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WASHINGTON — House Democrats will have an excellent opportunity to question Attorney General Jeff Sessions — again — about the Donald Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia when he appears Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee. Prominent on their list of queries: Why did Sessions never previously mention he had been in a March 2016 meeting

A sixth woman came forward Monday accusing George H.W. Bush of inappropriate touching — this time, a young woman who says the former president groped her when she was 16. Roslyn Corrigan said the alleged incident occurred during an event she attended with her parents in 2003, at the Central Intelligence Agency’s offices in The

NEW YORK — A fifth woman has come forward to accuse former Alabama chief justice Roy Moore of inappropriate sexual conduct. Beverly Young Nelson, 55, said Moore, now a candidate for the U.S. Senate, assaulted her when she was a 16-year-old high school student working as a waitress in Gadsden, Ala. Nelson said Moore had

NEWARK, N.J. — Jurors considering criminal corruption charges against U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez on Monday told the judge overseeing the case they were deadlocked and asked for help on what to do next. The note sent to the courtroom said: “As of 2pm, on behalf of all jurors, we cannot reach a unanimous decision on

Hate crimes in the United States rose moderately last year, with hate-motivated incidents against several target groups, including Arabs, Muslims and transgender people, showing sharper increases, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI’s annual hate crime statistics, released Monday, showed there were 6,121 hate crime incidents in 2016, up 4.6 percent from 5,850

[youtube:2034936] Police arrested a New York man in the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn last Thursday after he threatened a Jewish man as he walked past him. The incident occurred at the intersection of Albany Avenue and Eastern Parkway last Thursday afternoon. The suspect reportedly spat on the Jewish man and yelled “all you Jews