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Jun 18 2019
News
Trump launches campaign machine with massive war chest, despite polling lag
When President Trump speaks in front of some 20,000 people Tuesday night at a jam-packed arena in Orlando, he’ll formally kick off his 2020 re-election campaign.
In reality, the president’s bid for a second term in the Oval Office has been underway for as long as Trump’s been in the White House. And compared with his 2016 campaign, the 2020 edition -- thanks to the power of the
Fox News DigitalMay 20 2013
News
Fact check rips IRS official over Tea Party targeting claims
A detailed fact-check published Monday tore into an IRS official's claim that the agency's scrutiny of conservative groups started in response to an influx of nonprofit applications, showing the practice started well before the forms started flooding in. The piece in The Washington Post disputed a central claim that Lois Lerner, head of the exempt organizations division, and other IRS
Fox News DigitalDec 27 2015
News
DHS: Coming In January, Massive Deportation Raids
The Department of Homeland Security is set to conduct a series of massive deportation raids across the country starting in January. They’ll mostly be targeting families reportedly fleeing the rising violence in Central America that have crossed the border within the past year and have been ordered to leave by an immigration judge, according to the Washington Post:
The nationwide
TownhallDec 27 2015
News
The GOP has become the party from George Orwell’s nightmares
In a recent column by Dana Milbank, the Washington Post columnist addresses what has become the ultimate straw man for Republican presidential candidates this year. Ever since Donald Trump dodged Megyn Kelly’s question on his derogatory comments about women at the first debate with his declaration that “the big problem this country has is being politically correct,” political correctness has
SalonJun 17 2019
News
Iran to Break Uranium Stockpile Limit in 10 Days
Iran will break the uranium stockpile limit set by Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers in the next 10 days, the spokesman for the country's atomic agency said Monday while also warning that Iran could enrich uranium up to 20% — just a step away from weapons-grade levels.
The announcement by Behrouz Kamalvandi, timed for a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels, puts more
Newsmax (News)Dec 04 2014
News
Obama Says He Will Continue Work to Improve Police, Community Relations
President Barack Obama renewed his vow to help improve police and community relations in the aftermath of a New York grand jury’s Wednesday decision not to indict a police officer in the death of a Staten Island man.
Wednesday’s decision by the jury “speaks to the larger issues that we’ve been talking about now for the last week, the last month, the last year and sadly, for decades,”
Wall Street Journal (News)Nov 29 2014
News
Was Hagel doomed from the start?
Chuck Hagel was doomed even before he walked into the Pentagon. The Vietnam veteran with deep relationships on Capitol Hill shocked Washington by appearing unprepared and inarticulate before his former colleagues during a Senate confirmation hearing to become defense secretary. He never really recovered and, nearly two years later, seemed increasingly out of step with an administration facing
CNN DigitalAug 15 2019
Opinion
Global turmoil Trump stirred threatens his reelection chances
President Donald Trump is showing what happens when the United States abandons its decades-long role as a guarantor of stability and instead chooses to act as an agent of global disruption.
A series of economic and political shocks are fomenting disorder across the planet and straining an international political system that Trump deliberately set out to undermine.
Stock markets
Guest Writer - LeftDec 09 2013
News
Budget deal expected this week amounts to a cease-fire as sides move to avert a standoff
House and Senate negotiators were putting the finishing touches Sunday on what would be the first successful budget accord since 2011, when the battle over a soaring national debt first paralyzed Washington.
The deal expected to be sealed this week on Capitol Hill would not significantly reduce the debt, now $17.3 trillion and rising. It would not close corporate tax loopholes or reform
Washington PostApr 20 2015
News
Japan, U.S. 'Close' To Major Deal
The prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, said Monday that his country is nearing a major trade agreement with the United States, according to an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
Abe told the Journal that he hopes to come to an understanding with President Barack Obama when he visits Washington at the end of the month as part of a 12-country summit.
"We think that an
NPR (Online News)