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The FBI seized business records, e-mails, and documents related to several topics, including payments to a pornographic actress.  At the College of William and Mary, the future FBI director tackled issues like race and campus rape, but also veered into the juvenile, like when he mocked the attractiveness of women at Harvard.   The vice president is scheduled to participate in a RNC fundraiser at the swanky Langham Hotel in Boston Tuesday evening.  Evan Horowitz | Quick Study When it comes to Syria, the United States stands at a strategic crossroads.

The FBI seized business records, e-mails, and documents related to several topics, including payments to a pornographic actress.  At the College of William and Mary, the future FBI director tackled issues like race and campus rape, but also veered into the juvenile, like when he mocked the attractiveness of women at Harvard.   The vice president is scheduled to participate in a RNC fundraiser at the swanky Langham Hotel in Boston Tuesday evening.  Evan Horowitz | Quick Study When it comes to Syria, the United States stands at a strategic crossroads.

The FBI seized business records, e-mails, and documents related to several topics, including payments to a pornographic actress.  At the College of William and Mary, the future FBI director tackled issues like race and campus rape, but also veered into the juvenile, like when he mocked the attractiveness of women at Harvard.   The vice president is scheduled to participate in a RNC fundraiser at the swanky Langham Hotel in Boston Tuesday evening.  Evan Horowitz | Quick Study When it comes to Syria, the United States stands at a strategic crossroads.

Few Republicans in Washington are willing to go head-to-head with MORE, but there is one band of GOP members willing to stand up to the leader of their own party: lawmakers who have announced their retirements. While it’s not uncommon for members to feel far more liberated on their way out the door, it has taken on a whole new meaning in the Trump era, where lawmakers are confronted daily by a never-ending stream of White House controversies. The GOP’s retirement caucus has provided some of the most biting commentary on the president in recent months, with Rep.

MORE and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed to a joint response to the alleged chemical weapons attack in the rebel-controlled Damascus suburb of Douma, the White House said on Sunday. During a phone call on Sunday, the two leaders agreed to share information about the nature of the attacks and agreed to coordinate a “strong, joint response.” They agreed that Bashar Al-Assad's regime “must be held accountable for its continued human rights abuses," the White House said. ADVERTISEMENT They also agreed to

At least one air strike hit a military airport in Syria, according to the country's state media. AFP and the BBC on Sunday night both cited Syrian state media as saying that the air base in question had been hit by the strike.

National Security Council spokesman Michael Anton is leaving the administration, a senior White House official confirmed to The Hill on Sunday evening. It is the latest move in a wide-ranging shakeup of MORE’s national security and foreign policy teams. The official said that Trump had called Anton on Sunday and thanked him for his service.

The Senate is barreling toward a showdown over MORE’s latest Cabinet shuffle, with three critical departments looking for new leaders and more that could follow. Republicans are preparing for a weeks-long battle as they try to confirm CIA Director MORE to be secretary of State and CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel to succeed him. Haspel’s nomination in particular is controversial, and the GOP has little margin for error given Sen.

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Special Counsel Vladimir Putin as a casual chance encounter “over a beer,” sources told ABC News. Well-connected Lebanese-American businessman George Nader, a key witness given limited immunity by Mueller, has been interviewed seven times by prosecutors on a wide range of subjects.