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Aug 12 2023
Headline Roundup
Senator Joe Manchin ‘Seriously’ Considering Becoming Independent
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin said he is ‘thinking seriously’ of leaving the Democratic Party to become an independent.
The Details: The moderate Democrat, who is yet to decide whether he will run for reelection next year or make a play for the White House, discussed the possibility on a West Virginia radio show Thursday.
For Context: Manchin has previously toed the line of
CNN Digital The Hill Fox News DigitalApr 29 2024
Headline Roundup
Trump Calls RFK Jr. ‘Democrat Plant,’ Kennedy Challenges Trump to Debate
As some recent polls show independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could hurt former President Trump more than President Biden, Trump has stepped up attacks on Kennedy.
The Details: In a post on Truth Social, Trump called Kennedy a “Democrat ‘Plant’,” “Radical Left Liberal,” and “WASTED PROTEST VOTE.” Kennedy hit back at Trump, saying he sounded “unhinged” and
Politico Forbes Fox News DigitalMay 20 2019
News
Elizabeth Warren’s corporate advocacy past could ding image as working-class champion
As Sen. Elizabeth Warren climbs in Democratic presidential polls, touting an image as the champion of the working class against powerful corporations, it's only a matter of time before she faces renewed questions about her history advocating on behalf of the kinds of corporations she now vilifies.
That work predated her time in the Senate. She helped LTV Steel in its effort to dodge
Fox News DigitalApr 11 2024
Headline Roundup
Some Republicans Split Over Revived 1864 Arizona Abortion Law
Arizona's Supreme Court revived an 1864 law this week banning most abortions with few exceptions. Some Republicans support it, but others don't.
In Support: "In my opinion, removing healthy babies from healthy mothers is not health care nor reproductive care," said state Republican Rep. Teresa Martinez. "Pregnancy is not an illness. It should be celebrated. It is an abortion that
AZ Central Washington Examiner Associated PressNov 19 2012
News
McCain vs. Obama, the sequel
Barack Obama has said nothing directly about whom hell appoint to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, but he sent what the political world is regarding as a clear signal when he emphatically vouched for Susan Rices integrity last week.
If Obama does nominate Rice, the current U.N. ambassador and his longtime friend, it will create a very public showdown between the president
SalonAug 06 2019
Opinion
After El Paso and Dayton, Three Ways to Think About Mass Shootings
“The worst is not,” Edgar says in “King Lear,” amid much—an old man’s madness, a father’s brutal blinding—that would seem about as bad as life can get, “So long as we can say ‘This is the worst.’ ” The true worst, his point is, will be so annihilating that we will not even have language left to reference it. But, if finding words for the worst is not within our power, finding them for what’s
Guest Writer - LeftMar 31 2015
News
House Panel Seeks Private Talk With Hillary Clinton About Email
The chairman of the House select committee investigating the Benghazi attacks asked Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday to appear for a private interview about her exclusive use of a personal email account when she was secretary of state.
Mrs. Clinton’s “email arrangement with herself is highly unusual, if not unprecedented,” the committee’s chairman, Representative Trey Gowdy, Republican
New York Times (News)Mar 31 2015
News
Iran "Deal-or-No- Deal": Talks to Continue Through June
Negotiations toward a nuclear deal between Iran and the P+5 nations (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany) will continue through June, according to reports from Lausanne, Switzerland on Tuesday. The announcement was made to satisfy the self-imposed deadline of March 31 for a provisional agreement, with “technical” details to be agreed by July 1. However, major
Breitbart NewsMay 13 2024
Headline Roundup
Trump's Former 'Fixer' Michael Cohen Testifies in Hush Money Trial
Michael Cohen, former President Donald Trump’s former “fixer,” testified in Trump’s hush money trial in New York City on Monday.
Details: Cohen testified that he secretly recorded Trump in 2016 discussing a plan to pay the editor of the National Enquirer to purchase the rights to Playboy model Karen McDougal’s story about having an affair with Trump with the intention of burying the
The Hill Associated Press New York Post (News)Aug 06 2014
News
AP Poll: Just 28 Say US Heading in Right Direction Under Obama
Congress has checked out, and the American people have noticed.
Three-quarters of Americans doubt the federal government will address the important problems facing the country this year, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.
All told, only 28 percent of Americans think the nation is heading in the right direction, the lowest level in August of an election year since 2008
Newsmax (News)