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 Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh denied accusations of sexual misconduct that have threatened to derail his confirmation in an exclusive interview with Fox News on Monday.
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 President Donald Trump and U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the special counsel investigation into Russia's role in the 2016 presidential election, will meet on Thursday to discuss whether Rosenstein will stay in his job.
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 The potential departure of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein from the Justice Department would mean that oversight and management of the sensitive Russia probe would fall to a longtime conservative lawyer with ties to the White House, Noel Francisco.
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 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., vowed Monday that lawmakers will vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in the "near future," during a speech on the Senate floor in which he strongly criticized Democrats for what he continually called a "smear campaign" against the judge.
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 Brendan Smialowski/GettyIt was a rough morning for the Justice Department.
Shortly before 11 a.m., multiple reports emerged that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein-who oversees Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe-was on his way out. A source familiar with the situation told The Daily Beast that he was headed to the White House, where he expected to be fired.
A New York Times story published on Friday precipitated the crisis, reporting that the deputy attorney general talked about covertly recording President Donald Trump and having his cabinet members team up to oust him. Rosenstein said the report was wrong. A Justice Department source told The Daily Beast that the mood soured over the weekend, as the Times stood by its story and some Rosenstein allies privately conceded that he made the remarks (though sarcastically).
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Senior Republicans, tamping down speculation that support might be cracking, will come out strongly in favor of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court.
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 Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump's pick for the Supreme Court, and his wife, Ashley, are speaking out to Fox News in an exclusive interview Monday on the sexual misconduct accusations that have threatened to derail his confirmation.
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More Americans believe Christine Blasey Ford's claim of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh than believe his denials, but it's nowhere near a majority.
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Republicans are calling new accusations in a New Yorker story a 'smear.'
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 Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, told Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley that despite being "frightened," her "fear will not hold me back from testifying" as scheduled on Thursday.
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein expects to be fired Monday, a source tells CNN.
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U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Monday Democrats were "trying to destroy" Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's personal and professional life with "unsubstantiated" sexual assault allegations.
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 The women accusing Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct in high school and college have something else in common: they are enlisting a growing number of well-known Democratic lawyers, donors and operatives for their fight against President Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court.
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China's top naval officer canceled a visit to the US to meet with his American counterpart less than 48 hours before the meeting was scheduled to occur, according to two US defense officials.
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 CBS/ScreenshotA second woman coming forward to accuse Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct may force many observers to view him less favorably, it appears to have done the opposite for Kellyanne Conway.
Whereas last Monday, the counselor to the president was willing to give Christine Blasey Ford the benefit of the doubt, she came out swinging this morning against what she described as a "vast left-wing conspiracy" trying to take down Trump's man.
"This woman should not be insulted and she should not be ignored," Conway told Fox & Friends a week ago, setting the tone for Trump, who was surprising measured in response to the allegations—until he came face to face with Sean Hannity a few days later and started questioning Dr. Ford's credibility.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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John McDonnell says the new water firms will have "unprecedented levels of openness and transparency".
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As new allegations surface about Brett Kavanaugh, readers discuss the underreporting of sex crimes, prep school culture and more.
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A Florida Democrat running for the U.S. House of Representatives in a heavily Republican district has died a little more than six weeks before the November elections, the state's Democratic Party said on Monday.
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Within hours of the publication of an article in the New Yorker, the White House repeatedly attacked Deborah Ramirez's motivations.
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The president's comments in support of Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh came after Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, called for a delay in proceedings following a second accusation of sexual misconduct that surfaced in a New Yorker story Sunday night. Kavanaugh has denied the allegations. This is a […]
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Race relations is emerging as a primary issue in the campaign for Cruz's Senate seat.
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Also: The Supreme Court's problems are much larger than the Kavanaugh nomination.
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The race for Senator Robert Menendez's seat has proved competitive in deeply blue New Jersey. His Republican opponent, Bob Hugin, built his career in the pharmaceutical industry.
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U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into Russia's role in the 2016 presidential election, is set to meet President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday to discuss his future.
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Protests at the US Capitol on Monday led to some arrests as demonstrators gathered to oppose embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the high court.
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The expected departure of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is a massive moment in the ongoing Justice Department investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and will spawn a series of equally large reverberations in political Washington.
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 Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh called accusations he sexually harassed and assaulted women decades ago while in high school and college "smears" in a new letter to top lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Last week, rumors began to circulate on Capitol Hill about an incident in college involving President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee where Brett Kavanaugh allegedly exposed himself at a party at Yale, making their way to Senate Democrats who referred the matter to an attorney in Colorado.
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 Protesters lined the halls outside the offices of Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. - both undecided voters on the Senate Judiciary Committee and key to Kavanaugh's chances of being confirmed.
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President Donald Trump on Monday defended Brett Kavanaugh, his U.S. Supreme Court nominee, after a second woman accused the judge of sexual misconduct decades ago, while Republicans showed no sign of relenting in their push for his Senate confirmation.
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 Saul Loeb/GettyPresident Donald Trump's legal team is calling for a pause of the investigation into Russian election meddling should deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the investigation, resign or be fired.
"If in fact Rod Rosenstein does end up resigning today," Trump attorney Jay Sekulow said on his radio program on Monday, "I think it clearly becomes necessary and appropriate...that there be a step back taken here, and a review, a review that has to be thorough and complete...and basically a time out on this inquiry."
Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's lawyer and former New York City mayor, told The Daily Beast on Monday afternoon that he agrees with Sekulow's call for a cessation of the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller, in the event of Rosenstein's ouster—which was reported to be near as of Monday morning.
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 In the midst of his confirmation process, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is facing multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, including an accusation of assault stemming from when he was in high school.
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 Just days before the Senate Judiciary Committee was set to vote on Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation, Christine Blasey Ford publicly came forward to accuse the federal appeals judge of sexual misconduct decades ago.
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News that Dr. Christine Blasey Ford will testify Thursday against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh has prompted many to warn senators not to repeat the mistakes of the Anita Hill hearings of 1991, when Hill was questioned by an all-male, all-white Senate Judiciary Committee over her allegations that then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her in the workplace. In the weeks after Hill testified, nearly 1,600 black feminists organized as "African American Women in Defense of Ourselves" and signed a manifesto published in an advertisement in _The New York Times_. We speak with historian, author and activist Barbara Ransby, one of the initiators of the manifesto, who is now a professor of African American studies, gender and women's studies and history at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
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Mr. Whelan, the president of a conservative think tank, had put forth a bizarre alternative explanation to the sexual assault allegations against the judge.
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