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Allies rally to defend Biden against potential 'smears and forgeries'

Biden backers seek to get in front of further fallout from "awkward kiss" allegation.

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Trump: Census 'meaningless' without citizenship question

"Report would be meaningless and a waste of the $Billions (ridiculous) that it costs to put together!" Trump wrote in a morning tweet.

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Senate Dems to introduce constitutional amendment to abolish Electoral College

The proposed amendment to change the way presidents are elected won't become law anytime soon, but it will keep the issue in the 2020 conversation.

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Nielsen said she will increase number of asylum seekers made to wait in Mexico

Amid a rapid rise in attempted border crossings, the DHS secretary will also up the number of asylum seekers made to wait on the Mexico side of the border.

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Supreme Court OK's lethal injection for Missouri death row inmate with rare health issue

The opinion, written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, said the 8th Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment "does not guarantee a painless death."

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Whistleblower tells Congress White House overturned 25 security clearance denials

The whistleblower, Tricia Newbold, told Congress that security clearance applications for White House officials "were not always adjudicated in the best interest of national security."

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House Judiciary Committee to vote on Mueller subpoenas Wednesday

The panel will also weigh in on whether to subpoena documents from five former White House officials related to the investigation.

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Pete Buttigieg announces $7 million fundraising haul for first quarter

"We (you) are out-performing expectations at every turn," Buttigieg tweeted Monday.

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How this weekend exposed Biden's generational challenges

First Read is your briefing from "Meet the Press" and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.

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'Wide open potential abuse': States are ground zero in the fight against child marriage

A majority of states allow 16- and 17-year-olds to wed, and 17 states have no minimum age to marry, experts say.

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NY's attorney general is one of the most powerful in the nation. That should worry Trump.

The state's chief legal officer, who is investigating the president and his company, has the ability to render a "judgment of corporate death" for business fraud.

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Trump's threat to close border 'certainly isn't a bluff,' Conway says

"You can take the president seriously," she told "Fox News Sunday."

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Mulvaney defends Trump campaign's conduct: 'The issue is not whether it's ethical'

House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff said last week that the campaign acted immorally and corruptly with regard to Russia.

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Poll: Room to grow for 2020 Dem candidates

The poll shows challenges for President Donald Trump, some good news for former VP Joe Biden and growth potential for some of the Democrats' fresh faces.

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Poll: After Mueller summary, Americans are still in 'wait-and-see' mode

President Trump's approval remains stable and a third of voters say they don't know whether the summary of Mueller's findings clears him of wrongdoing in new NBC News/WSJ poll.

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Not your father's campaign trail: What might have happened to Buttigieg a generation ago

Larry Agran from Irvine, Calif., was the last candidate before the South Bend mayor to attempt the leap from a midsize city hall to the White House. It didn't go well.

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Trump administration says it will cut foreign aid for Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador

Some Democrats said the move "will only result in more children and families being forced to make the dangerous journey north to the U.S.-Mexico border."

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O'Rourke kicks off campaign in hometown, promises largest grassroots campaign

"We are safe not despite the fact that we are a city of immigrants and asylum seekers; we are safe because we are a city of immigrants and asylum seekers," he said.

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Hallie in the House: I asked the president why he suggested cutting Special Olympics funding

Behind the scenes with NBC's chief White House correspondent — and a peek at her March Madness brackets.

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Massive student debt is piling up. And so are candidates' solutions.

Calling it a "crisis" and "national emergency," some 2020 Democratic hopefuls have personal experience with big loans that are hard to pay back.