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Arizona Representative Trent Franks moved up his resignation and left office on Friday amid sexual-misconduct allegations.
Source: Aaron P. Bernstein / Reuters

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Arizona Representative Trent Franks his resignation and left office on Friday, immediately before reports emerged that female staffers felt he had propositioned them when he brought up the possibility of them carrying his children as surrogate mothers. Before heading to Pensacola, Florida, where he will hold a campaign rally tonight, President Trump in support of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, who is accused of sexually assaulting teenage girls. Dina Powell, Trump’s deputy national-security adviser, the administration early next year. Trump a spending 228,000 jobs in November, and the unemployment remained the same, at 4.1 percent.

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