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Second woman accuses Va. Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault — A woman said Friday she was raped by Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D) in a “premeditated and aggressive” assault in 2000, while they both were undergraduate students at Duke University.
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Second Woman Accuses Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of Virginia of Sexual Assault — A second woman came forward Friday with claims that she had been sexually assaulted by Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin E. Fairfax, alleging that he raped her while they were students at Duke University in 2000 and demanding that he resign immediately.
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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam Plans To Survive By Changing His Agenda To Focus On Race — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, still facing calls to resign as governor a week after the revelation that his page in a medical school yearbook features a racist photograph, is now tightly focused on coming up with plans to survive.
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Second woman accuses Justin Fairfax of sexual assault
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Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax Accused of Sexual Assault by Second Woman, Meredith Watson
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Lt. Gov. Fairfax “will not resign” following second sexual assault allegation
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Second sexual assault claim triggers call for Fairfax impeachment
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Northam Tells Staff He Definitely Won't Resign As Second Woman Accuses Fairfax Of Sexual Assault
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My last words for America — John D. Dingell, a Michigan Democrat who served in the U.S. House from 1955 to 2015, was the longest-serving member of Congress in American history. He dictated these reflections to his wife, Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), at their home in Dearborn, on Feb. 7, the day he died.
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Harry Reid Rebuked Amy Klobuchar For Mistreatment Of Staff — A leaked campaign document shows how staff tried to manage her anger. — Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar's mistreatment of her office staff began more than a decade ago and eventually caused such concerns that in 2015 …
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Staffers, Documents Show Amy Klobuchar's Wrath Toward Her Aides — Amy Klobuchar has laid the grounds for a presidential run on an image of “Minnesota nice.” — But behind the doors of her Washington, DC, office, the Minnesota Democrat ran a workplace controlled by fear, anger, and shame …
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Private Eyes Detail Inner Workings of National Enquirer ‘Blackmail’ Machine — Threatening to reveal Jeff Bezos' “dick p*ck” was just the latest strong-arm tactic. “The nice way of calling it was quid pro quo,” one veteran said, “but really it was blackmail.”
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National Enquirer's AMI Scrutinized Over Bezos Story, Sources Say
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Why Do Smart People Send Nudes?
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Federal prosecutors reviewing Bezos's extortion claim against National Enquirer, sources say
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“It will all come out now”: Jeff Bezos' bombshell could lead to other National Enquirer plots being exposed
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New Evidence Emerges of Possible Wrongdoing by Trump Inaugural Committee — Federal prosecutors in New York are circling Donald Trump's inaugural committee as part of a wide-ranging investigation into possible money laundering, illegal contributions and cash-for-access schemes.
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Days After Its Disastrous British Launch, Turning Point Has Already Lost One Of Its Star Recruits — “There was a sense of people realising, ‘Who are these cranks?’” — They were here to start a culture war, and Charlie Kirk was looking forward to the backlash.


Whitaker interrogation kicks off two hostile years for Trumpworld — Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker put on a performance today that's likely to leave plenty of top Trump officials even less excited about the prospect of their day on Capitol Hill. — In what the NYT called a …
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Judiciary Dem asks Whitaker: ‘How the heck did you become the head of the Department of Justice?’ — Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) in one of the more pointed moments of a testy hearing on Friday questioned how Matthew Whitaker became President Trump's acting attorney general. — “I'm confused.
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Brett Kavanaugh Just Declared War on Roe v. Wade — John Roberts joined the liberals to save the constitutional right to choose—for now. — On Thursday night, the Supreme Court blocked a stringent Louisiana abortion law by a 5-4 vote, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the liberals to keep the measure on hold.
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The Supreme Court Upholds a Grave Violation of the First Amendment
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Facing opposition, Amazon reconsiders NY headquarters site, two officials say — Amazon.com is reconsidering its plan to bring 25,000 jobs to a new campus in New York City following a wave of opposition from local politicians, according to two people familiar with the company's thinking.
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“Trump Is Hated by Everyone Inside the White House”: The State of the Union Left Trump Stoked—But Some of His Staff Are Miserable — The leak of his schedules is a sign of deep disaffection. Mick Mulvaney, chafing at the family, is eyeing the exits, as is Larry Kudlow.
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‘My whole town practically lived there’: From Costa Rica to New Jersey, a pipeline of illegal workers for Trump goes back years — SANTA TERESA DE CAJON, COSTA RICA — At his home on the misty slope of Costa Rica's tallest mountain, Dario Angulo keeps a set of photographs from the years …
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Her Title: Cryptologic Technician. Her Occupation: Warrior. — Given who she really was, the military had little choice in how it described Shannon Kent. They said only that she was a “cryptologic technician,” which anyone might assume meant that her most breakneck work was behind a desk.


Trump Gives Ground on His Wall as Border Deal Comes Into View — WASHINGTON — Faced with limited options and a looming deadline to prevent another government shutdown, President Trump is moving toward accepting a border-security deal that would fall well short of his once-firm demand …
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Firm owned by Trump's longtime bodyguard Keith Schiller has received $225,000 from Republican National Committee — A company owned by Keith Schiller, President Donald Trump's former longtime bodyguard, has received $225,000 from the RNC for security consulting since he left his White House job in September 2017.


Wealth concentration returning to ‘levels last seen during the Roaring Twenties,’ according to new research — The 400 richest Americans — the top .00025 percent of the population — have tripled their share of the nation's wealth since the early 1980s, according to a new working paper …


Udder Madness — You can come well short of the slaughter of the farting cows and still do profound damage to the country. … Dear Reader (Including all of the Democrats who wore blackface but forgot to tell anybody), — Where is Gary Larson when you need him?


The Progressive Assault on Israel — A movement that can detect a racist dog-whistle from miles away is strangely deaf when it comes to some of the barking on its own side of the fence. — It happened again last month in Detroit. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators seized the stage …
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Trump's physician says POTUS is ‘in very good health’ after annual medical exam — Donald Trump's personal physician said the president is “in very good health” and predicted he would remain so beyond his time in office, in a brief statement released after an annual physical examination Friday.
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Elizabeth Warren needs to stop the drip-drip-drip of fresh revelations — When it comes to handling the controversy over her past claims to Native American identity, Elizabeth Warren can't seem to win. Someone, somewhere is going to keep attacking the Massachusetts senator no matter her response.
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