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THE SEQUESTER GOES LOCAL: Just days remain for Congress to agree to a deficit-reduction deal that would avoid triggering the $85 billion package of automatic cuts that would be split among the federal government over seven months, half from the Defense Department. ABCs Matthew Larotonda reports that tables released by the White House yesterday indicate each state would receive penalties to

Bill Clintons off-message musings in recent days on Mitt Romney, taxes and the state of the economy prompted a series of urgent and agitated calls between senior aides to both Clinton and President Barack Obama. In the past, these kinds of complaints have often prompted Clinton lieutenants to kindly suggest that the Obama team can go to hell: a former president can, should and will say what he

NBC's Chuck Todd took a veiled shot at Fox News chief Roger Ailes, ABC's George Stephanopoulos, and possibly even himself during an interview this week with the conservative site Breitbart.

Discussing perceptions of media bias, Todd told Breitbart, "Look, it doesn’t help when any former political operative is involved as a news executive in any form."

The news executive in

The first domino was an eager Trump campaign operative who shared what sounded at the time like an idle boast that Russia had dirt on Hillary Clinton.

The conversation between George Papadopoulos, a largely unknown foreign policy adviser for Donald Trump’s then-fledgling bid for the White House, and an Australian diplomat took on significance only later, after the Democratic National