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Under Siege, Michael Cohen Is Vacillating Between a New Level of Exasperation and Trumpian Business-As-Usual — Cohen has been dismayed by the silence from Trump's inner-circle in Washington. One person familiar with his thinking said that he's gotten messages from thousands of people since last Monday …
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Trump lawyer Michael Cohen did legal work for Fox News commentator Sean Hannity … BREAKING: Trump lawyer Michael Cohen did legal work for Fox News commentator Sean Hannity. — President Trump's longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, told a federal judge Monday that he had three legal clients in the past year …
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Judge Slows U.S. Review of Trump Lawyer's Records: Cohen Update — After an afternoon of pitched arguments over who should have the right to vet documents seized from President Donald Trump's personal attorney, a federal judge in New York delayed a decision on whether to appoint an impartial “special master” to conduct the review.
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Trump lawyer Cohen did secret legal work for Sean Hannity, attorney says — The legal battle over federal investigators' raids on President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen took an unexpected turn Monday as an attorney identified Fox News host Sean Hannity as one of Cohen's legal clients.
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Michael Cohen's mystery third client is Sean Hannity — New York (CNN)Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen also represents Fox News host Sean Hannity, Cohen's attorneys said Monday afternoon. — Cohen had told the court earlier he had at least 10 clients between 2017 and 2018 …
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Sean Hannity Was a Client of Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen — The Fox News commentator's name is ordered revealed by a federal judge — NEW YORK—Fox News commentator Sean Hannity was revealed in federal court Monday to have been represented by President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer …
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The Latest: Trump's attorney says raids ‘took everything’
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Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's mystery client is Fox News host Sean Hannity
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Cohen Isn't the Biggest Catch from Trump World
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Trump wants to review material seized from personal lawyer before federal investigators
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What to make of the dramatic court fight over Michael Cohen's documents
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Transcript: James Comey's interview with ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos — ABC News' chief anchor George Stephanopoulos' interviewed former FBI director James Comey for a special edition of “20/20” that aired on Sunday, April 15, 2018 ahead of the release of Comey's book, “A Higher Loyalty.”
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George Stephanopoulos is having more sex than you — It seems James Comey isn't the only one being thoroughly probed by George Stephanopoulos. — Apparently the bijou broadcaster — whose blockbuster interview with the former FBI director aired Sunday — is as relentless in the bedroom as he is in the newsroom.
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James Comey's ABC Interview Has Furious FBI Insiders Lashing Out … James Comey's first interview since President Trump fired him as director of the FBI has enraged his former agents who deluged the Daily Beast with their disdain as they watched him tell his side of the story to George Stephanopoulos on Sunday night.
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Kellyanne Conway slams Comey: He always diverts ‘the spotlight to him’ — President Donald Trump's senior counselor, Kellyanne Conway, slammed former FBI Director James Comey as a publicity hound who is trying to promote his new book. — “The president is very confounded that this person …
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Nightmare scenario: Here's how Trump can bury Mueller's findings … THE MORNING PLUM: — Former FBI director James B. Comey's media tour has begun, and in multiple interviews, he has now amplified extremely serious claims about President Trump. With Trump once again responding in a rage …
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Exclusive: James Comey strikes back against ‘morally unfit’ Donald Trump in scathing interview
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Comey rips Obama for comments on Clinton case: He ‘jeopardized’ DOJ
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The morning after Comey's interview airs, Trump throws another punch at the fired FBI director

Admit it, James Comey: You've been lying all along
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Trump puts the brakes on new Russian sanctions, reversing Haley's announcement — President Trump on Monday put the brakes on a preliminary plan to impose additional economic sanctions on Russia, walking back a Sunday announcement by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley …
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White House walks back Haley announcement on Russian sanctions for chemical attack
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Trump to Impose New Sanctions on Russia Over Support for Syria
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Here are the winners of the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes — Winners of the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes were announced at Columbia University in New York City on Monday. The Pulitzers are highly revered and mark the best in journalism in 14 categories. — Neil Brown, Poynter's president, is a member of the Pulitzer Prize board.
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Pulitzer Prizes honor reporting on Trump-Russia, sexual misconduct scandals
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Scott Pruitt's $43,000 soundproof phone booth violated spending laws, federal watchdog finds … The $43,000 soundproof phone booth Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt had installed in his office last year violated federal spending laws, the Government Accountability Office said Monday.
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Democrats in Good Position to Nab Republican House Seats — Trump, tax reform drag down GOP prospects — West Long Branch, NJ - Democrats have a 19 point advantage over Republicans in the generic House ballot among all registered voters in the Garden State.
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Russian Journalist Who Reported on Secretive Paramilitary Dies — MOSCOW — A Russian journalist who had reported recently on clandestine Russian paramilitary groups in Syria died on Sunday after falling from the balcony of his fifth-floor apartment in Yekaterinburg, the authorities there said.
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Alert (TA18-106A) — Russian State-Sponsored Cyber Actors Targeting Network Infrastructure Devices — Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) Enabled Devices — Cisco Smart Install (SMI) Enabled Devices — Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Enabled Network Devices
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Trump businesses made millions off Republican groups and federal agencies, report says — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's U.S. businesses have received at least $15.1 million in revenue from political groups and federal agencies since 2015, according to a new report to be released Monday.
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Arizona special election in dead heat: poll — The special election for an Arizona House seat is in a statistical dead heat in the final week of the race, according to a poll released on Monday. — A poll from Emerson College found physician Hiral Tipirneni (D) narrowly leading with 46 percent …
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Starbucks CEO apologizes for arrests of 2 black men at Philadelphia store; manager has left company — Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson apologized Monday for the arrests of two black men at a Center City Starbucks, saying what happened to the pair was “reprehensible.” — RELATED COVERAGE


Who terrifies Trump the most? Mueller and De Niro — ‘SNL’ tackles the raid on Michael Cohen — Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio's daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show” and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him @DeanObeidallah.
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‘Spare me’: Tillis draws GOP fire with pro-Mueller push — Thom Tillis isn't the kind of Republican who typically challenges Donald Trump. — The North Carolina senator backs the president's agenda and holds his tongue when it comes to the tweets. As others abandoned Trump after the …


EXCLUSIVE: 'We just went at it like she just didn't exist.' Former Playmate reveals she had sex with Donald Trump in front of her friend during a steamy six-month affair while his then-fiancée Marla Maples was pregnant with Tiffany — Barbara Moore, 49, told DailyMail.com …
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