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Anti-government protesters gathered in Bangkok on Tuesday to prepare to march from a university in the Thai capital to Government House to demand that the military government hold a general election by November. » Read More
By: Jacob Pramuk
Democratic leaders are unveiling proposals in part aiming to crack down on the conduct of people close to Trump, such as Michael Cohen and Scott Pruitt. » Read More |
By: Kevin Breuninger
The senior counsel to a former deputy attorney general says Rod Rosenstein made "a savvy move" in his quick response to Trump's demand. » Read More |
The convicted ex-coal executive finished third in the GOP primary earlier in May. » Read More |
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Turnout at the election was just 46.1 percent, the election board said, way down from the 80 percent registered at the last presidential vote in 2013, due to a boycott by Venezuela's mainstream opposition.
With about one quarter of the nation's homeless population in California, the problem has emerged as major issue in this year's governor's race in the state.
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Top White House officials, including Jared Kushner, have given Thiel the cold shoulder, sources tell CNBC.
Giuliani says Comey's firing, regardless of why Trump did it, would not indicate potential obstruction of justice.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is poised to win re-election on Sunday, despite widespread anger over the country's crushing economic crisis.
The president has repeatedly called the special counsel's investigation a "witch hunt."
- Iraq’s election result is a backlash against foreign influence — and a curveball for the US and Iran
Muqtada al-Sadr is in the rare position of opposing both the U.S. and Iran, his win reflecting the demand for an Iraqi state run by Iraqis.
A source tells CNBC that Scaramucci met Goldstone a few times, and that the entertainment publicist who helped arrange the infamous Trump Tower meeting with Russians was "helpful" to the Trump campaign.
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Australia allowed an ambassador to be interviewed by the FBI as part of the agency's investigation into alleged ties between Russia and the Trump presidential campaign, the New York Times reported.
The exact nature of a hush money payment from President Donald Trump's attorney to a porn star was once again brought into sharp focus Wednesday by the release of Trump's annual financial filing with the Office of Government Ethics.
"There is no doubt that Russia undertook an unprecedented effort to interfere with our 2016 elections," the committee's GOP chairman, Sen. Richard Burr, said in the statement Wednesday.
President Donald Trump filed an annual financial disclosure report Tuesday, which was released Wednesday.
Kara Eastman declares victory over ex-Rep. Brad Ashford in the Democratic primary for Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District.
An email offering a meeting with Putin to then-candidate Donald Trump is contained in documents released by a Senate committee that questioned witnesses about a 2016 meeting in Trump Tower between Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and a Russian lawyer.
- Women have a good chance to win several House seats in Pennsylvania — a state represented by all men
After Pennsylvania's primary elections, at least three women appear to be favorites in November's House races.
The Senate Judiciary Committee's Republican chairman on Wednesday released thousands of pages of documents about a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between high-level Trump campaign staff and Russians.
Presidential Debates
An estimated 71.6 million people watched the final debate between White House contenders Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on TV on Wednesday.
Clinton and Trump agree on this issue, but they're both wrong about how to fix the problem, says Pinar Çebi Wilber.
There isn't a "chorus" behind Donald Trump's debate performance, experts told CNBC.
