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Roger Stone Sought Information on Clinton from Assange, Emails Show — Ex-Trump adviser urged intermediary to ask WikiLeaks for specific dates of rival candidate's communications — Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone privately sought information he considered damaging to Hillary Clinton …
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Assange's refuge in Ecuadorian embassy ‘in jeopardy’ — Washington (CNN)Julian Assange's nearly six-year refuge at the Ecuadorian embassy in London is in danger, opening the WikiLeaks founder to arrest by British authorities and potential extradition to the US, multiple sources with knowledge tell CNN.
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Roger Stone's finances examined by special counsel — Stone: I chalk this up to effort to silence me — (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has been probing Roger Stone's finances as it summons a series of witnesses to gather more information about one of President Donald Trump's longtime advisers …


Inside the summit collapse: Trump wanted to cancel before N. Korean leader could — WASHINGTON — Early Thursday morning, after a flurry of calls with a handful of senior advisers, an angry President Donald Trump personally dictated the three-paragraph letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un …
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‘A lot of dial tones’: The inside story of how Trump's North Korea summit fell apart — The historic nuclear disarmament summit between President Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un — the one that Trump thought might earn him the Nobel Peace Prize — crumbled nearly as quickly as it came together …
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Art of the Fail — By canceling his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, President Donald Trump has proved his lack of skill as a negotiator, handed the world's most brutal dictator a win, and further isolated the United States as a world power. — In a letter to Kim …
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North Korea ‘Stood Up’ U.S. Team During Summit Prep, White House Official Says
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Axios, The Daily Caller, Daily Caller News Foundation and CNN


We're back where we started with North Korea
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North Korea blows up tunnels at Punggye-ri nuclear test site
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How Kim-Trump tensions escalated: The more the U.S. said ‘Libya,’ the angrier North Korea got
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The Nation, Sky News, New York Times, Vox and The Slot


White House Lawyer Crashes FBI Meeting on Trump-Russia Investigation … Two highly classified meetings about the Trump-Russia investigation held Thursday had a surprise participant: one of President Donald Trump's lawyers. And he got an earful for it. — Emmet Flood, the new lawyer …
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Trump's Lawyer and Chief of Staff Appear at Briefings on F.B.I.'s Russia Informant — WASHINGTON — President Trump's chief of staff and a White House lawyer representing him in the Russia investigation were present at the start of two classified meetings on Thursday requested by members …
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McConnell Says He Supports Mueller Investigation
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Trump's White House Lawyer Spotted At DOJ Informant Briefings For Lawmakers
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Women accuse Morgan Freeman of inappropriate behavior, harassment — An Phung and Chloe Melas — (CNN)A young production assistant thought she had landed the job of her dreams when, in the summer of 2015, she started work on “Going In Style,” a bank heist comedy starring Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Alan Arkin.
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Harvey Weinstein set to turn himself in on sex crime charges in New York — Harvey Weinstein is expected to surrender to authorities Friday to face charges related to alleged sexual misconduct in connection to a probe by the Manhattan District Attorney's office and NYPD, the Daily News has confirmed.
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Turf War Between Kushner and Sessions Drove Federal Prisons Director to Quit — WASHINGTON — When Jared Kushner hosted a high-profile summit meeting on federal prison reform at the White House last Friday, some in attendance noticed that the man who was ostensibly in charge of the federal prison system …
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Elon Musk Shows Billionaires Need “News Literacy” Classes As Much As High Schoolers Do — When it comes to media criticism, comparing Elon Musk to Donald Trump is very unfair — to Trump. — BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief — When Elon Musk tweeted Tuesday that media reports …
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Elon Musk's meltdown makes perfect sense
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Loser Journalists — It has become conventional wisdom …
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The group least likely to think the U.S. has a responsibility to accept refugees? Evangelicals. — In February 2017, as debate raged nationally over President Trump's decision to curtail immigration to the United States, the conservative Christian Broadcasting Network dipped into the Bible …
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Woman says her Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact — A Portland family contacted Amazon to investigate after they say a private conversation in their home was recorded by Amazon's Alexa — the voice-controlled smart speaker — and that the recorded audio …
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Conservatives Fail the N.F.L.'s Free Speech Test — The United States is in the grips of a free-speech paradox. At the same time that the law provides more protection to personal expression than at any time in the nation's history, large numbers of Americans feel less free to speak.
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The Reporter Who Took Down a Unicorn … In late September of 2015, Elizabeth Holmes, the CEO of the once-high-flying but now disgraced Silicon Valley health-care company Theranos, was in the News Corp. office of Rupert Murdoch. She had first met Murdoch in 2014 to pitch him on Theranos …


Perez infuriates liberals with Cuomo endorsement — The DNC chairman pits himself against Deputy Chairman Keith Ellison by intervening in the Democratic primary for New York governor. — Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez has said repeatedly that the national party shouldn't, and won't, endorse in primaries.
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Trump's company wouldn't say what his new $107K business was, until after we tracked it down — NEW YORK — For more than a week, nobody at the Trump Organization wanted to talk about the mysterious new corporation from which President Trump earned more than $100,000 last year.
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Commentary: The plot against Donald Trump — It's easy to get the basic gist of the Deep State conspiracy theory, which posits that the FBI and CIA ginned up a devious plot to help Hillary Clinton and hurt Donald Trump. But there's an arch, coy, almost feline quality to the way these arguments are presented.


Missile that downed MH17 ‘owned by Russian brigade’ — (CNN)A missile that brought down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine in 2014 was fired from a launcher belonging to Russia's 53rd anti-aircraft missile brigade, investigators said Thursday. — The announcement …
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Trump Pardons Jack Johnson, Heavyweight Boxing Champion — WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday pardoned Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion, who was convicted in 1913 of transporting a white woman across state lines. — Mr. Trump signed the pardon for Johnson during …
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The Trump-Russia ties hiding in plain sight — Trump's in-plain-sight embrace of Russia gets obscured by the Trump news avalanche. But long before running for president, Trump relied on Russian money. Trump also consistently defends Russia and attacks U.S. officials investigating Russia.
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Michael Cohen's Book on the ‘Trump Revolution’ Gets Scrapped Amid Legal Woes … Michael Cohen's legal troubles have claimed another victim: his personal memoir. — Earlier this year, President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer met with a number of publishers in New York …
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Avenatti Seeks to Revive Hush Money Lawsuit After Trump's Comments — Avenatti seeks to end hold on effort to end confidentiality — President acknowledged to new of deal forged by lawyer Cohen — Adult film star Stormy Daniels said President Donald Trump's sudden acknowledgment …
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Auto groups slam Trump administration's imports investigation, possible tariffs — Two Washington D.C.-based automaker groups are slamming President Donald Trump's decision to launch an investigation into auto imports, which could lead to tariffs on foreign-made vehicles.
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Security troops on US nuclear missile base took LSD — WASHINGTON (AP) — One airman said he felt paranoia. Another marveled at the vibrant colors. A third admitted, “I absolutely just loved altering my mind.” — Meet service members entrusted with guarding nuclear missiles that are among the most powerful in America's arsenal.