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That is, is the president or people around him compromised in any way by a hostile foreign power? ...
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Now lets just hope she stays out of jail,” a representative for Shields told HuffPost.
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Reading from a letter signed by every Republican member of the committee, Mr. Conaway added, “Your actions both past and present are incompatible with your duties as chairman of this committee.”
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Controversial Maine Gov. Paul LePage opened the door Tuesday to making an early exit from the governor’s office following pressure from state lawmakers to step down.
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Trump Jr. became embroiled in the Russia investigation after it was revealed he and other campaign officials met with a Kremlin-backed attorney in June 2016 who had promised damaging information about Clinton.
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An inspector general’s report found, however, that she was briefed on their actions as early as June 2011.
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He paired the address with his first naturalization ceremony at the White House, a move intended to underscore the idea that he supports legal immigration.
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They also specifically seek records relating to three close aides to Mr. Christie who resigned or were fired when their roles in the lane closings were revealed.
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There will be no further readout of the meeting, but lines of communication remain open."
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When asked if he would seek those protections, the governor said that he would not.
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The fact that I'm allowed to make an image like this says a lot.
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No one is a better tactician than Nancy Pelosi. No one does it better. No one even comes close.”
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Opening up about his troubled past, Beck told the crowd, "People need to understand that life is not fair.
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A Republican staffer on Friday apologized for a Facebook post that criticized Malia and Sasha Obama's appearance at the annual White House turkey pardon ceremony, one of America's silliest holiday traditions.
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Mr. Arpaio, who gained wide notice for forcing inmates to wear pink underwear and housing them in tents, is popular in his state, where he has repeatedly won re-election by a sizable margin.
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Fix the Court found that the bulk of recent recusals were due to the justices’ prior work as appellate judges or in government positions.
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The Sacramento County Sheriff Department also said Friday that a suspicious package found at a Sacramento mail facility and addressed to Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) contained an explosive device.
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The committee's action comes a day after Flynn’s lawyer notified the committee that his client will invoke his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination and not comply with the committee’s subpoena seeking documents related to its investigation.
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Christie was elected chairman of the Republican Governors Association in November 2013.
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If funding for his border wall is not secured by the end of the negotiation period, Trump said he is prepared to shut down the government again or issue a national emergency declaration in order to get funding ― a plan that would strip funding from disaster recovery efforts.
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The criteria directed the IRS to conduct a more intensive review of applications for tax-exempt status from groups with the name "tea party" or "patriot."
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"Every day in my life in politics was a fight," Huckabee says in the video, released as a preview of his Tuesday announcement.
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The Wall Street Journal reported Friday morning that AARP, one of the most influential lobbying groups in Washington, was softening its opposition to cutting retirement benefits.
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Mr. Enzi opposes legalizing same-sex marriage.
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Even as he fueled outrage among Democrats and angst among many moderate Republicans, his well of support, fed by voters drawn to his unfiltered political style, never seemed to run dry.
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Those comments drew a sharp response from Rev. William Owens of the Coalition of African American Pastors.
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White House officials cited only two times that such emergency declarations were used by presidents to spend money without legislative approval — once by President George Bush in 1990 during the run-up to the Persian Gulf war, and again by his son, President George W. Bush, in 2001 after the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
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Mr. Clapper also insisted that the government “does not unilaterally obtain information from the servers” of telephone and Internet providers, saying that information is turned over only under court order, when there is a “documented, foreign intelligence purpose for acquisition” of the data.
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“I think it’s simply more fake promises raising false hopes,” Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, said.
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“Now, Etheridge’s actions are only partially defensible.
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Santorum also told Schieffer that government-provided education was not working and that the process ought to be customizable, like buying a car.
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Amid calls for him to drop out of the race, Moore added, "Our nation is at a crossroads right now — both spiritually and politically.
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The prolonged presidential explanation elevated the issue beyond a local dispute and hurled it into the political arena.
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Google services that can be monitored include Gmail, voice and video chat, Google Drive files, and search terms.
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“I love my dad, and we have a good, close relationship,” Seth Hutchinson said on Wednesday.
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On Wednesday, the House voted 396-9 on a bill that reaffirmed the motto and encouraged its display in all public schools and government buildings.
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It pairs the border security investment that our nation needs with additional immigration measures that both Democrat and Republican members of Congress believe are necessary.
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Every former secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, including former White House chief of staff John Kelly, sent a letter to the president and Congress on Thursday asking them restore the department’s funding.
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Among the allegations named in the 48-page indictment included instances between 2009 and 2016 when Hunter and his wife used campaign funds to pay for family vacations to Italy and Hawaii, school tuition, dental work, and even domestic and international travel for almost a dozen relatives, according to a press release from the Southern District of California’s U.S. Attorney’s Office.
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But those legal protections have not erased hatred in the country.
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Mr. Trump is still seeking applicants, and some aides, along with many law enforcement officials, have suggested that he hire from within the agency to repair some of the damage to morale wrought by Mr. Comey’s sudden firing.
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“This decision should be deeply troubling to all Americans.
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Warner, whose committee has been investigating Russian meddling and potential collusion with Trump campaign associates in the 2016 election for more than a year, also stressed that there “needs to be other Americans in the room” in Helsinki, Finland Monday to ensure that Trump makes the issue of interference in the 2016 election a “priority.”
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WASHINGTON -- The nation's leading advocate for senior citizens says that it hasn't wavered in its opposition to cutting Social Security benefits, though a top official with the group said it is open to a discussion about raising the retirement age and other changes.
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“I didn’t need to do this, but I’d rather do it much faster,” he said.
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"I didn't send [that] picture out" the congressman said, though he does not know who did.
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The political director of the committee resigned in protest last month and is among those vying for the job.
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The most recent projections from the Social Security Administration, issued last month, indicate that at the current rate, the program’s trust funds will be exhausted by 2036, and that $6.5 trillion in additional money will be needed over a 75-year period to pay all scheduled benefits.
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Wisconsin GOP Chairman Reince Preibus, recently resigned RNC political director Gentry Collins, former U.S. ambassador Ann Wagner and former Michigan GOP chairman Saul Anuzis also round out the list.
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Trump said that if the current fight over budget issues forces a shutdown, "I think the president will be blamed."
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But as the federal authorities investigated Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois over his efforts to sell the Senate seat that President Obama vacated in 2008, they uncovered evidence that one of Mr. Jackson’s friends had offered to make a contribution to Mr. Blagojevich’s campaign in exchange for the seat.
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Mr. Sellers said the trial court could rely on statistics culled from company databases, which he said were more reliable than the evidence that might be presented in individualized hearings given the available information about particular pay and promotion decisions.
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“I understand the appeal of a businessman president,” Bloomberg said.
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At age 70, Mr. Trump became the oldest president sworn in for the first time and the first born in New York since Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Akin made the remarks in an interview with Fox affiliate KTVI.
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The shooter’s weapons ― a 9 mm handgun and 7.62-caliber rifle ― were recovered at the scene by law enforcement officials.
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Malia even declined her father's offer to pet one of the pardoned turkeys with a nonchalant, "Nah."
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"As the ARB makes clear, after their months of research the picture remains still somewhat complicated," Clinton said, during an exchange with Sen. James Risch (R-Idaho) at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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White House aides believe Mr. Obama can also ratchet up enforcement of existing laws, including tougher prosecution of people who lie on their background checks.
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"Well, when these issues were raised in my state of Massachusetts, I indicated my view, which is I do not favor marriage between people of the same gender, and I do not favor civil unions if they are identical to marriage other than by name," Romney told Denver Fox affiliate KDVR-TV.
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Since 2014, a high proportion of those crossing have been Central American children and families seeking to make humanitarian claims such as asylum.
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Abedin also sent passwords for her government laptop to her Yahoo account on Aug. 24, 2009.
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“When you consider some of the atrocities happening in the world today, a photo opportunity like this is simply wrong and makes you wonder about the mental health of the person who did it.”
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I wouldn’t use that language,” the House speaker continued, noting that she doesn’t tell her colleagues what to say.
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They say it would be a mistake to equate Islam as a whole, and its practice in the United States, with Al Qaeda -- and remind critics that Muslims were also killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center.
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“Anyone who wants me off the case needs to call up the governor and express their opinion to him,” Mr. McCulloch told KTRS radio.
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The comments signal Ryan and Romney are prepared to dig in and fight back, as Democrats lob charges that Ryan stands for “ending Medicare as we know it.”
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The Washington Post reported last week that reading the founding document in full appears to be a first in the chamber’s 221-year history:
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Fox News obtained a letter sent from Hunter's attorney, Gregory A. Vega, to U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein on Aug. 6 asking him to postpone the indictment.
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This administration's war on traditional American values must stop.
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As president, Clinton promoted Sestak to vice admiral and made him his director of defense policy.
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Our leadership is weak and ineffective. I called it and asked for the ban. Must be tough.”
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Turned out it wasn't.
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Mr. Pence, briefing reporters after Mr. Trump’s remarks, said the speech reflected a painstaking process of listening to lawmakers, including rank-and-file Democrats who made it clear they believed that protections for DACA and T.P.S. recipients must be included in a border security deal.
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Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele will speak with RNC members Monday evening in which he is expected to announce a decision about whether to make another run for the party chairmanship.
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Schiff on Monday signed a letter with his fellow House committee chairs demanding the full Mueller report by April 2.
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"Almost a year ago, the president in making a speech across the world said that our national motto was 'E pluribus unum,'" Forbes said.
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Vicente Fox, Mexico’s president from 2000 to 2006, said on Wednesday that the invitation from Mr. Peña Nieto was a mistake and that Mr. Trump should never be trusted in the country because of the way he has demonized its people.
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“The seemingly political nature of the State Department’s concerns raises questions about the motivations behind these changes and who at the State Department was seeking them,” said Brendan Buck, a spokesman for Speaker John A. Boehner.
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I don’t like that language, I wouldn’t use that language.
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I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist."
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At first, I pretty much followed the values that my family and my parents laid out for me.”
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"Kathy and I are friends and we worked together before, so when we started doing this shoot, she said, 'I'd love to do something political.
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The judge set the sentencing for June 28 at 2 p.m. Jackson will be free to go after he surrenders his passport, and will be restricted to living in the D.C. or Chicago area.
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Both sides were tightlipped about the surprise Sunday afternoon meeting.
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The lieutenant governor, Kim Guadagno, emphatically denied the allegations on Monday.
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Not a one defended Lieberman.
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I crossed the line. I move the line, I cross it. I went way too far.
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The measure also allows Congress to approve or reject such deals, but not amend them.
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Fifteen of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were Saudi citizens, but the Saudi government denies any role in the attacks and multiple U.S. government investigations have cleared it of blame.
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Several justices had practical concerns.
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In March, Andrew G. McCabe, the former deputy director, was fired after the inspector general repeatedly faulted him for misleading investigators.
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Another leading Dem, Sen. Kristen Gillibrand of New York, who announced her White House bid on Jan. 15 in an episode of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," said Trump's offer was a "bad deal."
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In January, he said drug dealers with names like “D-Money, Smoothie (and) Shifty” are getting Maine’s white women pregnant.
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AMHERST, N.H. — Gov. Rick Perry of Texas on Tuesday said he would back a federal policy “to detain and to deport every illegal alien that we apprehend.”
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CEO Doug McMillon called on the governor to veto the bill, which he said "threatens to undermine the spirit of inclusion."
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President Trump said Friday he is declaring a national emergency on the southern border, tapping into executive powers in a bid to divert billions toward construction of a wall even as he signs a funding package that includes just $1.4 billion for border security.
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“I thought that the BuzzFeed piece -- and maybe equally as bad the coverage of the BuzzFeed phony story -- it was a total phony story, and I appreciate the special counsel coming out with a statement last night, I think it was appropriate that they did so, I appreciate that,” he told reporters.
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Added Gibbs: "I think you would really have to ask somebody who says... lets have some eight week fight and on February the 15th come in and say, alright, now we are ready to make a compromise, who on earth, who on earth thinks that that is somehow going to be a fundamentally better agreement than the one we are looking at right now?
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The man had previously worked as an informant for the FBI, but told the Post that he was not working on the FBI’s behalf when he met with Stone in May 2016.
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