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Five GOP Senators now oppose health care bill

Nevada Republican Dean Heller became the fifth GOP senator to declare his opposition to the party’s banner legislation to scuttle much of Barack Obama’s health care overhaul on Friday, more than enough to sink the measure and deliver a stinging rebuke to President Donald Trump unless some of them can be brought aboard. Echoing the other four, Heller said he opposes the measure “in this form” but does not rule out backing a version that is changed to his liking. Senate Maj ...

by DOUG THOMPSON - Opinion

Donald Trump constantly reminds us of an old joke: How do we know he is lying? Because his lips are moving. For a month after his firing of FBI Director James Comey, Trump kept dangling a lie that h ...

by ERIC TUCKER and JAKE PEARSON

Robert Mueller, the somber-faced and demanding FBI director who led the bureau through the Sept. 11 attacks, and James Comey, his more approachable and outwardly affable successor, may be poles apart stylistically but both command a wealth of respect in the law enforcement and legal community. That ...

by ONATHAN LEMIRE and ERIC TUCKER

Ending a month-long guessing game that he started with a cryptic tweet and that ensnared his administration in yet more controversy, President Donald Trump declared he never made and doesn’t have recordings of his private conversations with ousted former FBI Director James Comey, “With a ...