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Friday

In The Front Runner, Hugh Jackman plays Gary Hart, whose 1987 presidential campaign was swiftly derailed by reports of an extramarital affair. Frank Masi/Sony Pictures hide caption

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What 'The Front Runner' And Gary Hart Tell Us About Political Theater Today

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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke (right) has suggested that Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva (left), who is in line to chair the House committee overseeing the Department of the Interior, is a drunk. Alex Edelman/Getty Images; George Frey/Getty Images hide caption

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A street candy seller walks along the U.S.-Mexico border fence in Mexicali, Mexico, while U.S. Army soldiers fortify it with barbed wire. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is likely to reduce the number of active-duty U.S. troops who are currently deployed at the Mexico border, from around 5,900 to around 4,000. Luis Boza/VIEW press/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption

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Donald Trump Jr. talked with Senate investigators about his family's real estate dealings in September 2017. The Judiciary Committee released his testimony earlier this year. Bob Levey/Getty Images for Left/Right TV hide caption

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President Donald Trump signed the USMCA trade deal on Friday, alongside Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto in Buenos Aires. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters hide caption

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USMCA: Trump Signs New Trade Agreement With Mexico And Canada To Replace NAFTA

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Federal workers are being advised by a government ethics agency to avoid discussing impeachment or what's known as the "resistance" movement to President Trump while at the workplace. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption

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Ethics Agency Warns Federal Workers Not To Discuss Impeachment Or 'Resistance'

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Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri characterized her 2018 electoral defeat as a "failure" of the Democratic Party "to gain enough trust with rural Americans." Cameron Pollack/NPR hide caption

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McCaskill Blames Senate Defeat On Democratic 'Failure' With Rural America

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Thursday

The Trump administration said Thursday it wants states to innovate in ways that could produce more lower-cost health insurance options — even if those alternatives do not provide the same level of financial or medical coverage as an ACA plan. Getty Images hide caption

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Thomas Farr is sworn in during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in September 2017 on his nomination to be a district judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption

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Michael Cohen walks out of federal court Thursday in New York, after pleading guilty to lying to Congress about work he did on an aborted project to build a Trump Tower in Russia. Julie Jacobson/AP hide caption

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Michael Cohen walks out of federal court, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018, in New York. He has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about Donald Trump's negotiations about a Trump Tower in Moscow. Julie Jacobson/AP hide caption

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Police vehicles are parked in front of Deutsche Bank headquarters as roughly 170 officers, prosecutors and tax inspectors searched the bank's offices in and around Frankfurt, Germany, on Thursday. Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters hide caption

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Then-Georgia Secretary of State, and Republican nominee for governor, Brian Kemp attends an election night event in Athens, Georgia. As secretary of state, Kemp was charged with overseeing the election logistics for the election he was running in. Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images hide caption

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President Trump talks with reporters before traveling to the Group of 20 Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the South Lawn of the White House on Thursday. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption

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President Trump Cancels Putin Meeting On Eve Of G-20

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