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Nov 01 2019
News
Elizabeth Warren’s plan to pay for Medicare for All, explained
Warren claims she can do it without raising middle-class taxes.
On Friday, Elizabeth Warren released her Medicare for All financing plan. After being attacked at the last Democratic debate for refusing to admit Medicare for All would require middle-class tax hikes, Warren wants to show that you can pay for the plan without them.
And you can. Maybe.
Warren’s financing plan
Vox
Nov 26 2019
News
Navy Secretary Richard Spencer Fired
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On Sunday, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper asked for the resignation of Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer, a Trump appointee.According to a Pentagon spokesperson, Esper made the decision "after losing trust Abridge News
Nov 17 2014
News
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon Declares State of Emergency
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon issued an executive order declaring a state of emergency in his state on Monday. The order was posted as St. Louis residents wait anxiously on the decision of the county's grand jury as to whether or not Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson should be brought up on any charges for the shooting death of Ferguson resident Mike Brown. The August 9 incident between
Breitbart News
Jan 31 2020
News
Alan Dershowitz's Impeachment Arguments
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On Wednesday, Attorney Alan Dershowitz, a member of President Trump's legal defense team, offered a controversial argument during Senate impeachment proceedings. In response to a question about whether it Abridge News
Feb 16 2015
News
John Boehner says Democrats to blame if Homeland Security shuts down over amnesty
House Speaker John A. Boehner said Sunday that he is prepared to let the Department of Homeland Security shut down in less than two weeks and that Democrats would be to blame.
Washington Times
Sep 11 2019
Opinion
John Bolton’s legacy: Chaos, dysfunction and no meaningful accomplishments
THE DEPARTURE of John Bolton as national security adviser on Tuesday — President Trump said he fired him, and Mr. Bolton maintained that he quit — was logical and overdue. A rigid ideologue, Mr. Bolton has a long record of championing military action against U.S. adversaries, which Mr. Trump resists, and opposing negotiation with the likes of North Korea and Iran, which is the president’s
Guest Writer - Left
Jan 15 2014
News
Senate report: Attacks on U.S. compounds in Benghazi could have been prevente
A long-delayed Senate Intelligence Committee report released Wednesday faulted both the State Department and the intelligence community for not preventing attacks on two outposts in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador, in 2012.
The bipartisan report laid out more than a dozen findings regarding the assaults on a diplomatic compound and a CIA annex
Washington Post
Aug 09 2016
News
Justice Dept. lawyers ordered to take ethics classes after misleading judge in amnesty case
The Justice Department will order all of its civil division lawyers to take an hourlong remedial ethics class, hoping to head off even worse punishment from a federal judge who is furious about the way Obama administration attorneys misled him in the case involving the president’s deportation amnesty.
Washington Times
Mar 20 2020
News
'I love this city to my bones': How Mayor Jenny Durkan leads Seattle
Washington was the first state hit with the new coronavirus, meaning its leaders had no U.S. peers to look to for guidance. At the epicenter, near Seattle, Mayor Jenny Durkan has relied on science, teamwork – and speed.
It was Monday, March 2, when Mayor Jenny Durkan took the call at her Seattle home. On the line was Harvard-trained epidemiologist Trevor Bedford, who had caught the
Christian Science Monitor
Aug 07 2020
Opinion
The Workforce Is About to Change Dramatically
In March, tens of millions of American workers—mostly in white-collar industries such as tech, finance, and media—were thrust into a sudden, chaotic experiment in working from home. Four months later, the experiment isn’t close to ending. For many, the test run is looking more like the long run.
Google announced in July that its roughly 200,000 employees will continue to work from home
The Atlantic