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8 years 11 months ago
President Donald Trump spent the Thanksgiving holiday with his family at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. While speaking with reporters ahead of his departure from the White House, the President defended embattled Alabama Republican Roy Moore, all but endorsing the Senate candidate who has been accused of sexual assault.

Barney Frank rips Mulvaney's appointment to CFPB

8 years 11 months ago
Former Rep. Barney Frank pushed back Saturday on the White House's assertion that President Donald Trump has the authority to appoint an interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, saying the independence of watchdog agency was a key consideration when Congress passed the law to create it in 2010.

US sailors missing in the Philippine Sea identified

8 years 11 months ago
The US Navy on Saturday identified three sailors who went missing after their plane crashed into the Philippine Sea as Lt. Steven Combs, Aviation Boatswain's Mate Airman Matthew Chialastri and Aviation Ordnanceman Airman Apprentice Bryan Grosso.

Rapper's prison sentence sparks outrage

8 years 11 months ago
Meek Mill's supporters have slammed his two-to-four-year prison sentence as excessive, but others have argued that Mill -- a celebrity who has violated the terms of his probation several times -- knew what he was getting into and should not be the poster boy for mass incarceration.

Explicit Barton image raises possibility of 'revenge porn'

8 years 11 months ago
After a sexually explicit photo of Texas Republican Rep. Joe Barton surfaced this week on an anonymous Twitter account, the congressman -- one of the most senior members of the House of Representatives -- is raising the possibility that he's the victim of "revenge porn," a criminal act in Texas.
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