U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is leaving open the possibility that a special counsel could be appointed to look into Clinton Foundation dealings and an Obama-era uranium deal, the Justice Department says. CBC | World News
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Alabama Republican Roy Moore says sexual misconduct allegations are intended to derail his Senate bid
A defiant Roy Moore pushed forward Saturday with his U.S. Senate campaign, criticizing as ‘false’ a newspaper report carrying allegations of sexual misconduct. CBC | World News
Read More »Prominent Republican, Democrat party donors connected to offshore holdings, Paradise Papers show
A leak of offshore records provides a glimpse into the finances of Republican and Democratic contributors – including a banking magnate who quietly held an ownership stake in an embattled payday lender. CBC | World News
Read More »Departing Republican senators Corker, Flake take aim at Trump’s behaviour
Bob Corker and Jeff Flake, two southern Republican senators with little to lose politically as they enter their last months in office, strongly criticized Donald Trump’s temperament as president on Tuesday, a remarkable display as the party sought to unite over tax reform. CBC | World News
Read More »White House has become ‘adult day care,’ Republican says after Trump criticism
An enraged U.S. President Donald Trump and a prominent Republican senator who fears the country could be edging toward “chaos” engaged in an intense and vitriolic back-and-forth bashing on social media, in a remarkable airing of their party’s profound rifts. CBC | World News
Read More »Trump takes aim at fellow Republican, aides eye exit
Donald Trump on Thursday fired back at a critic in his own party who had denounced the U.S. president’s response to the violence in Charlottesville, Va., saying he had not drawn a “moral equivalency” between white hate groups and counter-protesters. CBC | World News
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