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Justice Dept drops probe of ex-FBI official McCabe, a top Trump target
The U.S. Justice Department on Friday dropped its criminal investigation of a top target of President Donald Trump, former No. 2 FBI official Andrew McCabe, at the tail end of a week in which the U.S. law-enforcement agency has come under extraordinary pressure from the president.
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Trump administration eyes 10% middle-class tax cut proposal
The Trump administration is considering a 10% tax cut for middle-class Americans and making some other tax reductions permanent as part of a package it intends to propose before the November election, a top White House adviser said on Friday.
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Emboldened, Trump defends right to interfere in criminal cases
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he has "the legal right" to interfere in criminal cases, capping a tumultuous week that raised questions about whether he is eroding the independence of the U.S. legal system.
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The foreign ministers of the Vatican and China met on Friday, the Vatican said, in what is believed to be the highest-level official encounter between the two sides in decades.
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Yemen's Houthis military spokesperson, Yahya Saria, said that Houthis downed a tornado warplane belonging to "enemy forces" in Al-Jawf, the groupAl-Masirah TV cited him as saying on Friday.
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White House memo says strike on Iranian commander responded to past attacks
President Donald Trump ordered a drone strike that killed a top Iranian military commander last month in response to past attacks, the White House said in a memo released on Friday, despite previous administration assertions that it was due to an imminent threat.
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