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Sep 03 2019
News
Pence stays at Trump's Doonbeg resort hours away from official meetings
When Vice President Mike Pence woke up Tuesday in the west of Ireland, he had a long commute ahead of him: the span of the entire island to Dublin, where he was meeting with government officials.
The reason for the journey: Pence was staying at the golf property owned by his boss, President Donald Trump, in Doonbeg. That's 181 miles — or an hour's drive plus a 40-minute flight — away
CNN (Online News)Feb 23 2014
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Obama to Propose Shift in Wildfire Funding
President Obama’s annual budget request to Congress will propose a significant change in how the government pays to fight wildfires, administration officials said, a move that they say reflects the ways in which climate change is increasing the risk for and cost of those fires.
The wildfire funding shift is one in a series of recent White House actions related to climate change as Mr.
New York Times (News)Sep 10 2021
Perspectives Blog
When Biden Rolls the COVID Dice
From the CenterThis view is from an author rated as Center.
It hasn’t been a good month for Joe Biden.
Voters overwhelmingly disapprove of the way his administration conducted its withdrawal from Afghanistan. There are wildfires in the west, hurricanes in the east and the growing potential for congressional gridlock in Washington. The economy seems to be stagnating and
Dan SchnurApr 08 2019
News
Who is Kevin McAleenan, Trump's acting Homeland Security chief after Kirstjen Nielsen leaves?
President Donald Trump's pick to head the Department of Homeland Security didn't take the traditional route to his position, but Kevin McAleenan has carried out every aspect of the president's hard-line immigration strategy in an attempt to seal the southern border.
With Sunday's resignation of Kirstjen Nielsen, the former business and corporate lawyer steps into a perilous position
USA TODAYOct 08 2012
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Cities and Neighborhoods
Our research on cities and communities cuts across several Urban Institute specialties—housing trends, crime prevention, economic development, arts and culture, and more.
Our urban studies define much of our history, from evaluations of community development corporations in poor neighborhoods to road-tested ideas for rebuilding New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, to more recent
Urban InstituteFeb 17 2022
Perspectives Blog
Presidential Odd Couples: Bill + George(s)
“This is the way our country ought to work.” Note: This piece was originally created by The Village Square and published on respectandrebellion.com
The Unlikely Friendship Between Presidents Bill Clinton and the George Bush(es)If you were to come up with two names most demonized in politics today, you’d be hard pressed to find any with more historic animosity than “Bush” or “
Respect + RebellionDec 20 2019
News
'Biased state of mind': Peter Strzok's fight to spy on Trump campaign
The Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and its possible links to Christopher Steele were discussed inside the FBI’s top echelons before it obtained court authority to wiretap a Trump associate based largely on Mr. Steele’s Democratic Party opposition research, according to the Justice Department’s inspector general report.
The report chronicles a tense standoff during which FBI agent
Washington TimesSep 11 2019
News
John Bolton Out
“President Donald Trump on Tuesday abruptly forced out John Bolton, his hawkish national security adviser with whom he had strong disagreements on Iran, Afghanistan and a cascade of other global challenges.” (AP News)
The left is cheering Bolton’s departure, but worried about Trump’s chaotic impulses.
“A rigid ideologue, Mr. Bolton has a long record of championing military action
The Flip SideAug 09 2021
Headline Roundup
UN Issues Report on Human-Caused Climate Change
On Monday, the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a report on the dangers of human-caused climate change, saying the Earth will cross a critical temperature threshold as early as 2030. The report, prepared by hundreds of scientists, says climate change is intensifying worldwide due to human influence that "has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land"; it also calls
NBC News (Online) Axios Washington ExaminerDec 16 2021
Perspectives Blog
Facts vs Myths: Was the 2020 Election Stolen?
The claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump has underscored most political discourse in the U.S. for over a year. There is no evidence that voter fraud led to Trump’s defeat. But some on the right and elsewhere hold a broader definition of “stolen” in this case.
What Left-Rated Media Does Frame claims of stolen election as baseless Henry A. Brechter