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Attorney General Jeff Sessions forced out

WASHINGTON – Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigned on Wednesday at President Donald Trump’s request, ending the tenure of a beleaguered loyalist whose relationship with the president was ruined when Sessions recused himself from control of the investigation of Russian interference ...

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions attacks judges thwarting Trump agenda

WASHINGTON – As the Supreme Court considered whether Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross must answer questions in a court case about why he decided to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday publicly attacked ...

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Trump talked with Sessions’ own chief of staff about replacing him as attorney general

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump talked recently with Jeff Sessions’ own chief of staff about replacing Sessions as attorney general, according to people briefed on the conversation, signaling that the president remains keenly interested in ousting his top law enforcement ...

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For now, Democrats give Sessions a pass on proposed Trump-Putin meeting

WASHINGTON – Congressional Democrats say they are troubled by new questions about Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ contention that he discouraged a former Trump campaign adviser from arranging a meeting between then-candidate Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, but there is anxiety ...

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Sen. Lindsey Graham says any new attorney general must let special counsel Mueller finish his job

WASHINGTON – Sen. Lindsey O. Graham, R-S.C., said Tuesday that if President Donald Trump replaces Attorney General Jeff Sessions, his new nominee would have to promise the Senate that he would allow special counsel Robert Mueller to complete his investigation. ...

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Jeff Sessions ridicules child separation critics as ‘lunatic fringe’ living in ‘gated communities’

The migrant crisis unfolding at the southern border has created new quandaries about the bounds of acceptable political discourse, as Republican officials involved in defending or carrying out the president’s policy of separating migrant children from their families have been ...

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Sessions to opioid distributors: ‘I’m not shedding any tears if you’re no longer making profits’

Next week, top executives from the nation’s largest distributors of prescription painkillers will testify before Congress about the role their companies played in the deadliest drug crisis in U.S. history. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said that if he were still ...

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