One of the juiciest details in the redacted Mueller report reveals President Trump’s profane reaction to learning that he would be investigated by a special counsel over his connections to Russia. According to notes taken by Jody Hunt, who served as chief of staff to then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the …
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UPDATE:Julian Assange has been indicted on 17 counts of violating the Espionage Act, the Justice Department revealed on Thursday. “Assange, WikiLeaks affiliates and [Chelsea] Manning shared the common objective to subvert lawful restrictions on classified information and to publicly disseminate it,” the indictment said. *** WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was …
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On a recent Wednesday, Utah and Arkansas were both sending legislation to their (male) governors that would restrict abortion at 18 weeks, and I was waiting in the hallway of a Manhattan office building, woozy from lack of sleep, and trying not to feel like a liability to the feminist …
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WASHINGTON — President Trump’s response to the initial findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s final report has been misleading, claiming a full exoneration while Mueller offers no such thing. But more than that, Trump has used Attorney General William Barr’s brief summary of Mueller’s report to launch an all-out attack …
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Active-shooter training has become a macabre ritual for educators in America’s public school system. “There’s a trauma that comes simply from being part of one of those drills,” Sen Chris Murphy (D-CT) told Rolling Stone recently. But some trainers in Indiana have been amping up the realism, making the alarming …
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America’s infamously gaffe-prone former vice president, Joe Biden, signaled he is likely running for president in 2020 in the most characteristically Biden-esque way. He accidentally announced he was running before quickly correcting himself at a dinner in Dover, Delaware on Saturday night. “I know I get criticized. I’m told I …
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Just 41 percent of registered voters say they will “definitely” or “probably” vote for President Donald Trump in 2020, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released on Sunday. Forty-eight percent of those polled say they will “definitely” or “probably” vote for the Democratic nominee. Overall Trump’s approval …
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NATIONAL HARBOR, MARYLAND — “America is founded on a simple idea, and that idea… [dramatic pause] is freedom.” So declared Vice President Mike Pence in a booming staccato during his Friday morning CPAC address. “Freedom works,” Pence assured the room of conservative conference-goers. “We have the courage to stand for …
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President Trump is his most unvarnished self before a large crowd, unencumbered by the need to pay respect to reality or behave as an elder statesman. On Monday night, Trump spoke to 6,500 supporters in El Paso, Texas, in what was the first of what will be many such rallies …
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President Trump usually insults people of color in one of two ways, and I’m never sure which I prefer. He either ignores us, or he scapegoats us. In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, Trump and his speechwriters managed to do both successfully. The president omitted any mention …
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