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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former CIA Director John Brennan and ex-FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page have been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury as part of the U.S. Justice Department’s probe into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation, Fox News Digital reported on Friday. Up to 30 subpoenas are expected in the coming days, according …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Republican bill in the U.S. Senate to pay federal government workers and military servicemembers during the ongoing government shutdown was falling short on Friday of the votes needed to advance, as voting continued. (Reporting by Bo Erickson)

By Renee Hickman CHICAGO (Reuters) -More than a dozen suburban Chicago mothers were arrested outside an immigration detention facility in Broadview, Illinois, on Friday, according to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, in a protest against the ongoing immigration crackdown in the area launched by U.S. President Donald Trump. The facility has been a flashpoint for …

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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A federal judge ruled on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration violated the free-speech rights of furloughed U.S. Department of Education employees by altering their out-of-office email messages to blame “Democrat Senators” for the ongoing government shutdown. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington, D.C., said that nonpartisanship is the foundation …

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By Marisa Taylor and Chris Prentice WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The political appointee leveling fraud accusations against perceived opponents of President Donald Trump enlisted a man who’d once been convicted of a felony sex offense as a consultant to mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, according to six people familiar with the role.  Bill Pulte, director …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. government said President Donald Trump’s hush money criminal conviction in New York should be thrown out, because it was based on improper evidence and a legal theory preempted by federal law. In a Friday filing with a state appeals court in Manhattan, the Department of Justice adopted …

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(Reuters) -James D. Watson, the brilliant but controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, the molecule of heredity, ushered in the age of genetics and provided the foundation for the biotechnology revolution of the late 20th century, has died at the age of 97. His death was confirmed by Cold Spring …

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