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Jun 01 2020
News
West Point Summoned Cadets Back for Trump’s Graduation Speech. Now Several Have the Coronavirus.
West Point did not need to have an in-person graduation ceremony this year. The nation’s oldest military service academy had its cadets leave campus in March as the coronavirus outbreak began spreading across the United States, especially in New York, which has more than twice the amount of infections as any other state.
But President Donald Trump insisted on giving an in-person speech
Mother JonesAug 31 2015
News
Hillary Clinton Supports Ban on 'Revolving Door' Corporate Bonuses
U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton endorsed a proposed law on Monday that would prevent corporate firms paying bonuses to their executives for leaving to take senior government jobs.
Clinton, in an op-ed published by the Huffington Post, was critical of the "so-called revolving door" between government and Wall Street firms in particular, saying it erodes public trust "if a
Newsmax (News)Jul 23 2020
Opinion
To Fight Racial Inequality, We Have to Attack the Power of Corporations
Since the uprising against police brutality and racial injustice erupted in late May, corporations have been falling all over each other to prove their anti-racist bona fides. The international accounting giant KPMG published a blog post by a senior associate explaining why he celebrates Juneteenth. The fruit snack brand Gushers, owned by General Mills, tweeted “Gushers wouldn’t be Gushers
JacobinFeb 16 2015
News
Democrats seek relief from health law penalties
The official sign-up season for President Barack Obama's health care law may be over, but leading congressional Democrats say millions of Americans facing new tax penalties deserve a second chance.
Three senior House members strongly urged the administration Monday to grant a special sign-up opportunity for uninsured taxpayers who will be facing fines under the law for the first time
TownhallNov 20 2020
News
Giuliani Sweats, Pence Chills: A Tale of Two Press Conferences
Beads of sweat -- mixed with what looked like hastily applied hair dye to create twin rivers of brackish perspiration -- trickled down both sides of Rudy Giuliani’s face as the president’s increasingly frenetic lawyer argued Thursday that his client had been robbed. In alleging that the presidential election was rigged against Donald Trump, the former New York mayor even acted out a scene from
RealClearPoliticsJul 21 2020
News
Meadows, Mnuchin head to Capitol Hill to huddle with lawmakers on the next coronavirus bill
That means these negotiations will likely crescendo between now and the first week of August.
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin travel to Capitol Hill Tuesday to meet with Senate Republicans over lunch and then huddle with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on the next coronavirus bill.
Fox News is told
Fox News DigitalJan 26 2015
News
Pelosi gropes for a game plan
Nancy Pelosi has big problems in her ranks. The California lawmaker is facing some of the most serious unrest she’s ever seen in her dozen years as the leader of the House Democrats: Members complain that the party has no message and no clear plan to retake the majority, despite good news on the economy that should have brought rewards at the polls. They also accuse senior lawmakers of failing
PoliticoJun 04 2014
News
Thad Cochran backers face agonizing choice
Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran’s national backers awakened to a wrenching decision Wednesday: whether to continue pouring energy and cash into an effort to rescue a six-term incumbent who failed to win a majority of the vote in this week’s primary. The dilemma is agonizing on every level, forcing longtime Cochran allies who have already spent millions defending him to gauge how realistic the
PoliticoJan 21 2015
News
Netanyahu coming to Congress next month; Democrat accuses White House of using 'talking points from Tehran'
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will give a speech to Congress on the issue of Iran Feb. 11.
Netanyahu has raised alarm bells about nuclear talks between the Obama administration and Iran. In the U.S., the Iran talks are a topic that has pitted President Barack Obama against senior Democrats in the Senate, one of whom accused the administration on Wednesday of using "talking
CNN DigitalJan 19 2015
News
Republicans Gearing Up For Fight Over Obama's Tax Increase Proposal
Republican lawmakers are already signaling they will do what they can to block President Barack Obama's pitch for tax increases on the wealthiest Americans.
Obama is making that pitch to a huge television audience in hopes of putting the new Republican Congress in the position of defending top income earners over the middle class.
As Obama continues to signal what he will propose
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