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“I think the European Union is a foe,” Trump says ahead of Putin meeting in Helsinki — Coming off a contentious NATO summit and a trip to the U.K. in which he seemed to undercut the government of America's closest ally, President Trump took aim at another Western institution just days …
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Putin must wonder what else America knows about Russia — When Russian President Vladimir Putin sits down at the table in Helsinki on Monday, he will surely have in the back of his mind some intelligence worries that have nothing to do with the U.S. president seated across from him.


Scoop: The time Putin actually enraged Trump — Earlier this year in the thick of his election campaign, Vladimir Putin released a propaganda video promoting Russia's “invincible” new generation of nuclear weapons. — Why it matters: One scene in particular caught President Trump's attention …


Rand Paul on Russian election meddling: ‘We all do it’
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‘I find it hard to believe’ Putin didn't know about Russian interference in U.S. election …
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Trump on Putin meeting: “I go in with low expectations”
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Just Sitting Down With Trump, Putin Comes Out Ahead
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Why Trump gives Putin a pass on Mueller revelations
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Gowdy to Trump: Ask Putin where “we can pick up the 25 Russians” indicted in Mueller probe
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U.K. Poisoning Inquiry Turns to Russian Agency in Mueller Indictments — LONDON — The same Russian military intelligence service now accused of disrupting the 2016 presidential election in America may also be responsible for the nerve agent attack in Britain against a former Russian spy …


Warren is Preparing for 2020. So Are Biden, Booker, Harris and Sanders. — RENO, Nev. — During a campaign-style tour of the West late last month, Senator Elizabeth Warren did not announce she was running for president. But in private events and public speeches, her message about 2020 was as clear as it was rousing.
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$88 Million and Counting: Trump Amasses Huge Head Start for 2020 Campaign — WASHINGTON — President Trump has raised more than $88 million for his re-election campaign over the last year and a half, giving him a dramatic head-start on prospective Democratic challengers in the 2020 race.


White House Retaliates Against CNN by Cancelling Interview — The White House cancelled an interview with CNN in retaliation for an interaction between President Trump and a network reporter at a press conference in London. CNN had secured an interview with national security adviser John Bolton …
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Fox News' Howard Kurtz on Trump-CNN Flap: Jim Acosta Was ‘Trying to Hijack the Question’
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Arrest made in racially charged vandalism on Ogden Ave. — TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Toledo police arrested Patricia Edelen for spray painting racial slurs on her neighbor's home Friday night. — “She had multiple warrants. She ran from the officers inside her residence.


Elon Musk calls British diver who helped rescue Thai schoolboys ‘pedo guy’ in Twitter outburst — ‘Sorry pedo guy, you really did ask for it’ — POPULAR VIDEOS — Elon Musk has called a British diver who helped rescue schoolboys from a flooded cave in Thailand ‘pedo guy’ on Twitter.
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What Elon Musk Should Learn From the Thailand Cave Rescue
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How Israel, in Dark of Night, Torched Its Way to Iran's Nuclear Secrets — TEL AVIV — The Mossad agents moving in on a warehouse in a drab commercial district of Tehran knew exactly how much time they had to disable the alarms, break through two doors, cut through dozens of giant safes …
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EXCLUSIVE: Former Fox News reporter warns that Trump team is ‘still colluding’ with the Russians — Former Fox News Channel chief political correspondent Carl Cameron has a warning for America: “The Trump team were colluding with the Russians in 2016 - and they are still colluding.”


Who Is America? (2018) | First Look | Sacha Baron Cohen SHOWTIME Series … WHO IS AMERICA? is a half-hour series from comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, in his return to series television for the first time in more than a decade in the genre he created first in Da Ali G Show.
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U.S. lawmakers shown backing fake kindergarten gun scheme in Sacha Baron Cohen satire
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Trump Aides Scramble to Stop Him from Selling Out Syria To Putin … Aides to President Trump are trying to keep the conflict in Syria off the agenda when Trump meets with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, a senior administration official told The Daily Beast. — That's an increasingly unlikely proposition.
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Elizabeth Denham: ‘Data crimes are real crimes’ — With the publication of an interim report on her investigation into the Brexit referendum, the information commissioner has issued a strong statement of intent against the tech giants — Nobody does cool, calm and collected like Elizabeth Denham does cool, calm and collected.


World Cup 2018: The Moral Clarity of Pussy Riot's Protest — On Sunday, in the fifty-second minute of the final game of the World Cup, four women dressed in Russian police uniforms charged the field, briefly disrupting the match. They were members of the Russian protest-art group Pussy Riot.


White House Orders Direct Taliban Talks to Jump-Start Afghan Negotiations — KABUL, Afghanistan — The Trump administration has told its top diplomats to seek direct talks with the Taliban, a significant shift in American policy in Afghanistan, done in the hope of jump-starting negotiations to end the 17-year war.


The evolution of Kirsten Gillibrand — Gillibrand once held more conservative views on guns and immigration, but in her nine years as New York's junior senator, she has swung steadily to the left on those and other issues. — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand describes her shift from defender …


Judge orders L.A. Times to alter story about Glendale cop, sparking protest from newspaper — A federal judge on Saturday ordered the Los Angeles Times to remove information from an article that described a plea agreement between prosecutors and a Glendale police detective accused of working …
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Black woman says CVS manager called police because she had wrong coupon — Camilla Hudson wanted to use a manufacturer's coupon at CVS on North Broadway on Friday night, but a manager who said he'd never seen a coupon like that called the police, she said in a Facebook post.
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Royal family ‘snub’ Donald Trump during UK visit — Queen left to go it alone as Charles and William avoid president — Prince Charles and Prince William were unwilling to meet Donald Trump on his visit to Britain, leaving the Queen to greet the US president alone.
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Gun Control Advocate Misrepresents Massachusetts Court Decision on Common Rifles — In an interview with Mother Jones, Brady Campaign co-president Avery Gardiner, makes the following claims about the “common use” of AR-pattern rifles in the US: … Gardiner misstates what Judge Young wrote in his opinion.


C'est la vie: Canadians still visiting US despite trade flap — OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Maine (AP) — The United States and Canada are engaged in a trade dispute, angering Canadians, but it doesn't seem to be having an impact on tourism. Not yet, anyway. — In Old Orchard Beach …