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Trump's Personal Assistant Is Fired — John McEntee was escorted out of White House for unspecified security issue — WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump's personal assistant, John McEntee, was escorted out of the White House on Monday, two senior administration officials said.
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Trump ousts Tillerson, will replace him as secretary of state with CIA chief Pompeo … President Trump has ousted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and replaced him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, orchestrating a major change to his national security team amid delicate negotiations with North Korea, White House officials said Tuesday.
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New C.I.A. Deputy Director, Gina Haspel, Had Leading Role in Torture — WASHINGTON — As a clandestine officer at the Central Intelligence Agency in 2002, Gina Haspel oversaw the torture of two terrorism suspects and later took part in an order to destroy videotapes documenting …
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Longtime Trump aide fired over financial crime investigation — (CNN)President Donald Trump's longtime personal aide John McEntee was fired because he is currently under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security for serious financial crimes, a source familiar with his firing told CNN.
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The Republican coverup for Trump just got much worse … THE MORNING PLUM: — House Republicans may have the power to prevent important facts about President Trump and Russia from coming to public light. But here's what they don't have the power to do: prevent important facts …
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Trump Answers Questions on Rex Tillerson and Mike Pompeo: Full Transcript — President Trump announced on Tuesday that he had ousted Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson and intended to replaced him with Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. director. — Mr. Trump answered questions about the shake …
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Rex Tillerson has been fired. Experts say he did damage that could last “a generation.” — Tillerson was “one of the worst secretaries of state” in modern history, according to experts from across the political spectrum. — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was fired by President Donald Trump …


Trump fires Tillerson at State, replacing with CIA's Pompeo — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday and said he would nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace him, ending Tillerson's difficult tenure by tweeting an ouster …
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Rex Tillerson Out as Trump's Secretary of State, Replaced by Mike Pompeo
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The Latest: Key vacancies at the top at State Department
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Tillerson says U.K. spy poisoning ‘clearly’ came from Russia
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Gina Haspel, Trump's pick for CIA director, tied to use of brutal interrogation measures
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Trump dramatically FIRES Rex Tillerson on Twitter without telling him personally …
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Trump fires Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, to be replaced by CIA Director Mike Pompeo
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Why Did Trump Fire Tillerson Now?
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Tillerson casts poisoning as sign of more aggressive Russia
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In the end, no one was more surprised that Tillerson was fired than Tillerson
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Trump body man Johnny McEntee leaving White House for campaign
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Gina Haspel, nominated by Trump as first woman to lead CIA, has controversial past
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Despite Mueller's Push, House Republicans Declare No Evidence of Collusion

Gina Haspel, Trump's CIA Pick, Ran a Laboratory for Torture
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Trump fires White House assistant John McEntee, who promptly rejoins Trump's campaign
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House Intel Republican contradicts panel, says Russia tried to help Trump in 2016
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Russian exile Nikolai Glushkov found dead at his London home — Close friend of late oligarch Boris Berezovsky claimed political asylum in UK after being convicted of fraud … A Russian exile who was close friends with the late oligarch Boris Berezovsky has been found dead in his London home, his lawyer has said.
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Russian businessman and close associate of Boris Berezovsky found dead in Britain, lawyer says — A close associate of the late oligarch Boris Berezovsky has been found dead in Britain, it has been reported. — Nikolai Glushkov, a former deputy director of Aeroflot, died at the age of 69 …
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ICE spokesman resigns, citing fabrications by agency chief, Sessions, about Calif. immigrant arrests … The San Francisco spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has resigned over what he described as “false” and “misleading” statements made by top-ranking officials …
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ICE spokesman quits over officials' claim of 800 eluding arrest — The San Francisco spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement resigned after the agency's recent Northern California sweep, saying he couldn't continue to do his job after Trump administration officials …
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ICE spokesman in SF resigns and slams Trump administration officials
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Roger Stone claimed contact with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in 2016, according to two associates … In the spring of 2016, longtime political operative Roger Stone had a phone conversation that would later seem prophetic, according to the person on the other end of the line.
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Trump asking for advice on Stormy Daniels situation — Daniels offers to return hush money to Trump — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has been seeking counsel from confidantes on how he should handle the Stormy Daniels situation, a source close to the President tells CNN.
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EXCLUSIVE: Stormy Daniels' Pal on Trump: ‘He Would Call All the Time’
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Republicans abandon tax cut message in Pa. special election — Republicans backed away from their signature tax-cut law in the final days of a closely watched special House election in the Pittsburgh suburbs — even though it's the very accomplishment on which they had banked their midterm election hopes.
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Pennsylvania GOP candidate Rick Saccone claims his opponents ‘hate’ Trump, U.S., and God
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Manafort could face ‘rest of life in prison,’ judge says — Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, runs a significant risk of spending the rest of his life in prison and the evidence against him by special counsel Robert Mueller's office seems strong, a federal judge declared in an order made public on Tuesday.
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Abortion debate is over inside the Democratic Party — Conor Lamb is a Marine, talks tough on crime, and sounds downright Republican on an issue like natural gas fracking — exactly the type of politician Democrats have traditionally turned to when contesting elections in deeply conservative areas.
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Joseph Percoco, Ex-Cuomo Aide, Found Guilty in Corruption Trial — Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, was found guilty on Tuesday of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and solicitation of bribes, a rebuke of Albany's murky back-room dealings that were laid bare during the nearly eight-week trial.
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Pence calls for ABC News star Joy Behar to apologize for ‘slander’ against Christians — Vice President Mike Pence told Fox News' Sean Hannity on Monday that ABC News star Joy Behar called him to apologize for mocking his Christian faith — and he urged her to apologize to …
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