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In a column for the Daily Beast, longtime political observer Michael Tomasky warns that Attorney General Bill Barr will continue to act as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and will undercut Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report that is expected to show no “Deep State” conspiracy against the president. Calling Barr a “menace to society,” Tomasky said [

On Monday, the long-anticipated inspector general report on the FBI’s investigation of President Donald Trump’s campaign’s ties to Russia was released — to reveal, as previous reports had hinted, that all of the Republican conspiracy theories about federal agents trying to sabotage Trump and planting spies in his campaign are false. But Attorney General William [

President Trump may want to tamp down his expectations. The Justice Department’s long-awaited inspector general review of the Russia investigation will debunk a string of right-wing theories about the origins of the probe, according to a report Friday. The report from Inspector General Michael

President Donald Trump espoused his new environmental rollbacks concerning the automotive industry today, but consumer advocates say the cost of filling up the gas tank could increase.

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The president grasps at a debunked claim of election interference as impeachment looms.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday promoted a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election, a day after a former White House adviser called it a “fictional narrative” and said it played into Russia’s hands. Trump called in to “Fox & Friends” and said he was trying to root out corruption in the Eastern European nation when he withheld aid over the summer. Trump’s July 25 call with Ukraine’s president is at the center of the House impeachment...