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Jared Kushner reportedly sought a secret line of communication with Moscow and failed to disclose several conversations with Russian officials prior to his father-in-law, US…

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Recently, I picked up a few pounds of mussels at the grocery store on a whim. On Sunday night, my husband and I hovered over…

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