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Workshopping resumes. Quietly discussing future job prospects. Sending out the classic, “I’d love to grab coffee and catch up!” email. What sounds like the inside of a fledgling business in the final weeks ahead of a Chapter 11 “restructuring” is actually President Donald Trump’s White House, as several staffers and aides scramble to save their

Sen. Elizabeth Warren became the first potential 2020 presidential candidate to raise the prospect of impeaching President Donald Trump. In a podcast interview on Wednesday with International Business Times reporter David Sirota, the Massachusetts Democrat also endorsed the idea of a single-payer Medicare-for-all health care system, and urged her party to promote that concept to

After decades of house arrest, Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar López Rivera was released. His case made him a martyr for his followers and at the same time a terrorist for others; winning the hatred of those who lost loved ones in a series of bomb attacks that he directed. In the 1970s and 1980s, López

A special prosecutor, or independent counsel, enjoys broad investigative power with wider-ranging authority than a typical federal prosecutor. The law calls for appointment of a special counsel if it is determined a criminal probe is warranted, the investigation “would present a conflict of interest” for the Justice Department and it would be “in the public

Democrats cheered the choice of Robert S. Mueller III Wednesday to lead the Justice Department’s probe into Trump campaign figures’ dealings with Russia, while Republicans seemed to be taken by surprise. Praise for the decision, made late in the evening by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, rolled in from the left. “Former Director Mueller is