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MORE wants to step up efforts to protect Republican control of the House in hopes of avoiding an impeachment debate and congressional investigations if Democrats seize the chamber, according to GOP sources. “It is super important to the White House and really the whole White House is very focused on it,” said a source familiar with strategy talks about protecting the House majority. “The president is expected to dial up efforts in this regard during and after the August recess,” the source added. While Democratic leaders in the House are playing any talk of impeachme

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The porn actress alleging an affair with President Donald Trump is escalating her legal fight, suing the president for defamation. Stormy Daniels filed the complaint in federal court in New York on Monday. At issue is a tweet Trump made in which he dismissed a composite sketch that Daniels says depicted a man who threatened her in 2011 to stay quiet about her alleged sexual encounter with Trump. In the tweet earlier in April, Trump said: "A sketch years later about a nonexistent man.

After a second suspected Israeli strike killing Iranian forces in Syria, the Islamic Republic has few ways to retaliate as its leaders wrestle with both unrest at home and the prospect of its nuclear deal collapsing abroad. Though it has long made threats about Israel's existence, Iran doesn't have a modern air force to take on Israel.

The Trump campaign has spent nearly $228,000 to cover some of the legal expenses for President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen, sources familiar with the payments tell ABC News, raising questions about whether the Trump campaign may have violated campaign finance laws. Federal Election Commission records show three payments made from the Trump campaign to a firm representing Cohen.

A whistleblower from the Capitol Hill condo co-owned by the wife of a prominent lobbyist with business interests before the EPA.

White House story, which cites four anonymous sources, also claims Kelly boasted, "I'm the one saving the country" on several occasions, and damaged morale in the West Wing with disparaging comments about women being "more emotional than men." CNN also reported Monday that in what "appeared to be a moment of frustration," Kelly said he believed the president "was becoming unhinged." This comment came during a meeting with

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