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							<title><![CDATA[Sources: DOJ Never Fully Examined Trump's Ties to Russia]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/us/politics/trump-russia-justice-department.html?</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Schmidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The former deputy attorney general maneuvered to keep investigators from completing an inquiry into whether the president's personal and financial links to Russia posed a national security threat.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[White House Declares War on Impeachment Inquiry]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/us/politics/sondland-trump-ukraine-impeach.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=Homepage</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Schmidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump's lawyer denounced the House investigation as an illegitimate exercise, and declared that the executive branch would not participate.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[FBI Sent Undercover Agent to Meet w/Trump Aide in 2016]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/us/politics/fbi-government-investigator-trump.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Schmidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The use of the investigator in an operation aimed at a campaign shows the alarm in the F.B.I. as officials uncovered the scope of Russia's 2016 election interference.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[FBI Probed If Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/us/politics/fbi-trump-russia-inquiry.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Schmidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the days after President Trump fired James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, law enforcement officials became so concerned by the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests, according to former law...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump: Sessions Should Stop 'Rigged Witch Hunt Right Now']]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/01/us/politics/trump-sessions-russia-investigation.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Schmidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The order immediately raised questions from some lawyers about whether it was an attempt to obstruct justice.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Says Russia Inquiry Makes U.S. 'Look Very Bad']]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/us/politics/trump-interview-mueller-russia-china-north-korea.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Schmidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president said in an interview on Thursday that the special counsel will treat him fairly, contradicting a campaign by some Republicans to discredit the investigation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Justice Dept. to Weigh Inquiry Into Clinton, Uranium One]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/us/politics/justice-department-uranium-one-special-counsel.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Schmidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a letter to the House Judiciary Committee, the Justice Department said it planned to pursue the possibility of appointing a special counsel to investigate the Uranium One deal.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Murdochs Assess the O'Reilly Damage]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/business/media/fox-murdochs-bill-oreilly-sex-harassment.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Schmidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bill O'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'Reilly left Fox News this week for a long-planned vacation to Italy and the Vatican, with his fate in the hands of a Murdoch family calculating the risks and rewards of keeping him on or forcing him out of the network.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[San Bernardino Attacker Pledged ISIS Allegiance]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/05/us/tashfeen-malik-islamic-state.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Schmidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The woman who, with her husband, killed 14 people in San Bernardino pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in a Facebook post the day of the attack, officials said Friday, and the F.B.I. announced it was treating the massacre as an act of terrorism.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'As of today, based on the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Investigators Find Emails Hillary Clinton Said Were Erased]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/us/politics/investigators-find-emails-hillary-clinton-said-were-erased.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Schmidt</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Second Review Says Classified Information Was in Hillary Clinton's Email]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/08/us/politics/second-review-says-classified-information-was-in-hillary-clintons-email.html?ref=politics&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Schmidt</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary's Winding Email Controversy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/us/hillary-clinton-emails-take-long-path-to-controversy.html?ref=todayspaper&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Schmidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Earlier this summer, the inspector general of the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s intelligence agencies contacted the longtime lawyer for Hillary and Bill Clinton with a pointed question. Classified information had been found in a small sample of 30,000 messages from the former secretary of state'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[First Batch of Hillary Clinton Emails Captures Concerns Over Libya]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/22/us/politics/first-batch-of-hillary-clinton-emails-captures-concerns-over-libya.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Schmidt</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blumenthal's Libya Involvement Scrutinized]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/us/politics/clinton-friends-libya-role-blurs-lines-of-politics-and-business.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Schmidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When the Clintons last occupied the White House, Sidney Blumenthal cast himself in varied roles: speechwriter, in-house intellectual and press corps whisperer. Republicans added another, accusing Mr. Blumenthal of spreading gossip to discredit Republican investigators, and forced him to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton Used Personal Email Account at State]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/us/politics/hillary-clintons-use-of-private-email-at-state-department-raises-flags.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Schmidt</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Roger Clemens Is Indicted for Perjury]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/sports/baseball/20clemens.html?hp</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Schmidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Federal authorities have indicted Roger Clemens on charges of making false statements to Congress about his use of performance-enhancing drugs.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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