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WATCH: Sally Yates clashes with Lindsey Graham for claiming Flynn was investigated over a policy difference

Former acting attorney general Sally Yates testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee this Wednesday, answering questions regarding former national security adviser, Michael Flynn and his being the subject of surveillance under a United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court warrant, also known as a FISA warrant.

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‘Sign of desperation’: Trump slammed for ‘anti-religious bigotry’ over new attack ad on Joe Biden

A new anti-Biden attack ad from the Trump campaign is filled with falsehoods, and ends by mocking the Democratic presumptive presidential nominee praying in a church. Some on social media are slamming the President and his campaign for "anti-religious bigotry" and "demonizing prayer."

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'America is out of its mind': Texas doc goes on viral rant about pushing schools to reopen during pandemic

A doctor based in Austin, Texas this week uncorked an angry rant about President Donald Trump's push to force schools to reopen in the middle of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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'Is that even legal?' GOP senator slams 'problematic' Trump plan to hold RNC speech at White House

A Republican senator on Wednesday cast doubt about the legality of President Donald Trump accepting the Republican nomination for president at the White House.

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Bill Barr blatantly disregarded the rule of law in Roger Stone case by seeking ‘the president’s desired result’: former federal prosecutor

In the federal criminal case the U.S. v. Stone, veteran GOP operative Roger Stone — a long-time ally of President Donald Trump — went from facing a U.S. Department of Justice recommendation of seven to nine years in prison to being sentenced to three years and four months to having his sentence commuted by Trump. The “Trump ally” part, according to former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, is why Attorney General William Barr favored leniency for Stone — and Weissmann, in a scathing article for The Atlantic, argues that Barr showed a blatant disregard for the rule of law in Stone’s case.

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'Clueless, shameless, dissembling': New York Daily News editors rip Trump for trainwreck HBO interview

The New York Daily News on Wednesday published a scathing editorial in which the editors took President Donald Trump to task for his widely derided interview with Axios reporter Jonathan Swan.

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Lindsey Graham scolded in Sally Yates hearing: 'Just because it’s a woman testifying doesn’t mean she needs to be cut off'

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was accused on Wednesday of interrupting former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates because she is a woman.

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Florida man spits on boy for wearing mask in restaurant: 'You now have the coronavirus'

A Florida man allegedly assaulted a child for wearing a mask at a restaurant.

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Trump has crippled his own conspiracy theory about mail-in voter fraud: conservative columnist

On Wednesday, writing for The Washington Post, conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin argued that President Donald Trump has sabotaged his long-running conspiracy theory about mail-in voting being an invitation for widespread fraud, by admitting that his own state of Florida is perfectly competent at voting by mail.

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Trump rages at Sally Yates minutes before she testifies in the Senate: Greatest political crime of the century!

President Donald Trump lashed out at former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates on Wednesday, just minutes before she was set to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Trump makes pitch on Catholic TV: 'Catholics like their Second Amendment so I saved the Second Amendment'

President Donald Trump this week made a pitch to Catholic voters based on his assertion that he "saved the Second Amendment."

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'Jim Acosta is a fake reporter!' Trump angrily denies reports that he 'still doesn't get' coronavirus threat

CNN's Jim Acosta must have struck a nerve with President Donald Trump.

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Dr Birx proves that no amount of gushing compliments can compensate for even a little bit of honesty with Trump: op-ed

One of President Trump's top infectious disease experts, Dr. Deborah Birx, is known for avoiding Trump's wrath, but that changed when she recently decided to speak frankly on the growing spread of coronavirus across the country. While Trump walked back his public criticism of her, the dust shows that no amount of "gushing compliments or massaging statistics can compensate for even a little bit of honesty with this man," the Washington Post's Molly Roberts writes.

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