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Judge orders State Dept. to search state.gov accounts for Clinton aides’ Benghazi emails

August 10, 2017

A federal judge has ordered the State Department to search the “state.gov” email accounts of Hillary Clinton aides Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills and Jacob Sullivan for records related to Benghazi, as part of a watchdog’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

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Trump’s USDA pick wrote Obama wanted to ‘enslave’ opponents, seemed ‘happy’ after Benghazi

August 10, 2017

President Trump’s pick to be chief scientist for the Department of Agriculture (USDA) previously suggested former President Obama wanted to “enslave” his opponents and seemed “happy” after the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.CNN’s KFile…

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Trump friend said to be in talks to become ambassador to Mexico

August 10, 2017

Tom Barrack, President Trump’s longtime friend, is under consideration for the post of ambassador to Mexico, Politico reported Thursday.Yet White House officials and advisers said Barrack, a successful real estate developer, has expressed…

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Senate Dem: Trump has to stop ‘reckless’ language on North Korea

August 10, 2017

Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) on Thursday said the Trump administration should end its “reckless” rhetoric on North Korea, calling for “urgent diplomacy” and “tightening sanctions” in the wake of Pyongyang’s aggression.During a segment on MSNBC’s “…

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Kelly joins list of Trump staffers to get Time magazine cover

August 10, 2017

Chief of staff John Kelly is the latest White House staffer to be featured on the cover of Time Magazine.Kelly is seen on the cover of an upcoming issue that calls him President Trump’s “last best hope.”The article, published…

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Poll: Americans cite government, healthcare as most important problems

August 10, 2017

Americans think the most important problems facing the U.S. are dissatisfaction with the government and healthcare, according to a new survey.A Gallup poll finds 20 percent of respondents cited dissatisfaction with the government and poor…

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Thursday’s Campaign Round-Up, 8.10.17

August 10, 2017

Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.

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Trump’s political antics push consumers’ health care costs higher

August 10, 2017

The irony of the White House complaining about rising premiums: it’s Donald Trump’s antics that are pushing costs higher.

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Trump lawyer slams special counsel for ‘gross abuse’ in Manafort raid, challenges warrant

August 10, 2017

A top lawyer for President Trump slammed the special counsel’s office over the FBI raid of former campaign manager Paul Manafort’s Virginia home, accusing investigators of committing a “gross abuse of the judicial process” for the sake of “shock value” – and employing tactics normally seen “in Russia not America.”

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Pollak: Susan Rice’s Disgraceful Call for Appeasement on North Korea

August 10, 2017

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 1: (AFP OUT) U.S. President Barack Obama (L) talks to Susan Rice, U.S. national security advisor(C) during a closing session with David Cameron, U.K. prime minister (R) at the Nuclear Security Summit April 1, 2016 in Washington, D.C. After a spate of terrorist attacks from Europe to Africa, Obama is rallying international support during the summit for an effort to keep Islamic State and similar groups from obtaining nuclear material and other weapons of mass destruction. (Photo By Andrew Harrer/Pool/Getty Images)

“History shows that we can, if we must, tolerate nuclear weapons in North Korea.” Those words were written by former National Security Adviser Susan Rice on Thursday in the New York Times, in arguing for appeasement towards Kim Jong-un.

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