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State Dept. intensifies email probe of Hillary Clinton's former aides — The Trump administration is investigating the email records of dozens of current and former senior State Department officials who sent messages to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email …
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Trump blurs lines between personal lawyer, attorney general — WASHINGTON (AP) — As Washington plunges into impeachment, Attorney General William Barr finds himself engulfed in the political firestorm, facing questions about his role in President Donald Trump's outreach to Ukraine …
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How a Shadow Foreign Policy in Ukraine Prompted an Impeachment Inquiry — WASHINGTON — Petro O. Poroshenko was still the president of Ukraine earlier this year when his team sought a lifeline. With the polls showing him in clear danger of losing his re-election campaign, some of his associates …
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AG Bill Barr reportedly “surprised and angry” at Trump-Ukraine phone call — Attorney General Bill Barr was “surprised and angry” to find that President Trump had grouped him together with his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani during a controversial July 25 phone call with the president of Ukraine …
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Mulvaney on shaky ground in wake of whistleblower fallout, sources say — (CNN)Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney is on shaky ground in the wake of a bad week for President Trump, according to multiple sources with knowledge of discussions surrounding the whistleblower fallout.
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When Trump's Envoy for Ukraine Resigned, a College Journalist Had the Scoop — An editor at Arizona State University's student newspaper beat everyone else to the news that Kurt Volker had stepped down. — Kurt D. Volker has traveled halfway around the world as a United States diplomat.
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Volker plans to appear before congressional committees next week — Sources: Special envoy to Ukraine resigns — (CNN)Former US Special Envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker plans to appear at his deposition next Thursday in front of three congressional committees, according to a source familiar with his plans.
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Collusion After the Fact — The Washington Post reported last night: … Shortly after the story broke, I received a message from a person directly involved with the FBI's decision to open a counterintelligence and obstruction investigation of President Trump in the immediate aftermath of the firing of FBI Director James Comey.
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More Video Of Justin Trudeau And This Is The Worst Yet — Last week, pictures and video of Justin Trudeau in blackface blew up and threatened his campaign for re-election. — There were multiple incidents. One was where he was dressed as Aladdin and made up in blackface at an …
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Embarrassing Leaks Led to Clampdown on Trump's Phone Records — After blowup over calls with Mexican, Australian leaders, officials moved toward greater secrecy, now an issue in impeachment inquiry — WASHINGTON—The White House moved to clamp down on access to records of presidential phone calls …
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GOP Leadership Memo Suggests Senate Cannot Block Trial If House Votes To Impeach Trump — “There is no way we could somehow bar the doors and prevent the managers from presenting the articles” of impeachment, states the memo. — The Republican leadership issued a memo Saturday clarifying …
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How Mitch McConnell could give impeachment the Merrick Garland treatment
How Mitch McConnell could give impeachment the Merrick Garland treatment
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Jamal Khashoggi's death made the Saudi crown prince a pariah. Trump has helped rehabilitate him on the world stage. — At the annual Group of 20 gathering of world leaders in Osaka, Japan, in June, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, beamed before cameras …
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Trump blasts ‘savages’ — Ocasio-Cortez, three other women of color, Schiff, Nadler — “Savages” started to trend on Twitter after the president's post, which comes amid a House impeachment inquiry into his dealings with Ukraine. — President Donald Trump blasted six members of the House …
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The Federalist Hit With Labor Complaint Over Founder's Tweets — The federal government wants the publisher of conservative online magazine The Federalist to delete his apparently anti-union June 6 tweet. — Ben Domenech tagged the magazine's handle and relayed a thought about the first person …
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The gas tycoon and the vice president's son: The story of Hunter Biden's foray into Ukraine — When then-Vice President Joe Biden's son joined the board of an obscure Ukrainian gas company half a decade ago, it was a stunning coup for its owner, a former Ukrainian minister working to remake …
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Chief accused of slamming black teen's head into door: Trump is ‘last hope for white people’ — A former New Jersey police chief standing trial for allegedly slamming a black teenager's head into a door jamb reportedly called President Trump “the last hope for white people” before the 2016 election.
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Impeachment Battle to Turn for First Time on a President's Ties to a Foreign Country — WASHINGTON — Alexander Hamilton, as usual, got right to the heart of the matter. When the framers were designing the Constitution and its power of impeachment, one of the high crimes they had in mind …
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For Trump, a high-velocity threat like none he's ever faced — WASHINGTON (AP) — From the moment Donald Trump became a national political figure, he has been shadowed by investigations and controversy. — They have been layered, lengthy and often inconclusive, leaving many Americans scandal-weary and numb to his behavior.
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If Democrats impeach Trump, a GOP House would probably impeach the next Democratic president — House Democrats are poised to impeach President Trump once they've spent more time following the leads in the whistleblower complaint. But should they take that step in a heavily partisan process …
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Staring down impeachment, Trump sees himself as a victim of historic proportions — Donald Trump is not the first American president staring down impeachment to nurse a deep sense of persecution and self-pity. But he is the first to broadcast that mentality to the world.
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Impeaching the Peach One — There are observers, including critics of President Trump, who are skeptical of the push for impeachment. Not because he hasn't earned the contempt and sanction of Congress, but because the politics are too risky. Will the public support an impeachment investigation …
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Is Impeachment the End of the Road for Most of the 2020 Field? — The closing days of a fundraising quarter are usually hectic for presidential candidates and their top-level staffers, who are tasked with pulling in every last dime they can find and figuring out what to do with the cash.
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