| No Images? Click here   The FBI’s No. 2 official, who has for months been under fire from President Donald Trumpand his allies on Capitol Hill, is resigning.FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who served as the acting director of the bureau last year after Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey, is stepping down, NBC’s Pete Williams first reported.McCabe is leaving his position immediately, but he is set to be on the FBI payroll for a few more months, a source told HuffPost. McCabe has accumulated leave time that would bring him past the date where he’d be eligible to retire.The news wasn’t a total shock, as McCabe had been expected to retire later this year. He was closely aligned with Comey, who was fired by Trump in May. Trump’s firing of Comey is now part of the special counsel investigation being run by former FBI Director Robert Mueller.The FBI hasn’t issued a public statement on McCabe leaving the bureau.  WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING?Another Republican House member is calling it quits. Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, a 12-term Republican from New Jersey and chairman of the most sought-after committee in Congress ― the Appropriations Committee ― announced Monday that he would not run for re-election.Sean Spicer says the RNC should return Steve Wynn donations. “I think we need to have a standard that says that if a credible allegation comes, we need to take it absolutely seriously,” the former Donald Trump aide said.Nikki Haley trashed Hillary Clinton's surprise Grammy appearance. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said she doesn’t want politics in her music.
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