Eleven months after agreeing to cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos was sentenced in federal court on Friday. He will serve 14 days in prison, submit to 12 months of supervised release and pay a fine of $9,500. Papadopoulos came under scrutiny …
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President Trump is never more at home than when watching cable news with his Twitter app fired up. Sunday was no exception. Beginning at 8:30 a.m., the president threatened to shut down the government if Democrats don’t vote to fund the proposed border wall, touted Friday’s GDP report and once …
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A group of 11 Republican lawmakers on Wednesday introduced articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.Led by Reps. Mark Meadows (R-NC) and Jim Jordan (R-OH), the resolution accuses Rosenstein of “high crimes and misdemeanors,” alleging that he has been withholding information from Congress regarding Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s …
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Of all the atrocities perpetrated by the Trump administration, the separation of children from their parents at the border is hitting the nation on a primal level. Officials have largely demurred when confronted with the issue, and Trump has falsely blamed family separation on Democratic legislation. On Wednesday, journalists were …
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President Trump was planning to head to Camp David this past weekend, but, as you probably now realize, that did not happen. Nor did Trump hit the links at any of his golf properties, which means he spent Saturday and Sunday largely alone inside the White House, left to his …
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Ohio, North Carolina, Indiana and West Virginia will all hold their midterm election primaries on Tuesday, but the nation’s attention is laser-focused on the Mountain State and coal baron ex-con Don Blankenship. The Senate candidate from West Virginia became a national punchline last week, when, in the latest of his …
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Congress just gaveled in for the second half of the 115thCongress and already a record number of senior Republican lawmakers, along with some vulnerable incumbents, are running for the exits. But in this hyper-partisan Washington, most of the retiring lawmakers and Republican Party leaders are reporting that their party remains …
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UPDATE: Fire and Fury will now come out tomorrow, in defiance of Trump’s lawyer.Henry Holt confirms that we received a cease and desist letter from an attorney for President Trump,”a spokesperson for Henry Holt said in a statement, according to Variety. “We see Fire and Fury as an extraordinary contribution …
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Minnesota Senator Al Franken announced Thursday that he would step down following accusations of sexual misconduct. “I am announcing that in the coming weeks I will be resigning as a member of the United States Senate,” Franken said in a heartfelt speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate. He …
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“The journey of this country has always been: When we run into this phony populism that occurs, it always gets pushed back,” former vice presidentJoe Biden said on Monday night during the New York stop of his book tour. “It’s one step back, three steps forward.” Biden offered numerous variations …
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