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On Twitter, Trump comes out swinging in many directions — President Trump lashed out Tuesday morning at threats from many directions, taking aim at the special counsel's Russia inquiry, the Federal Reserve, social media companies and undocumented immigrants in tweets that spanned more than two hours.
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Mueller Ready to Pounce on Trumpworld Concessions to Moscow — New court filings by Mueller's office could answer a central question of the Russia investigation: What did the Kremlin hope to get from its political machinations? — For more than a year, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office …
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Trump backers just had their anti-Mueller hopes and dreams dashed — Watch live video from washingtonpost on www.twitch.tv — On Saturday, Fox News host Jeanine Pirro engaged in a bit of wishful fantasizing. — Earlier that week, Michael Flynn's attorneys seemed to imply that he was tricked into lying to the FBI.
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Michael Flynn Is Owed an Apology — One year after he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, there is still no evidence that he is a traitor. — Remember when Michael Flynn was a traitor? It was early 2017. Democrats were still stinging from their defeat at the hands of Donald Trump.


Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser, scheduled to be sentenced
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Judge Postpones Sentencing of Michael Flynn After Harshly Rebuking Him
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Judge's accusations mar Michael Flynn sentencing hearing
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Judge postpones Michael Flynn's sentencing
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Russia ran a disinformation campaign against Mueller. It sounds just like Trump's.
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‘You sold your country out!’ Judge delivers scathing smackdown of Michael Flynn during sentencing
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A.G. Underwood Announces Stipulation Dissolving Trump Foundation Under Judicial Supervision, With AG Review Of Recipient Charities — News from the New York Attorney General's Office — Attorney General's Office Press Office / 212-416-8060 — nyag.pressoffice@ag.ny.gov
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The Trump Foundation Gets Put to Sleep — New York's attorney general dissolves the president's personal piggy bank, but a lawsuit against the faux charity alleging fraud continues. — The Trump Foundation, a tiny New York outfit masquerading as a philanthropy but operating, essentially …


Trump agrees to shut down his charity amid allegations he used it for personal and political benefit — President Trump has agreed to shut down his embattled personal charity and give away its remaining funds amid allegations that he used it for his personal and political benefit, the New York attorney general announced Tuesday.
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Court orders company to comply with special counsel subpoena in mystery grand jury appeal — (CNN)Four days after attorneys secretly argued over a grand jury subpoena suspected to be related to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian influence in the 2016 election …
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READ: Appeals Court Upholds Grand Jury Subpoena In Secret Mueller-Linked Case — The appellate court that heard a sealed grand jury case believed to be linked to special counsel Robert Mueller's probe handed down a decision Tuesday, available publicly, upholding a lower court's decision denying …
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Second woman claims billionaire perv Jeffrey Epstein ‘directed’ her to have sex with Alan Dershowitz — A second alleged trafficking victim of Jeffrey Epstein says the billionaire pedophile “directed” her to have sex with Alan Dershowitz — a claim the prominent attorney adamantly denies.
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Alan Dershowitz Is Lying To You — Alan Dershowitz, famed Harvard Law School professor and successful trial and appellate lawyer, is lying to you. — He's lying about American law — the subject he ostensibly teaches, the subject on which he is called upon as an expert — for partisan reasons …


White House says it wants to avoid government shutdown, will find other ways to fund border wall — The White House wants to avoid a partial government shutdown and has found other ways to get the border wall President Trump is demanding, spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Tuesday.
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Here Are The Advertisers Boycotting Tucker Carlson's Show — The Fox News host is facing backlash after suggesting that immigrants make our country “poorer and dirtier and more divided” on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” — Fox News' Tucker Carlson is rapidly losing advertisers amid a controversy …
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Advertisers abandon Fox News host Tucker Carlson's show over anti-immigration comments
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Martha McSally will be appointed to John McCain's Senate seat — Republican U.S. Rep. Martha McSally will replace retiring U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl to fill for the next two years the Senate seat long held by the late U.S. Sen. John McCain. — Gov. Doug Ducey's decision to appoint McSally …
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“The Staff Is Fed Up He's Acting Like a Nut”: Trump's West Wing Braces for Christmas Madness, More Departures—And Mueller — Javanka blocked Bannon ally David Bossie for chief of staff—but bigger problems are looming. — Donald Trump plans to head to Mar-a-Lago for a 16 …
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A black man tried to cash his paycheck. The bank called the cops. — Three weeks into his new job, Paul McCowns was ready to cash his first paycheck. — There were no issues when he first entered a Huntington Bank branch in Brooklyn, Ohio, on Dec. 1. The bank asked for two forms of ID …
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Cleveland man alleges racial profiling after bank refuses to cash check, calls 911
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All 83 Of The Ethics Complaints Against Justice Brett Kavanaugh Were Dismissed Because He's On The Supreme Court Now — WASHINGTON — All of the ethics complaints filed against Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation proceedings were dismissed on Tuesday after a panel of federal judges concluded …
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Mnuchin Backs Off Trump's Promise of 10% Middle-Class Tax Cut — Tax focus will be on technical fixes, Treasury secretary says — Trump floated idea of middle-class relief before elections — The Trump administration is setting aside a middle-class tax cut and planning to focus …


Penny Marshall, who played feisty Laverne in ‘Laverne & Shirley’ before directing movies, dies at 75 — Penny Marshall, who costarred as a Milwaukee brewery worker in the top-rated 1970s and '80s sitcom “Laverne & Shirley” before becoming a director of hit movies such as “Big” and “A League of Their Own,” has died.
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Donald Trump Hates Christmas Parties — On Monday and Wednesday this week, Donald Trump will leave the Oval Office in the West Wing in the late afternoon and walk eastward to the White House residence, where he will meet Melania Trump. Together, they will head downstairs at 5:15 to the Grand Foyer …
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Kushner credited for pushing rare bipartisan bill
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Ocasio-Cortez weighs a new primary target: Hakeem Jeffries — Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is eyeing a new member of House Democratic leadership as a 2020 primary target: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). — Ocasio-Cortez, who ousted House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley earlier …
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FBI Memo Raises New Questions About Timing Of Andrew McCabe's Firing — The FBI's top internal affairs official did not believe that the investigation of former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe could be resolved prior to his retirement, according to a memo released Tuesday.


Nevada becomes first state with majority female Legislature — The Legislature and guests look on during Gov. Sandoval's State of the State address on Jan. 17, 2017. Photo by David Calvert — Nevada will become the first state in the country to have a majority female Legislature …
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Rats are everywhere in D.C. Even on the White House lawn. — The District for years has been plagued by a growing mischief in its midst. Rats — the four-legged, bewiskered kind — have been spotted roaming the streets, scurrying across alleys and eating their way through trash cans.
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“I Think You Could Double the Size of This Company, Honestly”: Politico's Robert Allbritton on Trump, a Record Year, Expansion, and Axios — Despite some management upheaval, Politico has apparently been able to avoid the financial panic that has seized many of its peers.


Thousands of Migrant Children Could Be Released With Trump's Major Policy Reversal — Federal officials have reversed course and announced they will no longer require fingerprints of potential sponsors for detained children. — In a major policy reversal, the Trump administration is changing …
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An Epidemic Is Killing Thousands Of Coal Miners. Regulators Could Have Stopped It … Greg Kelly's grandson, Caden, scampers to the tree-shaded creek behind his grandfather's house to catch crawdads, as Kelly shuffles along, trying to keep up. Kelly's small day pack holds an oxygen tank with a clear tube clipped to his nose.


The Trailer: Putting the 2020 Democrats into tiers — In this edition: Democratic candidates enter the tier-garden, Sherrod Brown talks GM and 2020, Gov. Phil Murphy talks gerrymandering, and primaries, primaries, everywhere. — I struggle to remember a time when Washington wasn't always preparing …
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N. Carolina gov. vetoing bill with congressional race redo — RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's governor says he's vetoing legislation directing new elections if fraud is found in a disputed U.S. House race because the hastily approved bill also adds new cover for lobbyists and people who violate campaign finance laws.


Trump Bans Bump Stocks, Saying They Must Be Destroyed Or Surrendered To The Government — The Trump administration on Tuesday issued a final rule that bans so-called bump stocks, devices that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire more rapidly, saying tens of thousands of them around …
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Trump launches unprecedented reelection machine — President Donald Trump is planning to roll out an unprecedented structure for his 2020 reelection, a streamlined organization that incorporates the Republican National Committee and the president's campaign into a single entity.
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