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 Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano summarily dismissed Rep. Devin Nunes' (R-CA) $250 million lawsuit against Twitter and parody Twitter accounts, calling it "novel litigation" that could backfire as "courts don't like to be used to make political statements."
On Monday evening, Fox News first reported that the House Intelligence Committee ranking member is suing the social-media platform, a couple of anonymous Twitter users, and political consultant Liz Mair for defamation while further accusing Twitter of "shadow-banning" him and conservatives. Nunes later went on Fox's Hannity to declare that this was just the "first of many lawsuits" he planned to file.
Appearing on Fox & Friends Tuesday morning, Napolitano immediately said that "it's a novel litigation" and "we haven't seen anything like this before" when asked his opinion on the suit.
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 "Medicare for All" has become a catchphrase among 2020 Democratic presidential contenders, but there's no universal agreement about how to move forward with overhauling the American health care system.
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 Floods in the Midwest have killed at least four people and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage, according to Reuters. The floods, the result of last week's "bomb cyclone," inundated stretches of Nebraska and Iowa along the Missouri River. It swamped homes, covering about a third of the U.S. Air Force Base that houses the United States Strategic Command, and cut off road access to a nuclear power plant.
Some 74 Nebraska cites had declared a state of emergency by Monday evening, according to the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency. More than 600 residents were evacuated and taken to American Red Cross-operated shelters. (Reuters)
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 Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has reached an agreement with Attorney General William Barr to stay on at the Justice Department "a little while longer," a source familiar with their conversation told Fox News - despite initial plans to step down by now.
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 President Trump is picking a whole lot of fights in recent days, including one with a dead senator.
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Democrats are at odds over how to fulfill their promise to lower health costs, with centrists opposing the "Medicare for all" plan favored by progressives.
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The coming departure of Andrew Weissmann, who led the cases against Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, is another sign the inquiry is winding down.
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