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Raising Prospect of Impeaching Trump, House Seeks Mueller's Grand Jury Secrets — In a court filing, House Democrats said they need access to secret grand jury evidence because they are weighing whether to recommend impeaching President Trump. — WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee …
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Why We're Moving Forward With Impeachment — Our Constitution requires it. Our democracy depends on it. — Vice Chair of the House Judiciary Committee U.S. representative from Rhode Island U.S. representative from Washington U.S. representative from Texas


The House has already opened an impeachment investigation against Trump — Forget the political optics. As a matter of law, the Judiciary Committee's actions are clear. — Has the House of Representatives opened an impeachment inquiry? That question is starkly presented by a petition …
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Dems move closer to impeachment in strategy shakeup
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How Congress Can Access the Legal Powers of Impeachment Without a Formal Inquiry
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Supreme Court gives Trump go-ahead on border wall — President Donald Trump scored a major victory at the Supreme Court on Friday, as the justices lifted a lower court order blocking a key part of his plan to expand the border wall with Mexico. — The Justice Department had asked the justices …
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Supreme Court says Trump can proceed with plan to spend military funds for border wall construction — The Supreme Court Friday night on a 5 to 4 vote revived the Trump administration's plan to use $2.5 billion in Pentagon funds to build part of the wall project along the southern border.


$250 million Sandmann lawsuit against Washington Post dismissed by federal judge — Ted Sandmann, father Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann, on why he wants doxing legislation to criminalize revealing a minor's identity online — The $250 million lawsuit filed by Nick Sandmann …
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Judge dismisses libel suit against Washington Post brought by Covington Catholic High School student
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DOJ's Russia probe review focusing on ‘smoking gun’ tapes of meeting with Trump aide: sources — CIA, FBI and DNI work with Attorney General Bill Barr to determine the origins of the Trump-Russia probe — The Justice Department's internal review of the Russia investigation is zeroing …
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What Mueller Was Trying to Hide
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GOP Rep. Martha Roby to retire — Rep. Martha Roby (R-Ala.) announced Friday she plans to retire at the end of her term, becoming the third Republican lawmaker to announce their retirement this week. — “While my name will not be on the ballot in 2020, I remain committed to continuing …
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Alabama GOP Rep. Martha Roby not running for reelection
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The New Yorker Seriously Mischaracterized the Story of One of Al Franken's Accusers — This week, the New Yorker ran a long piece by Jane Mayer re-examining the sexual harassment allegations against Al Franken, a piece which minimized the accusations themselves while giving Franken ample space to defend himself.


EXCLUSIVE: Ilhan Omar SPLITS with her husband and moves into luxury penthouse as she heads for SECOND divorce with father of her three children — Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and her husband Ahmed Hirsi - the father of her three children - have split, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively
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You Have a Moral Obligation to Claim Your $125 From Equifax — Help make sure that companies pay the consequences for data breaches. — Go claim your $125 from Equifax. Right now. Even if $125 isn't a sum of money that matters to you, even if you don't feel you were really directly affected by the breach.
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‘It snuck up on us’: Scientists stunned by ‘city-killer’ asteroid that just missed Earth — Alan Duffy was confused. On Thursday, the astronomer's phone was suddenly flooded with calls from reporters wanting to know about a large asteroid that had just whizzed past Earth, and he couldn't figure out “why everyone was so alarmed.”
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Lil Nas X Shuts Down Mayor Pete Buttigieg ‘Old Town Road’ Collaboration — The 2020 candidate was set to recite the lyrics to the chart-topping megahit for a BuzzFeed event, but the singer nixed the idea, leading to the mayor's exit. — Lil Nas X has collaborated with the likes of Billy Ray Cyrus, Keith Urban, BTS, and Young Thug.
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Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2019 (Advance Estimate) and Annual Update — Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.1 percent in the second quarter of 2019 (table 1), according to the “advance” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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Trump's 3% Growth Feat in 2018 Undone by Annual Data Revisions
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ITV News exclusive: Jacob Rees-Mogg issues style guide to staff — The new Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogghas instructed all staff in his new office to use imperial measurements and refer to ‘non-tiled males’ as ‘esquire’. — Issuing a style guide in the first week of his job …


‘I Have a Moral Responsibility to Come Forward’: Colonel Accuses Top Military Nominee of Assault — WASHINGTON — Col. Kathryn A. Spletstoser of the Army says she had returned to her hotel room and was putting on face cream on the night of Dec. 2, 2017, after a full day at the annual Reagan …
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Congressman Pappas Issues Statement on Impeachment Inquiry — Manchester, N.H.- Today, Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) issued the following statement regarding an impeachment inquiry. — “Good afternoon. Today marks 204 days since I was sworn in as a member of Congress representing the people of New Hampshire's 1st District.


What we get wrong about the Southern strategy — It took much longer — and went much further — than we think. — Most Americans have heard the story of the “Southern strategy”: The Republican Party, in the wake of the civil rights movement, decided to court Southern white voters by capitalizing on their racial fears.


Emmett Till memorial in photo of gun-toting Mississippi students will be made bulletproof — The bullet-riddled historical marker will be replaced with a new steel, bulletproof sign. — A vandalized memorial to civil rights martyr Emmett Till in Mississippi was removed and is set to be replaced with a new bulletproof sign.
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Shadow force: The secret history of the U.S. intelligence community's battle with Iran's Revolutionary Guard — The hackers pretended to be professors, appealing to Achilles' heel of academics: their egos. Posing as admiring colleagues from other universities, they emailed their targets …


I was Sweden's prime minister and no, Mr. Trump, I could not have freed A$AP Rocky either — I have no idea whatsoever what happened that evening in the streets of Stockholm in late June that led to the detention of three U.S. citizens — including the rapper A$AP Rocky — and to them facing assault charges.
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Exclusive: Inside the effort to turn Trump against Amazon's bid for a $10 billion contract — (CNN)Tech giant Oracle's push to scuttle a bid by its rival Amazon to win a highly sought-after defense contract has reached President Donald Trump's desk — a possible attempt to appeal to the President's …


Scarborough calls McConnell ‘Moscow Mitch,’ says lack of action on Russian meddling is ‘un-American’ — MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on Friday lashed out at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, calling him “Moscow Mitch” over his inaction on legislation to address Russian election interference.
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The American System Is Already Failing — The Mueller hearings told us almost nothing that we didn't know already. We knew that the president welcomed assistance from a foreign power in order to win an election, and has fawned over his political patron in this endeavor, Vladimir Putin, since he became president.
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The Extraordinary Humbling of John Hickenlooper — HANOVER, N.H. — Can John Hickenlooper interest you in a joke? — “What's the opposite of woe?” Mr. Hickenlooper, the former Colorado governor and still-presidential-candidate, asked inside a hotel reception room last week …
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