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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee next month as Republican lawmakers claim that they're victims of censorship on social media. “Twitter is an incredibly powerful platform that can change the national conversation in the time it takes a tweet to go viral," Rep. MORE, the chairman of the panel, said in a statement. "When decisions about data and content are made using opaque processes, the American people are right to raise concerns," Walden continued.

Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are rushing to offer their support after GOP Sen. MORE's (Ariz.) family announced he has decided to end medical treatment more than a year after being diagnosed with brain cancer. Several of McCain's Senate colleagues quickly took to social media to react to the announcement, offering their "thoughts and prayers" for the 81-year-old senator who has been absent from Washington since December. "Very sad to hear this morning’s update from the family of our dear friend. ... We are so fortunate to call him our friend and colleague.

Allen Weisselberg, the longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, has been granted immunity by federal prosecutors working on the criminal investigation into Michael Cohen, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Weisselberg testified before a federal grand jury earlier this year as prosecutors investigated Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer. Cohen pleaded guilty on Tuesday to eight counts of bank

MORE to put off his planned visit to North Korea and accused Pyongyang of slow-walking efforts to dismantle its nuclear program. Trump wrote in a tweet that a high-level visit is not appropriate at “this time, because I feel we are not making sufficient progress with respect to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.” Pompeo was scheduled to make his fourth visit to North Korea next week to follow up on a framework agreement Trump reached with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The decision marks a rare admission from Trump that North Korea’s denuclearization is n

The strained relationship between MORE may have finally reached its breaking point. For more than a year, Trump has chided Sessions for his decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation. Sources close to the White House and Justice Department said they sensed the dynamic shift after former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen this week implicated the president in an illegal hush-money scheme shortly before the 2016 election. DOJ officials have grown used to Trump’s attacks on Twitter, but Ian Prior, who until recently ser

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