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Elizabeth Warren Earned $1.9 Million Over 3 Decades for Corporate and Legal Work

Senator Elizabeth Warren disclosed a detailed list of compensation she received during 30 years of moonlighting as a legal consultant — about $1.9 million in all — as she and Mayor Pete Buttigieg continued a back-and-forth demanding transparency in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Ms. Warren released the information abruptly on Sunday night, […]

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Trump Brings 2 Officers He Cleared of War Crimes Onstage at Fund-Raiser

President Trump brought two soldiers he had pardoned in cases involving war crimes onstage at a fund-raiser this weekend in Florida, tightening his embrace of an episode that roiled his relationship with military leaders and prompted a public outcry. Mr. Trump, as the featured speaker, invited up Army First Lt. Clint Lorance and Maj. Mathew

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Billionaire John Caudwell goes head-to-head with Labour’s John McDonnell

Billionaire, philanthropist and Phones 4u founder, John Caudwell, went head-to-head with Labour’s shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, after the politician extended an invitation for tea. Mr McDonnell had previously stated that “nobody needs or deserves” to be a billionaire – which Mr Caudwell said was creating a “divisive message”. The businessman also said that nearly every

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NATO Conference Is Canceled After U.S. Ambassador Barred a Trump Critic

The United States ambassador to Denmark barred an American NATO expert critical of President Trump from speaking at an international conference hosted by the American embassy and a Danish think tank, prompting the event’s cancellation, organizers said. The expert, Stanley R. Sloan, was scheduled to give a keynote speech at the conference, which was celebrating

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Air Force Aims to Deploy a New Battlefield Weapon: Faster Communications

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — The Air Force will propose spending $9 billion over the next five years to build a system to automatically send intelligence to front-line forces, new technology that strategists say will change how the military fights and will help deter aggression by Russia and China. The new system, officials say, aims to

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Sturgeon: ‘We wouldn’t be talking about indyref2 without Brexit’

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon answered listeners’ questions on a special general election Your Call programme on BBC Radio 5 Live, hosted by Nicky Campbell. Speaking about the likelihood of another Scottish independence referendum, she said: “If the Brexit vote hadn’t happened, maybe we wouldn’t be talking, right now, about having another independence referendum quite in

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Deepening Divide Turns Impeachment Into Another Partisan Brawl

WASHINGTON — Almost from the moment that Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her lieutenants decided this fall to pursue the impeachment of President Trump, they made a fateful judgment: If the president intended to do nothing but stonewall and subvert their inquiry, they were not going to be the ones politely sticking to lofty traditions. Mr.

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General Election 2019: Jeremy Corbyn ‘a Marmite figure’

Jeremy Corbyn is a “Marmite figure” among Labour voters, according to Welsh Labour leader Mark Drakeford. Mr Drakeford admitted some traditional Welsh Labour voters were put off by Mr Corbyn, but he suggested they would vote for the party anyway because they like Labour’s programme for government. In an interview with BBC Wales political editor

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