As President Trump tried to suggest that he had accomplished more for the black community than any past presidents, including Abraham Lincoln, even a Fox News host felt the need to check him and remind the president that Lincoln freed the slaves. During an interview that aired on Friday, Harris …
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The costs of slowing the spread of coronavirus are enormous. Large sections of the economy have ground to a halt. The stock market has crashed. Unemployment claims surged by more than 3 million last week alone. Congress was forced to pass a $2.2 trillion rescue package — and it will …
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President Trump adjusted his strategy against the coronavirus on Monday, tweeting his desire for Americans to endanger themselves and others by going back to work far ahead of what has been recommended by public-health officials. But on Tuesday, the president made clear that there’s one thing he isn’t changing about …
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American taxpayers are paying as much as $650 per room per night for Secret Service accommodations at Trump properties while protecting the president a new report from the Washington Post has revealed. This directly contradicts President Donald Trump‘s claims that his company only charges the government minimal fees or “at …
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Mike Lee, a Republican senator from Utah, has joined forces with Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders to place a check on President Donald Trump’s ability to escalate military hostilities with Iran. Lee is now a co-sponsor of legislationintroduced by Sanders after last week’s strike on Soleimani. The bill would …
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WASHINGTON —President Trump’s speech on Wednesday about Iran‘s retaliatory missile strikes on two U.S. bases could be read in any number of ways. The mainstream papers will run with the raw news it contained: no American or Iraqi casualties from the attack, more economic sanctions on Iran, and that Iran …
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Two men who couldn’t be more different, President Donald Trump and former president Barack Obama, are tied for the top spot as 2019’s most-admired man in America, according to Gallup’s annual poll. This marks the 12th time the former president has at least shared the Number One spot. Trump and …
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WASHINGTON — Some Americans still feel the need to witness history in person. When Andrew Johnson became the first president to be impeached in in 1868, a first-hand account was the only account. Radio was still 30-odd years away from being invented, television another 30 after that, and anyone who …
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WASHINGTON —Seventy-seven days. Beginning with Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s formal announcement of an impeachment investigation in late September, it took 77 days for the House to produce articles of impeachment resulting from President Trump’s shakedown scheme with the Ukrainian government. House Democratic staffers worked through the night to put the finishing …
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During the impeachment process, one of President Donald Trump’s go-to attempts at deflection is to claim that because the Democrats are caught up in the inquiry, they are getting nothing done legislatively, often tweeting the phrase “Do Nothing Democrats.” On Sunday, freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) scolded the president on …
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