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Top Trump Aide Kellyanne Conway to Leave White House

Washington D.C. (AP) — One of President Donald Trump’s most influential and longest-serving advisers, Kellyanne Conway, says she will be leaving the White House at the end of the month. Conway was Trump’s campaign manager during the stretch run of the 2016 race, and she was the first woman to successfully steer a White House…
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Loughlin, Giannulli get prison time in college bribery plot

BOSTON (AP) — “Full House” star Lori Loughlin will be sentenced to two months in prison after a judge accepted her plea deal with prosecutors for paying $500,000 in bribes to cheat the college admissions process. Her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, was sentenced earlier Friday to five months behind bars for his role in…
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Biden Vows to Defeat Trump, End US ‘Season of Darkness’

Wilmington, DE (AP) — Joe Biden has accepted the Democratic presidential nomination, vowing to take on national crises and declaring that “we will overcome this season of darkness.” Biden's nomination marks the pinnacle — so far —of a political career that has spanned almost a half century. The former vice president, who at 77 years…
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Ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon charged in border wall scheme

NEW YORK (AP) — Former White House adviser Steve Bannon has been arrested on charges that he and three others ripped off donors to an online fundraising scheme “We Build The Wall.” The charges were contained in an indictment unsealed Thursday in Manhattan federal court. Federal prosecutors alleged that Bannon and three others “orchestrated a…
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Russian Opposition Politician Navalny Poisoned, in ICU

Moscow, Russia (AP) — Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is on a hospital ventilator after falling ill from a suspected poisoning. His spokeswoman said on Twitter that Navalny felt unwell on a flight to Moscow and the plane made an emergency landing. Kira Yarmysh said Navalny lost consciousness and must have consumed poison in the…
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