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Nov 10 2020
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DOJ's Election Crimes Chief Steps Down
Richard Pilger, director of the Election Crimes branch of the Department of Justice, has resigned from his post.
The move came after Attorney General Bill Barr issued a memo to federal prosecutors authorizing them to probe “specific allegations” of voter fraud ahead of the results of the presidential race being certified, according to NBC News.
“Having familiarized myself with
Newsmax (News)Oct 01 2020
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Can American democracy survive a contested election?
Over the summer, a group called the Transition Integrity Project, made up of election experts from across the political spectrum, ran a series of hypothetical scenarios for how the presidential election might play out. The results were worrying. With so many potential disrupting factors in this year’s race, nearly all the outcomes they simulated resulted in “a chaotic legal and political
Yahoo! The 360Nov 19 2019
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Buttigieg surges to 10-point lead in New Hampshire: poll
Democratic White House hopeful Pete Buttigieg surged to a 10-point lead in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary, according to a new Saint Anselm College poll released Tuesday.
Buttigieg gets the support of 25 percent of self-identified likely Democratic primary voters, marking the first time the South Bend, Ind., mayor has emerged atop a poll in the Granite State.
The HillApr 08 2020
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Trump urges Sanders supporters to join GOP after senator suspends campaign
President Trump on Wednesday urged Sen. Bernie Sanders's supporters to join the Republican Party after the independent Vermont senator announced he was suspending his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Trump also thanked Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), reiterating his belief that she may have taken away enough votes from Sanders on Super Tuesday last month to cost him
The HillDec 09 2013
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Debate On Wage And Wealth Gap Heats Up; Solutions Elusive
The national debate about income equality and low-wage labor ramped up this week as fast-food workers across the country rallied for better pay and President Obama assailed the nation's growing income gap as the "defining challenge of our time."
Meanwhile, an $11.50 minimum wage bill was approved in the nation's capital, and giant discount retailer Wal-Mart opened its first Washington
NPR (Online News)Jan 12 2021
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The military has a hate group problem. But it doesn't know how bad it's gotten.
The rise of extremism in the ranks is seen as a "crisis issue" but the military's efforts to weed out radicals are "haphazard" at best.
The Pentagon is confronting a resurgence of white supremacy and other right-wing ideologies in the ranks and is scrambling to track how acute the problem has become in the Trump era.
It's an issue that has simmered in the military for years, but
PoliticoJan 12 2021
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Trump administration to expand Covid vaccination guidelines to everyone 65 and older
The Trump administration will issue new guidelines Tuesday that expand coronavirus vaccine eligibility to everyone 65-years-old and above, a senior administration official told CNBC.
The states’ focus on vaccinating health-care workers and nursing homes has created a bottleneck, the official said. “The states are being told immediately they need to expand to 65-plus as well as those
CNBCAug 25 2020
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The Jacob Blake Shooting & Civil Unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin
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On Sunday, police officers in Kenosha, Wisconsin shot Jacob Blake, an unarmed black man, 7 times in the back. Blake was attempting to enter his car, which held his three young children, after walking away from a Abridge NewsJul 17 2020
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Democrats—and Some Republicans—See Signs of Political Realignment in the South
Rapid population growth in liberal-leaning cities, diversifying suburbs and increasing support for protests against racial injustice across several Southern states have Democrats hopeful that they can improve on their 2016 performance in the region.
Republicans have dominated in most of the South in recent presidential elections. North Carolina was expected to be a 2020 battleground,
Wall Street Journal (News)Jan 11 2021
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Democrats, GOP face defining moments after Capitol riot
Both political parties are trying to figure out how to move forward following the cataclysmic events of Jan. 6, when a mob fueled by conspiracies and riled up by a president in his final days in office ransacked the Capitol.
House Democrats are set this week to move to impeach President Trump — short of an unlikely eleventh-hour move by Vice President Pence — but there is some division
The Hill