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Exactly six weeks after its release--and one day after Robert Mueller's first press conference on the completion of his investigation--the Mueller Report remains on bestseller lists across the country. The  Washington Post' s version, published with Scriber, is sitting at the top spot of the paperback list, besting George R. R. Martin's  Game of Thrones .  The same version has moved from slot fourteen to ten on the Amazon nonfiction bestseller list, and is sixth on the  New York Times combined paperback and hardcover nonfiction list, as well as first on the  New York Times  paperback nonfiction list. The Skyhorse version is down from first to third on the  Washington Post' s own list. Perhaps most notably, on Amazon's "most read" nonfiction list, the Audible audiobook, which is free, is at slot seventeen, up from nineteen. Although we don't know how much of the report listeners actually engaged with, we know they listened to at least a b...

House Democrats teamed up Thursday to perform a marathon public reading of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s nearly 500-page report, in a spectacle that underscored the growing tensions with the Justice Department over access to the complete cache of Russia probe documents. House Judiciary Committee Vice Chairwoman Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., led the effort  from the House Rules Committee Room, starting on Page 1 at noon. “This #LawlessPresident does not want the American people to know what is inside the #MuellerReport. Tune in now as we begin to read the entire report, cover to cover, live,” Scanlon tweeted as the reading got started. Scanlon told The Washington Post earlier this week that the reading would take up to 14 hours, and the recording would be made into an audiobook. The congresswoman was joined by other House Democrats who are vocal Trump critics, including House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler; House Financial Services Committee Chairw...

WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to recommend that the House hold Attorney General William P. Barr in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over Robert S. Mueller III’s unredacted report, hours after President Trump asserted executive privilege to shield the full report and underlying evidence from Congress. The committee’s 24-to-16 contempt vote, taken after hours of debate over the future of American democracy, was the first official House action to punish a government official in the standoff over the Mueller report. The Justice Department denounced the move as unnecessary and intended to stoke a fight. After the vote, the Judiciary Committee chairman, Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York, swatted away questions about possible impeachment, but added, “We are now in a constitutional crisis.” The contempt vote raised the stakes in the battle over evidence and witnesses as Democrats investigate Mr. Trump over behavior detailed by Mr. Mueller, th...

The White House will instruct former White House counsel  Donald McGahn not to comply with a subpoena from House Democrats  for documents related to the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, according to White House press secretary Sarah Sanders. “I don’t anticipate that that takes place,” Sanders said on ABC News' “The Investigation” podcast Tuesday, when asked whether the White House will allow McGahn to comply with Democrats’ request. “We consider this to be a case closed and we're moving forward to do the work of the American people.” McGahn was a central figure in the Mueller report who cooperated extensively with the special counsel’s probe, meeting with his team at least three times and questioned more extensively than any other member of the White House staff who went in for an interview. "Mr. McGahn is a critical witness to many of the alleged instances of obstruction of justice and other misconduct described in the Mueller report,” House Judi...