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Politics - The Boston Globe

posted onMarch 11, 2018
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‘‘They’ve got to follow through on the promises that they’ve made, and we want to see concrete and verifiable actions,’’ Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.  President Trump would be able to dispatch Secret Service agents to polling places nationwide during a federal election, if a provision in a Homeland Security reauthorization bill remains.  Betsy DeVos has a message for Attorney General Maura Healey and officials in other states hoping to rein in student loan debt collectors: Back off.  At the bottom of the typed letter, Donald Trump added that he looked forward to seeing ‘‘beautiful’’ women duri

Politics - The Boston Globe

posted onMarch 11, 2018
by admin
‘‘They’ve got to follow through on the promises that they’ve made, and we want to see concrete and verifiable actions,’’ Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.  President Trump would be able to dispatch Secret Service agents to polling places nationwide during a federal election, if a provision in a Homeland Security reauthorization bill remains.  Betsy DeVos has a message for Attorney General Maura Healey and officials in other states hoping to rein in student loan debt collectors: Back off.  At the bottom of the typed letter, Donald Trump added that he looked forward to seeing ‘‘beautiful’’ women duri

Politics - The Boston Globe

posted onMarch 11, 2018
by admin
‘‘They’ve got to follow through on the promises that they’ve made, and we want to see concrete and verifiable actions,’’ Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.  President Trump would be able to dispatch Secret Service agents to polling places nationwide during a federal election, if a provision in a Homeland Security reauthorization bill remains.  Betsy DeVos has a message for Attorney General Maura Healey and officials in other states hoping to rein in student loan debt collectors: Back off.  At the bottom of the typed letter, Donald Trump added that he looked forward to seeing ‘‘beautiful’’ women duri

Sessions stresses confidence in DOJ watchdog handling FISA abuse claims | TheHill

posted onMarch 10, 2018
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Attorney General MORE on Friday held open the possibility of appointing a special prosecutor to oversee an investigation into the FBI's handling of the Russia inquiry, but insisted that the Justice Department's internal watchdog was well-equipped to carry out the probe. His defense of the DOJ's approach follows criticism by MORE. "Our Office of Inspector General has almost 500 employees, investigators and prosecutors, and they're going to work on this and get to the bottom of it," Sessions told Fox News' Tucker Carlson. But pressed by Carlson

NRA sues over new Florida gun legislation: report | TheHill

posted onMarch 10, 2018
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The National Rifle Association filed a lawsuit over Florida gun legislation that was signed into law on Friday. The lawsuit asks a federal judge to bar the new law from taking effect, the AP reported. The NRA takes issue with the part of the bill that raises the age limit for purchasing all firearms from 18 to 21, according to the Associated Press.  The NRA claims the regulation violates the 2nd amendment, arguing that it violates the constitutional rights of “law-abiding citizens,”

Sanders won't endorse Feinstein | TheHill

posted onMarch 10, 2018
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Sen. MORE (D) ahead of her primary in California. Though Sanders has put himself in the middle of other primaries in this cycle, he’s steering clear of California, where Feinstein is being challenged from the left. “It’s an issue for the people of California,” Sanders told The Hill. Asked if that meant he would stay out of the race, Sanders responded, “Yeah.” While Sanders says the California race is for the people of that state to decide, on Thursday he announced that he would back liberal candidate Marie Newman in her primary challenge against Rep.

Trump rolls the dice on North Korea | TheHill

posted onMarch 10, 2018
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MORE is making a serious roll of the dice with his decision to meet face-to-face with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Trump would be the first U.S. president to ever meet with a leader of North Korea, and success in the negotiations — if the Korean peninsula was denuclearized — would be a tremendous, historic achievement. At the same time, there’s little reason to believe Kim has actually changed his mind about nuclear weapons when he’s on the verge of achieving his goal of a nuclear-tipped missile capable of striking the U.S.

Michael Cohen dismisses claims of email as proof that Trump knew about payment to porn star to buy her silence - ABC News

posted onMarch 10, 2018
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The lawyer for Stormy Daniels says emails show President Trump Organization email just days before the 2016 election as he arranged the wire transfer of a $130,000 payment to the adult film star to remain silent about her alleged 2006 affair with Trump. Michael Avenatti, who provided the emails to ABC News, alleges that the use of Cohen’s Trump.org email further supports his position that Trump was aware of the payment to Daniels whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford. "We're one step closer to demonstrating that the assertio