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Pelosi backs changing the law to allow a sitting president to be indicted
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"I do think that we will have to pass some laws that will have clarity for future presidents,” she says.
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POLITICO Speaker Nancy Pelosi endorsed changing federal law to specify that a sitting president can be indicted 8h
Trump doesn't deny asking world leader about Biden, says conversations are 'always appropriate'
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“The Radical Left Democrats and their Fake News Media partners, headed up again by Little Adam Schiff, and batting Zero for 21 against me, are at it again!”
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POLITICO Donald Trump again denied making inappropriate comments to a foreign leader after a whistleblower complaint — which he claimed was a "political hack job" lodged by a “highly partisan” member of the intelligence community 14h
How Trump’s Florida ‘field general’ got kneecapped
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A power play by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ousted the woman responsible for winning Trump Florida in 2016.
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POLITICO A power play by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ousted the woman responsible for winning Trump Florida in 2016 17h
Bill de Blasio ends 2020 presidential campaign
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"I feel like I've contributed all I can to this primary election and it's clearly not my time,” he told MSNBC.
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POLITICO Breaking: Bill de Blasio drops out of the 2020 presidential race 17h
Why Justin Trudeau’s party is sticking with him — for now
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Two party lawmakers and three un-elected party officials argued to POLITICO that there was no chance of Trudeau being dumped as leader.
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POLITICO The difficulty of finding a replacement and rebuilding a campaign in just four weeks means that there's almost no chance Canada's Liberal Party dumps Justin Trudeau 18h
'Of course I did': Giuliani acknowledges asking Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden
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“So you did ask Ukraine to look into Joe Biden?” CNN’s Chris Cuomo asked Giuliani.
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POLITICO Rudy Giuliani acknowledged asking Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden — while Hill Democrats investigate whether he and Trump are pressuring Ukraine to dig up dirt on a 2020 election rival. 25h
Yang dishes on why Trump won, Asian jokes and how he'll 'shock the world'
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Read key excerpts from a broad ranging interview from the unconventional Democratic candidate for president.
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POLITICO We sat down with Andrew Yang and he dished on a range of topics, interspersing serious talk about his ideas with humorous observations about what it’s been like for a true political neophyte to run for the highest office in the land 30h
Tillerson: Netanyahu, Israelis 'played' Trump
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The embattled former secretary of state expressed frustration at taking a back seat on Israel issues
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POLITICO Tillerson cautioned that skepticism is necessary when dealing with Netanyahu, whom Tillerson called "a bit Machiavellian" 33h
Sanders camp pushes to extend N.Y. voter registration deadline
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Sanders' campaign manager sent a letter to the DNC on Thursday.
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POLITICO Sanders’ campaign manager sent a letter to the DNC urging it to demand that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo approves legislation to extend the state’s voter registration deadline, which is less than a month away 36h
The Ridiculous Campaign Against Vaping
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Vaping is almost all upside in comparison with traditional smoking, and yet the nation is in the grips of a panic about e-cigarettes.
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POLITICO Opinion: Anything that pushes e-cigarette users back into conventional smoking is bad for public health 53h
Bolton unloads on Trump’s foreign policy behind closed doors
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The recently fired national security made little secret of his disagreements with the president.
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POLITICO John Bolton, Trump’s fired national security adviser, harshly criticized Trump’s foreign policy today at a private lunch, saying inviting the Taliban to Camp David was “disrespectful” to the victims of 9/11 because the Taliban had harbored al Qaeda 56h
Anti-vaccine protesters are likening themselves to civil rights activists
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The approach reflected the level of desperation among families staunchly opposed to vaccinating their children.
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POLITICO In the nation's most diverse state, a chorus of white female protesters chanted "No segregation, no discrimination" as they compared childhood vaccine laws to racist segregationist policies African Americans faced before the Civil Rights movement 59h
‘He’s not going to have Hillary Clinton sitting on her hands’: Trump’s uphill battle to hold Wisconsin
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Milwaukee’s Republican suburbs have never really warmed up to the president. That could be a big problem.
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POLITICO Milwaukee’s Republican suburbs have never really warmed up to the president. That could be a big problem for him in 2020. 3d
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POLITICO The level of enthusiasm for Trump in Wisconsin’s so-called WOW counties — Waukesha, Ozaukee and Washington — matters a great deal in a state where 3 of the last 5 presidential elections were decided by less than 1% 3d
Nearly 60 mayors and ex-mayors endorse Buttigieg
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Although the mayors are largely white, Buttigieg picked up some key endorsements from mayors of color.
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POLITICO Fifty-eight U.S. mayors announced their endorsements of Pete Buttigieg in a USA Today op-ed 3d
Poll: Biden and Warren on the rise, while Harris plummets among 2020 field
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Only eight candidates garnered more than 1 percent in the poll.
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POLITICO Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren both made steady climbs after last week’s Democratic presidential debate, while Sen. Kamala Harris has plummeted, according to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll 3d
EPA to revoke California’s power to limit vehicle emissions
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The Clean Air Act gives California special authority to set more stringent pollution standards than the federal level, but only if EPA grants a waiver.
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POLITICO EPA will formally announce on Wednesday that it is revoking the Obama-era waiver allowing California to enforce more stringent greenhouse gas emissions standards on new cars than the federal government sets 3d
‘Get real’: Senior Democrats shut down Kavanaugh impeachment push
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Democratic leaders are panning new demands by the left to oust the Supreme Court justice.
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POLITICO Senior Democrats are moving quickly to snuff out calls to impeach Brett Kavanaugh, arguing those tactics are unrealistic and politically harmful 4d
Nadler throws cold water on Kavanaugh impeachment
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He says the committee is too busy "impeaching the president" to consider investigating the Supreme Court justice.
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POLITICO The House Judiciary Committee is too tied up with "impeaching the president" to take immediate action on a potential investigation into allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said 4d
Trump says U.S. ‘locked and loaded’ after attack on Saudi oil
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The attack has cut into global energy supplies by halving the kingdom’s oil production.
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POLITICO Trump said the United States was “locked and loaded” following a drone attack on a major Saudi Arabian oil facility, which the Trump administration is blaming on Iran 5d
Republicans clash with Trump-aligned operatives over fundraising platform
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The fight over WinRed highlights the fears among Republicans as they try to win back the House.
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POLITICO House Republicans sparred behind closed doors with Trump operatives at a GOP retreat over the new online fundraising platform backed by party leaders and the White House 7d