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The lawsuit filed in Massachusetts by Democratic attorneys general seeks to block the Department of Education from ...

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The day after a U.S. State Department proposal to shutter its climate-negotiations office, the U.N.’s secretary-general said, ...

The Justice Department is set to resume issuing subpoenas to journalists as part of its crackdown on leaks to the media.

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Democrat Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff said on Friday that President Donald Trump has committed several offenses that warrant him ...