. It was Sunday morning and time to pick which church to attend.


O.J. Simpson, Confesses Murders to Book Publisher Judith Regan — O.J. Simpson — Confesses Murders To Book Publisher — EXCLUSIVE — O.J. Simpson had his lawyer call Judith Regan, the woman who published his book, ‘If I Did It,’ and said flat-out Simpson murdered Nicole Brown Simpson …
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Biden aides prepping for 2020 run: report — is moving closer to a 2020 run for president, with close aides telling Politico that they are preparing for a number of scenarios ahead of a possible campaign announcement. — Politico reports that a close circle of Biden aides is preparing …
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Team Biden mulls far-out options to take on Trump in 2020
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'It's killing the agency': Ugly power struggle paralyzes Trump's plan to fix veterans' care — Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin is managing the government's second-largest bureaucracy from a fortified bunker atop the agency's Washington headquarters.
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Here's How The Trump Administration Has Been Quietly Dismantling Obama's Family Planning Policy — Over the past few months, HHS has taken quiet steps to move the agency toward supporting abstinence and “natural family planning” methods over contraception access. — Reporting From Washington, DC
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Nunberg arrives at court to appear before Mueller grand jury — Washington (CNN)Former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg arrived at District Court in Washington, DC, Friday morning, where he is expected to deliver federal grand jury testimony as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
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Amazon Knows Why Alexa Was Laughing at Its Customers — For weeks, users of Amazon's digital assistant, Alexa, have reported versions of the same unsettling event: being startled as they went about their day by Alexa letting out an eerie laugh. — Now, Amazon says that it knows why that's …
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“Why the Hell Are We Standing Down?” — This is the second of two excerpts adapted from Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump (Twelve Books), by Michael Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News, and David Corn, Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones.
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Mike Pence urged ABC News star Joy Behar to apologize to Christians she offended - she didn't listen — Joy Behar apologized to Mike Pence for mocking his faith, but the vice president didn't get what he really wanted: A bigger mea culpa to “millions of Christians” who watch “The View.”
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