Virginia Governor Ralph Northam held a press conference Saturday to apologize for the racist photo that appeared on his tribute page in his medical school yearbook, while at the same time saying he is neither the man wearing blackface nor the man in the Ku Klux Klan hood in the …
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President Trump announced on Friday that he will endorse a short-term funding bill to re-open the government, which has been operating under a partial shutdown since December 21st. The bill will not include funding for a border wall. “I am very proud to announce today that we have reached a …
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President Donald Trump announced that he will give an address from the White House at 4 p.m. on Saturday. According to Axios, the president’s speech is expected to include an offer to prolong protections to for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders in …
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One of many unanswerable questions from the past year in Trump’s funhouse is why Rudy Giuliani continues to go on TV and incriminate the man for whom he’s supposed to be providing legal defense. Whenever news about the president’s potential criminality begins to bubble up, you can bet Giuliani is …
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Michael Cohen: so hot right now. On Thursday, theWall Street Journal reportedthat Donald Trump‘s former attorney and fixer paid the owner of an IT firm to rig an online poll in favor of Trump as he considered a run for president. According to the WSJ, in early 2015 Cohen agreed …
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The 2020 Democratic primary field is already stress-inducingly crowded, and you’d be forgiven if you’re having trouble keeping track of everyone. Well, lucky for all of us, nearly every serious potential candidate has a book that lays out his or her policy positions while also offering up some personal backstory …
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A day before President Trump delivered his first Oval Office address, a Florida prison employee named Crystal Minton was quoted in the New York Times. Hurricane Michael tore most of the roof and fence off her workplace, so the incarcerated were relocated to a Mississippi prison that is a seven-hour …
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President Trump doesn’t have much to cling to as he enters his third year in office. He can claim that he’s followed through on campaign promises like tearing up the Iran nuclear deal, moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and pulling the United States out of the Paris …
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Nearly every organization President Trump has led in the past decade is under investigation — his administration, campaign, transition, private business and inaugural celebration. They are all either under federal or state scrutiny, subject to a lawsuit, or are being exposed by the press in ways that may put him …
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Maria Butina pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to a conspiracy charge, under a provision of the legal code sometimes referred to as “espionage lite.” The “statement of facts” released with her plea describe Butina’s efforts to “establish unofficial lines of communication with Americans having power and influence over U.S. …
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