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Democrats outraged over Attorney General MORE’s report are increasing their fire, threatening to hold him in contempt and even suggesting they could seek his impeachment. The cries for Barr’s head exploded on Thursday after the attorney general skipped a House hearing one day after his testimony before a Senate panel shed new light on his differences with Mueller, the ex-FBI chief who led a two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Democrats left an empty chair for Barr as they opened a hearing that would go nowhere.

Jones’s office sent Breitbart News the senator’s reaction given during a conference call with Alabama media. Jones said about Rogers’ remarks that “some kids are unwanted, so you kill them now or you kill them later”: Rogers said during debate in the Alabama House of Representatives over a bill that would ban most abortions in the state that women have a right to choose abortion. “Some kids are unwanted, so you kill them now or you kill them later

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) said the new rule protects healthcare providers from discrimination when they exercise their conscience rights in programs that are funded by HHS. “Finally, laws prohibiting government funded discrimination against conscience and religious freedom will be enforced like every other civil rights law,” said OCR Director Roger Severino. “This rule ensures that healthcare entit

The woman, who called herself “Azra Turk,” had set up the meeting to “discuss foreign policy issues,” but she there as part of the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into whether the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia, according to the New York Times. At the meeting, which was at a London bar, she asked Papadopoulos whether the Trump campaign was working with Russia. The Times acknowledged that the new revelation, as described by “people familiar with the operation,”

Hawley read aloud a text from Strzok to his former lover and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page on August 26, 2016: “Just went to the southern Virginia Walmart. I could SMELL the Trump support.” “Smell is capitalized,” he said. “In my view, you want to know what’s really going on here? You want to know why the counterintelligence investigation really happened? You want to know why we’re all really sitting here today? That’s why — right there,” he said, gesturing to the text of the tweet. Strzok launched the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation on the Trump campaign.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Former Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, a Republican foreign policy sage known for leading efforts to help the former Soviet states dismantle and secure much of their nuclear arsenal, but whose reputation for working with Democrats cost him his final campaign, died Sunday. He was 87. Lugar died at the Inova Fairfax Heart and Vascular Institute in Virginia from complications related to chronic inflammatory demylinating polyneuropathy, or CIPD, a rare neurological disorder, the Lugar Center in Washington said in a statement announcing his death.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump sought the removal of special counsel Robert Mueller, discouraged witnesses from cooperating with prosecutors and prodded aides to mislead the public on his behalf, according to a hugely anticipated report from Mueller that details multiple efforts the president made to curtail a Russia probe he feared would cripple his administration. Trump’s attempts to seize control of the investigation, and directions to others on how to influence it, ‘‘were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President decli

Joe Biden launched his presidential campaign with an appeal to Rust Belt workers who helped Donald Trump squeeze out victories in Pennsylvania and the upper Midwest, telling an audience in Pittsburgh Monday that they hold the key to the White House in 2020. Biden’s kickoff rally for his campaign for the Democratic nomination was held in Pittsburgh in an attempt to highlight what his team sees as an edge he’d have over other Democrats in a match-up against Trump. The former vice president spoke at Teamsters Local 249’s ha

Sen. MORE to testify about the Russia probe. “I'm not going to do any more. Enough already. It's over,” Graham told reporters, asked why he wasn’t calling Mueller to appear before his committee. Graham’s comments come after his panel held an hours-long, closely watched hearing with Attorney General MORE about Mueller’s findings in the two-year probe on Russia's election interference and the Trump campaign. Democrats — including Sen.