Articles filed under Political Figures
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Trump 2020 campaign ad asks people to call hotline to say, 'Thank you, President Trump!'Dec 18, 2018 12:00 am - Less than three seconds into an ad for Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign, Brad Parscale repeats a claim his boss makes regularly: "President Trump has achieved mor...
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White House says it wants to avoid shutdown, will find other ways to fund border wallDec 18, 2018 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Tuesday retreated from his demand that Congress give him $5 billion to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, backing down ami...
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Senate report: Russia social media influence efforts ongoingDec 17, 2018 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - A report compiled by private researchers and expected to be released Monday by the Senate intelligence committee says that "active and ongoing" Russian inte...
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Cohen says Trump knew hush-money payments were wrong, contradicting his former bossDec 14, 2018 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, said in a television interview set to air Friday that Trump knew it was wrong to make hush-money paym...
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Trump says he 'never directed' Cohen to break the law in payments to womenDec 13, 2018 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Thursday denied that he had directed his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen to break the law during the 2016 campaign by buying ...
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Trump claims 'money we save' from trade deal means 'Mexico is paying' for border wallDec 13, 2018 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump claimed Thursday that "money we save" from a new trade deal with Mexico and Canada would make good on his long-standing promise to ha...
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'I felt it was my duty to cover up his dirty deeds': Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen gets 3 years in prisonDec 12, 2018 12:00 am - NEW YORK - Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's once-devoted lawyer and all-around fixer, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for allowing what he said w...
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Pritzker sees legalized marijuana next year, but wage hike, graduated tax could take longerDec 07, 2018 12:00 am - Legalizing recreational marijuana was among Gov.-elect J.B. Pritzker's election pledges, and a bill in support is likely to break in the General Assembly early in 2019, ...
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Trump confirms he will pick William Barr as his next attorney generalDec 07, 2018 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Friday he will nominate William Barr, the late President George H.W. Bush's attorney general, to serve in the same role. Trump m...
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What new details will Mueller reveal in memos on Cohen, Manafort?Dec 07, 2018 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Robert Mueller is set to reveal more details about his Russia investigation on Friday as he faces court deadlines in the cases of two men who worked closely...