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‘I should have fired him before I got here’: Trump says he regrets not firing Comey soonerThe president teed off on his former FBI director in an interview with Hill.TV.
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Anita Hill urges senators to ‘push the pause button’ on Kavanaugh hearing, says FBI should investigateThe law professor who testified in 1991 about alleged sexual harassment warns the Senate Judiciary Committee against a “sham” process.
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No women served on the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991. The ugly Anita Hill hearings changed that.One of the women elected to the Senate in 1992: Dianne Feinstein, now the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee as another Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, faces a sexual assault allegation.
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Senate reaches agreement on opioids packageSenate reaches agreement on opioids bill
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Sen. Klobuchar: Democrats shouldn’t have gone ‘nuclear’ on judicial nomineesThe Judiciary Committee member said she would support bringing back the filibuster if the Democrats regain the majority next year.
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‘We did a fantastic job in Puerto Rico’: Trump defends response despite spike in deaths after Hurricane MariaThe president said responding to damage in Puerto Rico was “by far the most difficult” compared with storms in Texas and Florida last year.
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‘These things matter’: Sen. Flake cautions Trump on South Africa claimsFlake, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on Africa, challenged Trump’s grasp of the facts.
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Mega-donors Sheldon and Miriam Adelson pour $25 million into fight to keep GOP control of SenateThe billionaire couple shelled out $25 million in July to the main super PAC supporting Senate Republicans, bringing their support for holding the GOP majority in both chambers of Congress to $55 million this cycle.
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The presidency in pictures: How news photographers freshen up mundane White House momentsBeat photographers are adept at using what's at hand, even a puddle, to add flair to shots of the president.
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Trump lashes out at Russia probe, compares it to McCarthyismThe president lashed out at a new report over the White House counsel's cooperation in the Russia investigation.
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