Last month, lawyers conducting welfare visits to Texas Customs and Border Protection facilities revealed that detained migrants are being held in conditions more appalling and inhumane than most could have imagined. They found filthy, cramped women and children who had been deprived of basic hygiene and forced to sleep on …
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The opening night of the first Democratic primary debates didn’t feature many confrontations. The same can’t be said for the second night, which featured several tense moments, most notably a fierce back-and-forth on race between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. After agreeing with Marianne Williamson that reparations haven’t been talked …
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In 2018, a deputy White House press secretary claimed Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were “sacrificing in their service” in the White House. But one of the things the couple is not sacrificing is tons of income to the tune of tens of millions of dollars a year. According to …
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Donald Trump’s presidential campaign warned his supporters on Tuesday of scammers trying to pass their organizations off as authentically affiliated with the president. While the campaign didn’t call out any particular groups by name, the announcement came shortly publication of a report from the Campaign Legal Center and Axios that …
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During a Sunday appearance on ABC News’ This Week, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) used President Trump’s own words against him when answering a question regarding the president’s recent praise of Robert E. Lee. “I find it kind of interesting that the president is now glorifying a loser. He …
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Onthe Weekend Update segment ofSaturday Night Live,hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che once again lampooned the news and the wacky people who dominate our headlines in this, the era of Donald Trump. They started with the arrest of Julian Assange in London this week:“WikiLeaks founder and reason I put tape …
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On Friday, President Donald Trump stood in front of recently-refurbished border wall along the California-Mexico border and boasted that it was the beginning of construction on the wall he promised voters in the 2016 campaign. And Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen installed commemorative plaque bearing Trump’s name last fall along …
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Chelsea Manning, who was imprisoned for sharing government secrets with WikiLeaks, is back in jail after refusing to testify before a grand jury about Julian Assange’s organization. A federal judge, Claude H. Hilton, found her in contempt of court, The New York Times reported, and she was subsequently taken to …
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The Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services finalized a rule that will strip health care clinics around the country of federal funding if they refer patients to abortion services. Reproductive rights advocates call it a “gag rule” because it imposes limits on the issues doctors can discuss with …
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WASHINGTON —For the second time in six months, Microsoft publicly announced that it detected what appeared to be Russian intelligence agents attempting to hack into think-tank organizations that have been critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime. The tech company revealed on Tuesday night that more than 100 of …
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