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Paul Ryan is set to retire from Congress
- House Speaker Paul Ryan is telling confidants that he will not run for reelection in November, according to multiple reports.
- Ryan has long been pushing for a major overhaul of the tax code, which the GOP accomplished in December.
- With tax reform complete, Ryan reportedly decided that now is the right time to step away.
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Forced out? Trump’s Homeland Security adviser resigns
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has announced the resignation of President Donald Trump’s Homeland Security adviser, Tom Bossert.
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FBI raids Trump's private lawyer in what he calls ‘total witch hunt’
FBI agents have raided the home and office of President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen, seizing business records that reportedly include details of payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.
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FBI agents raid Manhattan office of President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen
Ryan said the search was not directly correlated to Mueller's probe into Russian election meddling, but likely relates to information his team had uncovered and flagged for prosecutors in New York.
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Trump's lawyer reportedly got a secret order barring porn star Stormy Daniels from dishing on tryst
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- Daniels is suing to be released from a nondisclosure agreement that she signed on the eve of the 2016 presidential election with a company set up by Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen.
- Cohen has admitted facilitating a $130,000 payment to Daniels but has denied she had an affair with Trump.
- Trump has never publicly responded to the claims about Daniels.
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