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Allen Weisselberg, Longtime Trump Organization CFO, Is Granted Immunity in Cohen Probe — Weisselberg earlier this year was subpoenaed to testify before grand jury — Allen Weisselberg, President Trump's longtime financial gatekeeper, was granted immunity by federal prosecutors …
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Manhattan D.A. Eyes Criminal Charges Against Trump Organization — The Manhattan district attorney's office is considering pursuing criminal charges against the Trump Organization and two senior company officials in connection with Michael D. Cohen's hush money payment to an adult film actress …
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AP: National Enquirer's safe held damaging Trump stories — NEW YORK (AP) — The National Enquirer kept a safe containing documents on hush money payments and other damaging stories it killed as part of its cozy relationship with Donald Trump leading up to 2016 presidential election …
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Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg given immunity by prosecutors to testify — Prosecutors say Weisselberg told another executive to designate a reimbursement to Cohen for the Stormy Daniels hush-money payment as “legal expenses.” — The longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization …
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Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg, who allegedly helped arrange hush-money reimbursement …
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National Enquirer reportedly kept Trump hush money info in safe
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Spiro Agnew lawyer: Trump should resign to keep Mueller from prosecuting his family — Martin London, a lawyer who represented former Vice President Spiro Agnew, said that President Trump — should resign from office to keep federal prosecutors from prosecuting his family.
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I Was a Lawyer for Spiro Agnew. President Trump Should Consider Resigning — London is a retired partner for the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and the author of The Client Decides; he was a principal lawyer for Vice President Spiro Agnew.
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Cohen told Congress he doesn't know if Donald knew about Trump Tower meeting — Michael Cohen told Congress that he had no idea whether President Trump knew ahead of time about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting that included Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer, a report said Thursday.
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John McCain Will No Longer Be Treated for Brain Cancer, Family Says — WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain of Arizona, who has been battling brain cancer for more than a year, will no longer be treated for his condition, his family announced on Friday, a sign that the Republican war hero is most likely entering his final days.
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McCain to discontinue medical treatment — Sen. John McCain will discontinue medical treatment for his brain cancer, according to a statement released by his family. — “The progress of disease and the inexorable advance of age render their verdict. With his usual strength of will …
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Second Fox News reporter leaves amid objections to network — In the Trump era, hard reporting is being crowded out by opinionated panels, current and former staffers say. — Another on-air reporter is leaving Fox News over frustrations with the direction and tone of the network …
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Trump Has Found a Voice to Love in Tucker Carlson. That Love Isn't Always Returned.
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Trump's South Africa Tweet Seems to Embrace Racist Narrative on Land Dispute
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President Trump's false claim about murders on South African farms
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Kremlin Sources Go Quiet, Leaving C.I.A. in the Dark About Putin's Plans for Midterms — WASHINGTON — In 2016, American intelligence agencies delivered urgent and explicit warnings about Russia's intentions to try to tip the American presidential election — and a detailed assessment …


Trump's fantasy legal system — When President Trump told “Fox & Friends” that this “whole thing about flipping ... almost ought to be outlawed,” he was continuing a long habit of declaring what he thinks laws and the legal system should be, and ignoring what they are.
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Trump responds to Sessions: Go investigate Dems and critics
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With a Vocabulary From ‘Goodfellas,’ Trump Evokes His Native New York — WASHINGTON — For much of the 1980s and 1990s, “the Dapper Don” and “the Donald” vied for supremacy on the front pages of New York's tabloids. The don, John J. Gotti, died in a federal prison in 2002 …
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Trump is acting like a mob boss — I know because I lived with one — Since our country's founding, politics has always been a contact sport. Partisans routinely vilify opposition party leaders by applying outrageous labels to caricature figures and ideologies they loathe (George W. Bush was called a …
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A Lone Holdout Juror Actually Made It More Likely That Paul Manafort Will Go to Jail Even if Trump Pardons Him — On Thursday, the Washington Post reported that President Donald Trump had recently discussed with his lawyers the prospect of issuing a pardon for Paul Manafort.
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Paul Manafort and Trump's Pardon Pattern
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Indicted Rep. Duncan Hunter: My wife handled my finances — (CNN)Rep. Duncan D. Hunter seemed to shift any blame onto his wife, Margaret, on Thursday for alleged campaign fund abuses, saying she was the one handling his finances. — “She was also the campaign manager …
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Michael Cohen Guilty Plea Reveals Link to Qatari Royal Family — Trump's former lawyer received a $100,000 brokerage fee for a Florida real-estate deal in which he represented a company owned by Sheikh Abdul Aziz — A $100,000 real-estate brokerage fee that was part of former Trump attorney …
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The Conspiracy Memo Aimed at Obama Aides that Circulated in the Trump White House — The 2017 document, titled the “Echo Chamber,” accused former Obama officials of undermining the incoming Administration. — In early 2017, some of Donald Trump's advisers concluded that they faced …
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The Tax-Cut Con Goes On — Why Social Security and Medicare are on the ballot. — What will happen if the blue wave in the midterm elections falls short? Clearly, at this point it still might: Democrats will surely receive more votes than Republicans, but thanks to gerrymandering …
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Barry Blitt's “Closing In” — The artist Barry Blitt, a contributor since 1994, has drawn more than a hundred covers for the magazine—and, since 2015, more than fifteen featuring President Trump. His latest ("Sending sketches because I couldn't help myself," the accompanying note said) takes inspiration from a “Sopranos” scene.
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Elections board takes less than a minute to reject proposal to close 7 of 9 polling places in majority-black county — Critics had said the plan to consolidate polling places in Randolph County, Georgia, was a brazen attempt to suppress the black vote in Georgia's governor race …
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They're Running for Office. That's News to Them. — This much is certain: Helen Gambichler is running for office. — She is the Queens Democratic Party bosses' nominee for a spot on a little-known body called the Democratic County Committee. — County committee members are the very blades …


Thousands of Amazon workers receive food stamps. Now Bernie Sanders wants Amazon to pay up. — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will soon introduce legislation that would require large employers like Amazon, Walmart and McDonald's to fully cover the cost of food stamps, public housing …
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Kavanaugh eases off call for presidential immunity in meetings with senators — Senate Democrats on Thursday pressed Judge Brett Kavanaugh on how he would view potential obstruction of justice or other possible criminal charges against President Trump — if he were confirmed to the Supreme Court.
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