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Five things to watch as Barr takes the reins of Justice, Mueller probe
By Morgan Chalfant
 
William Barr was sworn in as President Trump’s second attorney general on Thursday, putting a new face atop the Justice Department who will assume oversight of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
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America needs radical solutions
By Juan Williams
 
OPINION | Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is eager to force a vote on the Green New Deal to embarrass Democrats. But you might want to warn him of the dangers of embarrassing himself.
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Female Dems see double standard in Klobuchar accusations
By Christina Marcos
 
At least some Democratic congresswomen see a double standard at play in the accusations that 2020 presidential contender Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) is hard on her staff.
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Klobuchar, O'Rourke visit Wisconsin as 2020 race heats up
By Brett Samuels
 
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) stopped in Wisconsin this weekend to underscore the Democratic Party's push in the Midwest as the 2020 presidential campaign gets into full swing.
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White House, GOP defend Trump emergency declaration
By Brett Samuels
 
President Trump's allies in the GOP and one of his top advisers defended on Sunday his decision to declare a national emergency to secure funding for his long-desired border wall, a move that triggered a flurry of lawsuits and bipartisan reservations.
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Stephen Miller signals Trump ready to veto resolution against emergency declaration
By Brett Samuels
 
White House senior adviser Stephen Miller on Sunday strongly signaled that President Trump will issue a veto if lawmakers approve a measure to block his emergency declaration to secure funding for a wall along the southern border.
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Mueller subpoenas former Cambridge Analytica employee
By Michael Burke
 
Special counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed a former employee of data firm Cambridge Analytica, a spokesperson for the employee told The Guardian.
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McCabe says he was fired because he 'opened a case against' Trump
By Owen Daugherty
 
Former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who was was fired by the FBI in March of last year, said Sunday during an interview with CBS's “60 Minutes” that he thinks the investigations he opened into President Trump led to his exit.
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Chris Wallace calls out Limbaugh for being ‘outraged’ when Obama took executive action
By Justin Wise
 
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace on Sunday called out conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh over the difference between his response when President Trump and former President Obama made an executive action.
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US asked Japanese leader to nominate Trump for Nobel Prize: report
By Justin Wise
 
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reportedly nominated President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize on the request of the U.S. government.
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From border to Mueller, Barr faces challenges as attorney general
By Douglas Kmeic
 
OPINION | Bill Barr is attorney general for the second time in his career. His prior service for the senior President Bush involved nothing comparable to the constitutional challenges already on his desk.
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The national emergency will haunt Republicans come election season
By Douglas Schoen
 
OPINION | On Thursday, Congress passed a bipartisan spending bill, and in doing so averted another government shutdown. Indeed, this was an important and necessary display of the power of compromise and working across the aisle.
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Reuters: North Carolina board to hear evidence on election fraud claim
By Gabriella Borter
 
North Carolina election officials on Monday will begin hearing evidence on allegations that absentee ballots unlawfully collected by a Republican operative may have tipped a tight November U.S. congressional election in favor of a Republican candidate.
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The Washington Post: White House defends Trump’s emergency declaration amid mounting challenges
By Amy B. Wang 
 
Critics have seized on recent comments by President Trump as proof that he did not need to declare an emergency at the southern border. “I could do the wall over a longer period of time,” he said last week.
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USA Today: McCabe on '60 Minutes': FBI had good reason to open counterintelligence investigation into Trump
By William Cummings and Steve Kiggins
 
Former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe hinted at an "inappropriate relationship" between President Donald Trump and Russia during a wide-ranging interview on CBS' "60 Minutes" that has already sparked calls for a congressional investigation.
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Bloomberg: Trump courts 2020 Hispanic vote in Miami with Venezuela remarks
By Margaret Talev
 
President Donald Trump will demand that Nicolas Maduro leave power during a speech in Miami directed at two audiences: the generals keeping Venezuela’s authoritarian leader in office, and the tens of thousands of Venezuelan expatriates who may be key to the president winning Florida in 2020.
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The New York Times: Chinese and Iranian hackers renew attacks on US companies
By Nicole Perlroth
 
Businesses and government agencies in the United States have been targeted in aggressive attacks by Iranian and Chinese hackers who security experts believe have been energized by President Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal last year and his trade conflicts with China.
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