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Oct 03 2019
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Warren just released the most ambitious labor-reform platform of the 2020 campaign
It would rewrite the rules of the labor economy.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren just released her labor platform. It’s an eye-popping 14 pages long.
Warren makes a long list of promises to close every loophole and fix every broken policy that has kept working families from getting ahead in the post-Recession economy. Oh, and she wants to give workers new rights too, such as the right for
VoxAug 02 2019
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Trump’s pick to lead U.S. intelligence claims he arrested 300 illegal immigrants in a single day. He didn’t.
President Trump’s choice to lead the nation’s intelligence community often cites a massive roundup of immigrant workers at poultry plants in 2008 as a highlight of his career. Rep. John Ratcliffe claims that as a federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Texas, he was the leader of the immigration crackdown, describing it as one of the largest cases of its kind.
“As a U.S. Attorney
Washington PostAug 29 2013
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Allies hold up Syria intervention, Obama takes case to Congress
The Obama administration was running into roadblocks as it tried to corral an international coalition in support of intervention in Syria, with U.S. allies appearing to hit pause on calls for a missile strike. Britain and France, which helped lead the 2011 mission to impose a no-fly zone in Libya, on Thursday were still in a wait-and-see mode on Syria, as the countries await the results of a
Fox News DigitalAug 01 2019
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Generation gap in the presidential race?
Democratic contenders defy stereotypes about age and point to cooperation across generations.
Generational divides in America – often marked by misconceptions – have perhaps never been sharper. Baby boomers, the popular narrative goes, think millennials are entitled. Millennials think boomers are selfish. Fingers point, stereotypes abound.
For young adults, college debts have
Christian Science MonitorMar 04 2015
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House clears DHS bill for Obama
The Department of Homeland Security won't run out of money anytime soon.
The House cleared legislation Tuesday that will keep the agency operating through the end of September after a standoff last week threatened to shutter the agency and furlough thousands of workers. The 257-167 vote sends the bill to President Barack Obama for his signature.
Republican House Speaker John
CNN DigitalAug 24 2013
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Obama: NSA surveillance programs ‘loaded gun’ that can be abused if unchecked
President Obama strongly defended National Security Agency surveillance programs on Friday morning but acknowledged that, if unchecked, they could easily be abused. “There are legitimate concerns that people have that technology is moving so quick that, at some point, does the technology outpace the laws that are in place and the protections that are in place?” Mr. Obama told CNN’s Chris Cuomo
Washington TimesMar 03 2015
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McCarthy: Clean DHS bill vote Tuesday
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters that a vote on a clean bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security will happen Tuesday.
A clean bill to fully fund the Department through the end of the fiscal year is what Democrats have been demanding, and conservatives have been fighting against.
According to multiple GOP members and aides, House Speaker John Boehner
CNN DigitalAug 22 2013
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NSA misrepresented scope of data collection to secret court
The Obama administration on Wednesday declassified opinions from a secret court that oversees government surveillance showing the National Security Agency was broadly collecting domestic Internet communications of Americans and misrepresenting the scope of that effort to the court. The three opinions include one from October 2011 by U.S. District Judge John Bates, who scolded government
CNN DigitalSep 20 2014
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White House Intrusion a Blow to Secret Service
The Secret Service is coming under intense scrutiny after a man who hopped the White House fence made it all the way through the front door before being apprehended.
President Barack Obama and his daughters had just departed the White House on Friday evening when an intruder scaled the north fence, darted across the lawn and into the presidential residence, where agents nabbed him. The
Wall Street Journal (News)Feb 25 2015
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Obama meets with immigration activists ahead of Florida town hall
President Obama plans to highlight aspects of his executive actions on immigration not subject to a ruling by a Texas judge that temporarily blocked the administration's deferred-deportation program, according to some immigration advocates who met with Obama on Wednesday.
Obama met with 17 advocates at the White House, hours before a town hall-style forum in Miami. Obama will push those
Washington Post