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Hope Hicks refuses to answer questions about Trump White House, lawmakers say

President Donald Trump’s former aide Hope Hicks is refusing to answer questions Wednesday about her time working in the White House as she testifies behind closed doors before the House Judiciary Committee.

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Michael Cohen tells Congress that Jay Sekulow knew Cohen's testimony on Trump Tower was false - CNNPolitics

President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen alleges that the President's attorney Jay Sekulow knew that Cohen's claim to Congress that the Trump Tower Moscow project ended in January 2016 was false, Cohen told the House Intelligence Comm

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Paul Manafort pleads guilty and agrees to cooperate with Mueller investigation - CNNPolitics

After months of vowing to fight for his innocence, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort conceded to committing several federal crimes and agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department, including in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigat

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ie=edge"/> About 100 people arrested in immigration protest at Capitol Hill

More than one thousand female activists marched through Washington, D.C., Thursday and flooded a Capitol Hill Senate building to protest the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy.

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Trump Defends Family-Separation Policy

The Trump administration sought to blame Congress for the new policy of separating some migrant families and said only lawmakers could change it as part of an immigration overhaul, but Republicans and Democrats remained far apart on any deal.

I am horrified by this policy and the misinformation that the Trump administration continues to perpetuate about it. The act of separating these children from their families is NOT required by the law; it is only required by a policy directive created under this administration, who refuses to take accountability for its actions.

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‘Back to the Dark Ages’: Sessions’s asylum ruling reverses decades of women’s rights progress, critics say

For critics, including former immigration judges, the unilateral decision undoes a carefully deliberated legal development “that was universally agreed to be correct.”

Victims of violence at the hands of a gang or a partner/lover/spouse/parent are often some of the strongest, bravest, most inspiring people in the world. I am ashamed that we would ever refuse to welcome them with open arms so that they can start a safer life here in the United States.

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Trump and Kim, Brash and Impulsive, Arrive for First Face-to-Face Meeting

The meeting is the most improbable geopolitical courtship in recent memory, opening an unpredictable chapter between the United States and North Korea.

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Trump Upends Global Trade Order Built by U.S.

The president’s searing criticisms of trade left allies in Canada, Japan and Europe wary of upsetting a global trade order but unwilling to back down.

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President Trump Orders Help For Coal And Nuclear Plants

President Trump has ordered Energy Secretary Rick Perry to take immediate steps to help financially troubled coal and nuclear power plants.

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Congressional Republicans lining up against Trump on trade - CNNPolitics

Republicans on Capitol Hill were fuming after the White House abruptly announced it would begin imposing steel and aluminum tariffs Friday on US allies Canada, Mexico and the European Union.

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Why Some Senators Who Want a Criminal Justice Overhaul Oppose a Prisons Bill

Senior Senate authors of a long-stalled but much more comprehensive package say that a bill passed by the House falls short because it doesn’t address federal sentencing laws.