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• Trump and Pence to attend Treasury Secretary Mnuchin's wedding

  24-06-2017 23:40 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence will be among the throng of Washington power players attending Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's wedding to Scottish actress Louise Linton on Saturday evening.
  
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• Sally Yates Rips Jeff Sessions' Defense For Harsher Criminal Sentences

  24-06-2017 21:42
  
  Sally Yates, the former deputy attorney general who was fired by President Donald Trump in January, criticized Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ approach to fighting crime and accused him of distorting facts.
  In a Washington Post op-ed, Yates rebuked Sessions for instructing Justice Department prosecutors to pursue the toughest sentences possible against criminal defendants. In a separate Post op-ed last week, Sessions accused the Obama administration of going easy on drug offenders and sugg
  
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• Police Searches Plummet In States That Legalize Weed

  24-06-2017 19:58
  
  Marijuana is often used as a tool by police officers to search your car.
  In many cases, the mere odor of weed serves as probable cause to pull you over and rifle through your belongings. States that have decriminalized it are still grappling with the legality of using marijuana for warrantless searches.
  In the case of Philando Castile, who was shot to death by a Minnesota police officer during a traffic stop last year, we saw the devastating effects the smell of marijuana can have on an officer
  
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• Real Frustrated Lawyers Tell A Fake Trump They Won't Save Him

  24-06-2017 18:39
  
  Throughout the last month, President Donald Trump and his team keep confirming and then denying that he is under investigation by the Department of Justice.
  Besides Trump confirming an investigation on Twitter, the most notable instance was his lawyer, Jay Sekulow, claiming that Trump was under investigation and then that he wasn’t under investigation during the same “Fox News Sunday” interview.
  It remains unclear whether Trump truly is under a high-level investigation, b
  
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• White House Says Its Election Commission Will Examine Hacking. That's News To The Commissioners.

  24-06-2017 18:11
  
  As President Donald Trump continues to face questions about Russian interference in the 2016 election, the White House has pointed to a commission he created to investigate electoral integrity to show the president’s commitment from preventing a future intrusion.But if understanding hacking is going to be a commission priority, it would appear to be news to at least some of the commissioners, who said this week they have no idea when the commission will meet or what it is actually going to
  
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• 'Julius Caesar' Star Considered The Play To Be Donald Trump 'Resistance'

  24-06-2017 16:53
  
  The New York Public Theater’s presentation of William Shakespeare’s 400-year-old play, “Julius Caesar” was embroiled in controversy this month, with protests over a choice to costume the titular character as President Donald Trump. This wardrobe decision was controversial because senators plot to stab Caesar to death in the play. 
  Now that this run of “Julius Caesar” has come to an end, actor Corey Stoll has written a piece for Vulture about what it was
  
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• Anthony Kennedy retirement watch at a fever pitch

  24-06-2017 15:21 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Justice Anthony Kennedy, the man who so often determines the outcome of the most controversial Supreme Court cases, is himself the center of brewing speculation.
  
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• Trump's previous promises on health care

  24-06-2017 14:57 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump has made some grand promises on health care.
  
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• How Trump is empowering the military -- and raising some eyebrows

  24-06-2017 14:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In his first six months in office, President Donald Trump has overseen a steady transfer of power from the White House to the Pentagon, handing off several warfighting authorities that previously rested in his hands -- and those of past presidents of both parties -- to the Pentagon and the commanders overseeing the US' military campaigns.
  
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• Kentucky's Hedge Funder Governor Keeps State Money In Secretive Hedge Funds

  24-06-2017 14:00
  
  Kentucky’s public pension system is a long-running, worst-in-the-nation disaster. Even as state workers chip in their fair share, the system suffers from years of chronic underfunding by the state. Seeking higher returns, the program, formally known as Kentucky Retirement Systems, has turned to “alternative investments” such as private equity and hedge funds. But those funds also carry far more risk than traditional investments in stocks and bonds ― and much hig
  
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• Here Is How Senate Republicans Try To Hide The Damage Of Their Repeal Bill

  24-06-2017 13:47
  
  Senate Republicans desperately want you to believe their health care bill is something it’s not. 
  They want you to believe that it protects the financially and medically vulnerable, that it won’t “pull the rug out” from people now depending on the Affordable Care Act for insurance, that ― as President Donald Trump has promised ― it will have “heart.”
  Reality is different.  
  The Senate bill, which GOP leaders unveiled Thursday, looks an aw
  
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• Google Search Is Doing Irreparable Harm To Muslims

  24-06-2017 13:30
  
  Google asks its employees to “Do the right thing.” At least, that’s what its revised 2015 motto states in an upgrade from the original company maxim, “Don’t be evil.”
  But when a user searches Google for information on Islam, the results often link to propaganda, anti-Muslim hate and outright lies. The algorithm for the world’s largest search engine is definitely not doing the right thing ― especially when it comes to the first page of results, whe
  
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• House Dems Go At Deutsche Bank Again For Info On Trump Loans And Russia

  24-06-2017 08:48
  
  House Democrats aren’t buying Deutsche Bank’s argument that they have no right to information about Donald Trump multi-million-dollar loans from the institution. And they’ve fired off a letter saying so.
  Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee, led by Rep. Maxine Waters of California, and others  last month demanded information about the estimated $340 million in loans since 2012 made to Trump by the bank, which is paying out huge sums to settle accus
  
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• Bill Maher On GOP Health Care Bill: 'Behold, A Turd!'

  24-06-2017 08:00
  
  Bill Maher was an equal opportunity political offender during Friday night’s monologue on “Real Time.” Between the Republicans’ secret health care bill and the “losing” Democrats, no one was safe from his savage burns.
  Maher dug right in to “lame” Democrats first in an attempt to understand how Jon Ossoff lost the special election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District even after the party poured so much money into his campaign.
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• Stephen Colbert Announces Possible Run For U.S. Presidency On Russian TV

  24-06-2017 07:08
  
  Candidate Colbert? “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert popped up on the other side of the world Friday night to appear on a Russian late-night show — “Evening Urgant” — to throw down vodka shots in a liquid version of Russian roulette. Then Colbert got to the good part. He announced he’s considering a run for the U.S. presidency in 2020. 
  Why not? If a reality show real estate developer with no political experience can win the White House, Colbert cou
  
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• Editor's Note

  24-06-2017 04:44 via rss.cnn.com
  
  On June 22, 2017, CNN.com published a story connecting Anthony Scaramucci with investigations into the Russian Direct Investment Fund.
  
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• Lobbyist Shot During GOP Baseball Practice Released From Hospital

  24-06-2017 04:18
  
  The lobbyist wounded last week by a man who opened fire on a congressional GOP baseball practice in Virginia has been released from the hospital.
  Matt Mika, a lobbyist for Tyson Foods, was discharged from George Washington University Hospital, his family said in a statement on Friday. He had been shot multiple times in the chest and suffered broken ribs, and injuries to his sternum and lungs, ABC 7 reported.
  “We are truly grateful for the compassionate, world-class care provided
  
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• Grand Jury's 'Myth' Report On A California Jail Snitch Scandal Draws Criticism

  24-06-2017 04:15
  
  LOS ANGELES ― A grand jury in California that investigated an Orange County jailhouse informant program, which a Superior Court judge and a state appeals court have agreed clearly exists, issued an unsettling report last week claiming that it is a “myth” largely created by the defense in a mass murder case and the media and that there is no widespread cheating by district attorney’s and sheriff’s officials, even though another ruling Friday in a murder case again in
  
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• Why It Took 75 Years For My Grandpa To Have His Graduation Party

  24-06-2017 03:46
  
  The night of my Grandpa Homer’s high school graduation, he was living in the barracks of a detention center in California with his mom, his sister and thousands of other Japanese-Americans imprisoned during World War II.
  Last weekend, he finally got the graduation party he missed out on all those years ago.
  My mom had received Grandpa’s diploma by mail from his old school district in Oregon, and she saved it for a family get-together the day before Father’s Day. She asked my a
  
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• Trump reaches out to lawmakers on healthcare as another says 'no'

  24-06-2017 03:25
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump made calls to fellow Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Friday to mobilize support for their party's healthcare overhaul while acknowledging the legislation is on a "very, very narrow path" to passage.
  
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• Exclusive: Overruling diplomats, U.S. to drop Iraq, Myanmar from child soldiers' list

  24-06-2017 02:49
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a highly unusual intervention, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to remove Iraq and Myanmar from a U.S. list of the world's worst offenders in the use of child soldiers, disregarding the recommendations of State Department experts and senior U.S. diplomats, U.S. officials said.
  
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• Trump Touts Putting 'Minors' Back To Work, Twitter Goes Giddy

  24-06-2017 02:46
  
  Before the @realDonaldTrump facebook deletes it, Here is a download of the video they posted putting your "Minors" back to work in coal pic.twitter.com/8Nw5nuUir7— ALTImmigration (@ALT_uscis) June 23, 2017
  A captioned video posted to Donald Trump’s Facebook page Friday shows the proofreading-challenged president (apparently backed by a staff with a similar problem) at Wednesday’s Iowa campaign rally boasting about putting “minors” back to work.
  That’s al
  
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• White House says Trump tweet meets Comey tapes records request

  24-06-2017 02:41
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said in a letter on Friday that a tweet by President Donald Trump on Thursday was the formal answer to a request by the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee for information about records of conversations with fired FBI Director James Comey.
  
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• White House responds to Comey tape inquiry with Trump tweet

  24-06-2017 01:49 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The White House is letting President Donald Trump's tweet Thursday -- asserting that he had not taped former FBI Director James Comey -- stand as the President's official statement.
  
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• Trump does not intend to fire investigator Mueller: White House

  24-06-2017 01:04
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has no intention of firing the special counsel investigating charges of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, even though he questioned the official's impartiality in an interview, the White House said on Friday.
  
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• Here's A List Of Every Single Trump Lie Since He Took Office

  24-06-2017 00:38
  
  It’s easier to count the days President Donald Trump hasn’t lied.
  A New York Times editorial says the president has only managed to be falsehood free 39 total days in his first sixth months in office.
  Authors David Leonhardt and Stuart A. Thompson listed every single lie the president has said since taking office six months ago. They say Trump started his administration with a 40-day lying streak, only managing to go fib-free for the first time on March 1.
  They set a conser
  
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• Democratic Support For Single-Payer Health Care Is Rising

  24-06-2017 00:10
  
  More than half of Democrats believe that health insurance should be provided through a national, government-run insurance system, according to a new Pew Research survey. This represents a significant jump from past surveys.
  Fifty-two percent of Americans who identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party now favor a single-payer system, up from 33 percent in 2014 and 43 percent as recently as this January.
  Younger Democrats are especially enthusiastic: Two-thirds of Democrats and Democr
  
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• Air Force 'doomsday' planes damaged in tornado

  24-06-2017 00:09 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Ten US Air Force planes, including two E-4B "doomsday" aircraft, were damaged when a tornado hit near Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska last week, the service told CNN on Friday.
  
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