Conservative nonprofit with obscure roots and undisclosed funders paid Matthew Whitaker $1.2 million
The acting attorney general worked for the group for three years.
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Acting attorney general Matthew G. Whitaker repeatedly called for a special counsel investigation into Hillary Clinton during media appearances in 2016 and 2017.
George Papadopoulos, a onetime foreign policy adviser to the president’s 2016 campaign, had asked the judge to delay his sentence until a separate case is resolved.
Rep. Brian Higgins said he had come to terms after discussions with Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer and the incoming Ways and Means chairman.
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President Trump promised a robust response if the Saudi royals were implicated. Now that they are, he's saying it doesn't matter.
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The marquee races have been decided, but there are still a handful where there is no winner yet.
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There are legitimate strategic interests here. But Trump overstates and oversimplifies basically all of his justifications for giving the Saudis a pass -- and ignores the counter-arguments.
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And other midterm data, by the numbers.
In an interview with the BBC, the widow of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) also said President Trump’s remark that her husband wasn’t a war hero was “inappropriate and wrong.”
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He hopes his new “pro-work” agenda will keep the GOP coalition from coming apart.
“We live in a democracy, and you don’t go after political rivals,” Gonzales said in response to a report that Trump wanted the Justice Department to prosecute his adversaries.
Their proposals are strikingly similar.
Trump called it a “good first step” by the organizers to select biographer Ron Chernow as the featured speaker rather than a comedian.
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Plans to convene a representative constituency aim to establish legitimacy and authority in an effort to move forward.
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There are potential impacts on domestic political stability — and Taiwan's relations with China.
A ratio is what happens when a tweet’s endorsements — as measured in retweets and likes — are vastly outnumbered by criticism in the form of replies.
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If bots are rude they may damage the social fabric.
And get Thanksgiving recipes from Karen Pence's mom and Joni Ernst.
