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Jun 19, 2018--Amazon.com today announced its selections for Best Books of the Year So Far, naming Tara Westover's memoir Educated: A Memoir the top pick overall. The annual list is hand selected by the Amazon Books Editors and features the Top 20 books released between January and June 2018 - offering readers a mid-year look at the best books.
Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani dismissed President Donald Trump's misstatements and untruths on Sunday, but he admitted that lying breaks one of the Bible's Ten Commandments. During an interview on CNN, host Jake Tapper noted that Trump had lied about his role in crafting a statement to deny that his son met with a Russian lawyer to get "dirt" on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign.
On [June 8], the president said he “probably will end up supporting” a bill in Congress to keep the federal government from interfering in states with legal pot laws. The president must not leave legal marijuana states yo-yoing between his vague words of support and Attorney General Jeff Sessions' marijuana-averse statements and policies.
The three "Minnesota men" who were convicted after a three-week trial in federal court in Minneapolis appealed their convictions to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. I covered the trial every day on Power Line and following the convictions in the Weekly Standard article "'Minnesota men' on trial."
Two women talked about their abortions. Another who worked at Toys R Us for 33 years said a Wall Street leveraged buyout left her facing unemployment without severance.
James Wolfe, left, the former security director for the Senate Intelligence Committee, and New York Times reporter Ali Watkins, right. Federal investigators had seized years' worth of Watkins' email and phone records as part of a leak probe into Wolfe.
Trump's comments on Tuesda... . Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined at right by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 12... .
AT&T Inc won court approval on Tuesday to buy Time Warner Inc for $85 billion, rebuffing an attempt by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to block the deal and likely setting off a wave of corporate mergers. The deal, which could close next week, is seen as a turning point for a media industry that has been upended by companies like Netflix Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google which produce content and sell it online directly to consumers, without requiring a pricey cable subscription.
"There is no debate. Israel has lied about the al-Najjar case repeatedly. The NYT wants to give some sort of face-saving excuse for this and all they can come up with is this subtle endorsement of the slander about her lack of innocence," Johnson, North, and Weiss write.
A day after Stormy Daniels accused her former lawyer of being a "puppet" for President Donald Trump, the attorney countersued the porn star and her new attorney for defamation and accused Trump's personal attorney of illegally recording their telephone calls. The countersuit was filed Thursday in federal court in Los Angeles - hours after Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani claimed Daniels isn't credible and has "no reputation" because she's a porn actress.
Giuliani: Trump Could Have Shot Comey And Still Couldn't Be Indicted For It - Congress would have to impeach Trump first before any criminal prosecution could move forward, the president's lawyer says. - WASHINGTON Candidate Donald Trump bragged that he could shoot someone President Trump 'probably does' have the power to pardon himself: Giuliani - President Trump's lead attorney said the president "probably does" have the power to pardon himself.
Giuliani: Trump Could Have Shot Comey And Still Couldn't Be Indicted For It - Congress would have to impeach Trump first before any criminal prosecution could move forward, the president's lawyer says. - WASHINGTON Candidate Donald Trump bragged that he could shoot someone President Trump 'probably does' have the power to pardon himself: Giuliani - President Trump's lead attorney said the president "probably does" have the power to pardon himself.
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President Trump 'probably does' have the power to pardon himself: Giuliani - President Trump's lead attorney said the president "probably does" have the power to pardon himself. - Rudy Giuliani was discussing with ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on "This Week" Giuliani threatens legal battle with Mueller over subpoena - The president's lawyer Rudy Giuliani threatened a legal battle with special counsel Robert Mueller if he attempts to subpoena Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump's lawyers argued in a confidential January letter to special counsel Robert Mueller that the President cannot illegally obstruct the Russia probe because the Constitution empowers him to "terminate the inquiry, or even exercise his power to pardon," The New York Times reported Saturday. The letter, which CNN reported on last week and the Times has obtained, also says that Trump could not possibly have committed obstruction because he has unfettered authority over all federal investigations.
Lawyers for President Trump told special counsel Robert Mueller in a confidential letter that the president would not comply with requests for an interview, could end the special counsel's investigation and could use his executive powers to pardon if needed. The January 2018 letter, along with a second letter sent in June 2017, was obtained by The New York Times and provide the clearest view yet of Trump's legal strategy in Mueller's wide-ranging investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and possible obstruction of justice.
White House Demands TBS Cancel Samantha Bee's Show - White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders slammed comedienne Samantha Bee's comments about Ivanka Trump on Thursday. "The language used by Samantha Bee last night is vile and vicious.
President Donald Trump told reporters on Thursday that he is considering pardoning Martha Stewart and commuting former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's sentence. Trump floated the idea of pardoning or commuting the sentences of the two former "Apprentice" series stars on May 31, just hours after he pardoned the conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza.