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• Mexico: 50 bodies among remains at farm outside Guadalajara

  15-12-2019 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Human remains discovered last month at a farm outside the city of Guadalajara have been confirmed as belonging to at least 50 people, authorities in Mexico's west-central state of Jalisco reported.Jalisco state prosecutors said recovery work at the farm in Tlajomulco de Zuniga, which began Nov. 22 after the initial discovery, concluded Friday as experts determined there was no more evidence to be gathered from the scene.The state is home to Jalisco New Generation, one of Mexico's bloodiest and m
  
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• Trump’s ‘impeachment adviser’ Pam Bondi says looming charges are weighing on him: ‘Is this difficult? Of course it is’

  15-12-2019 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A White House adviser tasked with defending Donald Trump during the impeachment proceedings against him suggested the pressure of the looming charges was beginning to weigh down on the president just before an official vote.Pam Bondi, the former Florida attorney general who the president hired last month to serve as a voice for the administration while it battles back against the public impeachment hearings, slammed the House-led inquiry in an interview with Fox News Sunday.
  
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• USA TODAY poll: Narrow majority opposes removing Trump from office if he is impeached

  15-12-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a USA TODAY/Suffolk Poll, Americans split on impeachment, but a narrow majority opposes conviction. The issue ranks low as a voting concern in 2020.
  
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• 'This Thing Will Come to the Senate and it Will Die Quickly.' GOP Leaders Moving to Reject House Democrats' Impeachment Case

  15-12-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GOP leaders are already moving to reject House Democrats' impeachment case
  
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• An Illinois man was charged with threatening to shoot a Republican congressman after being upset by TV ad

  15-12-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Randall E. Tarr of Rochester, Illinois, is accused of telling Rep. Rodney Davis that he would like to shoot Davis' "head off."
  
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• Freshman Dem Jeff Van Drew to Switch Parties over Impeachment

  15-12-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New Jersey Congressman Jeff Van Drew, one of the two Democrats to vote against moving forward with the impeachment inquiry in October, is planning to switch parties over an impending House vote, according to multiple reports.Van Drew, a first-time representative who flipped a district Trump carried by five points in 2016, denied earlier this week that he was considering a party switch, but confirmed he would ultimately vote against impeachment.“I’m not changing anything — just
  
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• Mexico trade negotiator: We'll never accept US 'inspectors'

  15-12-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexico’s trade negotiator for North America said Sunday that Mexico categorically opposes allowing foreign labor inspectors to operate in the country, saying that was not contemplated in the recent agreement with Washington and Ottawa on the USMCA pact to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement.Jesús Seade was flying to Washington to meet with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and U.S. lawmakers to express his country’s “surprise and concern” over
  
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• Trump anti-impeachment protestors disrupt Adam Schiff at Armenian Genocide Recognition event

  15-12-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Amid the congressional impeachment inquiry, Trump supporters interrupted an event recognizing the Armenian Genocide to protest Rep. Adam Schiff.
  
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• Storm brings travel nightmares to Central US as snow coats major interstates

  15-12-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A snow storm in the Central region of the United States turned deadly this weekend. Along with dumping over four inches of snow over the Kansas City, Missouri, area, the snow led to numerous accidents in eastern Nebraska which claimed at least five lives.Before noon on Sunday, three people were killed in an accident involving multiple cars. The crash occurred near Greenwood and forced a section of Interstate 80 to close for five hours.Around 1 p.m., local time, another fatal accident occurred ne
  
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• Why China Wants Its Navy to Patrol the Atlantic Ocean

  15-12-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Is this a problem for Washington?
  
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• ‘It seems like a serious obsession’: Ilhan Omar on Trump, and her unapologetic support for Bernie Sanders

  15-12-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a wide-ranging interview with Yahoo News, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. discussed her support for Bernie Sanders and the attacks she's faced from President Trump.
  
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• Ex-FBI director Comey: 'I was wrong’ to defend origins of Russia probe

  15-12-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After declaring vindication relating to the FBI's Russia investigation, former director James Comey said he was “wrong” to defend the probe's beginnings.
  
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• Trump thanks Democrat considering switching parties as he announces plan to vote against impeachment

  15-12-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has thanked a Democratic congressman, believed to be considering switching parties, after the New Jersey politician said he would vote against House articles of impeachment against the president.Jeff Van Drew, who was elected in 2018 and has become an outspoken Democratic critic of the impeachment proceedings, confirmed last week his position has “never changed” and he was still planning on voting against the impeachment articles. Media reports suggested Mr Drew was cons
  
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• 30 House Democrats are pushing for Rep. Justin Amash to be an impeachment manager in Trump's Senate trial

  15-12-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  These lawmakers reportedly believe Amash could be an effective voice to make the case for impeaching President Trump to conservative voters.
  
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• Turkey could close Incirlik air base in face of U.S. threats: Erdogan

  15-12-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Turkey could shut down its Incirlik air base, which hosts U.S. nuclear warheads, in response to threats of U.S. sanctions and a separate U.S. Senate resolution that recognized mass killings of Armenians a century ago as genocide, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday. "If it is necessary for us to take such a step, of course we have the authority ... If this is necessary, together with our delegations, we will close down Incirlik if necessary," Erdogan said on A Haber TV. Turkey can also close
  
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• Trump Impeachment Drama Not Changing Minds, New Polls Show

  15-12-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The televised drama that’s gripped Washington and parts of the nation over the past month has done little to change public opinion about President Donald Trump and impeachment, according to two polls released on Sunday. Half of those surveyed think the president should be impeached and removed from office with 41% opposed, according to a Fox News survey.“They got it all wrong. Get a new pollster,” Trump tweeted a few hours after the survey was released.In a separ
  
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• Key Democrat says impeachment needed to stop 'a crime in progress'

  15-12-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A key Democratic lawmaker said Sunday that President Donald Trump's misconduct amounted to "a crime in progress" that threatens US democracy, as the full House prepares for a historic vote on impeachment.When the House convenes Wednesday to weigh the two charges approved by Nadler's Judiciary Committee, Trump is expected to become only the third US president to be impeached, after Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998.Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 just before a House impeachment vote.
  
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• Comey admits 'real sloppiness' in FBI Russia warrant request

  15-12-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former FBI director James Comey acknowledged Sunday "real sloppiness" in the bureau's handling of a warrant to surveil a Trump campaign advisor with ties to Russia.The advisor, Carter Page, was an early focus of the national security probe that the FBI opened into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign.Comey has long defended the FBI against attacks by President Donald Trump.
  
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• Polls show increase in support for Donald Trump's impeachment

  15-12-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Support for Donald Trump’s impeachment has increased over the past month according to the latest opinion polls as Democrats accused Republican senators of violating their oath of office by pledging to work for the president’s acquittal. The Democrat-controlled House of Representative is expected to vote to send Mr Trump for trial in the Senate this week accusing the president of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Americans remain deeply divided over whether Mr Trump should b
  
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• Is marijuana linked to psychosis, schizophrenia? It's contentious, but doctors, feds say yes

  15-12-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Government health officials say excessive use of potent THC can lead to psychosis. Marijuana advocates say they can't be trusted.
  
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• Trump threatens Comey with 'years in jail' over FBI Russia report

  15-12-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * Ex-director admits ‘sloppiness’ in surveillance of Trump aide* Presidential abuse follows Fox News Sunday interview* Impeachment: Democrats fume as Republicans rally to TrumpJames Comey, the former director of the FBI who has become a prime nemesis of Donald Trump, admitted on Sunday to being responsible for “real sloppiness” over the handling of surveillance of a Trump campaign adviser.He also fiercely defended himself and the bureau against any suggestion of political
  
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• Joe Biden gets boost in polls ahead of next Democratic primary debate

  15-12-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden remains a clear frontrunner in the Democratic presidential primaries, after the former vice president received a welcome boost ahead of the party's sixth primary debate.But Mr Biden appeared to be losing ground to Elizabeth Warren in New Hampshire when the Massachusetts senator surged past him in a September poll.
  
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• US trade negotiator hails 'remarkable' deal with China

  15-12-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  China committed to a minimum of $200 billion in increased purchases over the next two years from US manufacturers, farmers, energy producers and providers of services over the next two years, according to Lighthizer.US exports to China will double in the next year, and nearly triple the year after if the agreement is in place.In 2017, before the US-China trade war was unleashed, the United States exported some $120 billion in goods to the Asian giant.
  
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• Italian city evacuated as World War Two-era British bomb is defused

  15-12-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Italian authorities ordered the biggest peacetime evacuation in the country since World War Two on Sunday to defuse a massive unexploded British bomb that was partially damaged when discovered in the southern city of Brindisi. The historic evacuation displaced some 53,000 residents  —more than half — of the coastal city on the Adriatic,  due to the high risk that the 440-pound ordnance containing 40 kilograms of dynamite could explode. The chances of detonati
  
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• Comey: 'Sloppiness' in Russia probe but no misconduct

  15-12-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former FBI Director James Comey said Sunday that a Justice Department inspector general report identified “real sloppiness" in the surveillance of a former Trump campaign aide and that he was wrong to have been “overconfident" about how the Russia investigation was handled.
  
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• Comey Admits Being ‘Overconfident’ in Approving Trump Probe

  15-12-2019 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- James Comey, the former FBI director, agreed on Sunday with the conclusions of an independent investigator that found flaws in the agency’s decision to probe individuals in Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.“He’s right, I was wrong,” Comey, who was fired by Trump in May 2017, said on “Fox News Sunday.” “I was overconfident, as director, in the procedures that the FBI and Justice have built over 20 years.”It was the firs
  
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• Assam's 'sons of the soil' cherish new protest symbol

  15-12-2019 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At the epicentre of deadly protests in Assam, a red and white cloth has come to symbolise the struggle of the Indian state's indigenous "sons of the soil" against a new citizenship law that they see as a dangerous threat to their unique culture."This is like a flag for us," said Jatin Borah, 22, one of thousands taking to the streets in days of riots and running battles with police firing blanks and live ammunition that have left five people dead.India's northeast region sandwiched between Bangl
  
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• Fox News poll on impeachment contradicts President Trump

  15-12-2019 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new Fox News poll on voter support for impeachment contradicted President Trump, who recently boasted major support in favor of “No Impeachment.”
  
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• Tapper Grills Rand Paul on Ukraine: You Really Think Trump’s ‘Concerned About Rooting Out Corruption?’

  15-12-2019 19:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CNN anchor Jake Tapper’s Sunday interview with Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) quickly grew contentious and heated as the State of the Union host repeatedly confronted the conservative senator on his belief that President Donald Trump is actually concerned about corruption.The Kentucky lawmaker, who is one of the president’s most vocal defenders in the Senate, told Tapper on Sunday morning that he’d already made up his mind to acquit Trump on impeachment despite the fact that the Senate
  
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• Zambia Says Ambassador Should Leave After Defending Gay Couple

  15-12-2019 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu said he wanted the U.S. Ambassador to leave the country after the diplomat criticized the African nation for sentencing a gay couple to 15 years of imprisonment for having a consensual relationship.“We have complained officially to the American government, and we are waiting for their response because we don’t want such people in our midst,” Lungu said Sunday in comments broadcast on state-owned ZNBC TV. “We want him gon
  
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• Trump trails all top Democrats, half of voters favor impeachment, Fox News poll says

  15-12-2019 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump lost in hypothetical matchups against the top-polling Democrats, including late entrant Michael Bloomberg, according to a Fox News poll.
  
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• Schiff acknowledges FBI's mistakes in wake of inspector general report, but sticks by probe

  15-12-2019 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report on the FBI's 2016 investigation into Russian election interference was a popular topic on Sunday.House Intelligence Committee Chair (D-Calif.) Adam Schiff said Sunday he understands the report revealed things he wasn't aware of two years ago. And while he agrees with Horowitz's conclusion that the investigation's numerous mishaps signaled the FISA process needed "significant" changes, he still defended the origins of the probe.> .@GStephanopoulos on
  
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• AP EXPLAINS: How Madrid talks fell short on climate ambition

  15-12-2019 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  This year's U.N. climate negotiations in Madrid, the longest in 25 nearly annual such gatherings, ended Sunday with major polluters resisting calls to ramp up efforts to keep global warming at bay.Faced with the tough task of reconciling the demands of scientists, protesters on the streets and governments back home, the negotiators ended up disappointing many and leaving for next year's talks in Glasgow, Scotland, key issues such as the regulation of global carbon markets.While it wasn't officia
  
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• Lebanon's Hariri may be named PM but faces struggle to form government

  15-12-2019 19:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Saad al-Hariri is expected to be named Lebanon's prime minister on Monday, but political rifts look set to hinder agreement on a new government badly needed to rescue the country from a dire economic crisis.Hariri, a Western ally and the leading Sunni Muslim politician, is widely seen by politicians as the only candidate for the post.Lebanon needs a new government to pull it out of the worst economic crisis since its 1975-1990 civil war.
  
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• Trump Impeachment Drama Not Changing Minds, Opinion Polls Show

  15-12-2019 18:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The televised drama that’s gripped Washington and parts of the nation over the past month has done little to change public opinion about President Donald Trump and impeachment, according to two polls released on Sunday.Half of those surveyed think the president should be impeached and removed from office with 41% opposed, according to a Fox News survey.In a separate CBS poll, 46% said Trump deserved to be impeached over his actions toward Ukraine, up from 43% in November.Day
  
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• Violence flares at Indian citizenship law protest in Delhi

  15-12-2019 18:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police fired tear-gas and struck demonstrators with batonson Sunday in India's capital city, where thousands, including students at the Jamia Millia Islamia University, protested against a new law that will give citizenship to non-Muslims fleeing religious persecution from several neighboring countries.The third day of what had been a peaceful demonstration against the law, passed by India's Parliament last week, descended into chaos Sunday afternoon.Three buses were set on fire, police official
  
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• Lindsey Graham will 'not pretend to be a fair juror' in impeachment trial

  15-12-2019 18:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lindsey Graham will not try to “pretend to be a fair juror” should President Trump face an impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate.
  
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• Washington bracing for impeachment as battle lines harden

  15-12-2019 18:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As Washington braces for this week's expected vote toimpeach President Donald Trump, partisan battle lines hardened on Sunday, with Democrats defending impeachment even if Trump isn't removed from office and Republicans denouncing the integrity of the constitutional process.The Democratic-controlled House planned to vote Wednesday on two articles of impeachment against the Republican president, and the decision whether to make Trump the third U.S. president in history to be impeached was expecte
  
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• Democrats seek Bolton, Mulvaney for impeachment trial

  15-12-2019 18:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senate Democrats are proposing a weekslong Senate impeachment trial seeking testimony from four new witnesses including John Bolton and Mick Mulvaney over President Donald Trump's actions toward Ukraine, according to a detailed outline released Sunday.Trump faces two charges — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — over his efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate political rival Joe Biden while withholding military aid to the ally.
  
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• US expelled two Chinese diplomats on spying claims: report

  15-12-2019 18:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States quietly expelled two Chinese embassy officials in September after they drove onto a sensitive military base in Virginia, The New York Times reported Sunday.The newspaper, which cited multiple people with knowledge of the episode, said it appeared to be the first time in more than 30 years that the US has expelled Chinese diplomats on suspicion of espionage.The incident comes as the United States and China, the world's two biggest economies, wrangle over trade.
  
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• 'He was right, I was wrong': Former FBI Director James Comey says he was wrong to defend FBI's use of the FISA surveillance process

  15-12-2019 18:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "He was right, I was wrong," former FBI Director James Comey said on "Fox News Sunday." "I was overconfident, as director, in our procedures."
  
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• 'He was right, I was wrong': Former FBI director James Comey admits he was wrong to defend FBI's use of the FISA surveillance process

  15-12-2019 18:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "He was right, I was wrong," former FBI director James Comey said on Fox News Sunday. "I was overconfident, as director, in our procedures."
  
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• New Zealand rescuers unable to locate bodies as volcano death toll rises to 16

  15-12-2019 18:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New Zealand recovery teams returned to the volcanic White Island on Sunday but were unable to locate two remaining bodies in their search, as the death toll from Monday's eruption rose to 16, police said. Authorities said eight police search and rescue staff were deployed for 75 minutes to an area in which their information suggested one body may remain. “I can say we have found no further bodies in that area,“ Deputy Police Commissioner Mike Clement told a media conference on Sunday
  
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• New York Times editorial board calls for Trump's impeachment

  15-12-2019 18:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The New York Times has joined a growing list of newspapers and publications that are openly calling for the impeachment of President Trump.
  
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• Super Tuesday voters prefer a practical Democratic nominee to an idealistic one, poll shows

  15-12-2019 18:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Most Democratic voters in Super Tuesday states don't want to do any dreaming this election. Instead they want some a candidate with some old-fashioned practicality, a new CBS News/YouGov poll shows.Among the Democrats, or Democrat-leaning, voters polled, 59 percent said they prefer a practical nominee compared to just 19 percent who said they want a realistic. That's apparently a good thing for former Vice President Joe Biden who led among those surveyed who prefer a practical candidate. Sen. Be
  
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• Trump impeachment: Democrats fume as Republicans rally behind president

  15-12-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * Schiff: Trump ‘has done far worse than anything Nixon did’* Lindsey Graham will ‘not pretend to be a fair juror’* The lies have it: how Republicans abandoned the truthDonald Trump has done “far worse than anything Nixon did”, a leader of the impeachment process in the House said on Sunday, adding: “The question is why are Republicans placing this president above their oath of office.”Nixon resigned in 1974, before he could be impeached over the W
  
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• The Threat of EMP Attack is Very Real

  15-12-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  This can't be minimized--this is a threat to the American people that must be taken seriously.
  
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• New Fox News poll on impeachment contradicts the view of its most loyal viewer — President Trump

  15-12-2019 17:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new Fox News poll on voter support for impeachment contradicted President Trump, who recently boasted major support in favor of “No Impeachment.” 
  
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• New Fox News poll on impeachment contradicts its most loyal viewer — President Trump

  15-12-2019 17:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new Fox News poll on voter support for impeachment contradicted President Trump, who recently boasted major support in favor of “No Impeachment.” 
  
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• James Comey admits he was ‘overconfident’ in FBI during its Trump associates probe

  15-12-2019 17:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The former director of the FBI has spoken out after the release of an Inspector General report last week that exposed issues with the bureau’s surveillance methods as it was investigating Donald Trump’s campaign associates.James Comey said he was “overconfident” in the FBI’s procedures after the report revealed 17 “significant inaccuracies and omissions” in a series of applications used to authorise the surveillance of Carter Page, a policy adviser to Mr
  
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