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Iran Confident About $3 Billion Boeing Deal as U.S. Mulls Sanctions

EghtesadOnline: An Iranian airline that signed a $3 billion contract at list prices with Boeing Co. is confident the deal won’t face a political backlash in Washington, days after the U.S. Senate voted to advance a bill that could bring new sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
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Publish Date:12/June/2017 | 04:25

Trump Slams ‘Cowardly’ Comey as Sessions Offers to Testify

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump called James Comey “cowardly,” days after the fired FBI director’s testimony to a Senate committee and as Attorney General Jeff Sessions offered to speak to the same panel to answer questions about alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
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Publish Date:12/June/2017 | 04:20

Senator McCain says Putin bigger threat than ISIS

EghtesadOnline: U.S. Senator John McCain said Russian President Vladimir Putin is a bigger threat to global security than ISIS, and warned that the Senate would push for sanctions against Moscow for its alleged interference in the U.S. election.
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Publish Date:30/May/2017 | 05:30

Contempt Charge Against Flynn Possible, Senate Panel Leader Says

EghtesadOnline: The Senate Intelligence Committee chairman warned Tuesday of a possible contempt citation against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn if he doesn’t provide documents for the investigation of Russian meddling in the U.S. election.
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Publish Date:24/May/2017 | 04:45

Comey Agrees to Testify to Senate as Trump's Crisis Week Endures

EghtesadOnline: Former FBI Director James Comey agreed to testify in open session before the Senate Intelligence Committee about the bureau’s probe into Russian meddling with the 2016 U.S. election, intensifying Donald Trump’s troubles at the start of his first foreign trip as president.
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Publish Date:20/May/2017 | 05:02

Senate Moves Obamacare Repeal to Slow Lane After House Vote

EghtesadOnline: Passage of the House’s health-care bill gives the Obamacare repeal effort new life after months of wrangling, but key Republican senators are already pushing it aside to write their own bill with no clear timetable to act.
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Publish Date:06/May/2017 | 04:23

Congress Reaches Spending Deal That Jettisons Trump Priorities

EghtesadOnline: U.S. House and Senate negotiators reached a tentative bipartisan deal on a $1.1 trillion spending bill that largely tracks with Democratic priorities and rejects most of President Donald Trump’s wish list, including money to begin building a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border.
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Publish Date:01/May/2017 | 04:07

In big win for Trump, Senate approves his conservative court pick

EghtesadOnline: The Republican-led Senate on Friday gave Donald Trump the biggest triumph of his young presidency, confirming his Supreme Court nominee over stout Democratic opposition and restoring a conservative majority on the highest U.S. judicial body.
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Publish Date:08/April/2017 | 05:05

Trump tells lawmakers he expects deal 'very quickly' on healthcare

EghtesadOnline: U.S. President Donald Trump told a group of senators on Tuesday that he expected lawmakers would be able to reach a deal on healthcare, without offering specifics on how they would do it or what had changed since a healthcare reform bill was pulled last week for insufficient support.
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Publish Date:29/March/2017 | 03:46

Sessions to respond in writing to questions over Russia contacts: DOJ

EghtesadOnline: U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will reply in writing to Senate Democrats' questions about his meetings with Russia's ambassador last year, the Justice Department said on Friday after a top Republican denied Democrats' request for a public hearing.
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Publish Date:04/March/2017 | 05:10

Key Lawmaker Questions Senate Russia Probe After Trump Contacts

EghtesadOnline: The Senate Intelligence Committee’s top Democrat warned the panel’s chairman over reports that the Republican worked with the White House to try to squash negative stories about Russian interference in last year’s U.S. elections, calling it a threat to the integrity of the top congressional probe into the issue.
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Publish Date:26/February/2017 | 10:33

GOP Senators Embrace Awkward Russia Probe That Could Hurt Trump

EghtesadOnline: A Senate Intelligence Committee investigation of Russia’s effort to influence last year’s U.S. election is shaping up as an unexpectedly bipartisan effort that could take months to complete as it explores the most significant controversy shadowing the new Trump administration.
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Publish Date:25/February/2017 | 04:47

Gorsuch Takes Stage as Trump Picks Conservative to Supreme Court

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch will meet with senators Wednesday at the start of what promises to be a contentious confirmation fight as Republicans look to entrench a conservative majority on the court for a generation.
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Publish Date:01/February/2017 | 05:14

U.S. Senate advances nomination of Tillerson as Secretary of State

EghtesadOnline: The U.S. Senate advanced the nomination of former Exxon Mobil Corp Chief Executive Rex Tillerson on Monday to be President Donald Trump's secretary of state, moving closer to filling a key seat on the Republican's national security team despite partisan rancor over Trump's immigration order.
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Publish Date:31/January/2017 | 05:20

Trump Faces Growing GOP Pressure to Maintain Russia Sanctions

EghtesadOnline: A group of Republicans in the U.S. Senate is intensifying calls on President Donald Trump to keep sanctions on Russia in place ahead of his planned call with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin.
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Publish Date:28/January/2017 | 04:48

U.S. Senate confirms Haley as Trump's U.N. ambassador

EghtesadOnline: The U.S. Senate voted almost unanimously on Tuesday to confirm South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley as ambassador to the United Nations, sending a rising Republican star to represent President Donald Trump at an institution he has criticized.
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Publish Date:25/January/2017 | 06:55

U.S. Senate confirms Pompeo to be Trump's CIA director

EghtesadOnline: The U.S. Senate confirmed Representative Mike Pompeo as President Donald Trump's CIA director on Monday, after a delay tied to some lawmakers' worries he might expand surveillance or allow the use of certain interrogation techniques widely considered torture.
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Publish Date:24/January/2017 | 05:15