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Key Aide Will Appear Alongside Mueller During Hearings — WASHINGTON — Robert S. Mueller III's longtime right-hand aide will appear beside him at the witness table during Wednesday's hearing with the House Judiciary Committee to assist as needed as the former special counsel answers questions …
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Mueller Makes Last-Minute Request Ahead Of Testimony, And Republicans Aren't Happy About It
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Trump blasts decision to let counsel accompany Mueller to testimony: ‘VERY UNFAIR’

Ahead of Mueller testimony, Democrats rip into McConnell on election security
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Ilhan Omar's Anti-Semitism Is Becoming A Load-Bearing Myth For American Politics — When House Rep. Ilhan Omar's comments about the Israel lobby took over the news cycle earlier this year, they struck some as innocuously accurate, others as impolitic, while for others they were outrageous and inflammatory.
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The House Voted To Condemn The Boycott Israel Movement Over Protests From Reps. Ilhan Omar And Rashida Tlaib — The measure to formally condemn the BDS movement passed the House overwhelmingly Tuesday night. “Dissent is how we nurture democracy,” Tlaib said. — Reporting From — Washington, DC
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Tlaib: BDS Movement Against Israel Like American Boycott of Nazi Germany
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The Most Gullible Man in Cambridge A Harvard Law professor who teaches a class on judgment wouldn't seem like an obvious mark, would he? — It was just supposed to have been a quick Saturday-morning errand to buy picture hooks. On March 7, 2015, Harvard Law professor Bruce Hay, then 52 …
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While bemoaning Mueller probe, Trump falsely says the Constitution gives him ‘the right to do whatever I want’ — President Trump believes the Constitution gives him a wide breadth of power. That's the message he delivered ― not for the first time — on Tuesday while addressing a crowd …
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Neil Armstrong's Death, and a Stormy, Secret $6 Million Settlement — When Neil Armstrong died in a Cincinnati hospital two weeks after undergoing heart surgery in 2012, his family released a touching tribute addressing the astronaut's millions of admirers around the globe.
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We Jailed An American Citizen for Having Brown Skin — That's not “populism” and it's sure as hell not “patriotism.” — We needed to jail Francisco Galicia until our country's representatives could figure out what the hell was going on. — This was the position of the Trump administration …
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Francisco Galicia, U.S. citizen held by CBP, ICE for three weeks, has been released
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ICE releases US citizen, 18, wrongfully detained near border
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An American Citizen Is Released From Immigration Custody After Nearly a Month
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Justice - Joe Biden for President — The Biden Plan for Strengthening America's Commitment to Justice Equality, equity, justice - these ideas form the American creed. We have never lived up to it and we haven't always gotten it right, but we've never stopped trying.
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Joe Biden says he didn't think anyone thought Trump ‘would be as bad as he is’ during the 2016 presidential election — Former Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview that he didn't believe anyone thought during the 2016 presidential election that President Trump would be as divisive as he turned out to be.
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Joe Biden Wants to Take America Back to a Time Before Trump
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'We're like Thelma and Louise': Republicans shrug at deficits under Trump — In 2011, with the nation still climbing back from the Great Recession, Republicans threatened global markets by refusing to raise the federal debt limit unless President Obama and the Democrats agreed to steep, across-the-board spending cuts for years to come.
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Democratic Progressives and Centrists Are Both Committing Strategic Suicide
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Trump sues House Ways and Means panel to block disclosure of his tax returns — KEY POINTS — President Trump filed a lawsuit against the House Ways and Means Committee, the New York state's attorney general and tax chief to block the disclosure of years of his tax returns.
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Justice Department to Open Broad, New Antitrust Review of Big Tech Companies — Inquiry signals Barr's deep interest in tech sector, poses threat to companies such as Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple — WASHINGTON—The Justice Department is opening a broad antitrust review …
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Robert Mueller soon may be exposed as the ‘magician of omission’ on Russia — While most of the political world focused its attention elsewhere, special prosecutor John Durham's team quietly reached out this summer to a lawyer representing European academic Joseph Mifsud …
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This GOP Challenger to Ilhan Omar ‘100%’ Stands with QAnon — Danielle Stella, a Republican candidate seeking to unseat Rep. Ilhan Omar from the U.S. House of Representatives in 2020, firmly supports the QAnon conspiracy theory, according to someone identifying themselves as communications volunteer …
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Sanders White House Campaign Hit with Federal Labor Complaint — Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt.) 2020 presidential campaign has been hit with an unfair labor practice complaint alleging illegal employee interrogation and retaliation against staffers. — The July 19 complaint …
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The Man Who Built The Retweet: “We Handed A Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds” — Developer Chris Wetherell built Twitter's retweet button. And he regrets what he did to this day. — “We might have just handed a 4-year-old a loaded weapon,” Wetherell recalled thinking as he watched the first Twitter mob use the tool he created.


Thousands of unaccompanied migrant children could be detained indefinitely — An unprecedented number of unaccompanied migrant children are at risk of spending the rest of their childhoods in federal custody, CBS News learned in an exclusive interview with the head of the Office of Refugee Resettlement …
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Jeffrey Epstein Moved Money Overseas in Transactions His Bank Flagged to U.S. — As Deutsche Bank officials this year scrambled to extricate themselves from a yearslong relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy financier charged this month with sex trafficking, they uncovered suspicious transactions …
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Dearborn burger franchise founded in Israel delays opening after backlash, threats — A franchisee has delayed the scheduled opening of his Burgerim restaurant in Dearborn amid backlash from the Arab-American community over the popular burger company's Israeli roots.
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He's a Chinese billionaire and a member of Trump's Mar-a-Lago. Is he also a communist spy? | Miami Herald — He's a Chinese billionaire and a member of Trump's Mar-a-Lago. Is he also a communist spy?
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Fox News helped radicalize domestic terrorist Cesar Sayoc, say his lawyers — Cesar Sayoc pleaded guilty in March to mailing improvised explosive devices to 13 people, including many prominent Democratic figures, among them former president Barack Obama, former vice president Joe Biden …
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Trump transition adviser convicted on foreign-agent charges — A federal jury on Tuesday convicted Bijan Rafiekian, a former business partner of Michael Flynn, on a pair of foreign-agent felony charges stemming from work the two men did for Turkish interests during the final months of the Trump presidential campaign in 2016.
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Trump Relies on Populist Language, but He Mostly Sides With Corporate Interests — WASHINGTON — History will record last week as a moment when President Trump turned to raw racial appeals to attack a group of nonwhite lawmakers, but his attacks also underscored a remarkable fact of his first term …
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