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Mar 12 2019
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Medicare-for-all v. Medicare-for-less: Trump’s proposed cuts put health care at center of 2020 race
A new proposal by President Trump to slash Medicare spending puts Republicans in a political bind ahead of the 2020 election as Democrats are pitching an expansion of the popular health-care program for all Americans.
Trump’s 10-year budget unveiled Monday calls for more than $845 billion in reductions for Medicare, aiming to cut “waste, fraud and abuse” in the federal program that
Washington PostOct 20 2014
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POLITICO poll: Alarm, anxiety as election looms
An overwhelming majority of voters in the most competitive 2014 elections say it feels as if events in the United States are “out of control” and expressed mounting alarm about terrorism, anxiety about Ebola and harsh skepticism of both political parties only three weeks before the Nov. 4 midterms. In a POLITICO poll testing the hardest-fought states and congressional districts of the year,
PoliticoMar 16 2015
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Sen. Graham: 'War Within the Republican Party' Over Defense Budget
While drafting a budget blueprint this week, Republican defense hawks will square off against the party's hard-line spending hawks, with both factions determined to see the blueprint reflect their priorities, The New York Times reports.
"This is a war within the Republican Party," South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a long-time champion of the military who has promised to fight for
Newsmax (News)Jul 01 2020
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New Reports of Russian Bounties on U.S. & Allied Forces
This Abridge News topic aggregates four unique arguments on different sides of the debate. Here are the quick facts to get you started:
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On Friday, The New York Times reported that American intelligence officials had concluded that Russian intelligence agency G.R.U. was offering bounties to Taliban fighters for killing U.S. and allied forces while Abridge NewsJul 23 2015
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FBI Chief: ISIS Bigger Threat than al-Qaida
The Islamic State group's effort to inspire troubled Americans to violence has become more of a terror threat to the U.S. than an external attack by al-Qaida, the FBI director said Wednesday.
FBI Director James Comey told an audience at the Aspen Security Forum that the Islamic State group, which has proclaimed a caliphate in parts of Syria and Iraq, has influenced a significant but
Newsmax (News)Mar 11 2013
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Obama 'Openness' Pledge Falls Flat
The U.S. government led by the Pentagon and CIA censored or withheld for reasons of national security the files that the public requested last year under the Freedom of Information Act more often than at any time since President Barack Obama took office according to a new analysis by The Associated Press. Overall the Obama administration last year answered its highest number of requests so far
HuffPostNov 16 2015
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In Presidential Campaign, It’s Now Terrorism, Not Taxes
Bernie Sanders dispensed with the threat from the Islamic State in two sentences at the start of the Democratic debate before abruptly pivoting to the dangers of a “rigged economy.” Ben Carson struggled to answer a simple question on Sunday about how he would form a coalition to fight the militant group. And Marco Rubio, after pushing out a new video about the “clash of civilizations,”
New York Times (News)May 24 2019
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Trump gives AG Barr authority to declassify documents related to 2016 campaign surveillance
President Trump on Thursday night issued a memo giving Attorney General William Barr the authority to declassify any documents related to surveillance of the Trump campaign in 2016.
Trump also ordered the intelligence community to cooperate with Barr. The memo read: "The heads of elements of the intelligence community... and the heads of each department or agency that includes an
Nov 14 2015
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New York, Washington DC, Boston, St. Louis on High Alert After Paris Attacks
From the Daily Mail:
New York, Boston and other cities in the United States bolstered security on Friday night after deadly gun and bomb attacks on civilians in Paris, but law enforcement officials said the beefed-up police presence was precautionary rather than a response to any specific threats.
The New York Police Department said officers from its Counterterrorism Response
Breitbart NewsMar 08 2015
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Three Likely GOP White House Hopefuls Back Legal Status for Illegal Immigrants
Three possible Republican presidential candidates called for legal protections for undocumented workers Saturday, contrasting themselves from the rest of the field.
In remarks at the Iowa Ag Summit, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, former New York Gov. George Pataki and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham also said they support stricter border security, a position in line with the
Wall Street Journal (News)