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Mar 23 2013
News
This State Could Be the First to Mandate Insurance Companies Pay for Abortions
OLYMPIA Wash. (AP) -- In 1970 Washington became the first - and remains the only - state in the country to legalize elective abortions by a popular vote. A generation later and 40 years removed from the landmark United States Supreme Court Roe v. Wade ruling that extended...
The Blaze
Jun 04 2016
News
Democrats weigh how to nudge Sanders out
Democrats in Washington have begun discussing how to encourage Sen. Bernie Sanders to end his campaign without alienating his legions of supporters, as party leaders grow eager to unite the party behind Hillary Clinton and provide a more robust defense for her candidacy.
In private conversations on Capitol Hill, senior Democrats are weighing how to persuade Sanders to step aside without
CNN Digital
May 29 2013
News
No Partisan Fire at the Shore: An Obama-Christie Reunion
Politics makes strange beachfellows. President Obama and Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey affirmed this notion, and enjoyed its benefits, on Tuesday in a drizzly reunion on the Jersey Shore, seven months after Hurricane Sandy punished the famous coastline and united them in an unlikely political partnership.
New York Times (News)
Feb 24 2020
News
Buttigieg courts South Carolina black voters with his veteran status
Pete Buttigieg, the only veteran in the top tier of candidates seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, is turning to South Carolina’s large military community to help shore up his nagging lack of support among black voters.
The primary on Saturday in the diverse southern state is seen as an important durability test for the 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who
Reuters
Oct 19 2012
Opinion
Forty-Fifth Attempted Terrorist Plot: U.S. Must Resist Complacency
On Friday, authorities arrested a man in an attempted suicide attack on the U.S. Capitol. The attempt marks at least the 45th publicly known attempted terrorist attack against the United States since 9/11 and is the sixth such attack targeting Washington, D.C.
The Heritage Foundation
Jan 08 2020
Background
The killing of Iran's top general won't stop a war. The US and Iran have already been fighting for more than 40 years
(CNN)US President Donald Trump says he ordered the assassination on Friday of Iran's top general, Qasem Soleimani, "to stop a war." But that's simply not true.
Rather than stop a war, Trump just called Tehran's bluff and wagered all in with the single most daring American act in a conflict that's been raging for years. No American president has ever taken the fight to Tehran like this.
CNN (Opinion)
Sep 17 2016
News
DONALD TRUMP TROLLS THE MEDIA, TURNS PHONY “BIRTHER” PRESS CONFERENCE INTO HOTEL INFOMERCIAL
After baiting the entire media into attending the opening of his new Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. by promising to finally address the birther controversy swirling around his campaign, Donald Trump used the opportunity to turn the event into a national informercial for his latest real-estate project. He said only a handful of words about President Barack Obama, briefly
Vanity Fair
Nov 29 2015
News
Carson says Syrian refugees don't want to come to U.S.
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said Syrian refugees don’t really want to come to the U.S. – they would prefer to stay in the Middle East in the hope they can eventually return to their homeland.
“Their main desire is to be repatriated in their homeland,” Carson said in an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press after touring refugee camps in Jordan.
“I said what kinds of
USA TODAY
Nov 15 2019
News
Trump asks Supreme Court to shield his tax returns from prosecutors, setting up historic separation-of-powers showdown
President Trump asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to stop a prosecutor’s investigation of his personal finances, a bold assertion of presidential power that seeks a landmark decision from the nation’s highest court.
The filing by the president’s private lawyers represents a historic moment that will test the court and highlights the Constitution’s separation-of-powers design. It also
Washington Post
Nov 15 2019
News
'Testy' Nancy Pelosi calls journalist James Rosen 'Mr. Republican Talking Points' after his whistleblower question — and she gets taken to task
Journalist James Rosen of Sinclair Broadcast Group asked Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) a whistleblower anonymity question Thursday, and things got a wee tense during the press conference.
"And so I wonder if you could explain to the American people why the legal rights of the whistleblower should prevail in this political setting over those of President Trump, who should ordinarily
The Blaze