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The special master overseeing a U.S. government fund to compensate victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on Friday said future awards will be significantly reduced, typically by at least 50 percent, because the fund is running short of money.

(Reuters) – U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller disclosed for the first time on Friday that his office has evidence of communications between Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to President Donald Trump, and WikiLeaks related to the release of hacked Democratic Party emails. In a court filing on Friday, Mueller’s office said it had gathered that … Continue reading "Mueller says searches yielded evidence of Stone-WikiLeaks communications"

By Ginger Gibson and Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump will almost certainly face legal challenges over his decision to declare a national emergency to get additional funding for a U.S.-Mexico border wall, circumventing the power of Congress to set spending policy. Legal scholars say it is unclear how such a step would … Continue reading "Explainer: Trump risks legal fight with emergency threat on wall"

The state of California and the ACLU have each filed lawsuits against Trump for his national emergency border wall declaration.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal said that the walls are closing in on Trump and the odds are that Sarah Sanders knows something.

The House Judiciary Committee has announced an immediate investigation into Trump's decision to declare a national emergency to get his wall.

MSNBC's John Heilemann put Trump's cheap national emergency stunt in perspective by saying that the real emergency is guns, not the southern border.