"More often than not he's just eating the pieces."
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Thursday, May 31, 2018
Trump Allies Don’t See “Three-Dimensional Chess” In Dinesh D’Souza’s Pardon
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Prosecutors Just Dropped More Inauguration Day Protest Cases After They Got In Trouble Over Project Veritas Videos
A judge found the government withheld evidence that should have been turned over to the defense. There are 52 cases still pending.
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Trump Hits Canada, Mexico, And Europe With Tariffs, Possibly Igniting A Trade War
The retaliation has already begun.
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Republicans Lost The Same-Sex Marriage Fight. Here’s How They Plan To Win The War.
Everything the anti-abortion movement did is happening again.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Alabama Republicans Condemn Candidate, Months After Refusing To Back Away From Roy Moore
Jim Bonner maybe has a good chance of winning a seat on a regulatory board — and a history of posting racist and anti-Semitic things on Facebook.
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Paul Manfort's Friends Have Launched A Legal Defense Fund, Saying He's Struggling To Pay His Bills
Manafort hasn't been able to access several financial accounts and other assets since the special counsel's office filed charges last year, according to his lawyer.
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Trump Campaign Rallies Are As Out-Of-Control As Ever. And They Could Help Keep Republicans In Control Of The Senate.
Even as he vents on Twitter or unfurls long tangents at rallies, Republicans think the president has found an effective message in red states.
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Friday, May 25, 2018
Andrew Cuomo And The Working Families Party Battle Over Who’s The Real Progressive
“There’s a struggle between the left and center of the party happening all over and people want to see progressives embraced. And it’s reached New York.”
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Thursday, May 24, 2018
Trump Just Canceled His Meeting With North Korea's Kim Jong Un
The summit had been scheduled for June 12.
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Wednesday, May 23, 2018
What Exactly Is This "Spygate" Trump Is Talking About?
There's not a ton of information out there.
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Twitter Introduces Election Labels For Candidates In The 2018 Midterms
It's an effort to provide "authentic, trustworthy information," this time around.
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The Senate Finally Has A Plan To Change How Congress Deals With Sexual Harassment
Months after the House passed its own legislation, the Senate released a bill to get taxpayers off the hook for sexual harassment settlements on Wednesday.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Lots Of Atlanta’s Young Black Women Are Unbothered By Race In Georgia’s Race-Obsessed Governor’s Primary
Stacey Abrams has largely avoided race and identity. It’s left some young black women voters feeling like they actually have a choice.
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The 5 Most Interesting Primaries To Watch Tonight
Remember that YouTube ad with the pilot? She's up tonight.
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Sunday, May 20, 2018
Trump "Demands" DOJ Investigation Into Campaign Surveillance — But It's Not Clear Yet What That Means
The tweet could set up a constitutional crisis. Or it could set up a now-familiar process of lawyers, essentially, pushing off the request to avoid such a crisis. Or it could be forgotten by the week's end.
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The Complicated Politics Of How Democrats Win ]In Georgia
The legacy of the HOPE scholarship is complicated. Stacey Evans’ pitch to win Georgia’s Democratic nomination for governor is not.
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Friday, May 18, 2018
Nikki Haley Is Playing It Safe In The South Carolina Governor’s Primary
"South Carolina voters, I think they remember that stuff. What good does it do?"
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Moderate Republicans Will Get A Vote To Protect DREAMers Over The Objections Of Conservatives
GOP moderates succeeded in extracting an immigration vote from Paul Ryan, which angered conservative hardliners so much that a farm bill went down as collateral damage.
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Here Are Just Some Pictures Of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin And Mitch McConnell Holding Gold
The pictures come from a Freedom of Information Act request connected to last year's trip to Ft. Knox to watch the solar eclipse.
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Here's The First Look At HBO's New Documentary About Senator John McCain
The film features interviews with George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Henry Kissinger, and more.
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Thursday, May 17, 2018
The Senate Just Confirmed Donald Trump’s Pick To Lead The CIA
Gina Haspel’s nomination faced opposition from many senators for her role in the CIA’s torture program, but she ultimately won over enough Democrats to be confirmed.
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Cynthia Nixon Is Trying To Find A Bernie-Like Pitch That Can Win Black Voters
“You can’t just talk about economic justice without talking about racial justice — they’re not mutually exclusive.”
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Republicans Know Voters Are Going To Be Mad They Didn’t Repeal Obamacare, So They’re Trying Again
For years Republicans made repealing Obamacare the core of their health platform. Now they face a midterm election without a plan.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Which Prisoners Are Considered Transgender? The Trump Administration Won't Explain Its New Rules.
What does “biological sex” mean? Officials won’t answer.
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Trump Acknowledges Repaying Michael Cohen For Stormy Daniels Payment
The disclosure was included in the president’s latest financial forms.
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Senate Investigators Have Released Thousands Of Documents On The Russia Investigation
The documents are mostly transcripts of interviews with those who attended a June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2018
A Top Democratic Group Has Increased Staff Diversity For Key Midterms
DCCC is getting high marks on its diversity staffing efforts after difficult (and controversial) endorsement decisions in competitive districts.
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A DC Think Tank Uses Fake Twitter Accounts And A Shady Expert To Reach The NSA, FBI And White House
ICIT bills itself as "America's Cybersecurity Think Tank." But BuzzFeed News found it's running fake Twitter accounts and its top expert has questionable credentials.
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What Do Democrats Mean When They Talk About Medicare For All? Voters Aren't Sure.
When some moderate and left-leaning voters say “Medicare for All” sounds like a pretty good idea, they aren’t actually thinking about single-payer health care.
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Monday, May 14, 2018
The Supreme Court Clears The Way For Sports Betting
A federal law barring states from authorizing sports gambling violates the Constitution, the justices ruled on Monday.
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The US Is About To Officially Move Its Embassy In Israel To Jerusalem
President Trump is due to address the ceremony via videolink, as huge protests take place in Gaza.
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How The Congressional Baseball Shooting Didn't Become The Deadliest Political Assassination In American History
You don't know the whole story of how close we came to one of the deadliest political shootings in US history last year.
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Sunday, May 13, 2018
Stacey Abrams And Kamala Harris Gave Black Woman Democrats A Moment They've Been Waiting For
This weekend, one nationally prominent black woman politician campaigned to help another black woman politician become governor.
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A Former Aide To Two Of The Senate's Biggest Russia Hawks Is Pushing A Pro-Russia Party Abroad
Christian Ferry, who worked on the campaigns of Lindsey Graham and John McCain, is now working with a pro-Russia party in the Baltic country of Latvia.
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Friday, May 11, 2018
A Lawyer Claims Trump's Team Knew Of Claims Against Former NY AG Eric Schneiderman In 2013
Peter Gleason claims that he had a conversation with Michael Cohen, Trump's longtime lawyer, about allegations against the former New York attorney general in 2013.
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Trump Is Promising To Lower Drug Prices, But Experts Doubt It Will Happen
President Trump promised to lower drug costs through more generic drugs, improved Medicare rules, and less “foreign freeloading” on US companies’ research.
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Jeff Sessions Is Attacking Federal Judges, But He's Being Called Out For Hypocrisy
The attorney general, like his predecessors, is coming to learn how annoying broad injunctions are. But he’s using them to vilify the judiciary.
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Russia Isn’t The Issue In The Race To Beat “Putin's Favorite Congressman”
Dana Rohrabacher’s challengers are hoping to make his ties to Russia just one more reason for voters to see their congressman as “a bit off.”
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A Fox Host Apologized After A Guest Said Torture Worked On "Songbird" John McCain
McCain, a former prisoner of war, is a strong opponent of torture. Fox Business host Charles Payne says he didn't hear the controversial comment.
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This Candidate Became The First Woman To Use Campaign Funds To Pay For A Babysitter
Hillary Clinton sent a letter to the FEC in support of Liuba Grechen Shirley's request, saying it would encourage other young mothers to run for office.
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It's Harder To Pay Off Foreign Governments Than The US One
Novartis would think twice before giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to Vladimir Putin's lawyer. But in Washington, the rules are different.
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Republican Moderates Are Working To Overrule Paul Ryan And Force Votes On DACA
After two months of being dormant, the immigration debate will hit Congress again if a majority of House members are willing to bypass the speaker.
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Republicans Have A Plan To Push Through Trump’s Judicial Nominees, And There’s Little Democrats Can Do To Stop Them
Democrats accuse Republicans of ceding too much power to Trump when it comes to judicial nominees.
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The Only Defendant Participating So Far In Mueller's Russian Troll Farm Case Pleaded Not Guilty
A lawyer for Concord Management and Consulting said it was "disturbing" that the special counsel's office appeared to have access to certain confidential filings.
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The Way Michael Cohen Made Money Shows A Different Kind Of Swamp Under Trump
“In some ways this is a snapshot into a dark area of influence peddling.”
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Haspel Insists Her Moral Compass Is Strong As Senators Press Her About The CIA's Use Of Torture
Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency was asked repeatedly about the agency's treatment of suspected terrorists at her confirmation hearing.
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Cecile Richards Won't Rule Out Running For Office In New York
"Never say never," the former Planned Parenthood president told BuzzFeed News' AM to DM Wednesday.
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The Special Counsel's Office Had Been Looking Into Payments To Michael Cohen's Company As Early As Last Year
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders says the payments are "the decision[s] of an independent company and ha[ve] nothing to do with the White House."
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This Teen Said His Teammates Assaulted Him, Then His School Kept Their Punishment Secret
When kids report sexual assault to their schools, they expect to find out what happens to the alleged perpetrator. Instead, they’re getting the silent treatment because of privacy laws.
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