| A Republican U.S. representative of Utah who is trailing her Democratic challenger filed a lawsuit seeking to halt vote counting while two incumbent Republican congressmen in California and New Jersey conceded, more than a week after the U.S. midterm elections. |
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| Commentary: Even if Special Counsel Robert Mueller is allowed to complete his investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin in 2016, the likelihood of anything he finds making a dramatic change to the political environment or leading to Donald Trump’s removal from office is slim, writes Lincoln Mitchell, a political science teacher at Columbia University. |
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| The British currency plunged and is set for its second biggest drop this year as opposition mounted at Theresa May’s draft deal for leaving the European Union with a series of resignations. The dollar jumped and traders bought into the safe-haven yen after the Brexit deal was plunged into uncertainty, spooking investors across currency markets. |
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