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Out of all the Democratic candidates, Sanders would bring perhaps the biggest changes for businesses and wealthy Americans.
Short's return to the administration comes as the Trump campaign and White House gear up for what will likely be a tough 2020 re-election campaign.
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Roger Stone to court on Thursday to explain why he should not have his release bond modified or even revoked because of his Instagram post showing the judge next to what appeared to be a rifle scope's crosshairs.
"There's an argument that you don't destabilize a society by doing too much change at once," says the former Massachusetts congressman.
Bernie Sanders says he is seeking the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
McCabe tells NBC he had informed congressional leaders that the FBI had opened a counterintelligence probe into Trump after the firing of James Comey, and that none of the members objected to it.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg returns to the U.S. Supreme Court to hear her first oral arguments since undergoing cancer surgery in December.
In a court filing, Roger Stone said his post about Judge Amy Berman Jackson was "improper."
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock is showing increasing signs he is getting serious about a White House bid as he visited with voters and Democratic Party officials in Iowa on Saturday.
"Like many other Americans, I certainly hope Vice President Biden decides to run in 2020. If he does run, I fully expect to support him any way I can," Chanos said in a statement first given to CNBC.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday announced it would hear arguments in a dispute over the Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
"I don't want to speak for him, but I believe he would've gone to war with North Korea. I think he was ready to go to war. In fact he told me he was so close to starting a big war with North Korea," Trump said of Obama.
One of the major players in the mix is former Vice President Joe Biden, who has yet to declare his candidacy.
Trump spoke at the White House on Friday without reading from a teleprompter and apparently without following a full script.
The Commerce Department is expected to deliver long-awaited report on auto tariffs to the president by a Feb. 17 deadline, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
Special counsel Robert Mueller said a ruling by a Washington, D.C., federal court judge that former Trump campaign boss Paul Manafort lied to the special counsel's team means that there is no reason to delay sentencing in a related case in Virginia.
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