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The face-off Thursday night was taking on outsized importance for a vice presidential debate.
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“Folks, it’s a long way from a little brick rented house on Second Street in Hope, Arkansas, to the White House,” he said.
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Before Mr. Carr’s statement, the BuzzFeed report led to a flurry of reactions by senior members of Congress who said that the allegations, if true, could be grounds for initiating impeachment proceedings against Mr. Trump.
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Faith made America strong. It can make her strong again.”
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A former Justice Department computer crimes prosecutor said it would not cost much to request an investigation from the FBI.
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Cornyn was on the White House's shortlist to replace Comey, but withdrew himself from consideration this week.
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The firing was politically motivated, Mr. McCabe has said, as an effort to discredit him as a witness in the special counsel investigation.
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Many are discouraged after losing the White House and making smaller than expected gains in both chambers of Congress.
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"If there's even one life that can be saved, then we've got an obligation to try," Obama said.
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The FBI responded: “Mr. Strzok was subject to the standard FBI review and disciplinary process after conduct highlighted in the IG report was referred to the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR).
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Also on the Republican side, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said she was "hopeful" for a "constructive debate" with Democrats.
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“Lives w/mom,” a handwritten note on the petition said.
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The official said that he and other opponents of benefit cuts had been told that AARP's "longstanding position" hadn't changed, but there was some uncertainty about what that position actually is.
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She said she had asked the photographer to pull the images.
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Mrs. Clinton’s spokesman and the State Department have cast her decision to hand over her emails as motivated by efforts to update the department’s record management system.
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“Trump is using Mexico, using President Peña to boost his sinking poll numbers,” Fox said.
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On Twitter, Arizona’s United States senators, John McCain and Jeff Flake, also Republicans, had nearly identical posts, with both of them saying they hoped Ms. Brewer would veto the bill.
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In at least eight newspaper articles published in Connecticut from 2003 to 2009, he is described as having served in Vietnam.
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“So, you have the company that is absolutely typical of the entire American work force,” Justice Alito said.
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That effort was made particularly urgent after Mrs. Clinton said last year that she and her husband were “dead broke” when they left the White House.
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The plea was made all the more effective by the intertwining of Beck's own story of struggle and redemption.
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was the lone opposition.
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ran traces on the weapons and found no evidence to suggest Hodgkinson purchased the firearms illegally, according to an FBI statement released Thursday.
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Conservative websites are already crying foul over the cover, with some saying it makes Bachmann look "crazy" and one blogger asking, "Can anyone really say with a straight face that the mainstream media is not totally biased against conservatives?"
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During the radio interview, the governor apologized repeatedly for an expletive-ridden voicemail he recently left for Democratic state Rep. Drew Gattine -- the latest controversy to hang over his office.
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No matter how intrusive and partisan our politics can become, this does not justify a poor response.”
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hasn’t been shy in recent days about the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency, joking that she might move to New Zealand if it ever happens.
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Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) also called for the cancellation of the meeting, saying that Trump “cannot claim to love the U.S. while meeting with ... a man who is overseeing an all-out attack on America’s democracy.”
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The group has faced occasional claims of racism, most notably in March near the end of the bitter health care debate.
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It's a long shot bid.
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But some of his supporters have started to walk away, prompting growing calls that it is time to bring the party together to defeat Mr. Trump.
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The Times later stood by that version of events, citing it in its fact-check of Republican attacks on Obama during the presidential campaign.
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While many have speculated that the White House offered to appoint Mr. Sestak as secretary of the Navy, Mr. Bauer said that was never the case.
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In October, the State Department sent a letter to Mrs. Clinton and all former secretaries of state back to Madeleine K. Albright, seeking emails and other documents in their possession that related to their government work.
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As of April, 35 million seniors received Social Security retirement benefits averaging $1,179 a month, according to the program's latest monthly snapshot.
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“In recent days, these e-mails have been selectively and inaccurately read out to the media,” said a White House spokesman, Eric Schultz.
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“I’m not aware [that] any justice before has ever commented on the merits or demerits of a presidential candidate,” said Ed Whelan, the president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a frequent contributor to the conservative National Review Online, where he has chronicled this episode and what he deems Ginsburg’...
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“I’m not going to vote for it.
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"This is just too important to sit out," said Bloomberg, a former Democrat who won New York's mayoralty as a Republican in 2001 before leaving the party to become an independent six years later.
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If true, Mr. Schiff said, the allegations “would constitute both the subornation of perjury as well as obstruction of justice.”
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WASHINGTON—Joining a chorus of Catholic bishops , theologians, priests, and social justice leaders, nearly 90 Georgetown University faculty and administrators have called Representative Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) to task for his misuse of Catholic social teaching in defending his budget, which hurts the poor.
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Nonetheless, the group’s openness to the possibility of unspecified cuts was seen as a significant development by people on all sides of the Social Security question because of AARP’s influence on federal policies affecting older Americans, including Medicare, prescription drugs and many more.
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Senior White House officials significantly raised the stakes on congressional Democrats in their efforts to get a deal passed on the Bush tax cuts, warning on Wednesday that inaction would "significantly increase the risk" of a double dip recession.
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“Stop lying!” Mr. Fox wrote.
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Carney contended that Congress wouldn't be focused at all on jobs if not for the president's power of persuasion.
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It said something could evolve "and become more dangerous for that small percentage of people that really think our country has been taken away from them."
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A more congenial Rick Santorum doubled down on several controversial, and religiously laden, remarks in an interview Sunday morning on CBS's "Face the Nation," where he defended his recent claims that prenatal testing results in abortions, that federally provided education was "anachronistic," and that President Obama'...
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I would like to thank my staff both in Washington and Texas for all of their hard work on behalf of our constituents.
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"The programs are secret in the sense that they are classified.
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“It’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous. And it has to end.”
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Mr. Trump said his decision was largely coming down to instinct.
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Invoking patriotism as well as divine intervention – Mr. Obama stood against the backdrop of a giant American flag – he spoke before an audience that included unemployed construction workers, whose industry is among the hardest hit by the housing bust.
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That group would include Vice President Pence and advisor Jared Kushner.
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Meanwhile, Vice President Joe Biden voiced his support of Hillary Thursday evening at the American Constitution Society's national convention.
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To eliminate the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees, Republicans would need to vote in virtual lock step: The party effectively has only 51 votes right now because one member, Senator Johnny Isakson of Georgia, is recuperating from back surgery, so just two Republican senators could block a rules change.
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His interruptive barrage was as relentless as his silent mugging for the camera.
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Clinton was spending most of the weekend in Iowa after formally launching her campaign in New York City, seeking to build an organizational edge in the state that tripped up her first presidential campaign against Obama.
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"If anybody but your favorite President, Donald J. Trump, announced that, after decimating ISIS in Syria, we were going to bring our troops back home (happy & healthy), that person would be the most popular hero in America," he continued in a follow-up tweet.
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It is the broadest federal rule change to come out of the landmark Supreme Court decision in June that struck down the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, and a sign of how quickly the government is moving to treat gay couples in the same way that it does straight couples.
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It’s wrong. It’s destructive,” Mr. Gibbs said on the ABC News program “This Week,” adding that it reflected the “nastiness, divisiveness, ugliness” and distortions of a hard-fought Republican nominating process.
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The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence had access to the documents, a source told Fox News.
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People took to Twitter to express their disdain for the photo shoot.
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It also claims that despite a company policy expressly prohibiting discrimination, local store managers are given too much flexibility in determining salary hikes and job promotions that invariably favor men over women.
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On that same day, Obama had lunch with Clinton.
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Whatever we think about the war, whatever we call it — Afghanistan or Iraq — we owe our military men and women unconditional support.”
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"He's made some pretty outrageous comments that Mueller could not verify, Graham said.
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Conservative Republicans in the House pleaded Friday for a delay in the voting.
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The White House, meanwhile, said Obama recorded the video on Tuesday, the day Clinton effectively wrapped up the nomination.
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“We always hear members of Congress talking about swearing an oath to represent their constituents, when in reality the only oath we take is to the Constitution,” explained newly-minted Speaker John Boehner to the Post.
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Trump, in tweets and interviews, has repeatedly sought to undermine his Justice Department and FBI as the Russia probe has intensified.
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“Nothing could be further from the truth,” he said.
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Two lower courts said the case could move toward trial.
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Medicare and Treasury officials have said they would use a “place of celebration” standard for determining whether gay couples are eligible for benefits.
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That is something that's easy to get," Trump said, arguing that Obama has spent $2 million in legal fees "to get away from this issue."
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Mary Cheney, the younger sister of Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Senate candidate, sharply criticized her sister’s stance on same-sex marriage and urged her own Facebook friends to share the message.
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“My parents both grew up on Iowa farms during the Great Depression.
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The clock is now ticking toward the special election.
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However, Democrats rejected the plan even before Trump announced it, and a Senate version of the plan failed to get the 60 votes needed on Thursday.
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When he had finished introducing the report, Hutchinson called up Mark Mattioli, whose 6-year-old son, James Mattioli, was killed in December along with 19 other children at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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On Tuesday, Mr. Weiner presided over two testy news briefings at which he had dodged a variety of questions.
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The bridge inquiry being conducted by Mr. Fishman’s office was confirmed this month.
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The girls accompanied their daughter to Wednesday's ceremony, in which he pardoned two turkeys named Mac and Cheese.
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who as president of the Senate would be expected to attend, has said he will be traveling abroad.
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According to the excerpts, she argued that the administration should not give Congress ammunition to "beat up" on her department.
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“And I’m serious. Everything will be put into writing.
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“I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a Christian,” Mr. Perry says in the ad, “but you don’t need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there’s something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school.”
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“Crooked Hillary Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin, has been accused of disregarding basic security protocols.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer exited saying Trump told them "he’d keep the government closed for a very long period of time, months or even years.”
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“Because of my success in the private sector, I had the chance to run America’s largest city for 12 years.”
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The former representative, who co-wrote a 1999 book with his father, Rev. Jesse Jackson, titled It's About the Money!: How You Can Get Out of Debt, Build Wealth, and Achieve Your Financial Dreams, was accused of spending $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items for himself and for his wife.
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Legal scholars say it's too early to know how the Supreme Court might handle the case or if it will even accept it.
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Vice President Mike Pence, who in an Oct. 14, 2016, interview with Fox News claimed the campaign had not been in contact with WikiLeaks, said in a statement late Monday that he had not known about Trump Jr.’s messages.
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“After seven years of a weak and feckless foreign policy run by Barack Obama, we better not turn it over to his second mate, Hillary Clinton,” Mr. Christie said.
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“We’ve previously known about attempts to develop Trump Tower Moscow and the misrepresentations surrounding those efforts,” Feinstein said.
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It’s not as if he just didn’t get what he wanted so he’s waving a magic wand and taking a bunch of money.”
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Like other Republican White House hopefuls, Huckabee is sharply critical of Obama's foreign policy.
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Elizabeth Cheney declared in July she plans to challenge incumbent Senator Mike Enzi, also a Republican, in the state’s Republican primary.
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They said they will review them for release as soon as possible.”
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Obama made the same argument on the stump.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced Thursday on the Senate floor that Trump planned to sign the bill and declare a national emergency at the same time, adding that he supported the decision.
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