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History James Comey Is the Second FBI Director to Be Fired. Here's What Happened the Other Time President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday evening drew quick comparisons to Richard Nixon’s firing of special prosecutor Archibald Cox during the

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World Turkey Suspends More Than 12,000 Police for 'Connections to Exiled Cleric'The Erdogan regime in Turkey has suspended 12,801 police — including 2,523 police chiefs — that it accuses of having links to the U.S.-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom it blames for a failed coup in July

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