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Nov 25 2019
News
DOJ vows appeal after judge orders ex-White House counsel Don McGahn to appear before Congress
Former White House counsel Don McGahn must appear before Congress pursuant to a subpoena issued earlier this year, a Washington, D.C. federal judge ruled late Monday, in a major setback to President Trump's effort to keep aides from testifying before House impeachment investigators.
If McGahn wanted to assert executive privilege to avoid testifying, U.S. District Court Judge Ketanji
Fox News Digital
May 14 2019
News
Tensions Flare With Iran
“Iran threatened [last] Wednesday to enrich its uranium stockpile closer to weapons-grade levels in 60 days if world powers fail to negotiate new terms for its 2015 nuclear deal, raising regional tensions as a U.S. aircraft carrier and bombers headed to the Middle East to confront Tehran.” (AP News)
The left worries the strategy of ‘maximum pressure’ is not working, and about the risk
The Flip Side
Nov 12 2016
News
The Democratic Party descends into 'civil war' after Clinton's loss
President-elect Donald Trump’s unforeseen election win over Hillary Clinton has ignited immediate infighting inside the Democratic Party, with progressive members lashing out at the establishment wing for failing to defeat one of the most flawed Republican presidential candidates in a generation.
Business Insider
Jun 26 2019
News
E. Jean Carroll: She said, he said, and how media weighs balance
In the #MeToo era, editors must be extremely cautious in handling sexual assault accusations. But allegation fatigue should not cause news outlets – or other institutions – to pass over credible new charges.
Last Friday, when the writer and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department
Christian Science Monitor
Feb 25 2020
News
White House seeks $2.5B for coronavirus, but Pelosi says that's not enough
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that the request was long overdue and inadequate and that the House would advance its own funding package.
The White House is asking Congress for $2.5 billion to respond to the coronavirus illness known as COVID-19 that has killed more than 2,600 people in mainland China, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the request inadequate.
The
NBC News Digital
Jun 05 2019
News
AOC says Paul Manafort should not be held in solitary confinement at Rikers Island
WASHINGTON — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., does not want President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort to be held in solitary confinement, she said in a Wednesday morning tweet.
Ocasio-Cortez was responding to a to a New York Times report that Manafort may be held in solitary confinement at the Rikers Island jail in New York.
Noting that the notorious
USA TODAY
Jan 02 2015
News
Our real police/race problem: Diverse forces, white resentment, and America’s persistent divides
Why diverse police forces can't seem to trump the economics of racism, or the twisted politics of white resentment
Salon
Oct 15 2016
Opinion
OPINION: Michelle Obama's devastating speech
In the course of attacking Donald Trump on the campaign trail Thursday, first lady Michelle Obama created a watershed moment in the national conversation about gender equality -- one with effects that will surely last long after the votes are counted on November 8.
CNN Digital
Sep 18 2016
News
Obama: Would be 'personal insult' to legacy if black voters don't back Clinton
President Barack Obama delivered an impassioned plea to the African-American community Saturday night to help stop Donald Trump, saying he would consider it a "personal insult" to his legacy if black voters didn't turn out for Hillary Clinton.
CNN Digital
Oct 14 2016
Opinion
It’s not the ‘locker room’ talk. It’s the ‘lock her up’ talk.
The second presidential debate — bloody, muddy and raucous — was just enough to save Donald Trump’s campaign from extinction, but not enough to restore his chances of winning, barring an act of God (a medical calamity) or of Putin (a cosmically incriminating WikiLeak).
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