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Aug 15 2019
News
China Readies Response to Tariffs, Resists Hong Kong Advice
China called looming U.S. tariffs a violation of accords reached by Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, vowing retaliation as Beijing also pushed back on Trump’s effort to link the trade war with the turmoil in Hong Kong.
The plans for 10% tariffs on an additional $300 billion in Chinese imports have taken the U.S. and China off the track of resolving their dispute through
BloombergNov 13 2019
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Liberal super PAC sues Michigan over voting restrictions
A liberal super PAC that plans to spend millions in Michigan in 2020 has filed a lawsuit in federal court against Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel, arguing certain laws that restrict voter services are illegal and asking the court to stop Nessel from enforcing them.
The group, Priorities USA, argues in the suit that two Michigan laws — one prohibiting people from hiring vehicles
Bridgemi.comApr 10 2019
News
Justice Department to Examine Origins of Probe Into Trump Campaign’s Possible Ties to Russia
Issue has been a grievance among GOP lawmakers, who allege law-enforcement officials and prosecutors abused their authority
Attorney General William Barr will ask a team inside the Justice Department to examine the origins of the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, he told Congress on Wednesday.
Wall Street Journal (News)Jul 31 2019
News
Is Trump the Reason the Fed Is Cutting Rates?
President Donald Trump's repeated calls for easier monetary policy may not be what's driving the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates on Wednesday.
But Trump's policies have set the table for it.
His aggressive tactics on trade, including 25% tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods that prompted retaliatory duties on U.S. exports, have made companies uncertain about the future
Newsmax (News)Jun 11 2018
News
All Politics Is National Because All Media Is National
State and local governments have a huge influence on citizens’ daily lives. They spend people’s tax dollars. They decide how schools operate and what constitutes a crime. And yet, few people seem to care these days. State and local elections aren’t drawing the interest from voters or the media that they did a few decades ago. National politics, on the other hand, is a bit like your smartphone
538 (ABC News)Jun 17 2019
Opinion
OPINION: Restoring Congress: The Parties Are a Solution
Politicians in safe districts can ignore the rest of the country. But in a strong party committed to a national agenda, leadership could rebuke the extremists. In my column last week on restoring Congress, I argued that before we call for the legislature to reclaim its old power, we first have to reform it.
How do we go about doing that?
In his thoughtful essay in the New York
Guest Writer - RightJan 28 2020
News
Can John Bolton's revelations convince Republicans, at long last, to call Trump's bluff?
One of the great mysteries of our time is why so many Republicans who are willing to bet their reputations on relentlessly defending Donald Trump, especially now.
It'd be one thing if he were in rarefied George W. Bush post-9/11 territory with an approval rating hovering in the upper 80s, or if he had delivered an electoral map like Ronald Reagan's 1984 steamrolling of Walter Mondale.
SalonFeb 04 2015
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FCC Chairman Proposes Utility-Like Regulation for Broadband Internet
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler on Wednesday unveiled a proposal that would subject mobile and fixed broadband providers to utility-like regulations on how they treat traffic over their networks.
The proposed rules would change broadband Internet access from a lightly regulated information service to a more strictly overseen telecommunications service. The FCC
Wall Street Journal (News)Aug 26 2013
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Under Obama, Little Progress on High-Level Jobs for Women
Behind the roiling conversation over whether President Obama might make Janet L. Yellen the first female leader of the Federal Reserve is an uncomfortable reality for the White House: the administration has named no more women to high-level executive branch posts than the Clinton administration did almost two decades ago.
New York Times (News)Dec 05 2015
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ISIS: California Killers Were 'Soldiers' of Caliphate
Islamic State said on Saturday that a married couple who killed 14 people in California in an attack the FBI is investigating as an "act of terrorism" were followers of the militant group — "soldiers" who were "killed in the path of Allah." The group's declaration, in an online radio broadcast comes three days after U.S.-born Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his spouse, Tashfeen Malik, 29, a native
Newsmax (News)