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May 13 2019
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China to impose tariffs on U.S. goods despite Trump warning
China said on Monday it would impose higher tariffs on a range of U.S. goods, striking back in its trade war with Washington shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump warned it not to retaliate.
China’s finance ministry said it plans to set import tariffs ranging from 5 percent to 25 percent on 5,140 U.S. products on a target list worth about $60 billion. It said the tariffs will take
Reuters
Jun 09 2022
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The January 6 select committee hearing revelations Fox News didn’t want its viewers seeing live
Fox News is a Republican propaganda outlet whose stars have spent the last 17 months downplaying the January 6 insurrection, so of course it had no interest in allowing its viewers to see live, unedited coverage of tonight’s first hearing by the House select committee investigating it. The Fox audience missed out on stunning video of the attack and a host of revelations about the events
Media Matters
Dec 11 2020
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Senate approves defense bill establishing cyber czar position, subpoena power for cyber agency
The Senate on Friday approved the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) with clauses that would establish a federal cyber czar, and that would give the nation’s top federal cybersecurity agency subpoena power.
The conferenced version of the 2021 NDAA was approved by the Senate by a vote of 84-13 days after the House approved the same version of the annual defense funding bill
The Hill
Feb 07 2015
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First on CNN: DNC expanding communications team for 2016
The Democratic National Committee is bringing on a former Obama campaign spokeswoman as their national press secretary and launching a new digital-focused position in preparation for 2016, according to details shared first with CNN.
It's part of what DNC Communications Director called an "aggressive expansion" of the committee's communications team heading into the election cycle, which
CNN Digital
Dec 30 2020
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Hawley says he'll object to Electoral College certification of Biden victory on Jan. 6
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., on Wednesday became the first Republican senator to publicly say he will object to the certification of the presidential election results when a joint session of Congress meets in one week to formally certify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College victory over President Trump.
Roughly a dozen Trump supporters in the House – led by Rep. Mo Brooks
Fox News Digital
Nov 03 2018
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Democrats Say Republicans Are Stealing the Midterms. Are They Right?
Ed Harbison remembers Jim Crow. The segregated schools, the no-go theaters, the colored-only water fountains. The white supremacist siege of the First Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, where Martin Luther King, Jr., was trapped inside, and Harbison was, too. The white folks telling his mother she couldn’t vote unless she could answer how many beans were in a jar, or how wet water was.
Politico
Apr 13 2021
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Fed leaders agree: Economics has a racial-disparity problem
Top Federal Reserve policymakers on Tuesday underscored their concern that Black and Hispanic people are sharply underrepresented in the economics field, which lessens the perspectives that economists can bring to key policy issues.
“If we don’t have a diverse group of people in the field, we won’t have the right topics to focus on,” said Eric Rosengren, president of the Federal Reserve
Associated Press
May 24 2019
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Trump gives AG Barr authority to declassify documents related to 2016 campaign surveillance
President Trump on Thursday night issued a memo giving Attorney General William Barr the authority to declassify any documents related to surveillance of the Trump campaign in 2016.
Trump also ordered the intelligence community to cooperate with Barr. The memo read: "The heads of elements of the intelligence community... and the heads of each department or agency that includes an
Feb 03 2015
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Amnesty Doesn't Reduce The Deficit
President Obama wants Americans to believe that amnesty for illegal immigrants will reduce the deficit. His fiscal year 2016 budget claims, "We will also put our Nation on a more sustainable fiscal path by achieving $1.8 trillion in deficit reduction, primarily from reforms in health programs, our tax code, and immigration. ... The Congress can also help grow the economy, reduce deficits, and
Townhall
May 24 2019
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President Orders Intel Community to Declassify Info on Origins of Trump-Russia Probe
As promised, President Donald Trump on Thursday night directed the intelligence community to "quickly and fully cooperate with the Attorney General's investigation into surveillance activities during the 2016 Presidential election."
The announcement -- made in by the White House and tweeted by the president -- said Attorney General William Barr "has been delegated full and complete