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Apr 14 2021
News
Afghanistan: Biden calls for end to 'America's longest war'
The US will continue to support Afghanistan after withdrawing all US troops, but not "militarily," President Joe Biden has pledged.
"It is time to end America's longest war," he said in a speech from the White House room where US airstrikes there were first declared in 2001.
The pull-out is to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the 11 September 2001 terror attacks, officials
BBC News
Feb 08 2021
News
Trump's defense team will show clips of Democrats urging violence in 2020
Former President Donald Trump‘s defense at his Senate impeachment trial will include videos of Democrats encouraging violence, one of his lawyers said Friday.
The clips would counter videos that Democrats likely will show of the riot at Capitol and Mr. Trump‘s fiery speech at a rally shortly before the attack on Jan. 6, which Mr. Trump stands accused of inciting.
Trump lawyer
Washington Times
Jul 27 2020
Fact Check
Is DeAanna Lorraine currently Running Against Nancy Pelosi?
An image shared on Facebook claims former Republican California congressional candidate DeAnna Lorraine is currently running against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Verdict:
While Lorraine did run against Pelosi, she is no longer in the race. Pelosi and lawyer Shahid Buttar, both progressives, will face off in the general election.
Check Your Fact
Jul 31 2020
News
Fauci 'cautiously optimistic' coronavirus vaccine will be ready before end of 2020
Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease doctor, on Friday said that he is “cautiously optimistic” a COVID-19 vaccine will be ready by the end of 2020 and widely distributed to Americans in the following year.
“There's never a guarantee that you're going to get a safe and effective vaccine, but from everything we've seen now in the animal data, as well as the early human data
The Hill
Oct 17 2019
News
Elijah Cummings, Democratic Leader at Forefront of Trump Investigations, Dies at 68
Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings of Maryland died early Tuesday due to complications stemming from longtime health issues, the Democratic leader’s office announced. He was 68. Cummings, who has played a high-profile role in a myriad of investigations into President Donald Trump as the chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, underwent a medical procedure last month but had
Slate
Feb 13 2020
News
Michael Bloomberg says his money is why Trump got impeached
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been rising through the Democratic primary race, most likely because of the absolutely massive amount of money he's poured into it. And at a Chattanooga, Tennessee rally on Wednesday, the billionaire made it clear just what that money can do, Politico reports.
"In 2018, I helped flip the House" by bankrolling 21 Democratic challengers who
The Week - News
Oct 05 2013
News
Nationwide Marches to Press for Action on Immigrants
Demonstrators plan to march in 90 cities across the country Saturday to press Congress to pass laws adjusting the status of millions of immigrants living illegally in the U.S.—the start of what some organizers deem a new phase of stepped-up activism.
Organizers representing civil-rights, faith-based and immigrant groups said Friday they have mobilized thousands of supporters from New
Wall Street Journal (News)
Feb 05 2021
News
Scrapping Keystone XL pipeline makes Biden a tribal hero, but villain off reservation
On a blustery winter day in South Dakota, the security guard stationed at the "man camp" outside the tiny town of Philip isn't in the mood for pleasantries.
It takes him about 90 seconds to get into his white pickup truck and make his way over to the chain-link fence. He's in no mood to talk. He doesn't even break a smile.
He points to the red and white "no trespassing" sign and
Washington Examiner
Mar 14 2019
News
A dozen Republican senators show some spine. It won’t be enough.
REGARDING PRESIDENT TRUMP’S pet project, a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, the will of Congress is clear. For fiscal 2019, the executive branch may spend $1.375 billion to build a fence-like barrier in one sector of the region. That’s it — and Mr. Trump signed the bill on Feb. 15 to avert yet another government shutdown. What is more, a clear majority of Congress — 245 of 432 sitting
Washington Post
Nov 26 2020
News
GOP has to 'get back to policies and ideas': Rep. Denver Riggleman
The Republican Party has to move back toward "policies and ideas" and away from conspiracy theories like those about the election, outgoing Rep. Denver Riggleman, R- Va., said on ABC News' "Powerhouse Politics" podcast.
Riggleman was one of the first Republicans to publicly accept Joe Biden as the president-elect and told ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl and
ABC News (Online)