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Wednesday, 20 December 2017

Trump legal team set to meet with Mueller

Sari Horwitz, Justice Department reporter for The Washington Post, talks with Maddow about an expected meeting between Donald Trump's legal team and special counsel Robert Mueller and the likely clash over contrasting perspectives on the investigation.

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The House Has to Revote on the Tax Bill Because It Broke the Byrd Rule. What Is the Byrd Rule?

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the tax bill, formally called the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, on Tuesday in a historic, party line vote.…

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These Last-Minute Gifts On Amazon Will Satisfy Anyone On Your Shopping List

If you’re panicking about the approaching holiday and have yet to finish up your shopping list, worry no more.

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Key moments in 2017 that brought the United States and North Korea to the brink of nuclear war

The 2017 news cycle was dominated by reports about the threat of nuclear war from North Korea and escalating tensions between Kim Jong Un and the United States.

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Teaching Activities for: ‘As Venezuela Collapses, Children Are Dying of Hunger’

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Tina Barney: A Life in Photography

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Trump Decides Climate Change Is No Longer A National Security Threat

In a break with two decades of military planning, President Donald Trump has eliminated climate change from his administration’s list of threats to national security.

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GOP less tolerant of extreme Trump nominees

Rachel Maddow makes the case that as Donald Trump's candidates suffer election losses, Republican legislators who don't see any benefit to currying favor with Trump are losing their feeling less indulgent of some of his more ridiculous nominees.

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Kurdish authorities say Iraq forces preparing fresh attack; Iraq denies

Iraqi forces are preparing a fresh attack on Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of northern Iraq said on Monday. A military spokesman in Baghdad denied that Iraqi forces were planning to resume an attack they began mid-October in retaliation for a September referendum on Kurdish independence. The Iraqi government put the offensive on hold at the end of October but the conflict with the KRG over land, oil resources and border control is still wide open.

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End of an era: Boeing 747 takes last US commercial flight

The Boeing 747, the original jumbo jet that was the favorite American presidents and key to affordable mass market air travel in the United States, will pass into aviation history this week. Nearly 50 years after the its debut, the 747 will take its final commercial flight with an American carrier Tuesday on Delta Air Lines' Seoul-to-Detroit route. It "made flying available for everyone," said Boeing chief company historian Michael Lombardi said of the iconic jet.

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