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Feb 05 2020
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Delayed Results from the Iowa Caucus
This Abridge News topic aggregates four unique arguments on different sides of the debate. Here are the quick facts to get you started:
THE QUICK FACTS
The Iowa caucus was held on Monday, February 3rd. This was the first nominating contest of the 2020 election cycle.In a caucus, participants indicate their preferred candidate by standing in a designated area of Abridge News
Nov 25 2012
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More congressional Republicans break tax pledge for sake of looming fiscal crisis
The decades-old pledge from the Americans for Tax Reform group has been signed by 238 House members and 41 senators in this Congress and has essentially become inescapable for any Republican seeking statewide or national office over recent election cycles, especially in the Republican-controlled lower chamber.
Fox News Digital
Oct 25 2019
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Impeachment Update
“A top U.S. diplomat testified Tuesday that President Donald Trump was holding back military aid for Ukraine unless the country agreed to investigate Democrats and a company linked to Joe Biden’s family… William Taylor described Trump’s demand that ‘everything’ President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wanted, including vital aid to counter Russia, hinged on making a public vow that Ukraine would
The Flip Side
May 24 2019
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Frustration boils over with Senate's 'legislative graveyard'
Senators are growing increasingly frustrated as legislative activity has slowed to a crawl during the first half of the year.
The Senate voted on two bills Thursday, breaking a nearly two-month drought during which Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has focused instead on judicial nominations, his top priority.
The lack of floor action has left lawmakers publicly complaining
The Hill
May 24 2019
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Brexit has finally brought down Theresa May
Prime Minister May was supposed to deliver Brexit for the UK. Now she’s leaving it up to somebody else.
Brexit has finally brought down Theresa May.
The British prime minister announced Friday that she plans to resign, after trying — and failing — to steer the United Kingdom through its divorce with the European Union. While this brings a close to her beleaguered premiership, it
Vox
Dec 02 2019
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Trump says he will reimpose steel and aluminum tariffs on Brazil and Argentina, opening new trade war fronts
The White House says the two nations are “presiding over a massive devaluation of their currencies. which is not good for our farmers.”
President Trump said he would impose tariffs, effective immediately, on all steel and aluminum shipped into the United States from Brazil and Argentina.
“Brazil and Argentina have been presiding over a massive devaluation of their currencies.
Washington Post
Sep 10 2019
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Biden is labeled a moderate. But his agenda is far more liberal than Hillary Clinton’s.
Many Democrats see Joe Biden as a voice of ideological restraint in a party rapidly moving to the left.
But the 2020 Democratic frontrunner’s emerging policy agenda is anything but moderate — at least compared to the party’s last presidential nominee.
From health care to climate change to criminal justice, Biden has proposed ideas more ambitious and liberal than policies
McClatchyDC
Sep 10 2019
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US extracted high-level spy from inside Russia in 2017, reports say
The US extracted a high-level spy from inside Russia in 2017, reports say.
Citing "multiple Trump administration officials with direct knowledge" of the operation, CNN reported that US intelligence feared the source's cover could be blown by US officials.
The decision was made soon after a meeting in which President Trump unexpectedly shared classified US intelligence with
BBC News
May 23 2019
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Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi warfare hits new level, raising the risk of even more gridlock
President Donald Trump's decision to storm out of an infrastructure meeting with Democrats left lawmakers scrambling to assess whether the fallout would reach other White House priorities, including a pending trade deal with Canada and Mexico that the president hopes will replace NAFTA.
Fuming about longstanding Democratic investigations, Trump refused to shake hands with Democrats
USA TODAY
May 19 2014
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Why Hillary's high numbers (even among Republicans!) won't last
Can Hillary Clinton really be that popular?
Much of the media is clearly ready for a coronation, but is that related to reality?
Her latest numbers are impressive, but there are reasons to be skeptical.
In a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, “most Americans have a favorable view of former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and think she will win the 2016 presidential election
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