Senate Widens Scope of Trump-Russia Probe

Congressman Jim Himes discusses another night of blockbuster news on the Trump-Russia investigation and the scope of the investigation into the Donald Trump campaign.

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  Special counsel's office coordinating with Comey team on scope of congressional testimony

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  The Memo: Trump returns to challenges at home

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Portland attack: Man slits throats of would-be heroes who stepped in to stop Islamophobic abuse on MAX train

Witnesses who saw a triple stabbing on a train in Oregon say it may have been racially motivated, after a man who launched into a racist rant against two Muslim women then attacked passengers when they tried to intervene. The attacker slashed the throats of three people as the Metro Area Express (MAX) train was pulling into a station in the north east corner of Portland – leaving two dead and one injured. The man was seen hurling racist abuse at two young women – one of whom was wearing a hijab – and then attacked the men when they came to their defence.

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  2 Dead, 1 Injured, After Stabbing In Portland, Ore.

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  Police identify Portland stabbing suspect

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Lawsuit: Zillow ‘Zestimates’ Are Wrong, Preventing Homes from Selling

Zillow estimates values for 110 million homes across America as “zestimates,” but many have questioned the company’s accuracy, including one homeowner who claims she can’t sell her home because of it.

The Latest: Alabama raced clock to execute inmate

Alabama had to race the clock to execute an inmate for a 1982 slaying. Prison officials faced a legal deadline of 12 a.m. Friday to execute Tommy Arthur. Arthur was pronounced dead after an execution warrant expired.

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  Why SC’s death row inmates continue to avoid execution

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President Trump left TripAdvisor reviews for the Middle East and just, wow

President Trump wants to voice his opinions on the Middle East and no, not through some archaic Washington-insider liberal elitist speech. The man wants to communicate his worldview the best way he knows how — by yelling on the internet. Returning from

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  Back home after overseas trip, President Trump faces slew of challenges

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  President Trump says his first international trip was a success

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Australian trafficker Corby back home amid media storm

Australian Schapelle Corby returned home Sunday following her deportation from Bali 12 years after her conviction for drug trafficking, as she battled through a media storm in a dramatic end to a saga that captivated her homeland. Corby and her sister Mercedes avoided cameras when she touched down in the eastern city of Brisbane early on Sunday morning, with live television broadcasts showing a convoy of vehicles believed to be carrying them leaving the airport. "It is with gratefulness and relief that this morning we mark Schapelle Corby's return to Australia," a member of her security team said, reading out a family statement at Brisbane airport.

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  Australian drug convict Schapelle Corby returns home from Bali

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  Schapelle Corby Is Home And She Already Has 90,000 Followers

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Sponsors abandon Puerto Rican parade in NY after nationalist honored

Oscar Lopez Rivera, 74, was convicted in 1981 of numerous charges, along with other members of the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN), who sought to secure Puerto Rican independence from the United States. Rivera's sentence was commuted by former President Barack Obama, and the prisoner was freed this month.

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  Puerto Rican Parade flap exposes the extremism of Melissa Mark-Viverito

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  Many Puerto Ricans are skipping the Puerto Rican Day Parade

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Fallen Navy pilot's children hug as remains brought home

Deborah Crosby touched her father's flag-draped casket as her three brothers hugged her in a tearful embrace on the tarmac at the San Diego airport Friday — ending a more than half century search to find and bring home the remains of Lt. Cmdr. Frederick P. Crosby, shot down as a Navy pilot in the Vietnam War. Deborah Crosby, now 58, was only six when she was sent home from the first grade to learn her father was presumed dead, though his body had not been found. Crosby and her grandmother made a pact to someday bring home her father's remains and bury him in his hometown of San Diego.

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  After more than five decades, remains of an MIA pilot come home to San Diego

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  Pilot's remains back on US soil from Vietnam after 52 years

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Melania Trump Takes the World Stage

From turning heads in a Dolce and Gabbana coat to joking with the Pope, here’s a look at some of Melania Trump’s most memorable moments on her first trip overseas as the First Lady.

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  Melania Trump Concludes Her International Trip Wearing the Same Designer Behind the $51K Coat

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  Melania Trump wears $51K Dolce & Gabbana jacket in Sicily

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Texas teacher laughs as she hands out ‘most likely to become a terrorist’ award to 7th-grader

During an end-of-the-year awards ceremony at Anthony Aguirre Junior High in Channelview, Tex., a teacher gave Lizeth Villanueva an award for “most likely to become a terrorist.” The seventh-grade student’s mom is going great lengths to make sure the teacher gets fired.

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  A Texas Teacher Told a Seventh-Grader She Was 'Most Likely to Become a Terrorist'

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  Teacher Disciplined for Giving Student ‘Most Likely to Become a Terrorist’ Mock Award

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Kusher Sought Kremlin Back Channel: Report

Adam Entous, national security reporter for The Washington Post, discusses the new revelation that Donald Trump adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner asked the Russian ambassador to set up a back channel to the Kremlin using Russian facilities.

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  All eyes on Jared Kushner as Russia story takes a “backchannel” turn

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  Jared Kushner discussed creating secret communications channel with Moscow – reports

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Sputnik's White House correspondent quits, claiming they would rather have 'propagandists' than 'real journalists'

Sputnik’s White House correspondent, Andrew Feinberg, has quit the Russian-state news organisation, claiming they would rather have “propagandists” than “real journalists”. Mr Feinberg, has taken to social media to give full details about his reasoning for resigning and has claimed he was forced to chase stories that were contrary to the facts on the ground. “Seems Sputnik isn't happy with real journalists.

Portland stabbings: Police admit attacker could be 'domestic terrorist'

Portland police said the man accused of stabbing three men who tried to protect Muslim women from his racist slurs on a train could be a “domestic terrorist”. Jeremy Christian, 35, will appear in court this week for slitting the throats of two men and stabbing a third on a train after he verbally attacked two women, one of whom was wearing a hijab. “It's too early to say whether last night's violence was an act of domestic terrorism or a federal hate crime,” Renn Cannon, the special agent in charge of the FBI office in Portland, said.

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  Man In Custody Over Fatal Stabbing Of Two People In ‘Hate Speech’ Incident On Portland Train

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  2 fatally stabbed on Oregon train after trying to stop man's anti-Muslim rants, police say

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Former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski dies at 89

Zbigniew Brzezinski, the hawkish Polish-born Cold War strategist and former top aide to US president Jimmy Carter, has died, his family said. “My father passed away peacefully tonight,” MSNBC journalist Mika Brzezinski said on Instagram late on Friday. Born in Warsaw to a diplomat father, Brzezinski moved with his family to Canada in the late 1930s.

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  Zbigniew Brzezinski, Former US Diplomat and Father of ‘Morning Joe’ Co-Host, Dies at 89

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  Remembering Carter adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski

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Why The Price Of Oil Is Falling

This article originally appeared on the Motley Fool. OPEC announced it would continue its plan to cut output by 1.8 million barrels per day, keeping production at recent levels in an effort to stabilize prices.

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  OPEC Deflategate: Can Saudi-Russia ‘Bromance’ Boost Oil?

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  With the OPEC Fever Gone, How to Trade Energy Commodities?

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Australia's most notorious drug smuggler returns from Bali

Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby, whose trial and imprisonment on Indonesia's tourist island of Bali mesmerized her country for more than a decade, returned home Sunday. Corby landed in the Queensland capital of Brisbane early Sunday morning, after she was deported from Bali amid a frenzy of journalists. More than 200 police officers were deployed to secure her departure from Denpasar, Bali's capital, said Ida Bagus Adnyana, who heads Bali's Justice and Human Rights office.

Full Interview: Mitch Landrieu On Removing Confederate Monuments

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu discusses his decision to remove Confederate monuments from the city in an exclusive interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd.

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  Confederate monument supporter holding rebel flag says he would protect MLK statue

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  Doing The Right Thing Shouldn’t Be This Remarkable

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South African president Zuma facing no confidence vote in ANC - News24 website

Senior politicians attending a top meeting of South Africa's ruling ANC tabled a motion of no confidence on Saturday against president Jacob Zuma, News24 reported on its website. Citing four unnamed sources with direct knowledge of the meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC), News24 said the motion of no confidence was proposed by a senior NEC member and supported by the current health minister and his deputy, among others. The ANC's spokesman Zizi Kodwa, who earlier in the week denied a Bloomberg report saying Zuma's removal would be discussed, was not immediately available on Saturday evening.

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  Pressure on S.Africa's Zuma as ANC leadership meets

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  South African President's Ouster Not on Agenda at ANC Meeting

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Reported Concealment by Kushner Raises Alarm

Ken Dilanian, NBC News national security reporter, talks with Ari Melber about why the reports that Jared Kushner sought a secret communication channel with the Kremlin is a game-changer in coverage of the Trump-Russia investigation.

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  Trump hits out at 'fake news' following Kushner reports

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  Bongino: Kushner 'Leak' the Latest in 'Evidence-Free' Probe to Destroy Trump

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Merkel warns US, Britain no longer reliable partners

Europe "must take its fate into its own hands" faced with a western alliance divided by Brexit and Donald Trump's presidency, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday. While Germany and Europe would strive to remain on good terms with America and Britain, "we have to fight for our own destiny", Merkel went on. Special emphasis was needed on warm relations between Berlin and newly-elected French President Emmanuel Macron, she said.

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  Newcomer Macron makes France's mark, with Trump and globally

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  Angela Merkel Says Germany Can't Fully Rely On The US Or The UK Anymore

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Hillary, Naval Academy, Trump & more — it happened today: May 26 in pictures

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers the commencement address at Wellesley College, in Wellesley, Mass.; U.S. Naval Academy graduates throw their hats into the air in celebration at the end of the graduation and commissioning ceremony in

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  Hillary Clinton invokes Nixon in grad speech

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  Hillary Clinton's commencement speech was a master class in Trump shade

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Portland mayor praises men killed during anti-Muslim rant

The mayor of Portland, Oregon, hailed as "heroes" two men who were stabbed to death trying to protect two women police say were the target of an anti-Muslim rant by a man on a light-rail train — a crime that shocked this city that prides itself on its tolerance. Police said they'll examine what appears to be the extremist ideology of Jeremy Joseph Christian, 35, who is accused of killing the men Friday. Christian's social media postings indicate an affinity for Nazis and political violence.

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  Man Shouted Anti-Muslim Insults At Woman, Then Killed Two Men Who Defended Her

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  Two Men Stabbed to Death While Trying to Defend Muslim Women Being Harassed

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Several teachers disciplined after student given 'most likely to become a terrorist' award

Lizeth Villanueva, a 13-year-old from the Anthony Aguirre Junior High school in Texas, was handed the certificate one day after the Manchester attack. The fake certificate was given to the student in a mock ceremony, in what was intended to be a “an attempt at poking fun”. Ena Hernandez, Lizeth’s mother, said she was upset by prize, especially considering the timing.

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  Teacher behind offensive awards is a former Texans cheerleader

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  Teacher Gives 13-Year-Old Student "Most Likely to Become a Terrorist" Award

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American Airlines Passenger Opened Door and Jumped Off Moving Plane

An airline passenger was arrested Thursday after he opened the plane's galley door as it was taxiing and jumped onto the tarmac at a North Carolina airport, authorities said.

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  Man 22, faces prison sentence after 'biting flight attendant' before jumping out of plane

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  Man jumps off American Airlines jet onto tarmac after trying to bite flight attendant, authorities say | American Airlines

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General de Gaulle's grave vandalised, say French police

The grave of General Charles de Gaulle, France's World War II hero and post-war president, was vandalised on Saturday, police said. De Gaulle led the Free French Forces in London from 1940-44 and reshaped the country's political landscape after the war, founding the Fifth Republic in 1958. De Gaulle died in 1970 shortly before his 80th birthday.