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 President Donald Trump will meet Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday as the White House struggles to contain a spiraling crisis over a journalist's apparent death at a Saudi consulate.
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 The U.S. Congress could request President Donald Trump's tax returns under a seldom-used 1924 law, which Democrats say they plan to invoke promptly if they win control of the House of Representatives or the Senate in the Nov. 6 elections.
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 Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastIt may be the Year of the Woman, with a record-breaking number of them running. But not for Republicans.
One of the party's female stars, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, who's represented a conservative district west of Nashville since 2002, is locked in an unexpectedly tight race for the Senate in Tennessee. A Trump clone in a state where more than 60 percent of voters went with Trump, she should have put the race away long ago.
Instead, the president's snide disdain for women is threatening to erase the Trump bump. A recent Washington Post poll showed that once reliably Republican-voting white, college-educated women in battleground districts now prefer Democrats by nearly 30 points. That can only grow with Trump's "horseface" comment about Stormy Daniels, following on his high-pitched voice mocking imitation of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. And Trump says he's not a baby. The president believes winning means no one cares how he treated Ford. We'll see.
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 Attorney Michael Avenatti joins protesters outside the White House in Washington, D.C., July 17, 2018. WASHINGTON—"I'm one of the few people who can beat Donald Trump if I decide to run for the U.S. presidency." The man who confidently utters these words is not a senator or governor, not even a junior congressman. Michael Avenatti, the Los Angeles lawyer, is best known for representing Stephanie Clifford, an adult film actress (you may know her as Stormy Daniels) who claims to have had an affair with President Trump.
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