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STATEMENT OF JOHN R. BOLTON — During the present impeachment controversy, I have tried to meet my obligations both as a citizen and as former National Security Advisor. My colleague, Dr. Charles Kupperman, faced with a House committee subpoena on the one hand, and a Presidential directive …
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Bolton Is Willing to Testify in Trump's Impeachment Trial — The former national security adviser, who has complied with a White House directive not to cooperate in the inquiry, said he was willing to testify in the Senate trial if subpoenaed. — WASHINGTON — John R. Bolton …
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Pelosi's strategy pays off: Now bring in Bolton — The Post reports: … Why Bolton would now decide to make himself available will be a matter of speculation. Perhaps he was prompted to give up his ludicrous excuse to avoid testifying by a federal judge's dismissal on Dec. 30 …
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POLITICO Playbook PM: John Bolton throws an impeachment curveball — JOHN BOLTON, who quit as national security adviser in September and did not testify in the House impeachment inquiry, said this in a new statement: “[I]f the Senate issues a subpoena for my testimony, I am prepared to testify.”
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Impeachment live updates: Bolton says he is prepared to testify in Senate trial if subpoenaed
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Bolton willing to testify in Senate impeachment trial if subpoenaed
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John Bolton willing to testify in Trump's impeachment trial
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Qassem Soleimani's dead body flies coach back to Iran … The remains of Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian military commander killed in a US drone strike, were apparently placed in a cardboard box and flown out of Iraq across rows of passenger seats, new video shows.
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Mar-a-Lago in the firing line: Iranian presidential adviser posts list of Donald Trump's properties in chilling hint of an attack on his real estate empire - after Iran put an $80million bounty on his head — An adviser to Iranian president Hassan Rouhani last night dropped a chilling hint …


An emotional Khamenei shows Iran general's death is personal — DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — In a rare display of emotion from the typically reserved and measured supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei cried openly Monday at the funeral of slain Gen. Qassem Soleimani …
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Iran officials hint at possible attacks on Trump properties — Senior Iranian officials are using Twitter to hint at threats against President Trump's properties — including his Mar-al-lago resort in Florida and Trump Tower in Manhattan — over the killing of Iran's top military commander.
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Harvey Weinstein Is Charged With Rape in Los Angeles — The new case in California against the Hollywood producer was disclosed just as his sexual assault trial began in New York. — Prosecutors in Los Angeles charged the film producer Harvey Weinstein with rape and other sex crimes involving two women …
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Indonesian man, Britain's worst rapist, jailed for life for raping 48 men — Reynhard Sinaga, 36, targeted drunk men in bars and offered them a place to stay at his flat, where he filmed many of the forced sexual encounters Authorities said evidence against Sinaga indicated he had a lot more victims …





Trump's Iran mess is getting worse. Here's Adam Schiff's idea on what to do about it. — The deliberations that went into President Trump's decision to assassinate Iranian general Qasem Soleimani are looking more slapdash and reckless by the hour. What we're now seeing will require House Democrats …
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Attacking Iran's Cultural Sites Would Violate the Hague Cultural Property Convention — On Sunday, President Trump — as he is wont to do when criticized — doubled down on his threat to bomb Iranian cultural sites if Iran attacks the United States in response to the killing of Qassim Suleimani.
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Dear Colleague on Introduction of War Powers
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Pelosi moves to limit Trump's actions in Iran with War Powers Resolution vote
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One Year in Washington Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reshaped her party's agenda, resuscitated Bernie Sanders's campaign, and hardly has a friend in town. — The corridors of Capitol Hill are a marbled monotony, with Oxford heels clacking around corners indistinguishable from one another …


Review: Politics reigned at the Golden Globes. Too bad Ricky Gervais didn't notice — Forget the escapist magic of Hollywood. Nihilism was the name of the game when host Ricky Gervais opened the Golden Globes on Sunday night with a gloom-and-doom monologue so cynical it made the effervescent Tom Hanks scowl.
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Ricky Gervais' Golden Globes Jokes, Ranked in Order of Dickishness
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Ricky Gervais Made A Very Clever Golden Globes Maneuver
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Sleepwalking into 2020: are the media who missed Trump's 2016 rise ready now? — Key figures from major US newspapers, news sites and TV describe their fears about covering this year's election - and ideas on how to get it right — In the weeks after the election of Donald Trump in 2016 …
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Former Bucks Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick dead at 56 — At age 31, Mike Fitzpatrick was appointed chair of the board of Bucks County commissioners. By 41, he was elected to the U.S. Congress. — Former U.S. Rep. Michael G. Fitzpatrick, who rose from Bucks County commissioner to representing …
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The very real scenario of a protracted, ‘bizarro world’ Democratic primary — Democrats are now beginning to confront a very real scenario where the nomination — and the winnowing — will not be decided in states where campaigns have been plowing ground for more than a year …
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Julián Castro Endorses Elizabeth Warren — The move came soon after Mr. Castro ended his own bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, and gives a lift to Ms. Warren's campaign as it tries to reignite excitement. — Julián Castro, the former housing secretary whose …
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How Democrats Can Win Back Obama-Trump Defectors — They don't have to lose their souls to do it. Just the opposite. — The authors are political data experts. — In the aftermath of Donald Trump's 2016 election victory, analysts fiercely debated the role of the approximately six million voters …


Inside the secretive Silicon Valley group that has funneled over $20 million to Democrats — Mind the Gap is run not by political operatives but by Stanford professors. David Madison/Getty Images — There's a reason you haven't heard of Mind the Gap: Its “raison d'être is stealth.”


Defense secretary's chief of staff to step down — Eric Chewning, chief of staff to Defense Secretary Mark Esper, is stepping down at the end of the month, the latest in a series of high-profile civilians to leave the Pentagon. — He'll be replaced by Jen Stewart, the top Republican staffer …
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Nearly 200 People Arrested Across Australia For Deliberately Starting Bushfires — Authorities in Australia have arrested close to 200 people for deliberately starting the bushfires that have devastated the country, yet the media and celebrities continue to blame “climate change” for the disaster.
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Obamaworld Hates Bernie—and Has No Idea How to Stop Him — The most striking response to an ascendant Sanders is the lack of one. — Former President Barack Obama's top lieutenants are eager to poke every conceivable hole in Bernie Sanders' resurgent bid for the Democratic nomination.
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Here's What Americans Think About Trump's Iran Policy — A new poll shows the public is narrowly in favor of the airstrike that killed Qassem Soleimani, but has less faith in President Donald Trump's overall Iran strategy. — Americans split narrowly in favor of President Donald Trump's decision …
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