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posted onJuly 15, 2018
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That question arose this past week when the upstart challenger Josh Zakim blasted William Galvin for refusing to debate him in any of the six public events he has proposed.

Politics - The Boston Globe

posted onJuly 15, 2018
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His role in recent constitutional fights involving the presidency is expected to be a major focus of his confirmation hearings.  Yvonne Abraham Making a scapegoat of cities like Lawrence and of undocumented immigrants serves the purposes of the Trump administration.   “Why didn’t Obama do something about it?

Politics - The Boston Globe

posted onJuly 15, 2018
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His role in recent constitutional fights involving the presidency is expected to be a major focus of his confirmation hearings.  Yvonne Abraham Making a scapegoat of cities like Lawrence and of undocumented immigrants serves the purposes of the Trump administration.   “Why didn’t Obama do something about it?

Politics - The Boston Globe

posted onJuly 15, 2018
by admin
His role in recent constitutional fights involving the presidency is expected to be a major focus of his confirmation hearings.  Yvonne Abraham Making a scapegoat of cities like Lawrence and of undocumented immigrants serves the purposes of the Trump administration.   “Why didn’t Obama do something about it?

More than 2,500 migrant children waiting to be reunited with parents over next two weeks | TheHill

posted onJuly 14, 2018
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The Trump administration has identified over 2,500 children between the ages of 5 and 17 who have been separated from their parents, according to a new court filing. According to the filing, there are a total of 2,551 children in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) who could potentially have been separated from their parent after being apprehended for crossing into the U.S.

The Memo: Trump leaves chaos in his wake in UK | TheHill

posted onJuly 14, 2018
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MORE’s conduct during his trip to the United Kingdom has left even seasoned observers scratching their heads. Trump’s criticism of British Prime Minister Theresa May in an interview with The Sun newspaper has overshadowed the visit, to no discernible benefit to the president. on Friday that he had tried to apologize to her. “When I saw her this morning I said, ‘I want [to] apologize, because I said such good things about you.’ She said, ‘Don’t worry, it’s only the press,’ ” Trump said. Trump also blamed the controversy on

Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page gets closed-door grilling from House Republicans | TheHill

posted onJuly 14, 2018
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Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page and Peter Strzok’s, the counterintelligence agent who testified in public for 10 hours the day before. Where the marathon Strzok hearing was a pageant display of the animosity and deeply divided politics surrounding the bureau, Page’s closed-door deposition led to few fireworks. She did not answer questions from reporters entering and exiting the Judiciary Committee’s closed spaces — and the handful of lawmakers who conducted the interview provided few details. Multiple Republican lawmakers described Page as cooperative and credible — in marked contrast to the

Mueller indicts 12 Russians in 2016 DNC hack | TheHill

posted onJuly 14, 2018
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Special counsel MORE has indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers in the 2016 hacking of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Deputy Attorney General MORE announced the long-awaited indictment Friday at a press conference in Washington, D.C. "The indictment charges 12 Russian military officers by name for conspiring to interfere with the 2016 presidential election," Rosenstein said.  The twelfth individual is charged with conspiring to hack into systems used to administer elections — including hacking into a website of a state elections

White House: Russia indictment 'consistent' with claim of no collusion | TheHill

posted onJuly 14, 2018
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The White House on Friday said the indictment of 12 Russians for hacking Democratic officials during the 2016 election is “consistent” with MORE’s claim his campaign did not collude with Moscow’s election meddling. “Today’s charges include no allegations of knowing involvement by anyone on the campaign and no allegations that the alleged hacking affected the election result,” White House spokesperson Lindsay Walters said in a statement.