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Jun 23 2013
Opinion
Case Closed? Far From It
The FBI seems blasé about the IRS investigation, so it's crucial Congress make it a priority. Right now the IRS story looks stalled and confused. Congressional investigators are asking for documents—"The IRS is being a little slow," said a staffer—and interviewing workers. Pieces of testimony are being released and leaked, which has allowed one congressman, Democrat Elijah Cummings, to claim
Peggy NoonanMay 10 2015
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Barack Obama slams Elizabeth Warren on trade comments
President Barack Obama has stoked the rising tensions with Sen. Elizabeth Warren and the progressive Democratic base over contentious trade negotiations. In an interview with Yahoo! Politics published Saturday, Obama said that the Massachusetts senator’s arguments “don’t stand the test of fact and scrutiny,” and that “she is absolutely wrong,” on any trade deal’s potential to roll back the
PoliticoOct 28 2014
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Christie Calls Obama Administration’s Ebola Guidelines ‘Incredibly Confusing’
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie called the Obama administration’s new guidelines for isolating those exposed to Ebola “incredibly confusing,” and defended the state’s stricter policy requiring quarantines for health-care workers exposed to the virus.
“We aren’t moving an inch,” Mr. Christie said during an interview on the “Today” show Tuesday morning. “Our policy hasn’t changed and it
Wall Street Journal (News)Jan 14 2013
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Bloomberg wants to change the GOP
Michael Bloomberg, Americas most prominent and deep-pocketed advocate for gun control, would rather rehabilitate Republicans than oust them.
“Somebody got them the way they are now, the mayor of New York said in a recent interview as he sat in the bullpen offices of City Hall, surrounded by a buzzing staff, blinking Bloomberg terminals and clocks telling the same time in each of the
Washington PostApr 20 2019
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From 'total exoneration' to 'total bullsh**': Trump lingers on damning report
By the time President Donald Trump had passed through the prime rib buffet at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday to sit for dinner with family and a top aide, the damning picture Robert Mueller's report painted of his presidency had become clear. Instead of the "total exoneration" Trump had proclaimed earlier, the report portrayed the President as deceitful and paranoid, encouraging his aides to withhold
CNN DigitalOct 23 2014
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Obama makes pitch for Senate candidate Michelle Nunn in Georgia
In a rare pitch for an individual Senate candidate, President Obama told Georgia voters Thursday that Democrats will hold the Senate if Michelle Nunn wins her campaign against Republican David Perdue.
“If Michelle Nunn wins, that means that Democrats keep control of the Senate,” Mr. Obama said in an interview on radio station V-103, which is geared toward a black audience. “And that
Washington TimesApr 27 2020
Analysis
Bill Gates’s vision for life beyond the coronavirus
Bill Gates saw the coronavirus coming. Here’s his plan to beat it.
In 2015, I asked Bill Gates a simple question: What are you most afraid of?
He replied by telling me about the death chart of the 20th century. There’s the spike for World War I. The spike for World War II. But between them sat a spike as big as World War II. That, he said, was the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic,
Ezra KleinApr 19 2019
News
What the Mueller report on the Russia investigation says about Vice President Mike Pence
The long-awaited report from special counsel Robert Mueller provides new details from former national security adviser Michael Flynn about his lies to Vice President Mike Pence.
Flynn also lied to President Donald Trump about lying to Pence.
Confronted by the president on Air Force One about whether he falsely described to Pence his conversation with Russia's ambassador, Flynn
USA TODAYJun 15 2020
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What Defunding Police Departments Really Means For Black Communities
For Valerie Castile, the heart-wrenching video of George Floyd’s life being extinguished by a Minneapolis police officer, stirred painful emotions. Back in 2016, the Minnesota mother lost her son in what’s become a national crisis: police killing Black people across America.
“I’ve been crying for other people, and I cried for my own child,” said Castile in an exclusive interview with
BETFeb 27 2020
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What exactly is Tom Steyer planning to do?
Polls say the billionaire environmentalist is poised for a top-three finish in South Carolina. What that gets him is less clear.
As Democrats begin to lose patience with the size of their 2020 presidential primary field, one candidate could be poised to seize attention with an unexpected finish Saturday.
Tom Steyer, the California activist billionaire who has largely been a
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