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May 28 2012
News
TRENDING: Romney: The world is 'not safe'
Speaking to an enthusiastic audience of several thousand on Memorial Day, Mitt Romney cast the presidential campaign as a choice between a candidate who supports a strong military and one who would shrink the defense budget and weaken the nation's armed forces. The presumptive GOP nominee underlined the urgency of his message by warning supporters the world was "not safe."
CNN DigitalAug 22 2019
Opinion
Mitch McConnell: The Filibuster Plays a Crucial Role in Our Constitutional Order
Democrats who want to change Senate rules for temporary political gain will rue the day, as they have before.
“You’ll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think.”
That was my warning to Senate Democrats in November 2013. Their leader, Harry Reid, had just persuaded them to trample longstanding Senate rules and precedents. Now that some Democrats are
Mitch McConnellAug 22 2019
News
McConnell rejects Democrats' 'radical movement' to abolish filibuster
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is pushing back against the emerging push to abolish the filibuster, saying that Democrats should consider retooling their "half-baked proposals" if they're frustrated by long-standing Senate tradition.
"A Democratic assault on the legislative filibuster would make the nomination fights look like child’s play," McConnell wrote in a New
The HillApr 23 2015
News
Absentee ballot: Ted Cruz a no-show at most committee meetings, floor votes
On one side of the spectrum in the Senate there is Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who has not missed a vote since taking office in 1997. At the opposite end are Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio of Florida.
The two Republican presidential candidates' attendance records when it comes to Senate votes and attending hearings are some of lowest in the chamber, with Cruz being especially
Fox News LatinoJan 13 2020
News
Iran plane downing: Police deny shooting anti-government protesters
Police in the Iranian capital, Tehran, have denied using live ammunition against protesters outraged by the shooting down of a Ukrainian airliner.
Officers had been given orders to "show restraint", the chief of police said.
Videos posted online on Sunday recorded what appeared to be gunfire and showed an injured woman being carried away.
Protests erupted on Saturday,
BBC NewsJun 10 2020
News
Troops To Be Withdrawn From Germany
Last Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that “President Trump has directed the Pentagon to remove thousands of American troops from Germany by September… The removal order would reduce the U.S. troop presence in Germany by 9,500 from the 34,500 service members who are permanently assigned there. It would also cap at 25,000 the number of American troops in Germany at any one time.” (Wall
The Flip SideApr 24 2019
News
Democrats want to challenge Trump’s foreign policy in 2020. They’re still working out how.
The push for a progressive foreign policy, explained.
President Donald Trump is heading into the 2020 election with a pretty solid foreign policy success story to sell American voters — and Democrats are struggling (but working) to come up with a coherent message to counter it.
In just two years in office, Trump has achieved several big foreign policy wins: ISIS’s caliphate has
VoxJul 01 2020
Perspectives Blog
Media Bias Alert: Reporting Differs in Incident with St. Louis Couple, Protesters
Media bias occurred over the weekend after a viral video showed a St. Louis couple displaying guns in front of their house on Sunday and telling Black Lives Matter protesters to leave their private street. Protesters had entered a gate to march toward the mayor’s house to hold a demonstration demanding her resignation.
Coverage from media outlets AllSides rates as being on the right
Julie MastrineSep 17 2016
News
Donald Trump Suggests Hillary Clinton’s Bodyguards Should Stop Protecting Her
Donald Trump suggested at a rally Friday that Hillary Clinton’s bodyguards should stop protecting her because of her views on gun control.
“She’s very much against the Second Amendment,” Trump said in Miami. “She wants to destroy your Second Amendment. Guns, guns, guns, right? I think what we should do is, she goes around with armed bodyguards like you have never seen before. I think
HuffPostNov 22 2019
News
Ex-FBI lawyer reportedly under investigation for altering Russia probe document
A former FBI lawyer is being investigated for allegedly altering a document connected to the surveillance of Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, according to a report Thursday.
CNN reported the investigation, citing several sources briefed on the matter.
The FBI official was not identified nor is it clear exactly how the allegedly altered document influenced the investigation of
Washington Times