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House to query 60 Trump officials in obstruction probe
Declaring it's "very clear" President Trump obstructed justice, the chairman of the House committee in charge of impeachment says the panel is requesting documents Monday.
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Looking beyond Mueller, Democrats cast investigative nets
Emboldened by their new majority, Democrats are undertaking several broad new investigations into President Donald Trump and setting the stage for a post-Robert Mueller world.
7 years ago
Analysis: GOP senators struggle to escape no-win border vote
As a deadline for voting looms, it's increasingly clear that Republican senators are deeply uncomfortable with Trump's use of executive power to build the wall.
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United Methodists face fractured future
A majority of U.S. delegates at the United Methodist General Conference opposed the conservative resolutions, but the U.S. share of global Methodism is declining.
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Why small U.S. theaters have canceled ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
Dozens of community and nonprofit theaters across the U.S. have been forced to abandon productions of "To Kill a Mockingbird" under legal threat by Broadway.
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2 Sacramento cops who shot Stephon Clark won’t face charges
The two Sacramento police officers whose fatal shooting of an unarmed black man last year prompted nationwide protests will not face criminal charges, prosecutors announced.
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Dolores Huerta joins right-to-die bilingual push in 4 states
Civil rights leader Dolores Huerta is joining a push in New Mexico, Nevada, New Jersey and New York to legalize medically assisted suicide for terminally ill patients.
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Black activist takes the lead of neo-Nazi Socialist group, vows to dissolve it
James Hart Stern wants to use his new position as director and president of the National Socialist Movement to undermine the Detroit-based group.
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At CPAC: Abortion, immigration, and warnings about socialism
CPAC has evolved over the years. Always a gathering place for young activists from around the country, the emphases have changed.
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Who from ‘Trump World’ do House Democrats want to talk to next?
Michael Cohen was just the beginning.
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It’s Bernie 2.0: More professional, more personal this time
A young civil rights activist named Bernard Sanders was arrested and dragged off to jail for protesting school segregation on the South Side of Chicago in the summer of 1963.
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Nielsen estimates about 16 million watched Michael Cohen
The Nielsen company says that 15.8 million people watched President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, testify against him on television before a congressional commi
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House passage of gun safety bills reflects political shift
The House put on a display of Democratic priorities this week with two bills to bolster background checks on firearms purchases.
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States move to restrict parents’ refusal to vaccinate their kids
At least eight states, including some that have experienced measles outbreaks this year, want to remove personal exemptions for the measles vaccine.
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Michael Cohen’s verbal somersault, ‘I lied, but I’m not a liar,’ translated by a rhetoric expert
Cohen relied on the argumentative strategy of dissociation to carefully separate his actions from his essence and Trump’s actions from Trump’s essence.
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