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Dec 09 2014
News
Justice Department broadens ban on racial profiling
The Justice Department on Monday issued new guidelines to federal law enforcement officers that will regulate their use of racial profiling in investigations, an update to a policy first put in place in 2003 by then-Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft.
The policy is intended to eliminate discrimination without hindering federal inquiries and law enforcement. The old guidelines banned profiling
Los Angeles TimesSep 13 2019
Opinion
Doug Schoen: At third Dem debate, one big winner and two surprise losers
In the most contentious Democratic debate thus far, a winnowed field of 10 Democratic candidates took the stage in Houston Thursday night and sparred over hot-button issues such as health care and immigration.
Notably, this was the first time that frontrunners Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former Vice President Joe Biden shared the debate stage. At the end of the night, Joe Biden emerged as
Guest Writer - RightSep 12 2019
News
What Trump’s horrific polling actually tells us — and what it doesn’t — about 2020
The polls du jour show President Donald Trump trailing basically every Democrat in the 2020 general election, both nationally and in individual states — even in Texas.
Democratic voters might rejoice at these signs that Trump will be a one-term president. But they should temper themselves: Hillary Clinton was regularly leading Trump by 10 points or more a year ahead of the 2016 election
VoxDec 04 2014
News
Obama Speaks on Racially-Charged Police Killing: ‘This Is an American Problem’
President Barack Obama said the decision by a New York grand jury not to indict the police officer who ultimately killed Eric Garner “speaks to a larger issue” in America.
Some responded with outrage after a grand jury opted against the indictment on Wednesday. The police officer put a chokehold on Garner during the arrest and it ended up killing him.
“It is incumbent upon all of
The BlazeJul 18 2012
News
Romney tries to dislodge Obama from attack
New ads from the presidential campaigns encapsulate where the race stands, with President Barack Obama's camp continuing its assault on his challenger over his business record and refusal to share tax records and Mitt Romney trying to make allegations of cronyism knock the incumbent off the assault. A new Romney TV commercial advances the campaign's latest attack strategy, accusing Obama's
CNN DigitalApr 16 2019
News
Bernie Sanders boosted by Fox News town hall broadcast – live
The 2020 presidential candidate showed his brand of democratic socialism could have traction in Trump country
Here’s video of Sanders getting booed out of the auditorium unexpectedly cheered at every turn by they Fox News town hall audience.
How do you think a Sanders-Trump presidential debate would play out? Getting ahead of ourselves, you say? Maybe so. What other candidate on
The GuardianFeb 07 2020
News
Good week/bad week: the winners and losers in US politics
It has been a rollercoaster week for Republicans and Democrats, from the caucus chaos in Iowa to Trump’s acquittal and victory lap.
It has been a rollercoaster week in US politics, starting with the voting debacle in Iowa and carrying on through Donald Trump’s divisive State of the Union address, his acquittal in the Senate impeachment trial and his extraordinary victory lap in a
The GuardianApr 09 2020
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: Bernie Sanders Ends Presidential Campaign, Endorses Biden
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Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) dropped
Henry A. BrechterDec 30 2015
News
The Worst Political Predictions of 2015
Forecasting political trends is almost an American pastime. So is getting those forecasts woefully wrong. Politico Magazine has published an annual worst political predictions list twice before, but we’ve never had quite the fodder that we did this year. In the 2016 presidential race, one presumed front-runner after another fell to the bottom of the polls; a reality TV star is currently as
PoliticoNov 16 2014
News
The GOP's numbers problem
It was great news for the Republicans but yet another black mark for Republican pollsters. Mike Shields, the Republican National Committee’s chief of staff, sat with his data and modeling team at the committee’s Capitol Hill headquarters a week before Election Day to go over the Senate numbers: It was increasingly clear that the GOP was in for a big night, and possibly a very big night. For
Politico