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May 10 2017
News
Schumer Calls Comey Firing ‘Big Mistake,’ Wants Special Prosecutor
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters Tuesday that when President Donald Trump informed him that Jamey Comey would be dismissed as FBI director, Schumer replied it was a “big mistake” to do so and called on the Justice Department to appoint a special prosecutor.
The Daily Caller
Mar 25 2020
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Domestic Abuse Victims Need More Help As Coronavirus Spreads, Senators Say
As millions of Americans are forced to shelter in place amid the coronavirus crisis, some of the most vulnerable are those confined to isolation with their abusers. On Monday, two dozen senators urged the Trump administration to make sure domestic violence victims aren’t forgotten as the government addresses the pandemic.
Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska),
HuffPost
Feb 27 2020
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DeVos, Democrats spar over block grants, charter schools
Democrats on a House appropriations panel took aim Thursday at the Trump administration's fiscal 2021 Education Department budget plan, warning Secretary Betsy DeVos that many of its proposals won't become law.
The Feb. 10 budget proposal, which would request $66.6 billion — a 7.8 percent cut from fiscal 2020 appropriated levels — garnered universal disapproval from Democrats and some
Roll Call
May 11 2020
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White House adopts new safety precautions as coronavirus moves closer to Trump's inner circle
With coronavirus exposure arriving in the West Wing, the White House is taking extra precautions to ensure the safety of the president and his staff after two administration aides tested positive for the coronavirus.
President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence will be tested daily for the virus, as will every staff member in close proximity to them. White House guests will be
USA TODAY
Sep 27 2023
Headline Roundup
Will the FTC’s Amazon Lawsuit Protect or Harm Consumers?
The Federal Trade Commission and 17 states sued Amazon for allegedly “illegally maintaining monopoly power.”
The Details: An FTC statement says the regulator targeted Amazon “not because it is big, but because it engages in a course of exclusionary conduct that prevents current competitors from growing and new competitors from emerging.” Amazon’s anticompetitive tactics allegedly
Ars Technica
New York Post (Opinion)
Bloomberg
May 18 2019
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Trump Administration Flying Migrants Out of Texas to Ease Overcrowding at Border
Hundreds of migrants are being flown from South Texas to holding cells in California by the Department of Homeland Security, in a move that officials said on Friday could be expanded by sending asylum seekers to processing centers throughout the United States, including the border with Canada. Customs and Border Protection officials said they began flying migrant families from overcrowded
New York Times (News)
Feb 26 2020
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Clearview AI, the controversial facial-recognition company partnering with police, says its entire customer list was stolen in a breach
The full client list of Clearview AI, the embattled facial-recognition company, was stolen by someone with "unauthorized access," The Daily Beast first reported.
The company has drawn backlash from privacy advocates and major social-media platforms over its facial-recognition tool, which lets police use a photo of a person to search a database of images from social media and identify
Business Insider
Apr 15 2019
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Mueller report’s release is expected Thursday, Justice Dept. says
The Justice Department expects to release on Thursday a redacted version of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report on President Trump, his associates and Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, setting the stage for further battles in Congress over the politically explosive inquiry.
Kerri Kupec, a spokeswoman for the department, said Monday that officials plan to issue the
Washington Post
Jun 19 2020
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Ex-national security adviser John Bolton responds to Trump's tweets about his memoir
John Bolton fired back at Donald Trump on Thursday after the president unleashed a firestorm of critical tweets about his former national security adviser and his new book, "The Room Where it Happened."
"I think it's unbecoming of the Office of President," Bolton said Thursday. "I think it degrades the political civil discourse in our country and [I'm] just not going to respond to him
ABC News (Online)
May 17 2019
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Second federal appeals court rules against Trump administration over DACA rollback
A second federal appeals court on Friday ruled against the Trump administration in its attempt to roll back the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and said its decision to do so was unlawful.
A divided three-judge panel on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in its ruling that the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to rescind the DACA program
Washington Examiner