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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

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GOP Assemblyman Pat Nolan in a 1994 file image. (Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Trump has pardoned 10 men; who are they?

By Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times May 23, 2019

The ability to grant pardons is among a president’s most unchecked powers. Pardons have corrected injustices, and they’ve caused outrage. But historians consider some of President Donald Trump’s...

SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO - JANUARY 11, 2019: A woman places flowers on the grave of a loved one at the Santa Fe National Cemetery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which is administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images)

This Memorial Day, veterans take on another threat: rising cancer deaths in the ranks

By Tara Copp, McClatchy Washington Bureau May 23, 2019

WASHINGTON — On Memorial Day 2013, Coleen Bowman was a new widow. Her husband had died four months earlier and she wanted support to face that first military holiday of remembrance. So she registered...

Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt attends a Cabinet meeting, February 12, 2019, at the White House in Washington, D.C.

Bernhardt’s schedules show undisclosed contacts with industry

By Jacob Holzman, CQ-Roll Call April 8, 2019

Recently posted versions of acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt’s daily schedules contain at least 260 differences from his original schedules, with the newest records showing meetings previously...

U.S. Attorney General William Barr departs his home on Friday, March 22, 2019, in McLean, Va.

Week ahead: Barr testifying on DOJ budget, likely to get grilled about Mueller report

By Lindsey McPherson, CQ-Roll Call April 8, 2019

All eyes will be on the House and Senate Appropriations committees this week, but not necessarily because of President Donald Trump's fiscal 2020 budget blueprint. Attorney General William P. Barr is...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei attended the graduation ceremony of The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), held at the military cadets Imam Hussain (a.s.) Officers Academy. Tehran, Iran, June 30, 2018.

US labels Iran’s Guard Corps as terrorists, boosting pressure

By Nick Wadhams and Margaret Talev, Bloomberg News April 8, 2019

The Trump administration designated Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps a "foreign terrorist organization" on Monday, a move aimed at further isolating Tehran that could end up complicating U.S. alliances...

Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh (L) and District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine (R) answer questions after a case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit March 19, 2019 in Richmond, Virginia. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/TNS) **FOR USE WITH THIS STORY ONLY**

Trump’s lawyers ask US appeals court to end emoluments lawsuit

By Andrew Harris, Bloomberg News March 19, 2019

Donald Trump, as president and a private citizen, asked a federal appeals court to put an end to lawsuits challenging his ability to make money from his Washington hotel even if some of the revenue comes...

The Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, D.C., on September 25, 2018. Supreme Court will hear case involving convicted DC area sniper.(Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

Supreme Court upholds government’s authority to detain and deport immigrants for past crimes

By David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times March 19, 2019

The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the Trump administration’s power to arrest and hold legal immigrants indefinitely if they had past crimes on their records that could trigger deportation, even if...

Michael Cohen, U.S. President Donald Trumps former personal attorney, testifies before the House Oversight and Reform Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, February 27, 2019.

Michael Cohen files suit against Trump Organization over legal fees

By Larry McShane, New York Daily News March 7, 2019

Longtime Trump fixer Michael Cohen is ready to bite the hand that wouldn't cover his legal costs. Cohen, in a Manhattan Supreme Court filing, charged Thursday that the Trump Organization reneged on...

Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, front, the special counsel probing Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, leaves the Capitol building after meeting with the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on June 21, 2017, in Washington, D.C.

White House prepares for Robert Mueller’s report — whatever it says

By Noah Bierman and Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times March 7, 2019

The White House made a quiet but notable personnel change a few weeks ago, moving a veteran staff attorney to a press office that is preparing a response to the much-anticipated final report from special...

Sen. Sherrod Brown wont be joining several of his Democratic Senate colleagues who are seeking the White House in 2020.

Midwestern populist Sen. Sherrod Brown decides against running for president

By Janet Hook and Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times March 7, 2019

Sen. Sherrod Brown, the Ohio progressive who offered Democrats high hopes of recapturing voters in the Midwest, announced Thursday he would not be running for president. "I will keep calling out Donald...

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