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Texas teen trying to abolish “Confederate Heroes Day”

Published Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Austin (AP) Texas is among nine states with holidays honoring Confederate soldiers and now a teenager wants to change that.

Trump’s legal team breathes a sigh, takes a victory lap

Published Tuesday, April 23, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — First they cooperated. Then they stonewalled. Their television interviews were scattershot and ridiculed, their client mercurial and unreliable.

Trump says Cain withdraws from consideration for Fed seat

Published Tuesday, April 23, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday that Herman Cain has withdrawn from consideration for a seat on the Federal Reserve’s board amid a focus on past scandals.

Trump blasts ex-advisers who say he tried to stop Mueller

Published Monday, April 22, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after celebrating the release of the Mueller report as “a good day,” President Donald Trump struck a defiant tone Friday, unleashing tweets saying claims in the report by former administration officials that he tried numerous times to stop or influence the probe were “tota

Former counsel may have saved Trump from himself

Published Monday, April 22, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — Don McGahn was barely on speaking terms with President Donald Trump when he left the White House last fall. But special counsel Robert Mueller’s report reveals the president may owe his former top lawyer a debt of gratitude.

Trump called on spy chiefs for help as Mueller probe began

Published Monday, April 22, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two months before special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed in the spring of 2017, President Donald Trump picked up the phone and called the head of the largest U.S. intelligence agency.

Giuliani: Nothing wrong with Trump camp taking Russian help

Published Monday, April 22, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani insisted Sunday there was “nothing wrong” with the president’s 2016 campaign taking information from the Russians, as House Democrats pledged stepped-up investigations into campaign misconduct and possible crimes of obstruction detai

AP FACT CHECK: Barr’s skewed view on airing Mueller report

Published Friday, April 19, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr is distorting the facts when it comes to releasing special counsel Robert Mueller’s report in the Russia investigation.

Man with gas cans arrested at St. Patrick’s church in NYC

Published Friday, April 19, 2019

NEW YORK (AP) — A New Jersey man was arrested after entering St. Patrick’s Cathedral carrying two cans of gasoline, lighter fluid and butane lighters, the New York Police Department said, just days after flames ravaged the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris.

Trump tried to seize control of Mueller probe, report says

Published Friday, April 19, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — Public at last, special counsel Robert Mueller’s report revealed to a waiting nation Thursday that President Donald Trump had tried to seize control of the Russia probe and force Mueller’s removal to stop him from investigating potential obstruction of justice by the president.