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Jun 23 2019
News
Trump's new sanctions could deal blow ‘right to the heart’ of Iranian economy, Rep. Turner says
President Trump has promised new sanctions against Iran on Monday on top of what has already been a crippling "maximum pressure campaign," and Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, discussed just how bad it could get for the Islamic nation's economy. Turner said that the upcoming sanctions could hit "the heart" of Iran's economic system, with existing sanctions already expected to have a severe impact.
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Aug 06 2020
News
Trump Says He May Act on His Own Friday Amid Aid-Talks Stalemate
President Donald Trump said he expects to sign orders on Friday or Saturday extending enhanced unemployment benefits and imposing a payroll-tax holiday as lawmakers have been unable to reach agreement on stimulus legislation that includes those measures.
Trump, speaking to reporters Thursday before leaving on a trip to Ohio, said he also expects to sign orders on eviction protection and
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Dec 15 2015
News
Gun control becomes a litmus test in Democratic primaries
In Ohio, Nevada, Florida and elsewhere, Democrats who were once cozy with the NRA are facing questions and attacks in primaries.
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Jul 22 2021
Fact Check
Joe Biden exaggerates efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines
President Joe Biden exaggerated when he spoke about the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine during a CNN town hall. "You're not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations," Biden said.
It is rare for people who are fully vaccinated to contract COVID-19, but it does happen.
News reports the week of the town hall show that a White House official and a staff member for
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Dec 19 2020
Opinion
Unlike Trump, Biden believes in climate change -- and his nominees prove it
President-elect Joe Biden will restore key features of the presidency that have been absent for the past four years, chief among them a belief that humans cause climate change. Biden made his commitment to science abundantly clear in announcing the nominations of his economic, health and environment teams.
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Dec 06 2014
News
Rand Paul on smoking marijuana: ‘I made mistakes’
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul hinted in an interview Friday that he smoked marijuana in his youth, adding that voters should not confuse his push for reduced criminal penalties for drug offenses as an endorsement of drug use.
Paul, who announced plans this week to seek re-election to the Senate in 2016 and is actively exploring whether to run for president, said he “wasn’t a choir boy” when
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Mar 12 2021
Opinion
'Cancel Culture' is just free speech holding others accountable
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is concerned cancel culture will have “long-term consequences to our democracy.” We can only hope he’s right.
Jordan wrote about his fears in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) last week. The letter raises concerns about the First Amendment and the marketplace of ideas, citing Twitter and Facebook’s decisions to remove former
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Jul 09 2021
Opinion
There Is No Debate Over Critical Race Theory
The United States is not in the midst of a “culture war” over race and racism. The animating force of our current conflict is not our differing values, beliefs, moral codes, or practices. The American people aren’t divided. The American people are being divided.
Republican operatives have buried the actual definition of critical race theory: “a way of looking at law’s role platforming
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Dec 14 2020
News
Georgia Supreme Court Declines to Hear Trump Lawsuit Ahead of Electoral College Vote
Georgia’s Supreme Court declined to hear an election challenge filed by President Donald Trump’s team ahead of the Dec. 14 Electoral College vote.
The court said that it “lacks the jurisdiction to consider the petition and rejects it,” Fox News reported.
The appeal from Trump’s team asked the Georgia Supreme Court to consider the merits of the case before Dec. 14. It wasn’t clear
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Oct 31 2021
Opinion
The Empty Spectacle of the U.N. Climate-Change Summit
As President Joe Biden limps into Glasgow, there are only two things holding back his big, showy climate agenda: politics and economics.
If you happen to be one of those people who insists that climate change should be “beyond politics,” then you are certainly entitled to the sentiment — but spare us any lectures about “democracy” in the future, because politics is how liberal-
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