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WASHINGTON, Jan 14 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee William Barr will pledge at his confirmation hearing to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether Trump’s 2016 election campaign coordinated with Russia, according to prepared testimony released on Monday. “On my watch, Bob will be allowed to complete his work,” Barr said in the prepared remarks ahead of two days of confirmation hearings before the Senate…

The way the report on President Trump’s attempts to “conceal” interactions with Russian President Vladimir Putin has evolved in just one day is a perfect case study in how media sloppiness and imprecision create false stories. The Washington Post reported Sunday that Trump “has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations” with Putin, including “taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter” on “at least one…

Video Judge orders Stormy Daniels to pay Trump almost $300,000 Adult film star Stormy Daniels is suing members of an Ohio police department for $2 million after she was arrested at a strip club over the summer. Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, filed the federal defamation lawsuit with her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, on Monday against six officers of the Columbus Divison of Police, alleging her arrest was “politically motivated”…

President Trump called the idea he might have worked on behalf of Russia a “hoax” at the White House on Monday. “A whole big fat hoax.” News reports raised new questions over the weekend. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP President Trump called the idea he might have worked on behalf of Russia a “hoax” at the White House on Monday. “A whole big fat hoax.” News reports…

President Trump called the idea he might have worked on behalf of Russia a “hoax” at the White House on Monday. “A whole big fat hoax.” News reports raised new questions over the weekend. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP President Trump called the idea he might have worked on behalf of Russia a “hoax” at the White House on Monday. “A whole big fat hoax.” News reports…

President Trump called the idea he might have worked on behalf of Russia a “hoax” at the White House on Monday. “A whole big fat hoax.” News reports raised new questions over the weekend. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP President Trump called the idea he might have worked on behalf of Russia a “hoax” at the White House on Monday. “A whole big fat hoax.” News reports…

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CLOSE According to new polls, President Donald Trump and the Republican Party are losing the battle on who is to blame for the partial government shutdown. Wochit The partial government shutdown blew through the record of the longest ever in U.S. history over the weekend and is headed into uncharted territory. The impact is intensifying on both the government employees who missed a payday Friday — some of them forced to work anyway, some…

Tens of thousands of Los Angeles teachers went on strike Monday after negotiations in the nation’s second-largest school district collapsed. Braving rain, teachers carrying signs saying “on strike for our students” and umbrellas stood in picket lines Monday morning demanding smaller class sizes, more nurses, counselors and librarians, higher wages for educators and more accountability for charter schools. There were picket lines at 900 schools across the city, United Teachers…

GORDON, Wis (WKOW) — A friend and former classmate of the suspect in Jayme Closs’ kidnapping and her parents’ murders said Jake Patterson, 21, was shy growing up, but was well-liked in their class. Dylan Fisher, seen pictured here, acknowledged he and Jake Patterson had lost touch some after high school, but had been friends since second grade. “He’s just a normal kid just like everyone else. It’s as confusing…

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WASHINGTON — Saudi Arabia shows no sign of easing up on its crackdown against dissent and the Trump administration remains reluctant to punish the kingdom over its alleged abuses, including the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, former U.S. officials, foreign diplomats and human rights groups told NBC News. In the run-up to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit to Riyadh on Sunday, the Trump administration expressed praise for the…

A fresh set of troublingly poor data out of China has investors running for cover on Monday, with all major stock indexes around the world losing ground on the week’s first trading day. The value of Chinese imports and exports fell heavily in the year to December, adding to a lengthening list of evidence that all is not well in the world’s second largest economy. According to China’s General Administration…

Video What are the possible consequences for withdrawing US troops from Syria? Dan Hoffman says it’s too early to talk about President Donald Trump on Sunday tweeted that the “long overdue pullout from Syria” is starting, and threatened that the U.S. will “devastate Turkey economically” if they attack Kurdish forces in the war-torn country. Trump said the removal of troops, which he announced via Twitter in December, is happening “while…

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(A methodology sidenote: The new Post/ABC and CNN/SSRS polls are also notable for being the first of this shutdown to be conducted using traditional live-interviewer phone calls, rather than cheaper methods such as online surveys. That fact highlights how much the face of political polling has changed since the 1995 shutdown, when pollsters like Gallup were conducting multiple surveys a week on the political ramifications of the government’s closure. Gallup,…

Legendary journalist Carl Bernstein has said that he’s been told that special counsel Robert Mueller’s report will show how President Donald Trump helped Russia “destabilize the United States.” Bernstein, who is renowned for his coverage of the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of former President Richard Nixon, appeared on CNN’s Reliable Sources on Sunday to discuss two bombshell reports released this weekend, one from The New York Times…