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Trump Issues 26 More Pardons, Including Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and Charles Kushner
The second wave of pardons comes as Trump still refuses to concede he lost the election to Joe Biden.
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Watchdog Raises Possible Kushner Link to $700M Rescue Loan
A congressional monitor of federal pandemic aid is raising the possibility of a link between President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and a $700 million relief loan to a struggling trucking company.
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Trump Fundraiser, Kushner Lawyer Involved in Effort to Get Pardon for Tax Evader
A Trump campaign fundraiser and a lawyer for the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner were involved in an effort to get a pardon from the White House at the behest of a wealthy octogenarian in the early days of the Trump administration, lawyers for the two men told NBC News. Elliott Broidy, the fundraiser who has since pleaded guilty in a separate lobbying case,...
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Jared Kushner Confidant Ken Kurson in Plea Negotiations With Prosecutors in Cyberstalking Case, Filing Says
Ken Kurson, while editor of Jared Kushner’s paper, advised then-candidate Donald Trump on a speech and sat in the Trump family box at the 2016 GOP convention.
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Trump Meets With Top Election Advisors as Biden's Lead Endures
Joe Biden has a solid Electoral College lead over President Donald Trump, and could build on that lead once Arizona and Georgia finish counting their ballots.
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Kushner Disparages Black Americans' Concerns of Inequality as ‘Complaining'
White House adviser Jared Kushner described Black America’s issues with inequality and racism in the country as “complaining,” during an interview Monday on “Fox & Friends.” “The thing we’ve seen in the Black community, which is mostly Democrat,” he said, “is that President Trump’s policies are the policies that can help people break out of the problems that they’re...
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First Direct Israel-UAE Flight Lands in Abu Dhabi Amid Deal
A Star of David-adorned El Al plane has landed in Abu Dhabi after flying in from Israel, carrying a high-ranking American and Israeli delegation in the first-ever direct commercial passenger flight to the United Arab Emirates
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Senate Made Criminal Referral of Trump Jr., Bannon, Kushner to Federal Prosecutors
The Republican and Democratic chairmen of the Senate Intelligence Committee made criminal referrals of Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, Erik Prince and Sam Clovis to federal prosecutors in 2019, passing along their suspicions that the men may have misled the committee during their testimony, an official familiar with the matter told NBC News.
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Trump Announces Diplomatic Deal Between Israel, UAE
President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that Israel and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to normalize relations between the two nations after decades of tension. The countries are expected to exchange embassies and ambassadors in the coming weeks.
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‘Late Night': Closer Look at Jared Kushner's Failed Testing Plan
Seth Meyers takes a closer look at the Trump administration scrapping a nationwide testing plan.
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What Unites Planned Parenthood, Kushner and Kanye? PPP Loans
The government’s small business lending program has benefited millions of companies, with the goal of minimizing the number of layoffs Americans have suffered in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. Yet the recipients include many you probably wouldn’t have expected.
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At White House, Re-Election Advisers Rise as Coronavirus Task Force Fades
As the White House Coronavirus Task Force begins to fade from public view and health professionals take a back seat to President Donald Trump’s economic team, a new group of counselors has started to dominate the president’s thinking on the pandemic: a less official but potentially more significant re-election task force. Made up of familiar campaign staff, senior White House...
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Trump Admin Tries to Narrow Stockpile's Role for States
The Trump administration has abruptly changed its description of the Strategic National Stockpile and put forward a narrower vision of the role the federal government’s repository of life-saving medicines and equipment should play in supplying states’ needs
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Trump Administration Has Yet to Reveal Details of Jared Kushner's Secretive 2017 Meeting in China
In November 2017, CNBC had booked Hugo Shong, a prominent Chinese venture capitalist, to talk about bilateral business relations between the United States and China, as the first year of President Donald Trump’s tenure was nearing a close. Trump was on a 12-day tour through Asia, his second major international trip since taking office. On the agenda during his two-day…
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Trump Administration Preparing to Take Over Private Land in Texas for Border Wall
The Trump administration is preparing court filings to begin taking over private land to build its long-promised border wall as early as this week — without confirming how much it will pay landowners first, according to two officials familiar with the process. Jared Kushner is hosting a meeting with military and administration officials at the White House this Friday, NBC...
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Stone Trial Testimony Ends With Talk of Outreach to Kushner
Testimony in the colorful trial of Roger Stone — featuring talk of dognapping and Godfather references — wrapped up Tuesday with a top Trump campaign official telling jurors that Stone tried to contact Jared Kushner to “debrief” him about hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
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The Tip, The Raid, The Reveal: The Takedown of ISIS' al-Baghdadi
The helicopters flew low and fast into the night, ferrying U.S. special forces to a compound where Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was hiding in Syria. Half a world away, President Donald Trump watched the raid in real time via a video link as troops blasted into the hideout and sent the most-wanted militant running the last steps of...
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Trump Heads to UN With Long List of Deals He's Yet to Close
President Donald Trump, a self-described deal-maker, is saddled with a long list of unresolved foreign policy deals he has yet to close heading into his U.N. visit this coming week. There are challenges with Iran, North Korea, the Afghan Taliban, Israel and the Palestinians — not to mention a number of trade pacts. Some are inching forward. Some have stalled....
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Chief Executives of 145 Companies Urge Senate to Pass Gun Control Laws
Leaders of 145 companies wrote a letter to the Senate Thursday, urging the governmental body to take action on gun safety. The letter notes recent gun violence in Chicago, Newport News, Virginia and other places, calling it a “public health crisis.” But the leaders also say that gun violence is preventable, and lawmakers can step in to prevent tragedies.
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Pelosi Defends Baltimore Hometown, Calls Kushner a ‘Slumlord'
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Thursday if President Donald Trump wants to belittle her Baltimore hometown as rat-infested, then he should consult with his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, whom she calls a “slumlord.”