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LONDON — President Trump said he doesn’t think Meghan Markle is ‘‘nasty’’ — just that the American-born Duchess of Sussex was ‘‘nasty about’’ him. Attempting to clean up a diplomatic spat during his UK state visit, Trump told Good Morning Britain’s Piers Morgan said he meant no royal insult. “The question was asked to me, and I didn’t know she said anything bad about me, sounds like she did — and that’s OK. Hey, join the crowd,” he said. “But it seems like she had. And they said some of the things that she said, and it’s actually on tape.

NEW YORK (AP) — Half of U.S. adults consider fake news a major problem, and they mostly blame politicians and activists for it, according to a new survey. A majority also believe journalists have the responsibility for fixing it.

House Democrats have officially introduced a resolution to hold Attorney General MORE and former White House counsel Don McGahn in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with congressional subpoenas. The contempt resolution allows House Judiciary Committee Chairman MORE’s unredacted report and underlying evidence, as well as for McGahn to provide documents and public testimony. The resolution also gives any committee chair the rare power to go to federal court to seek civil enforcement of subpoenas, both current and future orders, so long

MORE (D-Calif.) in an interview at the American cemetery in Normandy, France, where he was marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day. Speaking to Fox News’s Laura Ingraham just before a ceremony commemorating the storied invasion, Trump asserted that Mueller made “a fool out of himself” in his public comments last week on the Russia investigation and called Pelosi a “disaster” over her handling of a possible impeachment inquiry. “Let me tell you, he made such a fool

Prosecutors have released a less-redacted version of an FBI memo describing the interview agents had with Michael Flynn in January 2017. The document shows that Flynn told investigators that Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak asked him during a Dec. 28, 2016, phone call to set up a “VTC,” an apparent reference to a video teleconference, between President Trump and Russian President MORE. Flynn told investigators that Kislyak requested that the video conference occur on Jan.

MORE is planning to declare a new national emergency in order to implement sweeping tariffs on Mexico over the flow of Central American migrants to the U.S., according to a draft document of the declaration reviewed by The Hill.

According to the document, the new emergency is necessary due to “the failure of the Government of Mexico to take effective action to reduce the mass migration of aliens illegally crossing into the United States through Mexico.”

Democratic presidential hopeful former Vice President after reaffirming his decades-long support for the ban on federal funding for abortions. "If I believe health care is a right, as I do, I can no longer support an amendment that makes that right dependent on someone's ZIP code," he said at a Democratic National Committee gala in Atlanta. Biden cited abortion restrictions recently passed by Republican governors for his change in position.  "I can't justify leaving millions of women without the access to care they need, and the ability to exercise their constitutionally protected right,

“It will not be enough to replace racist systems and racist policies with neutral policies,” he said.

In July 2018, Minnesota State Rep. Steve Drazkowski (R-Mazeppa) filed a complaint with the board against the Neighbors for Ilhan (Omar) campaign committee, which had supported her campaign for state representative. He claimed that she had improperly spent campaign funds on legal work related to her divorce. He later filed additional complaints that she had improperly spent campaign funds on out-of-state travel. The board’s investigation into Omar found several violations.