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Sep 23 2013
News
Honoring Navy Yard Victims, Obama Asks: "Do We Care Enough to Change?"
President Obama laments America's creeping resignation toward gun violence, but stops short of calling for a new political fight against it.
New York Times (News)Aug 16 2016
News
Trump Blames 'Corrupt' Media for Slump in Polls
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is laying out his plan to defeat global Islamic terrorism in a speech Monday.
This comes after he spent the weekend trying to explain why he's not doing so well in the polls against Hillary Clinton. Trump blasted the media for his recent slump, calling the press "disgusting" and "corrupt."
CBNAug 19 2020
Analysis
Joe Biden, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Shaky Unity of the Democratic National Convention
On Day Two of the Democratic National Convention, the Party’s recent past kept ghosting in and out. Before the networks had even begun their broadcasts, the Party rolled through half a century of its own history: Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, from Georgia, and then Caroline Kennedy and her son in front of the unpainted shingles of a Cape Cod home, and, finally, Bill Clinton, sitting on a flowered
The New YorkerAug 15 2019
News
Bystanders taunted and laughed as police officers were being fired upon in Philadelphia
A reporter at the scene of an attack on police officers said that bystanders were mocking and taunting police even as bullets rained down upon them.
A video shows a crowd of residents shoving and confronting the police even as they were dealing with a tense hostage situation.
It was circulated online among many supporters of law enforcement who expressed outrage at their
The BlazeApr 26 2019
News
Liberal groups' 'anyone-but-Biden' campaign hits former VP as 'out of step'
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden entered the presidential race Thursday with a roaring anti-Trump message and a claim to a front-runner position, but he immediately ran into a massive anyone-but-Biden campaign from liberal activists.
He made the long-anticipated announcement of his candidacy in an online video in which he took aim at President Trump and framed the 2020 election as
Washington TimesJan 13 2020
News
Iran denies shooting at crowds protesting after plane was shot down
Iran's government has denied reports that security forces fired live ammunition at protesters in Tehran, and accused President Trump of shedding "crocodile tears" with his message of support for the demonstrators. Videos purportedly show blood on the ground after claims that protesters were hit with live rounds in Tehran two days after Mr. Trump warned the Islamic Republic's leaders not to "
CBS News (Online)Jan 13 2020
News
Democrats voice concerns over Sanders
Democrats who believe Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) had a negative influence on the 2016 general election against President Trump are increasingly expressing worries he’ll hurt the party again in 2020.
The Democrats complaining about Sanders, some of whom have histories with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign, argue the rhetoric being employed by the Vermont senator in
The HillAug 14 2016
News
Trump blames 'disgusting' media: 'I would be beating Hillary by 20'
In a series of tweets Sunday morning, Donald Trump launched a new tirade against the media, calling it "disgusting" and blaming it for his drop in polls. His latest tweet storm first targeted the New York Times, which published an article Saturday about the GOP nominee's allegedly failing campaign, but quickly expanded as an indictment of the media in general.
PoliticoJul 12 2019
News
Trump's Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta resigns
Labor Secretary Alex Acosta resigned amid the fallout over a plea deal he made with wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein, a sex offender charged with human trafficking girls as young as 14.
President Donald Trump announced Acosta's resignation Friday morning with Acosta at his side. Trump said the secretary called him Friday morning to say that the decision to resign was his.
“I
USA TODAYApr 20 2020
Opinion
The Moral and Strategic Calculus of Voting for Joe Biden to Defeat Trump — or Not
DONALD TRUMP ran for president in 2016 on an often ad-libbed and reactionary campaign of hate, greed, xenophobia, misogyny, and racism. He clearly viewed the fact that a black man had ascended to the presidency as an abomination and rightly assessed that there were a lot of racists in this country who saw the eight years the Obamas spent living in the White House as a crime against the real,
The Intercept