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Republicans vote to rebuke Elizabeth Warren, saying she impugned Sessions’s character
In an extraordinarily rare move, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell interrupted Warren's speech, saying she had breached Senate rules by reading past statements against Sessions from the late senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and the late Coretta Scott King.
The Daily 202: Mitch McConnell gives Elizabeth Warren's 2020 presidential campaign an in-kind contribution
'She persisted' will become the new really cry for the liberal resistance to Trump
 
The silencing of Elizabeth Warren and an old Senate rule prompted by a fistfight
The liberal Senator from Massachusetts was criticizing Sen. Jeff Sessions, the nominee for attorney general, when Republicans invoked an obscure rule to cut her off.
 
‘My daughter’s death will not be used': Parents furious over Trump’s false terrorism claims
"We're still struggling to come to terms with it and probably never will," said the father of a second victim. "This has just brought the whole experience of last summer crashing about us."
 
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Department of Defense looks to rent space in Trump Tower
The move could directly funnel government money into the president's business interests.
 
Trump suggests only politics could lead court to rule against his immigration order
The Justice Department tried to persuade a three-judge panel to reinstate the travel ban, while Washington state's solicitor general argued that it should remain frozen.
 
Shoker! Rediculous chocker Trump attaks and dishoners English with ever-dummer spellings.
His carelessness with language is unpresidented.
 
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The outpouring of energy in response to the Warren debacle is inspiring. Can it be sustained?
 
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