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May 20 2015
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Boehner: By the Way, the VA Is as Terrible as Ever
Last month, we learned that basically no one has been fired from the Department of Veterans Affairs over the course of the past year. As a result, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) took to the podium on Wednesday to vent his frustrations, and castigate a bloated federal agency for their continued fecklessness and failures.
“Next week marks the one-year anniversary since General Eric
TownhallMay 30 2016
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Sanders: Americans, superdelegates must 'take a hard look' at IG report on Clinton emails
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders said Sunday that American voters, superdelegates and others must “take a hard look” at the recent federal report that found primary rival Hillary Clinton’s email setup while running the State Department broke agency rules.
Fox News DigitalFeb 24 2020
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Liberal Ninth Circuit Upholds Trump Admin's Rules on Abortion Funding
The liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday ruled the Trump administration's decision to withhold Title X funding from medical facilities that provide abortion is constitutional. Their decision overturned preliminary injunctions issued by lower courts in three different states, Fox News reported.
The Title X rule was first enacted in 1970, which prohibited taxpayer-funded
TownhallOct 18 2016
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Documents show State Dept. official pressed FBI to change classification of one of Clinton’s emails
A top State Department official tried to pressure the FBI to change its determination that at least one of the emails on Hillary Clinton’s private server contained classified content, prompting discussion of a possible trade to resolve the issue, two FBI employees told colleagues investigating Clinton’s use of a private server last year.
Washington PostFeb 24 2020
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Not in my backyard: Alabama balks at plan to house coronavirus patients as global death toll tops 2,600
A federal plan to house cruise ship passengers who tested positive for the coronavirus at a facility in Alabama was met with a resounding no thanks by state officials who may have forced authorities to shelve the idea.
Globally, the death toll from the virus topped 2,600 on Sunday night, with more than 79,000 confirmed cases. The U.S. has 35 confirmed cases.
The plan called for
USA TODAYNov 14 2019
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7 Moments That Stood Out From The 1st Day Of The Trump Impeachment Hearings
Two witnesses seen as crucial to the case against President Trump in the impeachment inquiry testified Wednesday.
Much of what was said by acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor and George Kent, the State Department's top official on Ukraine policy, was previously known from their lengthy depositions released last week.
But there were some new things — and several
NPR (Online News)Oct 24 2015
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Benghazi panel reconsiders scope of email probe
Amid growing Democratic accusations of overreaching, especially on the matter of Hillary Clinton’s emails, Republicans on the House Benghazi Committee are now reconsidering how aggressively to pursue the email scandal that’s been dogging the Democratic front-runner. The committee is also undecided about whether to call ex-Clinton campaign staffer Heather Samuelson, who helped screen Clinton’s
PoliticoSep 09 2019
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Funding the Border Wall with Military Project Cuts?
This Abridge News topic aggregates four unique arguments on different sides of the debate. Here are the quick facts to get you started:
THE QUICK FACTS
Back in February, President Trump declared a national emergency on immigration, identifying up to $8.1 billion in other government accounts for potential wall construction. This included $3.6 billion from military construction Abridge NewsApr 19 2019
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Mueller Report Details Trump’s Attempts to Influence Probe
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report details ten “incidents” in which President Trump sought to curtail or otherwise affect the direction of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Mueller’s report outlines the president’s attempts to intervene in the special-counsel probe to bring it to a premature conclusion or to affect the public perception of it by
National Review (News)Apr 19 2019
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Mueller paints damning portrait of dysfunctional Trump White House
Behind the special counsel's legal inquiry is a tale of a chaotic presidency.
Forget collusion with Russia and obstruction of justice. The most concrete takeaway from the 448-page Mueller report is its damning portrait of the Trump White House as a place of chaos, intrigue and deception, where aides routinely disregard the wishes of a president with little regard for the traditional
Politico