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His effort to convince the public that neither President Trump nor his lawyer, Michael Cohen, had violated the law by paying a porn star to keep quiet about an alleged affair might have backfired, analysts said.
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After becoming EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt drew up a list of at least a dozen countries he hoped to visit, then urged aides to help him find official reasons to travel, four people familiar with the matter said. He then enlisted well-connected friends and political allies to help make the trips happen.
The road to getting on the road has been a long one for Saudi women, but as of June, they will finally be allowed to drive in the conservative nation. It is a historic step, female activists say, but they point out that Saudi Arabia still remains one of the world's most restrictive countries for women.
Hardwired into the DNA of companies of all kinds is a fear of losing customers with a slight uptick in prices. Now, Amazon may be the next big test of whether consumers who are already stretching their wallets will open them even wider.
In a statement last week that was a surprisingly frank assessment of the organization's failings in regard to sexual harassment allegations, the secretive institution acknowledged that it was "in a state of crisis."
Calling it "a serious matter," a Pentagon spokeswoman said the United States has requested China investigate multiple incidents in recent weeks in which U.S. aircraft have been affected by unauthorized Chinese laser activity.
Despite support and encouragement for such laws from President Trump and the National Rifle Association in the wake of a Florida school shooting that left 17 dead, just one of those efforts has succeeded. There are few indications that the others will be enacted.
If Trump does pull out of the deal, it seems increasingly unlikely that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani — who championed diplomacy with the West — will be able to resist calls from his country's hardliners to also renege on their end of the bargain.
The statement from Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) came just hours after the Rev. Patrick J. Conroy's letter to the speaker rescinding his resignation and suggesting he was pressured to step down because of his Catholic faith.
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