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Giuliani Says His Moscow Trump Tower Comments Were ‘Hypothetical’ — President Trump's personal lawyer on Monday walked back the timeline he had offered a day earlier on when negotiations ended with Russian officials about a proposed Trump Tower project in Moscow, calling his comments “hypothetical” and not intended to convey facts.
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After BuzzFeed article, Trump legal team reached out to Mueller's office, Giuliani says — BuzzFeed's scoop: Where is the evidence? — (CNN)President Donald Trump's legal team reached out to special counsel Robert Mueller's office Friday morning after BuzzFeed published …
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Giuliani walks back statements on Trump Tower Moscow talks — Rudy Giuliani on Monday walked back statements he made this weekend concerning potential conversations between then-candidate Donald Trump and Michael Cohen about plans to construct a Trump Tower in Moscow ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
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Trump ‘never spoke’ with Michael Cohen about false testimony, Rudy Giuliani says in latest Moscow deal twist
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Joe.My.God. and The Daily Caller


I Failed the Covington Catholic Test — Like many people who spend too much time on Twitter, I watched with indignation Saturday morning as stories began appearing about a confrontation near the Lincoln Memorial between students from Covington Catholic High School and American Indians from the Indigenous Peoples March.
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Vulture Writer on Covington Students: ‘I Just Want These People to Die, Simple as That’ — Erik Abriss adds that he wishes the same for the families of the students as well — Passions were high over the weekend after video emerged seemingly showing students from Kentucky's Covington …
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Staring Down the Smug Face of American Violence — My sibling, Autumn, and I arrived at the rally for the first Indigenous Peoples' March with our hearts full and our spirits high. After an unexpectedly long journey navigating the public transit schedule from Baltimore, we were eager to join the demonstration.
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Maybe Reexamine Your Life If You Want to Punch a Kid in the Face — The single greatest decision I made this weekend was not tweeting about the viral video of a group of Kentucky students chanting at Native-American activist Nathan Phillips at the March for Life.
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Twitter Allows ‘Verified’ Calls for Violence Against Conservative High School Kids
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A tribal elder and a high school junior stood face to face, and the world reacted
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President Trump Posts Altered Photos to Facebook and Instagram That Make Him Look Thinner — President Donald Trump's social media accounts are filled with vile racism, idiotic xenophobia, and inaccurate statistics. And now we can add another category to the list: fake photos.
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‘Absolutely out of control’: Cliff Sims's book depicts life in Trump's White House — President Trump watched on television, increasingly angry, as House Speaker Paul D. Ryan criticized his handling of the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville. He held the remote control …
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Russian Oligarch and Allies Could Benefit From Sanctions Deal, Document Shows — WASHINGTON — When the Trump administration announced last month that it was lifting sanctions against a trio of companies controlled by an influential Russian oligarch, it cast the move as tough on Russia and on the oligarch …
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Trump voters now blame him for the government shutdown — MACOMB COUNTY, Mich. — Two years ago, Jeff Daudert was fed up with politics. He wanted to shake up the status quo. He didn't mind sending a message to the establishment — and, frankly, he liked the idea of a disruptive president.
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Trump marks MLK day with 2-minute memorial visit — President Donald Trump made a brief appearance Monday at Washington's Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, honoring the civil rights icon with a wreath on the federal holiday bearing his name. — The president, accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence …
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Joe Biden: White America 'has to admit there's still a systemic racism'
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The Secrets of Lyndon Johnson's Archives — On a Presidential paper trail. — I. Mr. Hathway — In 1959, when I went to work for Newsday, on Long Island, the paper had a managing editor named Alan Hathway, who was an old-time newspaperman from the nineteen-twenties.
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Ilhan Omar and the Myth of Jewish Hypnosis — A conspiracy theory with ancient roots and a bloody history. — Ms. Weiss is a writer and editor in the Opinion section. — In 2012, during one of Israel's periodic wars with Hamas in Gaza, Ilhan Omar, at the time a 32-year-old nutrition coordinator …
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Dutch surgeon wins landmark ‘right to be forgotten’ case — Ruling will ensure doctors no longer judged by Google on fitness to practise, lawyer says — A Dutch surgeon formally disciplined for her medical negligence has won a legal action to remove Google search results about her case in a landmark “right to be forgotten” ruling.


Invoking MLK Day, Notre Dame moves to cover up ‘demeaning’ Christopher Columbus mural — The president of the University of Notre Dame announced Sunday that it would cover up murals of Christopher Columbus. — The president of the University of Notre Dame sent an email to all students Sunday night …
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Kamala Harris Joins Democratic Presidential Field — Senator Kamala Harris, the California Democrat and barrier-breaking prosecutor who became the second black woman to serve in the United States Senate, declared her candidacy for president on Monday, joining an increasingly crowded …
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How Kamala Harris Could Win The 2020 Democratic Primary
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California Sen. Kamala Harris announces 2020 presidential bid on ‘Good Morning America’
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Crusher of Sacred Cows — With its silly swipes at AOC, the American political establishment is once again revealing its blindness to its own unpopularity — One of the first things you learn covering American politicians is that they're not terribly bright.


GOP reaches landmark agreement to juice small-dollar fundraising — President Donald Trump's political team and top Republican officials have reached a landmark agreement to reshape the party's fundraising apparatus and close the financial gap that devastated them in the midterms.
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Political Wire


Mike Huckabee: Maybe Ann Coulter Should ‘Run for Office’ If She Can Do Better Than Trump — Huckabee accused Coulter of trying to ‘stir up’ Trump's base against him and said she doesn't know what it's like to govern. — Matt Wilstein — If Ann Coulter is going to dictate the policies …


BuzzFeed and me - The incredible thing the site's CEO did using my name without permission — BuzzFeed, a popular “news” website, has once again been shamed for publishing fake allegations against Donald Trump. BuzzFeed's anonymously sourced report claimed that President Trump ordered his former lawyer …


Cohen Threatened CNBC That Trump Would Sue After 2014 Poll Disappointment — Future president also complained to network over ‘business leader’ ranking after fixer tried to rig online survey — Donald Trump and his then-attorney Michael Cohen pressured CNBC in 2014 to place …
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Kremlin accused of laying false trail linking Sergei Skripal to ex-MI6 officer behind Trump dossier — Russian intelligence created a false trail linking the double agent Sergei Skripal to the former MI6 officer behind the Trump dossier before carrying out the Salisbury nerve agent attack, the Telegraph has been told.


Exclusive excerpt: Chris Christie says Trump hired “riffraff” — Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Republican, writes in his forthcoming memoir — “Let Me Finish,” out Jan. 29 — that President Trump filled his administration with “riffraff” instead of canny players who could help …
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Report finds another undisclosed North Korea missile site, says there are 19 more — The Kim regime has never admitted the existence of the Sino-ri Missile Operating Base. A new report says it's one of many undisclosed sites. — WASHINGTON — With a second U.S.- North Korea nuclear summit looming …
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If Trump's ‘walls are closing in,’ they're moving very slowly — On Friday night, Fox News's Ed Henry, guest-hosting the 7 p.m. show “The Story,” threw a cocked elbow at the mainstream media. Seizing on a day of discussion over BuzzFeed's disputed report that President Trump …