2019

As White House Counsel, Pat Cipollone Builds Case for Defiance on Impeachment

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Mr. Cipollone served a clerkship with Judge Danny Julian Boggs, a Reagan appointee, on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. As part of the interview process, Mr. Cipollone took the judge’s famously difficult “general knowledge” quiz, which he used to gauge knowledge beyond the law. In Mr. Cipollone’s year, potential clerks had to answer 64 […]

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Pentagon Analyst Is Charged in Leaks of Classified Reports

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WASHINGTON — A Pentagon counterterrorism analyst shared classified information with two journalists for more than a year, one of whom he was dating, according to an indictment unsealed on Wednesday. The analyst, Henry Kyle Frese, 30, was arrested on Wednesday at his office at the Defense Intelligence Agency, where he has worked since January 2017,

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Dancing on Ice: Steps singer Ian ‘H’ Watkins to be in same-sex couple

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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Ian “H” Watkins publicly came out in 2007, a decade after Steps launched Dancing On Ice is to beat Strictly Come Dancing to having UK TV’s first same-sex dancing couple. Steps singer Ian “H” Watkins will be teamed up with professional skater Matt Evers in the next series of

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Top Barclays executives ‘hid £280m payment’, court hears

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Image caption Roger Jenkins is one of the former Barclays executives accused of fraud Two top executives at Barclays Bank dishonestly hid a £280m payment to investors from Qatar, a court heard today. Prosecutors said the executives created a bogus agreement for advisory services so they could pay Qatari investors extra fees for investing. The

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