WASHINGTON – A prominent House Republican plans to ask a federal financial watchdog to audit the office of special counsel Robert Mueller III, opening a new front of GOP attack on the secretive probe into Russian interference in the 2016 ...

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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s nominee for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit apologized during his confirmation hearing Wednesday. At issue: a slate of articles disparaging multiculturalism that he wrote more than 20 years ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Stormy Daniels’ lawyer said Tuesday he has information showing that Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney, received $500,000 from a company associated with a Russian billionaire within months of paying hush money to Daniels, a ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump is growing increasingly irritated with lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s frequently off-message media blitz, which has included muddying the waters on hush money paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels and making claims that could complicate ...

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President Donald Trump has had ample opportunity to begin transforming his judicial nemesis: a federal appeals court out West that has stymied some of his most ambitious and controversial proposals. So far, he hasn’t seized it. The powerful U.S. Court ...

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After days of media appearances intended to explain President Donald Trump’s legal settlement with an adult-film star that only raised fresh questions about the payment, his new attorney Rudy Giuliani on Sunday said Trump still has confidence in him and ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump reimbursed his personal lawyer for $130,000 in hush money paid to a porn actress days before the 2016 presidential election, Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump’s attorneys, said Wednesday, appearing to contradict the president’s past ...

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Rudolph W. Giuliani, a new lawyer on President Trump’s team, claimed a broad constitutional immunity for his client from being subpoenaed in a criminal proceeding, a predictable claim but one unsupported by any Supreme Court decision. He cited the “Founding ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday reimbursement to his personal lawyer for hush money paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels was done through a monthly retainer and “had nothing to do with the campaign.” On Twitter, Trump says ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said that President Donald Trump’s former bodyguard did nothing out of the ordinary when he took possession of the president’s medical records last year, despite a claim by Trump’s former doctor that the episode ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge says an appeals court can decide if presidential campaign statements can be used to prove racial animus led to a decision to end a program sparing many young immigrants from deportation. U.S. ...

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NEW YORK – A federal judge on Thursday appointed a special master to review material seized from the office and residences of President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen, acceding to his request that an independent party review the material ...

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