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Mar 26, 2019
Former FBI director James Comey has reached an agreement with House Republicans, ending a standoff over whether he would appear in front of Congress to discuss his role in law-enforcement decisions during the 2016 election.
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Mar 26, 2019
The New York State Education Department has failed to take sufficient steps to secure its computer information systems for more than a year, which could leave students' personal data at risk of hacking, according to state auditors.
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Mar 26, 2019
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sent at least 11 messages to his closest adviser, who oversaw the team that killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in the hours before and after the journalist's death in October, according to a highly classified CIA assessment.
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Mar 26, 2019
In what both defendants and plaintiffs acknowledged was an unprecedented case, lawyers for James Comey went to court Friday to challenge a subpoena ordering the former FBI director to testify before Congress next week.
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Mar 26, 2019
A weekend summit of the Group of 20 nations papered over global disagreements on trade, climate and human rights, as President Trump and other leaders were distracted by domestic and logistical issues.
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Mar 26, 2019
Past and present world leaders, ranging from ex-President Clinton to former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, remembered the 41st president for his ability to cultivate bipartisanship and for his foreign-policy achievements, especially during the end of the Cold War.
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Mar 26, 2019
George Herbert Walker Bush led the U.S. to a swift and decisive victory in the first Persian Gulf War and presided over the peaceful dissolution of the Soviet Union and unification of Germany, before a painful recession cost him a second term as president.
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Mar 26, 2019
Legislators are weighing the possibility of passing six of seven spending bills in an effort to minimize a potential shutdown while border-wall funding is negotiated—but it's unclear if President Trump would approve.
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Mar 26, 2019
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake rattled Anchorage, Alaska, causing damage to roads and bridges, sending workers under desks and setting off a brief tsunami warning for populated areas along the surrounding coast.
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Mar 26, 2019
New filings from the National Rifle Association reveal that the gun-rights group directed millions of dollars over several years to people with close ties to the group, including former top officials.
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Mar 26, 2019
Court documents suggest that special counsel Robert Mueller is zeroing in on ties between WikiLeaks and Roger Stone, an ex-Trump campaign adviser whose relationship with the president goes back decades.
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Mar 26, 2019
Supreme Court justices on Monday will effectively be asked to rule on the jurisprudence of their newest colleague in a fraud case that tests how far the SEC can go in holding stockbrokers accountable for disseminating false statements to clients.
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Mar 26, 2019
The recent clash along the border with Mexico here when migrants tried to push through a fence, drawing volleys of tear gas from U.S. Border Patrol, is bringing back memories from the 1990s.
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Mar 26, 2019
Political figures and dignitaries paid tribute to George Herbert Walker Bush. President Trump declared Wednesday a national day of mourning and the companies that run the NYSE and Nasdaq said their markets would be closed that day.
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Mar 26, 2019
The trade truce between the U.S. and China calms their economic battle and opens a brief window for the two nations to explore whether they can bridge deep divides on a range of difficult disputes.
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Mar 26, 2019
China and the U.S. agreed to a cease-fire in a trade battle that has shaken global markets, with the U.S. postponing plans to increase tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods and the two sides entering negotiations on other contentious issues.
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Mar 26, 2019
The U.S., Mexico and Canada took a step toward easing commercial tensions by signing a new pact that overhauls and updates their quarter-century-old free-trade zone.
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Mar 04, 2019
Rescue teams searched for victims a day after a tornado tore through rural southeast Alabama and killed at least 23 people, including a 6-year-old boy ripped from his fathers' arms.
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Mar 04, 2019
A $2 billion Chicago-St. Louis project will offer a top speed of just 110 mph and shave an hour off the trip. Few people are expected to use it. One problem: having to share the track with freight railroads.
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Mar 04, 2019
Democratic-led states are going to court to block a Trump administration plan to strip on-site abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood Federation of America of millions of taxpayer dollars for family planning, arguing the federal government is exceeding its authority to limit the federal funding.
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Mar 04, 2019
Democrats intensified their investigations into President Trump and his associates, with House committees demanding records related to his business dealings, interactions with the Justice Department and communications with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Mar 04, 2019
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said a resolution to block President Trump from declaring a national emergency would pass the GOP-controlled Senate, likely forcing the president to issue his first veto.
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Mar 04, 2019
The California Supreme Court affirmed the state's ability to roll back a specific pension benefit but left in place an influential rule offering public workers protection against cuts.
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Mar 04, 2019
After last week's fruitless Hanoi summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un, the White House has two crucial problems to ponder as it attempts to move negotiations forward.
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Mar 04, 2019
A publicist for Luke Perry said the "Riverdale" and "Beverly Hills, 90210" star has died. The actor had been hospitalized since last week.
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Mar 04, 2019
Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said he will seek the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, becoming the first member of the crowded field to run by trumpeting a record of working with Republicans.
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Mar 04, 2019
MobilizeAmerica gives Democratic campaigns and progressive causes a centralized sign-up system for events, door-knocking and shifts calling and texting voters.
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Mar 04, 2019
Frosty relations between the U.S. and the European Union warmed when Washington reversed its decision to downgrade the bloc's embassy.
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Mar 03, 2019
China and the U.S. are in the final stage of completing a trade deal, with Beijing offering to lower tariffs and other restrictions on American farm, chemical, auto and other products and Washington considering removing most, if not all, sanctions levied against Chinese products since last year.
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Mar 03, 2019
Sen. Rand Paul indicated he would be the fourth Republican to oppose President Trump's redirecting of federal funds toward building a border wall, potentially forcing the president to issue his first veto.
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Mar 03, 2019
Political-action committees affiliated with doctors' organizations donated more money to congressional candidates who opposed tighter gun laws than to those supporting them, reviving a debate over what role physicians should play in the issue.
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Mar 03, 2019
President Trump's job-approval rating has risen, but many of his party's policy positions are viewed as out of the mainstream, the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds.
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Mar 03, 2019
The House Judiciary Committee this week plans to request documents from more than 60 associates of President Trump, including from his sons and from his longtime chief financial officer, as part of a House investigation into obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power, the panel's chairman said.
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Mar 03, 2019
On Wednesday, the Census Bureau will likely report the U.S. last year registered the largest trade deficit in its history. How that happened is a lesson in the economics of imbalances.
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Mar 03, 2019
In a sign of the long-lasting fallout from the Larry Nassar sex-abuse scandal, Michigan State University no longer has direct liability insurance covering sexual-misconduct claims.
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Mar 03, 2019
Republicans in recent years have gained access to information long considered too sensitive to share with Congress. Now that House Democrats are in charge, the tables are turning as party lawmakers embark on wide-ranging inquiries into the president and his administration.
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Mar 02, 2019
President Trump lamented his "horrible position" of negotiating with North Korea following the death of Otto Warmbier, after the president drew criticism for saying that he accepted Kim Jong Un's word that he didn't know about Mr. Warmbier's abuse in Pyongyang's captivity.
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Mar 02, 2019
Consumers have moved to larger lenders offering online transactions, which means they don't necessarily need a local branch; community lenders left behind struggle.
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Mar 02, 2019
A U.S. team working ahead of the nuclear talks in Hanoi found North Korea wasn't willing to budge, expecting far more than they were prepared to give.
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Mar 02, 2019
Two police officers who fatally shot 22-year-old Stephon Clark last year won't face charges, Sacramento prosecutors said, the latest turn in a case that sparked protests in this California city.
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Mar 02, 2019
Communities across the South, still mired in battles over taking down Confederate statues, are proposing new monuments be erected in their place.
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Mar 02, 2019
County prosecutors said they wouldn't file criminal charges in the death of Chinedu Okobi, the brother of a Facebook executive who was repeatedly tased by law enforcement last year.
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Mar 01, 2019
The House Oversight Committee renewed its request to the White House for documents related to the administration's security-clearance processes, following reports that President Trump ordered his former chief of staff to grant his son-in-law a top-secret security clearance.
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Mar 01, 2019
All sorts of people who have previously had trouble landing a job are now finding work. A look at who's getting ahead, who could be left behind and how long the boom can last.
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Mar 01, 2019
Former aides claim the Minnesota senator is a difficult boss. But are we too tough on tough leaders?
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Mar 01, 2019
The parents of Otto Warmbier blamed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for their son's death, a day after President Trump said he accepted Mr. Kim's word that he didn't know about Mr. Warmbier's abuse.
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Mar 01, 2019
A month after a scandal erupted over racist photos in his medical-school yearbook, Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has kept a low profile even as he quietly runs the state.
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Mar 01, 2019
The U.S. military is ceasing annual large-scale joint exercises with South Korea, two U.S. officials said Friday, after the Trump administration deemed them too expensive.
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Mar 01, 2019
Former Vice President Joe Biden has been on the brink before of launching a presidential campaign, but this time, while proponents see him as Democrats' best chance to win back Midwestern states, millennial voters might want someone new.
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Mar 01, 2019
Democratic support for Medicare for All is slipping from the high levels seen around the November midterms as voters worry about its price tag and the toll it would take on both private and employer coverage.
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Mar 01, 2019
The Philippines shelved a planned review of its military alliance with the U.S. in return for a verbal commitment that American forces would defend the country's vessels in the South China Sea.
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Mar 01, 2019
The number of women using the U.S. veterans health system has tripled since the beginning of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, creating pressure to improve services for an often-overlooked population.
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Mar 01, 2019
Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee said he will seek the Democratic presidential nomination with a campaign focused on addressing climate change.
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Feb 28, 2019
House Democrats said they would seek testimony from the chief financial officer and other employees of the Trump Organization, potentially including members of President Trump's family, to follow up on Michael Cohen's accusations of wrongdoing.
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Feb 28, 2019
A summit that might have led to North Korea's first tangible disarmament steps faltered because Pyongyang wouldn't freeze all of its weapons programs and sought billions of dollars in sanctions relief, a senior State Department official said.
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Feb 28, 2019
Average tax refunds rebounded after a weak start to the tax-filing season, according to Internal Revenue Service data released Thursday that was highlighted by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
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Feb 28, 2019
Catastrophic flooding in Northern California left thousands of people evacuated, hundreds of homes underwater and the town of Guerneville in Sonoma County a veritable island.
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Feb 28, 2019
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that he has been in contact with Amazon.com Inc. executives, urging them to rethink their decision to abandon plans for a headquarters campus in Queens.
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Feb 28, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is split with her leadership team over how to handle moderate Democrats who are siding with Republicans on procedural votes to carve out independence from their party.
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Feb 28, 2019
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has pleaded not guilty to two misdemeanor counts of soliciting prostitution.
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Feb 28, 2019
The Trump administration's push to oust Nicolás Maduro as the president of Venezuela has split Democrats in Congress, rekindling a long-running debate in the party about how aggressively the U.S. should intervene in other countries.
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Feb 28, 2019
The Senate voted to confirm Andrew Wheeler as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, ratifying President Trump's choice of a former advocate for business interests to lead the agency.
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Feb 28, 2019
Beto O'Rourke says he has made a decision on his 2020 plans, and a person familiar with his decision says he won't be making another run for the Senate.
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Feb 28, 2019
With a mandate to bring sharper focus to antitrust issues in the tech world, a new Federal Trade Commission task force could emerge as a powerful brake on the nation's internet giants.
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Feb 28, 2019
Smartphone distraction and the growing prevalence of SUVs were cited as possible factors for the jump in motor-vehicle fatalities involving people on foot.
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Feb 28, 2019
President Trump started a second day of high-stakes talks with North Korea's Kim Jong Un by playing down the need for a rapid breakthrough on Pyongyang's nuclear program.
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Feb 28, 2019
The House passed an expansion of background checks for nearly all gun sales, a cornerstone of the legislative agenda newly empowered Democrats pledged to enact.
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Feb 27, 2019
Since 2013, the state's largest utility has repeatedly postponed upgrades to the high-voltage line that ran near Paradise, Calif., records show. The story of the Caribou-Palermo line is part of California's wildfire reckoning and at the center is PG&E and its track record of safety lapses.
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Feb 27, 2019
A divided Supreme Court ordered further proceedings on whether a man has the mental capacity to understand why he faces the death penalty, in one of two victories for criminal defendants that saw Chief Justice John Roberts join with the court's liberal wing.
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Feb 27, 2019
President Trump and his company's chief financial officer coordinated with Michael Cohen to pay for the silence of a porn star and conceal Mr. Trump's role in the deal, using sham invoices to cover it up, Mr. Cohen alleged in testimony to the House Oversight Committee.
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Feb 27, 2019
Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr., the North Carolina political operative at the center of a ballot scandal in an unresolved congressional election, was arrested on criminal charges over activities involving the 2018 and 2016 elections.
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Feb 27, 2019
A Senate panel recommended abolishing more than 600 China-funded cultural and language programs in the U.S. unless Beijing provides equal access for American public diplomacy efforts in China.
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Feb 27, 2019
A Latin cross built as a World War I memorial appeared likely to remain at a Maryland traffic circle after Supreme Court justices expressed reluctance to disturb the monument at the center of a First Amendment case.
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Feb 27, 2019
Subpoena seeks documents related to investigation into whether committee spending was "wasteful, mismanaged and/or improperly provided private benefit."
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Feb 27, 2019
In the strongest sign yet that an accord is near, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said the U.S. was abandoning for now its threat to raise tariffs to 25% on $200 billion of Chinese goods.
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Feb 27, 2019
Employers who rely on seasonal foreign-worker permits are renewing their fight to lift limits on temporary H-2B visas, saying computer problems this year that thwarted many applications highlighted the need to raise the cap.
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Feb 27, 2019
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the central bank is close to announcing plans for ending the runoff of its $4 trillion portfolio of bonds and other assets this year.
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Feb 27, 2019
House Democrats unveiled details of a Medicare for All bill that would create a new federally financed health system, a proposal likely to shape a debate among the party's 2020 presidential candidates.
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Feb 26, 2019
Donald Trump's former lawyer will for the first time publicly accuse the president of criminal conduct while in office related to a hush-money payment to a porn star.
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Feb 26, 2019
The Labor Department is proposing to hold a lottery for businesses seeking seasonal-worker visas, a rule-change intended to alleviate a filing rush that caused a government website to crash earlier this year.
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Feb 26, 2019
The House voted to block the White House from redirecting federal funds toward building a border wall, and the Senate inched closer to doing the same, raising the specter of President Trump exercising his veto power for the first time.
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Feb 26, 2019
Leaders from seven drugmakers representing $140 billion in U.S. revenue defended their pricing in a Senate hearing that showcased bipartisan support for what would be some of the most significant changes to the industry in decades.
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Feb 26, 2019
The United Methodist Church shot down a plan that would have opened the door to gay marriage in the church, a blow to theological liberals that exposes the rift within the third-largest Christian denomination in the U.S.
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Feb 26, 2019
House Democrats voted to require the Trump administration to turn over documents on the policy that separated children from parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Feb 26, 2019
A former executive at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in the 2013 traffic-jam scandal known as Bridgegate.
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Feb 26, 2019
A Senate panel voted along party lines to advance the nomination of Mark Calabria, President Trump's pick to help overhaul the way many Americans finance their homes, setting up a likely confirmation this spring.
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Feb 26, 2019
The FDA's planned new steps range from new dosage forms to small-quantity packaging along with an overhaul of opioid-safety measures.
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Feb 26, 2019
Mark Harris's decision to drop his run for North Carolina's ninth congressional district comes less than a week after the state elections board called for a new election.
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Feb 26, 2019
The Federal Trade Commission said it would create a new task force to examine potential antitrust violations in the tech industry, signaling tougher scrutiny ahead for the industry's largest companies.
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Feb 25, 2019
Paul Manafort's legal team detailed the former Trump campaign chairman's work for four presidents, his ailing health, and the support he provided his family in a filing, asking a Washington, D.C., federal judge for leniency.
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Feb 25, 2019
A House panel believes it has evidence that President Trump asked Matthew Whitaker, at the time the acting attorney general, whether Manhattan U.S. attorney Geoffrey Berman could regain control of his office's investigation into Mr. Trump's former lawyer and his real-estate business.
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Feb 25, 2019
A state attorney's office in Florida on Monday detailed prostitution solicitation charges against New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft.
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Feb 25, 2019
A Texas man who was abducted in Yemen in 2017 has been reunited with his family, President Trump said Monday.
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Feb 25, 2019
The White House will propose capping next year's federal budget at spending levels enacted in 2011, while effectively exempting the Pentagon from the sharp spending cuts, the Trump administration's top budget official said.
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Feb 25, 2019
Members of Congress return to Washington with a monthslong fight over border-security spending behind them, but a familiar dilemma ahead: the unclear fate of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
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Feb 25, 2019
Charitable giving in 2018 was increasingly concentrated among larger donors, evidence of how the tax-code changes enacted in late 2017 are rippling through the nonprofit sector.
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Feb 25, 2019
Executives for some of the biggest drug companies will visit Capitol Hill on Tuesday to face tough questions in a Senate hearing on the rising cost of medicines.
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Feb 25, 2019
Both Republicans and Democrats are in the midst of—and in fact, may be near the end of—significant realignments that are altering who they are and what they stand for, Gerald F. Seib writes.
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Feb 25, 2019
The Trump Organization said it had donated $191,000 in profits it received from foreign governments in 2018 to the Treasury, nearly 30% more than it reported the previous year.
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Feb 25, 2019
Sen. Elizabeth Warren's campaign says she is forgoing traditional private fundraising dinners and receptions during her presidential primary campaign, instead offering "equal access" to all backers.
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