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Trump Praises Attorney General for Intervening in Stone Case

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday congratulated his attorney general for intervening to lower the Justice Department’s sentencing recommendation for the president’s longtime friend, Roger J. Stone Jr., and belittled the crime of lying to Congress. In November, Mr. Stone was convicted of obstructing a congressional inquiry by the House Intelligence Committee into Russian interference

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How Amy Klobuchar Pulled Off the Big Surprise of the New Hampshire Primary

“We first saw her in July, and we liked her very much, and around September, we were heavily leaning that way,” said Mark Hodgdon, 60, who lives in Epsom, N.H., but drove a half-hour to attend an afternoon event at state headquarters in Manchester on Tuesday. “She cares about all the liberal issues that I

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Trump Adviser Pushes Utah Congressman for Top Intelligence Post

WASHINGTON — A Utah congressman has emerged as a top contender to be the next director of national intelligence in the weeks before the acting intelligence chief must by law give up the post, people briefed on the matter said on Tuesday. President Trump’s national security adviser, Robert C. O’Brien, is pushing him to nominate

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Trump Takes On Bloomberg and Once Again Hijacks a News Cycle

Mr. Bloomberg’s record on stop-and-frisk has gotten limited attention since he began running for president in November. The three-term New York City mayor defended the aggressive policing tactic for years, even after a federal judge ruled that it had violated the constitutional rights of minority men in New York. He apologized for it only after

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Responding to Critics, Bloomberg Omits Role in Expanding Stop-and-Frisk

Michael R. Bloomberg, the mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013 and now a Democratic presidential candidate, sought on Tuesday to explain comments he made in 2015 aggressively defending the policing tactic known as stop-and-frisk. Here’s a fact check of his statement. What Was Said: “I inherited the police practice of stop-and-frisk, and

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Palestinian Leader Denounces Trump’s Mideast Plan at U.N.

The Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, delivered an angry rejection of President Trump’s plan for peace between Palestinians and Israelis at the United Nations on Tuesday, describing it as an illegitimate, one-sided proposal that rewarded Israel for decades of occupation and turned his people’s land into “Swiss cheese” riddled with Israeli settlements. In a speech

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