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'We've Been In Continuous Crisis for 45 Days'

The Trump administration hasn’t even faced a major foreign-policy challenge yet.
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The spokesman for Vladimir Putin gave a funny answer on Monday when asked about Donald Trump’s that Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump’s phones during the 2016 presidential campaign. The Russian government “should not be in any way linked to U.S. domestic issues” and “doesn’t have the slightest inclination or intention to be associated with these affairs,” he.

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