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![FBI’s Wray Contradicts White House Account of Alleged Abuser Rob Porter](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/wray-1.png)
FBI’s Wray Contradicts White House Account of Alleged Abuser Rob Porter
The head of the FBI contradicted the White House version of events surrounding the handling of physical abuse allegations against former top aide Rob Porter, who resigned a week ago after denying the claims made publicly by two ex-wives.
![Secret Service Joins Probe of White Powder Scare Involving Trump Jr.’s Wife](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Donald-Trump-Jr.-wiki.jpg)
Secret Service Joins Probe of White Powder Scare Involving Trump Jr.’s Wife
The Secret Service has launched an investigation into an unidentified white powder that Venessa Tump, the wife of Donald Trump Jr., came into contact with while opening a piece of mail.
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Trump Scraps Plans to Build FBI Headquarters in Suburbs, Offers $2B for Rebuilding in D.C.
President Trump scrapped a long-delayed plan to build a new FBI headquarters outside of Washington D.C. in favor of rebuilding at the current site.
![BuzzFeed Hires Former Top FBI Official to Track Down Authenticity of So-Called Steele Dossier](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/donald-trump-portrait.jpg)
BuzzFeed Hires Former Top FBI Official to Track Down Authenticity of So-Called Steele Dossier
BuzzFeed has hired a former top FBI and White House cybersecurity expert to lead a team trying to verifying parts of the controversial, disputed Steele dossier that suggested Russia had compromising information on President Trump.
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Sessions Lashes Out at GOP Senator Over Marijuana Policy Dispute
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has compared marijuana to heroin, blamed pot for spikes in violence and declared that “good people don’t smoke it,” lashed out at a senator from Colorado over a controversial pot policy.
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Top DOJ Official Steps Down to Avoid Prospect of Overseeing Special Counsel Probe
Fearing she would be tapped to oversee the special counsel investigation of Donald Trump and Russia, the Justice Department’s third in command decided to step down and avoid the president’s escalating attacks on the DOJ and other federal law enforcement agencies.
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Fiancé Still Awaits Answers in Border Patrol Agent’s Mysterious Death
The man Angela Ochoa was about to marry was unconscious in an El Paso hospital bed, riddled with cuts and bruises.
![Watergate Reporter Bernstein: No Modern President Has Lied As Often As Trump](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-12-at-8.30.42-AM.png)
Watergate Reporter Bernstein: No Modern President Has Lied As Often As Trump
Carl Bernstein, the Washington Post reporter who helped expose the Watergate scandal under President Nixon, is skeptical that Donald Trump will agree to an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller because of the president’s “compulsive, continual lying.”