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Posted at 6:30 pm on May 18, 2017 by Teri Christoph In a highly unusual move, Vice President Mike Pence is forming a political action committee (PAC) whose name riffs off of President Trump’s campaign slogan. The PAC is called “The Great America Committee,” and it is being set up to both help get Republicans elected in 2018 and 2020, in addition to funding Pence’s own future political aspirations. The last time a sitting vice president formed a PAC was back in 1988, when George H.W.

Posted at 7:33 pm on May 18, 2017 by Andrea Ruth Following The Washington Post’s publication of the transcript of a recording they received from a source, Axios‘s Jonathan Swan is reporting that G.O.P.

Posted at 8:00 pm on May 18, 2017 by Susan Wright Everything’s fine, right? Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein confirmed to senators in a closed door meeting that the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election has morphed beyond just a counterintelligence investigation, and now includes a criminal investigation. It is believed that the news of memos kept by former FBI Director James Comey have necessitated a need for outside legal counsel for President Trump, and his advisers are pressing him to hire someone. From the

Posted at 9:30 pm on May 18, 2017 by Teri Christoph He may have chimed in a bit late, but Ted Cruz had the perfect caption for the now-infamous photo taken this morning of a confab between Ben Sasse, Tom Cotton and Chuck Schumer.

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BERLIN — Anis Amri, the Tunisian man who killed 12 people in an attack on a Christmas market in Berlin in December, had been flagged weeks earlier as a high-level drug dealer, according to a newly discovered police document that has caused an uproar in Germany. The document, which was uncovered recently during a review by the Berlin city government, has induced a new round of anguished questioning in Germany about whether the country’s worst terrorist attack in decades