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WASHINGTON | Former Attorney General William Barr may get old job again

WASHINGTON— William Barr, who served as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, has emerged as a top contender for that job in President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, two people familiar with the president’s selection process said Thursday.

The appointment of a new attorney general would come at a precarious time as special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, which the department…