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Nov 07 2019
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Judge orders Trump to pay $2 million for violating charities law
A judge has ordered President Trump and his children to pay $2 million to a group of nonprofit organizations as part of a settlement with the New York state attorney general's office involving "persistent" violations of charities law, reports CNN.
Why it matters: The lawsuit alleges that the Trumps violated state and federal campaign finance laws in 2016 by using the Donald J. Trump
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Nov 03 2019
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SNL spoofs Elizabeth Warren in latest cold open
In a throwback, cameo-free cold open, Saturday Night Live's Kate McKinnon portrayed an energetic Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who was hosting a town hall in Iowa, to begin Saturday evening's episode.
McKinnon's Warren started off the sketch by mocking former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas), who recently dropped out of the race, as well as President Trump for moving his residency
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Jan 09 2016
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Christie Blasts Teachers Unions as ‘Single Most Destructive Force for Public Education’
While speaking at a forum on poverty in South Carolina, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie slammed teachers unions for destroying public education in the U.S. and buying lawmakers to protect their interests.
“The single most destructive force for public education in this country is the teachers union,” Christie said to applause.
Christie touted his own work with New Jersey’s
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Aug 13 2020
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What Should Be the Future of the Death Penalty?
Thirty years after the Supreme Court decision Gregg v. Georgia effectively reinstated capital punishment in the United States, the national debate of whether to abolish, reform, maintain, or expand use of the death penalty continues to divide justices and judges, legislators and citizens. Kansas v. Marsh, the recent, bitterly divided, 5-4 Supreme Court decision upholding Kansas’ death penalty
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May 03 2013
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Obama touts gun control on Mexico visit
President Obama said Friday that gun control will help save lives  in Mexico. On his fourth trip to Mexico as president, Mr. Obama delivered a wide-ranging speech to students in Mexico City in which he pledged to help reduce gun violence there and to enact immigration reform that includes a pathway to U.S. citizenship for illegal immigrants.
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Nov 22 2014
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Jeb Bush Not Backing Down on Common Core
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a potential 2016 Republican presidential contender, is doubling down on his support for the Common Core education standards, despite the objections of many conservatives.
“In my view, the rigor of the Common Core State Standards must be the new minimum in classrooms,” Bush said Thursday in the keynote speech at the National Summit on Education Reform in
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Mar 14 2013
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Hope for compromise recedes as budget debate begins
Nothing it seems can bridge the bottomless political divide in Washington over taxes and spending.
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Nov 21 2013
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White House Email Chain Reveals Concerns Before Healthcare.gov Launch
According to emails released Wednesday by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, Obama administration officials were concerned about the health care website. Top White House and health officials were worried that healthcare.gov would not only malfunction, but also that it would set off a whole new wave of bad publicity for the president.
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Jun 24 2021
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Democrats hurtle toward debt deadline without a clear plan
President Joe Biden's infrastructure negotiations could get more complicated, thanks to the government's need to keep paying its bills on time.
Democrats are weighing two starkly different options for raising the debt ceiling, with the federal government expected to reach the limits of its borrowing authority within months or even weeks. They could use the filibuster protections of the
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Apr 14 2016
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OPINION: Clintonism, RIP
How far they’ve come. And I’m not talking about the GOP, whose front-runner representing 37 percent of the Republican electorate has repudiated post-Reagan orthodoxy on trade, entitlement reform, limited government and Pax Americana (and possibly abortion, but who knows?). I’m talking about the Democrats.
The center-left, triangulating, New Democrat (Bill) Clintonism of the 1990s is
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