Shane Croucher

Reporter

Shane Croucher is a senior reporter for Newsweek based in London, England, covering a range of subjects, including politics, crime and world news. Prior to this he worked as an editor and reporter for International Business Times UK, focusing on politics, business, finance and property. He studied investigative journalism at the University of Lincoln, England, graduating with first class honors in 2011. You can reach him at s.croucher@newsweek.com.

  
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 Pelosi, Schumer Demand Public Mueller Testimony House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer blast Attorney General William Barr’s “irresponsible” and “partisan” handling of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.
  
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 How to Download the Mueller Report Attorney General William Barr will release a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report following his two-year Russia investigation.
  
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 Ann Coulter Would Vote for Bernie Sanders Over Borders The right-wing pundit and author Ann Coulter suggested she could back democratic socialist Bernie Sanders because he is strongly opposed to open borders.
  
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 Mueller Begins or Ends Trump Impeachment: MSNBC Host Efforts to impeach President Donald Trump will begin if Mueller’s report is damning, but only if the Democrats show “moral courage,” said MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews.
  
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 Mueller Report: What We Know Ahead of Public Release Attorney General William Barr is set to release a "lightly redacted" version of special counsel Robert Mueller's final report into Russian interference in the 2017 presidential election.
  
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 Sean Hannity Blasts Michelle Obama Divorced Dad Comment Fox News host Sean Hannity said he knows “some great divorced dads” during his show after former First Lady Michelle Obama made what he called “demeaning” comments.
  
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 Trump ‘Fighting Us on Everything,’ House Probe Dems Say With the House running several investigations of President Donald Trump, the White House has resisted turning over information and documents.
  
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 Fox News Host Mocks O'Rourke Over Buttigieg Popularity Fox News host Tucker Carlson said South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is gaining popularity over Beto O’Rourke among the news media as it covers the 2020 Democratic primary.
  
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 Lara Trump: No Law Forces POTUS to Release Tax Returns President Donald Trump is not obliged by the law to release his tax returns, Lara Trump, 2020 campaign adviser and wife of Eric Trump, told Fox News.
  
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 Pelosi: Glass of Water Could Win My District and AOC's House Speaker Nancy Pelosi played down victories such as her own and that of New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, saying elections were won elsewhere.
  
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 Saudi Arabia Rescues Ill American Cruise Ship Passenger A passenger aboard the Seven Seas Navigator cruise ship was evacuated to a hospital in Saudi Arabia after suffering with a medical emergency.
  
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 Donald Trump Calls Ivanka 'Baby' in Official Meetings In a recent interview, Trump also said that his eldest daughter showed no interest in becoming president one day.
  
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 Elizabeth Warren Switched to Democrat Over Bankruptcies Senator Warren changed parties after watching big banks' treatment of bankrupt families.
  
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 Trump Art Removed From Exhibit After Backlash An anti-Donald Trump piece of artwork by Gwenn Seemel was pulled from display at a New Jersey public library after a negative response from visitors.
  
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 ICE Blocked White House Plan for Sanctuary Cities President Donald Trump’s White House reportedly pushed to release detained migrants into sanctuary cites represented by Democrats.
  
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 Assange Won't Face Death Penalty If U.K. Has a Say  The U.K. said it would not extradite the WikiLeaks founder to the U.S. if he were to face the death penalty.
  
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 WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Arrested in London British police entered the Ecuadorian Embassy and arrested WikkLeaks founder Julain Assange after Ecuador stripped him of his asylum status.
  
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 Trump's Sister Retires Amid Tax Fraud Probe Maryanne Trump Barry, an appellate judge, formally retired during an investigation into allegations that her family committed tax fraud after inheriting a real estate empire.
  
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 Tucker Carlson Plays Down White Nationalist Threat Fox News host Tucker Carlson accused Democrats and the left of using white nationalist as a label to smear political opponents and said there aren’t many white nationalists in America.
  
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 Blizzard Warnings Cover Central U.S. States The National Weather Service forecast shows blizzards expected across several states, including Colorado, South and North Dakota, Wyoming, Minnesota and Wisconsin, during a major storm.
  
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 Trump Jr. Praises Candace Owens for Hearing Comments Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, said right-wing activist Candace Owens called out the “purposeful manipulation of facts” by Democrats.
  
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 Florida Man Threatens to Destroy Town With Turtle Army Police in Indialantic, Florida, allege Thomas Devaney Lane made the turtle army threats against people during a bizarre rampage.
  
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 Trump’s Trade Wars Hurting Global Economy: IMF The ongoing U.S.-China trade dispute kicked off by President Donald Trump is helping to weaken the global economy, the International Monetary Fund said.
  
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 Ivanka Trump Hails Double Child Tax Credit The amount earners can claim in the child tax credit has doubled, and so have the income limits. Here’s what that means as the IRS 2018 tax return deadline looms.
  
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 AOC: Justifying Psychopathic Billionaires Is Very 2019 The New York congresswoman was responding to a tweet about why psychopathic CEOs might be a good thing.
  
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 Florida Man Attacks Parents Over Acidic Pork Chop Austin Day, 28, from Tallahassee in Florida, allegedly attacked his parents over the dinner they cooked because he believed they were trying to poison him.
  
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 Lawmaker Urges Britain to Sabotage EU Over Brexit Delay Conservative Party Member of Parliament Jacob Rees-Mogg called on Britain to frustrate the European Union if Brexit is long delayed, after Prime Minister Theresa May requested another deadline...
  
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 Obama Doing ‘Right Thing’ With Silence on Biden Dana Perino, former press secretary to President George W. Bush, said former President Barack Obama should maintain his silence over the Joe Biden touching allegations.
  
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 Bernice King Sets Laura Ingraham Straight Over MLK Fox News host Laura Ingraham suggested Martin Luther King Jr. would be unhappy that the Democrats are protesting about civil rights.
  
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 Rudy Giuliani Calls Mueller Leakers 'Cowards and Liars' Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, attacked special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators who suggested Attorney General William Barr might be hiding the full findings of the...
  
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 Buttigieg: Trump Taking Us Back to Darkest Days of '50s Buttigieg, who is expected to announce his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination, attacked Donald Trump’s labeling of things he does not like as socialist.
  
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 Pete Buttigieg to Make 'Special Announcement' As he considers formally entering the 2020 presidential race, Buttigieg said in a Twitter video he is planning to make an announcement this month.