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Top 8 lines from Jeff Sessions' hearing

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Amid diplomatic contact, North Korea frees American student

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Senators condemn NK treatment of US student

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No change in Theresa May's Brexit plan

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Trump calls House health care bill 'mean'

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Top SNP figure urges Nicola Sturgeon to drop second referendum plans

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he was never briefed on Russia probe

Angus King asked a number of questions about the basis for Sessions' refusal to answer questions. Sessions said during the hearing that it would be "ina...

Melania and Barron Trump have officially moved into the White House

Barron , 11, will be the first son in the White House since John F. Kennedy Jr., and will be attending St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Maryland. Now she ha...

James Mattis 'shocked' by low level of USA military readiness

Mattis acknowledged McCain's criticism as fair, and estimated that he will be able to brief the Senate on a new plan in July. "So all I can tell you is, unl...

Sessions to shed light on Russian Federation and Comey in US Senate hearing

Comey's testimony on Thursday also raised new questions about the attorney general's relationship with Russian officials with ties to President Vladimir Putin. ...

Putin critic Alexei Navalny among hundreds jailed over anti-Kremlin protests

Regardless of his arrest, anti-corruption rallies have taken place all over Russian Federation, ending up with hundreds, possibly even thousands of arrests of d...

Sessions brands Russian Federation collusion claims a 'detestable lie'

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Trump Pledges to Rebuild American Infrastructure with American Labor and Materials

Trump pointed to the announcement Wednesday as the latest sign of Obamacare's demise and urged lawmakers to speedily approve a replacement. Trump has consiste...

Jeff Sessions Testifies He Never Discussed Election With Russians

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US says Rodman did not help in NKorea release

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Jeff Sessions to publicly testify on James Comey's firing

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Secret Service says it does not have any White House tapes

Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., also a member of that committee, agreed the panel needed to hear any tapes, if they exist. The US Secret Service said there ...

White Senators Can't Stop Interrupting Kamala Harris

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Two inmates at large in Georgia after two prison guards shot, killed

Tuesday, about 80 miles southeast of Atlanta, according to the Putnam County Sheriff's Office. The Georgia Department of Corrections identified the guards a...

How A Virginia State Election Is Revealing The Democrats' Election Playbook

For a party that's struggling to mend the gap between its fervent establishment leaders (think, Hillary Clinton ) and it's fiery progressive wing (hello, ...

Mattis blames Congress for poor state of US combat readiness

Mr Mattis said he would present options on Afghanistan to president Donald Trump "very soon", adding that the strategy will take a regional approach rather ...

New Lawsuit Against Trump Accepting Foreign Income

District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine and Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh announced the suit at a news conference in Washington ....

North Korea Launches Missiles after South Korean Decision on Anti-Missile System

According to Pyongyang's propaganda arm, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the new explosive is a "cruise rocket " capable of "striking any enemy group o...

Trump derails infrastructure speech to whine about Democrats obstructing his agenda

Trump will also propose grants for rural areas to fix crumbling bridges, roads and waterways, a White House official said, and more control for cities and state...