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(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump retweeted more than five dozen messages in an hour Wednesday morning, most seeking to cast doubt on the support of firefighters for Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden. Biden, who announced his candidacy last week, has focused on appealing to the Rust Belt workers who helped Trump win in Pennsylvania and the upper Midwest. The International Association of Firefighters endorsed him on Monday.

Read the full text: I previously sent you a letter dated March 25, 2019, that enclosed the introduction and executive summary for each volume of the Special Counsel’s report marked with redactions to remove any information that potentially could be protected by Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure that concerned declination decisions; or that related to a charged case.

Senator Lindsey Graham uttered a curse word on live TV during the testimony of Attorney General William Barr before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, leading to some tittering among those who watched. The Republican senator from South Carolina, who chairs the committee, was reading text excerpts from then-FBI agent Peter Strzok — a senior counterintelligence official who faced scrutiny for his anti-Trump comments — which were included in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report, when he dropped the F-bomb. “October the 19th, 2016: ‘Trump is a [expletive] id

Authorities responded after a Boeing 737 aircraft went in the St. Johns River in Florida on Friday night near Naval Air Station Jacksonville, though no serious injuries were reported. Naval Air Station Jacksonville said in a statement that the Boeing 737 was arriving from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and "crashed into the St.

MORE’s report. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office they briefly addressed the outcome of the report, but lashed out at NBC's Kristen Welker who interjected to ask whether he warned Putin not to interfere, telling her “you are very rude.” “We didn’t discuss that.

North Korea fired multiple short-range projectiles off its east coast on Saturday morning, South Korea's military announced. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the North fired a barrage of short-range projectiles from the town of Wonsan, according to South Korea's Yonhap News Agency. The South Korean military had said earlier that the North fired multiple short-range "missiles" before saying that they fired "projectiles." "What the North fired this time is not a ballistic missile," a military official s

The fallout from special counsel MORE's probe is deepening fracture lines in the Senate. Tensions spiked during the Judiciary Committee’s questioning of Attorney General MORE, marking the latest point of frustration on the high-profile panel. Republicans accused Democrats of giving Trump’s AG the “Kavanaugh treatment,” while Democrats returned fire by suggesting the GOP was chasing conspiracy theories with its plan to probe “spying” and the handling of the MORE email investigation. Judiciary Committee Chairman

MORE is leaning on a tried and tested personal strategy in his fight with Congress, moving the battle to the courts. The courts have long been Trump's preferred battleground, with the president and his businesses involved in a slew of cases over the years.

Barra, a close ally of the Obama administration and Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden, closed the Lordstown, Ohio plant last month, a decision expected to result in the layoff of more than 8,000 American workers in the area, and allegedly blamed the United Auto Workers (UAW) for the plant’s closure. Negotiations between GM and the UAW

Any candidate who doesn’t comply with the new bill would risk being left off the primary ballot. However, the bill and its concept are not at all new. An identical measure was passed through California’s legislature in 2017.