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Sep 10 2019
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US extracted high-level spy from inside Russia in 2017, reports say
The US extracted a high-level spy from inside Russia in 2017, reports say.
Citing "multiple Trump administration officials with direct knowledge" of the operation, CNN reported that US intelligence feared the source's cover could be blown by US officials.
The decision was made soon after a meeting in which President Trump unexpectedly shared classified US intelligence with
BBC NewsSep 13 2015
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Gloomy Republican Campaigns Leave Behind Reagan Cheer
To listen to the way some Republicans tell it, America is a pretty awful place these days.
“A hell hole,” as Donald J. Trump has put it. Our leaders are “babies” who are “so stupid” they can only watch helplessly as we become “a third-world country.”
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas sees evil menacing America not just from within, like the “tyranny” and “lawlessness” of jailing a county
New York Times (News)Apr 08 2019
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Sorry is the easiest word – but should Democrats stop their apology tour?
As Republicans prepare to feast on a ‘woke primary’, some liberals insist real voters care more about simply beating Trump
For Joe Biden, it was his discomfiting touching of women. For Pete Buttigieg, his use of the phrase “all lives matter”. For Tulsi Gabbard, her comments about homosexuality. For Kirsten Gillibrand, her positions on immigration. For Kamala Harris, her record on
The GuardianJul 03 2012
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Mitt Romney’s tax trap
The path Mitt Romney needs to walk on health care got a little bit narrower Monday, when one of the Republicans top advisers declared in a TV interview the presumptive GOP nominee agrees with the Obama administration that the individual mandate to buy health insurance is a penalty, not a tax.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/78077.html#ixzz1zZCx8Bju
PoliticoJul 03 2012
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Holder: Contempt Vote Not About "Documents"
In an interview with the Washington Post, Attorney General Eric Holder said the House vote last week to hold him in criminal and civil contempt was hardly about documents, but about Republicans not liking his boss President Obama and the decisions his Justice Department has made when it comes to certain issues like DOMA, terrorism and voting rights. Holder is the only sitting attorney general
TownhallJul 02 2012
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Fehrnstrom bucks Republican line on 'Obamacare' as 'tax'
In the wake of last week's Supreme Court decision on President Barack Obama's health care law, a senior adviser to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign parted with Republican talking points Monday, arguing the mandate that most individuals obtain health coverage or pay a government fine is "not a tax."
The high court on Thursday found the individual unconstitutional under Congress'
CNN DigitalNov 16 2013
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Shorter White House: We’re so close to a deal with Iran, we can taste it
It was reportedly the French delegation that finally put a stop to the would-be sanctions/nuclear-drawdown deal between Iran and the world’s major power players in Geneva last week, convinced that they were all about to fall prey to a “con job” that would have let Iran off of the hook way too easily — much to the irritation of the Obama administration and the anger of the Iranians. Ahead of
HotAirJun 28 2012
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Supreme Court upholds Obama’s health-care law
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Thursday joined the liberal wing of the Supreme Court to save the heart of President Obamas landmark health-care law, agreeing that the requirement for nearly all Americans to secure health insurance is permissible under Congresss taxing authority.
Even as it upheld that central component of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, however,
Washington PostNov 07 2013
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U.S.-Iran Thaw Grew From Years Of Behind-the-Scenes Talks
The White House heralded President Barack Obama's phone call with Iranian counterpart Hasan Rouhani earlier this fall as a foreign-policy milestone born of a rush of last-minute diplomacy. But the historic conversation was more intricately choreographed than previously disclosed.
Top National Security Council officials began planting the seeds for such an exchange months earlier—holding
Wall Street Journal (News)Nov 15 2014
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Given How Americans Feel About Congress, It's Shocking Anyone Got Elected At All
Only 9 percent of Americans approved of Congress in the weeks leading up to the midterm elections, which may explain why the election drew the lowest turnout since 1942.
That's just one revealing insight from the latest Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor poll, which surveyed a national sample of Americans between Oct. 22-26 about their attitudes towards President Barack Obama
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