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Apr 10 2019
News
Miller and Kushner on a potential collision course in Trump’s border crisis
In President Trump’s latest blowup over immigration, senior policy adviser Stephen Miller hovered omnipresent in the background — goading him in his threats to close the border, warning him of the dangers of looking weak and encouraging the president’s sudden purge of his homeland security team.
Another top adviser who has Trump’s ear on immigration, his son-in-law Jared Kushner,
Washington Post
Apr 09 2019
News
Kirstjen Nielsen Resigns
“Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigned on Sunday amid President Donald Trump’s growing frustration and bitterness over the number of Central American families crossing the southern border. Trump announced on Sunday in a tweet that U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan would be taking over as acting head of the department.” (AP News)
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The Flip Side
Aug 19 2014
News
Holder takes on Ferguson: AG ‘flooding the zone’ with investigators, heads to Missouri
Attorney General Eric Holder, one of President Obama’s longest-serving and most controversial deputies, is taking the lead in the federal government’s response to the roiling tensions in a St. Louis suburb over the police shooting of an unarmed man.
While the president, who is in Washington for two days of meetings, returns Tuesday evening to his family vacation in Martha’s Vineyard,
Fox News (Online News)
Apr 08 2019
News
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen Resigns
Trump names U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan as acting secretary
Kirstjen Nielsen resigned Sunday as homeland security secretary, adding another challenge for an administration grappling with its core immigration agenda while facing a surge of migrants at the southern border.
Ms. Nielsen met with President Trump and acting chief of staff Mick
Wall Street Journal (News)
Nov 22 2016
Headline Roundup
Trump Foundation Admits to Self Dealing
According to newly released IRS papers, the Trump Foundation violated a ban on "self-dealing" or using charitable funds personally for the family.
Washington Post
Politico
Fox News (Online News)
Aug 16 2014
News
62,000 New Yorkers Sign Petition to 'Stop Common Core' After Flat Results
On New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s official website, he touts the merits and needs of Common Core, an educational program detailing what students should know in regards to math and English by the end of the 12th grade:
“The Common Core standards are a critical part of transforming New York’s schools, and the failure to effectively implement them has led to confusion and frustration
Townhall
Aug 02 2019
News
Biden Inc.
Over his decades in office, ‘Middle-Class Joe’s’ family fortunes have closely tracked his political career.
The day the Bidens took over Paradigm Global Advisors was a memorable one.
In the late summer of 2006 Joe Biden’s son Hunter and Joe’s younger brother, James, purchased the firm. On their first day on the job, they showed up with Joe’s other son, Beau, and two large men and
Politico
May 19 2015
News
Republicans Very Troubled By Clinton Donors See No Conflict With Their Own Dark Money
For four months, the Republican Party and its many presidential hopefuls have laid into likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton over donations to a family foundation. That these attacks contradict the GOP's broader stand on campaign finance -- and call into question their own weighty burden of donor conflicts -- hasn't troubled them at all.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) called contributions
HuffPost
Dec 03 2019
Opinion
Ken Burns: The secret to bridging political divides
The late historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. liked to say that we suffer today from too much "pluribus" and not enough "unum," meaning that we focus on what differentiates us rather than what unites us. More recently, I've looked at my work as existing in the figurative space between the two-letter, lower-case plural pronoun "us," and the upper-case abbreviation for our country -- US. In the
Ken Burns
