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"If you did not rob the bank, there is no reason for you not to sit down and talk to the FBI about the bank robbery."

House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) weighed in on recent revelations about President Donald Trump and Special Counsel Robert...
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Republicans are forced to walk a fine line between placating constituents who are angry over education cuts and conservative supporters who want low taxes.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A teacher walkout in Oklahoma entered its third day Wednesday in a red state rebellion stretching...
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“This is going to be a challenging election year,” the Senate leader admits.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Tuesday that the political winds will be “in our face” during the 2018...
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87 million!

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook revealed Wednesday that tens of millions more people might have been exposed in the Cambridge...
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Sanders says they're taking the issue "seriously."

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Wednesday that President Donald Trump was “not” OK with EPA Administrator Scott...
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She says the troops are meant to operate as support, not enforcement.

Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen announced at the White House press briefing on Wednesday that the Trump administration intends...
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Woah, where did those raises come from?

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt on Wednesday contradicted a recent report that he went around the White House and used a...
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The broadcasting company had told the senator that it doesn’t dictate words or content for local reporters to deliver.

The now-viral videos say otherwise.

During a discussion between Sen. Dick Durbin’s (D-IL) office and Sinclair Broadcasting Group staff in November 2017 about the company’s...
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The Iowa senator says he warned Trump months ago.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Wednesday lamented the new wave of Chinese tariffs on United States soybeans and other products...
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“I don’t really understand what’s left to your case.”

A federal judge on Wednesday appeared skeptical of a civil lawsuit filed by former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort alleging...
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Oklahoma’s school textbooks are literally crumbling.

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin (R) on Tuesday said that the teachers currently protesting for increases in school funding were like...
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“Her extensive online trail shows that she was intensely angry at YouTube itself for 'demonetizing' her YouTube channels and in other ways purportedly discriminating against her.”

Yesterday afternoon Nasim Aghdam, 39, walked onto the YouTube campus in San Bruno, California, fired dozens of shots, injured four...
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It's been remarkably difficult to pass an anti-Nazi resolution there.

Twice this spring, lawmakers in the Tennessee Assembly have tried to promote resolutions condemning neo-Nazis and white nationalists. Both times...
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“My heart broke for the anchors who were forced to do that.”

A former news director for a Sinclair-owned TV station in the Midwest said this week that the “must-run” promotions —...
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The Trump administration has been a boon for Gingrich’s crusade.

Dating back to his mid-1990s reign in the House of Representatives, and continuing through his failed presidential runs and unsuccessful...
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It is the first concrete evidence we have to date that the President’s own conduct is being investigated in the collusion/interference part of the Mueller probe. (Prime access)

Here’s my interpretation of the new Washington Post blockbuster which sheds dramatic new light on the Mueller probe and the...
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Not only did Democrats win the race, they won it by double digits.

After the Democratic-backed Wisconsin state Supreme Court candidate pulled off a double-digit defeat of her GOP rival on Tuesday evening,...
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The special counsel reportedly told Trump that he’s only a subject of the probe right now.

Special counsel Robert Mueller told attorneys for President Donald Trump in early March that Trump is a subject of the...
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