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GOP candidate for Fla. governor spoke at racially charged events - Rep. Ron DeSantis , a gubernatorial nominee who recently was accused of using racially tinged language, spoke four times at conferences organized by a conservative activist who has said that African Americans owe The Urgent Question of Trump and Money Laundering - How Bruce Ohr, President Trump's latest Twitter target, fits a suspicious pattern of behavior on Russia.

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GOP candidate for Fla. governor spoke at racially charged events - Rep. Ron DeSantis , a gubernatorial nominee who recently was accused of using racially tinged language, spoke four times at conferences organized by a conservative activist who has said that African Americans owe The Urgent Question of Trump and Money Laundering - How Bruce Ohr, President Trump's latest Twitter target, fits a suspicious pattern of behavior on Russia.

North Korea is still making nukes, and the Trump admin is taking a harder line

GOP candidate for Fla. governor spoke at racially charged events - Rep. Ron DeSantis , a gubernatorial nominee who recently was accused of using racially tinged language, spoke four times at conferences organized by a conservative activist who has said that African Americans owe The Urgent Question of Trump and Money Laundering - How Bruce Ohr, President Trump's latest Twitter target, fits a suspicious pattern of behavior on Russia.

Brett Kavanaugh: Love child of the unholy marriage between Donald Trump and the GOP

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Black ex-police chief gets GOP nod for New Hampshire House

A black former police chief backed by the Trump administration won the Republican nomination Tuesday in New Hampshire's toss-up congressional district, while Democrats picked experienced, establishment-backed nominees for both that seat and for governor. Eddie Edwards, who was endorsed by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, defeated six Republican opponents in the 1st Congressional District, which covers the eastern half of the state.

Trump’s jabs at Sessions could eclipse AG’s accomplishments

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has vigorously pushed President Donald Trump 's agenda at the Justice Department , and before that, spent 20 years championing conservative causes in the Senate . Yet as Sessions enters what may be the final stretch of his tenure, those efforts are at risk of being eclipsed by his boss' relentless verbal jabs that have made the attorney general seem like a perpetual presidential punching bag.

Kavanaugh confirmation fight rallies Democrats to resistance

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh declined to express his opinion on gay marriage when questioned about it by Democratic Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey during Thursday's confirmation hearings. WASHINGTON - Democrats don't have the votes to block Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Pence says he’d take lie detector to clear self

Vice President Mike Pence said that he was never part of discussions to remove President Donald Trump from office and would take a lie detector test "in a heartbeat" to prove that he was not the author of last week's anonymous New York Times op-ed, who claimed to be part of a resistance movement within the Trump administration.

Pence disavows ouster attempt

Vice President Mike Pence might have the most to gain from a premature end to Donald Trump's presidency, but in an interview aired Sunday, he forcefully denied engaging in any discussion about invoking the 25th Amendment to eject Trump from office. The vice president, who made appearances on two major Sunday news-talk shows, also delivered a sweeping condemnation of Watergate journalist Bob Woodward's depiction of a capricious and incurious president, and again denied authorship of a stinging anonymous op-ed piece published last week in The New York Times that describes high-level officials discussing removing Trump.

Pence: I’d take lie detector test over NYT essay

Vice President Mike Pence says he'd agree to take a lie detector test "in a heartbeat" to prove he isn't the author of an anti-Trump New York Times opinion piece. A top Pence aide has already said the vice president didn't write the anonymous piece criticizing President Donald Trump's leadership.

Loosen grip on dairy sector to help NAFTA talks, New York Republican says

The pressure on the Liberals to loosen protections around Canada's dairy sector took new focus on Sunday as the key stumbling block in North American Free Trade Agreement talks came under scrutiny and spin on political talk shows on both sides of the border. A member of an influential Congressional panel - and a Donald Trump supporter - said in a Canadian interview that providing American dairy farmers with more access to the Canadian market may appease the president.

Papadopoulos: Trump campaign members a fully awarea of efforts to set Putin meeting

George Papadopoulos, the one-time foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump who became swept up in the special counsel investigation, says members of the Trump campaign team were "fully aware" and in many cases supportive of his efforts to broker a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "I actively sought to leverage my contacts with the professor to host this meeting," Papadopoulos told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview on This Week Sunday.

Another View: Trump is unfit to be president. Now what?

On Wednesday, The New York Times took the unusual step of publishing an anonymous OpEd, from a senior Trump administration official, which both painted a horrifying portrait of an impulsive, amoral president who "continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic" and sought to reassure Americans that "adults in the room" were checking President Donald Trump's worst impulses. The column was a shocking revelation of how dysfunctional the White House has become.