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The White House is ramping up an 11th-hour effort to build support for MORE’s pick to lead the CIA, just days before she is scheduled to face a grilling from the Senate Intelligence Committee over her role in the agency’s controversial detention and interrogation program. For weeks, the CIA has led the charge on promoting now-deputy director Gina Haspel—a forward-leaning PR campaign that some critics have said is inappropriate for the clandestine agency. Only late last week did the White House stand up the kind of broad-based press campaign typical of other high-stake

Democratic leaders in Congress are coming under criticism from liberals who fear the party is spending too much time battling MORE and not enough building an economic agenda. They worry that Democratic leaders are falling into the same trap as MORE in 2016, when her relentless attacks on Trump eclipsed her own plans for the country. Senate Democratic Leader MORE (Calif.) have unveiled a variety of ambitious proposals, such as raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and creating a national system of paid family and s

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The TAKE with Rick Klein The Washington Post has recorded a landmark: President Donald Trump has, by the newspaper’s count, surpassed 3,000 false or misleading claims during his time in office. That mark was met before Trump tweeted that there were "No questions on Collusion" among the purported Robert Mueller

The TAKE with Rick Klein President Donald Trump has grown used to smashing norms and conventions — and Washington and the world have adjusted, or not, accordingly. But his biggest clash may still be ahead of him.

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Massachusetts is ground zero in the latest round of the nation’s culture wars.  ‘’Everything about his challenger and her campaign makes me proud,’’ Deval Patrick said in a statement that did not mention Pressley by name.

Former secretary of state John Kerry has been on an aggressive yet stealthy mission to try to apply pressure on the Trump administration from the outside.