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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday denied he ever worked for Russia against U.S.

Michael A. Cohen The fact is, Americans are OK with raising taxes on super-rich Americans.  Here’s a look at what commentators have ventured in the past as they tried to plumb the mysterious bromance between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.   Political notebook The House Republican leader said Sunday he will meet with US Representative Steve King this week to discuss King’s future and role in the party.  The Mass. Democrat made her first stops in the state Saturday.

Michael A. Cohen The fact is, Americans are OK with raising taxes on super-rich Americans.  Here’s a look at what commentators have ventured in the past as they tried to plumb the mysterious bromance between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.   Political notebook The House Republican leader said Sunday he will meet with US Representative Steve King this week to discuss King’s future and role in the party.  The Mass. Democrat made her first stops in the state Saturday.

Michael A. Cohen The fact is, Americans are OK with raising taxes on super-rich Americans.  Here’s a look at what commentators have ventured in the past as they tried to plumb the mysterious bromance between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.   Political notebook The House Republican leader said Sunday he will meet with US Representative Steve King this week to discuss King’s future and role in the party.  The Mass. Democrat made her first stops in the state Saturday.

Michael A. Cohen The fact is, Americans are OK with raising taxes on super-rich Americans.  Here’s a look at what commentators have ventured in the past as they tried to plumb the mysterious bromance between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.   Political notebook The House Republican leader said Sunday he will meet with US Representative Steve King this week to discuss King’s future and role in the party.  The Mass. Democrat made her first stops in the state Saturday.

A federal judge on Sunday blocked Trump administration rules that would allow most businesses to opt out of covering contraception for their employees if they have moral or religious objections. Judge Haywood Gilliam blocked the rules, which were set to go into effect on Monday, in California, Washington, D.C. and 12 other states.

MORE and national security adviser John Bolton, have been touring the Middle East in recent days in an effort to assuage nervous allies in the region. Complicating matters is the fact that the U.S.-backed Kurdish militias in Syria are considered by neighboring Turkey to be an extension of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which Ankara considers a terrorist organization. Critics of the administration's decision have expressed concern that Turkey will use the U.S.

The revelation that MORE allegedly shared polling data with a Russian suspected of ties to Kremlin intelligence during the 2016 presidential race has triggered fresh debate about “collusion” in Washington. Democrats on Capitol Hill see the detail as perhaps the starkest signal yet that the Trump campaign may have coordinated with Moscow to interfere in the election. But their Republican counterparts, along with the president’s attorney, say that’s not the case. “If sharing polling data with your former partner in political races in the Ukraine is collusion, then I gue

Former President Obama's talk about how politics need “new blood” is being seen as a blow to MORE, the former vice president that Obama did not back to succeed him in 2016.  Sources close to both men describe Obama and Biden as friends who share an admiration and respect for one another.  But they also acknowledge recent remarks like the one Obama made this week in Hawaii represent a sort of threat to Biden, who has told allies in recent days that he’s likely to enter the 2020 presidential race. Obama was speaking broadly about the need for new blood in politics, not

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