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Oct 22 2019
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G-7 Summit at the Doral Resort?
This Abridge News topic aggregates four unique arguments on different sides of the debate. Here are the quick facts to get you started:
THE QUICK FACTS
On October 17th, Mick Mulvaney announced that the Trump administration had officially selected the Doral Resort in Miami, Florida, as the location of the next G7 summit. Mulvaney justified this choice by arguing that the Doral Abridge NewsApr 22 2017
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Today’s executive orders are the nail in the coffin of Trump’s economic populism
Friday afternoon, Donald Trump traveled to the US Treasury Department where he’s expected to sign a new executive order. The order aims at making life easier for American companies that want to avoid corporate income taxes, relax regulation on some large financial institutions, and make it harder for federal regulators to wind down big banks that fail during a financial crisis.
VoxApr 01 2020
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Top Democrats say party's convention may be canceled over coronavirus threat
Prominent Democrats ranging from senior members of Congress to the party's likely presidential nominee himself now say the coronavirus social distancing restrictions that have upended campaigning may also cancel the Democrats' marquee 2020 event.
“I'm not sure we're going to have a convention,” Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., a top ally of former Vice President Joe Biden, told Fox News.
Fox News DigitalMay 17 2014
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Texas abortion law creates obstacles for Valley women
The women who visit Lucy Felix at her advocacy center are lately faced with a slate of difficult choices: risk deportation to drive to a clinic, cross the nearby border into Mexico for a risky abortion or keep an unwanted, unplanned pregnancy to term.
Since Texas lawmakers passed new restrictions on abortion clinics last year, the number of clinics in the Rio Grande Valley that perform
USA TODAYApr 23 2021
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Senate Republicans propose $568 billion infrastructure plan to counter Biden
Senate Republicans unveiled a $568 billion infrastructure plan Thursday limited to roads, bridges, broadband and other physical infrastructure, countering President Biden's American Jobs Plan with a framework around one-quarter the size of his sweeping $2.25 trillion package.
Although their plan doesn't specify how to pay for the spending, Republicans suggested new user fees, resisting
USA TODAYJun 24 2013
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Supreme Court Decisions: 3 Blockbusters Among Last Cases
The Supreme Court has 11 cases, including the term's highest profile matters, to resolve before the justices take off for summer vacations, teaching assignments and international travel.
HuffPostJun 24 2019
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Here’s where all the 2020 Democratic candidates stand on abortion rights
They overwhelmingly support repealing the Hyde Amendment and codifying Roe v. Wade into law.
With near-total bans on abortion passing in state after state — and others responding by loosening restrictions on the procedure — the right to terminate a pregnancy is emerging as a major election issue in 2020.
When CNN pollsters asked Iowa Democratic voters earlier this month what
VoxOct 03 2019
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Biden's trip to China with son Hunter in 2013 comes under new scrutiny
WASHINGTON — At the time, it seemed mildly noteworthy, but not particularly unusual: then-Vice President Joe Biden, traveling to China on an official visit, had brought his son Hunter Biden along.
And when the two appeared in public together in Beijing during the 2013 trip, there were all the typical trappings of a mini-family vacation tacked on to a business trip.
With
NBC News DigitalMar 27 2020
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Virus threatens a long-anticipated surge in student voting
College students were once hailed as a crucial voting bloc in 2020, but their momentum may be halted by the coronavirus pandemic that has shuttered campuses from coast to coast.
Registration drives, absentee ballot parties, political forums and new voter trainings are all on hold. Students are scrambling to chase down absentee ballot forms that were mailed to campuses but must now be
The FulcrumMay 16 2015
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Hawaii’s $205M ObamaCare system on life support, critics fear ‘complete waste’
Federal taxpayers dumped more than $205 million into Hawaii's ObamaCare insurance exchange, but after a steady downward spiral the once-highly praised Hawaii Health Connector is on life support.
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has already restricted grant funds to the Hawaii Health Connector, after telling officials in March it was out of compliance with the
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