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Senate Dems push back on EPA boss Scott Pruitt’s security claims
A review of threats made against embattled Environmental Protection Secretary Scott Pruitt challenges claims his office made to justify spending millions of dollars on extra security and first-class travel, according to documents released Tuesday.
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Trump ‘certainly believes he has the power’ to fire Mueller, White House says
President Donald Trump “believes he has the power to” fire special counsel Robert Mueller, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Tuesday.
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White House: Trump ‘certainly believes he has the power’ to fire Mueller
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Dershowitz: Mueller’s goal is to write a report in hopes Congress uses it to impeach Trump
Attorney Alan Dershowitz said he thinks special counsel Robert Mueller’s goal is to produce a report in the hopes that Congress moves to impeach President Trump.”I think that’s the plan,” Dershowitz told Fox News’s Sean Hannity, when asked about…
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NYT: FBI sought documents related to payments and Trump’s alleged affairs in raid
The FBI sought to get documents regarding payments to two women who claim to have had affairs with President Trump in the bureau’s raid of the office of Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.Several people briefed on the investigation…
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ABC: Trump-appointed US attorney was recused from Cohen probe
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey Berman, was recused from the investigation into President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, ABC News reported.Berman was not involved in the FBI raid of Cohen’s hotel room and…
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White House: Trump believes he has power to fire Mueller
President Trump believes he has the power to fire Robert Mueller as special counsel leading the Russia probe, the White House said Tuesday. “He certainly believes that he has the power to do so,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee…
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***Live Updates*** Mark Zuckerberg Testifies Before Congress
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before the Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees today. Senators will get five minutes to question Zuckerberg today, which will give him plenty of time to try to run out the clock. Though the legacy media want the focus of the hearing to be about privacy, the bigger issue is whether Facebook is working to blunt the influence of right-of-center news outlets and personalities while propping up establishment outlets and those in good standing with them. Breitbart Tech reported this week that since Facebook’s algorithm alteration, legacy media outlets like CNN have seen “remarkable” increases in engagement on the social-media platform while non-legacy outlets on the right have seen the biggest drops.
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Trump thanks Xi for ‘kind words’ on trade amid tensions
President Trump on Tuesday thanked Chinese President Xi Jinping for his “kind words” about lowering auto import tariffs, amid heightened economic tensions between the two countries. “Very thankful for President Xi of China’s kind…
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