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The TAKE with Rick Klein So truth isn't truth, a crime isn't a crime, knowing about something "later on" actually means before the fact, and doing "nothing wrong" includes paying off a porn star who wanted to go public about an alleged affair. The verbal gymnastics and flexible standards displayed by President Donald Trump and his White House are causing allies to squirm, and are leaving Republicans

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The moves stoke speculation that the Elizabeth Warren may be preparing for a presidential run in 2020.   The state’s first openly transgender candidate for Congress, Alexandra Chandler, says she intends to put another voice to November’s closely watched ballot measure on transgender rights.  The TV spot — which disclosed that the RGA was a donor but didn’t divulge how much it contributed — began running in local markets last week,  Before you dismiss H.

A day after McCain died, details of the farewell to the decorated Vietnam War hero, prisoner of war, and six-term senator were being worked out.  A statement praising John McCain was drafted before the senator died Saturday, but President Trump told aides he wanted to post a brief tweet instead.  Speaking to supporters in West Virginia last week, the president asked his audience if it could find the missing collusion.  The former Trump lawyer issued his first tweet since pleading guilty to tax evasion, bank fraud, and campaign finance violations.  Opinion | Alan Wirzbicki Ask McCain stup

A day after McCain died, details of the farewell to the decorated Vietnam War hero, prisoner of war, and six-term senator were being worked out.  A statement praising John McCain was drafted before the senator died Saturday, but President Trump told aides he wanted to post a brief tweet instead.  Speaking to supporters in West Virginia last week, the president asked his audience if it could find the missing collusion.  The former Trump lawyer issued his first tweet since pleading guilty to tax evasion, bank fraud, and campaign finance violations.  Opinion | Alan Wirzbicki Ask McCain stup

A day after McCain died, details of the farewell to the decorated Vietnam War hero, prisoner of war, and six-term senator were being worked out.  A statement praising John McCain was drafted before the senator died Saturday, but President Trump told aides he wanted to post a brief tweet instead.  Speaking to supporters in West Virginia last week, the president asked his audience if it could find the missing collusion.  The former Trump lawyer issued his first tweet since pleading guilty to tax evasion, bank fraud, and campaign finance violations.  Opinion | Alan Wirzbicki Ask McCain stup

The Trump administration this month introduced rules that would roll back Obama-era regulations on vehicle emissions and coal fired plants, raising concerns in the scientific community about how a slower approach to decreasing carbon emissions will affect the world's climate. Arctic melting, raging forest fires and increasingly brutal summer temperatures are just a handful of the signs that climate change may have transitioned from a lingering threat to a phase where it might be too late to mitigate some of its effects. Arctic’s thickest ice layer breaks for