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The congressman apparently called his staffers “f*cktards” on the regular.

A former communications director for Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX) said the congressman was verbally abusive, sexually demeaning and he regularly...
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He allegedly didn’t give up when a high school senior refused to give him her number; Roy sure as heck won’t give up now!

Roy Moore still refuses to concede the Alabama Senate race to Democrat Doug Jones and suggested in a video released...
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Brooks says he will undergo surgery this week.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep. Mo Brooks said Wednesday he has prostate cancer and will undergo surgery this week. The...
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The claim purportedly came from a former staffer, who said that her signature had been forged.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has turned over to Capitol Police an apparently forged document that he said falsely...
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The texts fueled several accusations from Republicans that Mueller’s team is biased.

The FBI agent who was removed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team in August, Peter Strzok, called President Donald Trump “awful”...
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Dems point to 2010, when they delayed a final vote on Obamacare until Sen. Scott Brown was sworn in.

In the wake of a stunning upset victory Tuesday night by Democrat Doug Jones in deep-red Alabama, Senate Democrats are...
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“He has ruled it out,” an Ellison spokesperson told TPM.

Rep. Keith Ellison has ruled out running to serve the remainder of outgoing Sen. Al Franken’s (D-MN) term in a...
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“A president who would all but call Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand a whore is not fit to clean the toilets in the Barack Obama Presidential Library or to shine the shoes of George W. Bush."

The USA Today editorial board on Tuesday pilloried President Donald Trump for his sexually suggestive attack against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand...
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Arpaio got his pardon; now the Trump administration doesn’t even want him to have a record.

The Department of Justice is backing former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio in his effort to appeal a district court’s decision...
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“I believe he should be investigated…I’m demanding it.”

Beverly Young Nelson, who accused former Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexually assaulting her when she was a teen,...
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Pruitt claims he needs the booth for “secure conversations that need to take place.”

The inspector general of the Environmental Protection Agency will inspect EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s construction of a $24,570 “privacy booth”...
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Moore seems to struggle with being told “no.”

Sen.-elect Doug Jones (D-AL) on Wednesday said he received a “very gracious” call from President Donald Trump congratulating him on...
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This was the guy with zero trial experience.

Brett J. Talley, a lawyer unanimously rated “not qualified” by the American Bar Association, will not move forward in the nomination...
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Someone’s a little salty.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday afternoon lamented that some Republicans were “happy” that Republican Roy Moore, who faced several sexual...
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After over a month of outrage from the public over the GOP tax bill's generosity to America's wealthiest, Republicans have taken the next step:

On Wednesday the House and Senate hold the first public conference committee meeting to iron out significant differences on the...
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Omarosa wasn't about to leave quietly, it seems.

Omarosa Manigault Newman’s resignation from President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday unfolded more like an anecdote from her days as...
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