Month: September 2020

Sen. Bob MenendezRobert (Bob) MenendezGOP’s Obama-era probes fuel Senate angst Government watchdog: ‘No evidence’ Pompeo violated Hatch Act with Kansas trips No time to be selling arms to the Philippines MORE (D-N.J.) won reelection in New Jersey’s Senate race on Tuesday night, a huge relief for Democrats as he faced a tougher-than-expected challenge in the deep-blue […]

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Hillary Clinton is no longer the most targeted Republican foe—that dubious honor, ahead of the 2020 election, belongs to freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The New York Democrat’s rise to prominence in the GOP mind was on full display Thursday evening in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where President Donald Trump held a “rambling and lie-filled rally,” as Common […]

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Attorney General William Barr delivered a redacted version of the Mueller report to Congress and posted the special counsel’s findings online Thursday morning. The document’s publication followed a Justice Department press conference that critics and Democratic lawmakers denounced as an effort to spin Mueller’s findings and protect President Donald Trump. “Before the American people can […]

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Days after reports surfaced that Rep. Ilhan Omar had been receiving Islamophobic death threats, President Donald Trump provoked outrage when he shared on social media a video in which Omar was compared to former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. On his official Twitter account, Trump retweeted a […]

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In the midst of a bizarre Twitter rampage on Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump retweeted an account that subsequently changed its username to “Fuck Donald Trump” and replaced its profile photo with a Bernie 2020 logo. The Twitter user apparently tricked the president into retweeting the post by writing, “My husband a New York City […]

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In a move Rep. Pramila Jayapal decried as yet another reason to “refuse to give the Defense Department $733 billion” in funding, the Pentagon on Friday reportedly approved a plan to divert $1.5 billion from its endless war budget to help pay for the construction of 80 miles of wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. “Obviously […]

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Amid reports of severe abuse and neglect in the immigrant detention centers the Trump administration is running, human rights campaigners are planning hundreds of demonstrations on Tuesday to demand the closing of the prisons and the reunification of all families who have been separated by the government. MoveOn was joined by the ACLU, the Center […]

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Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) won her first full term on Tuesday in what became the state’s most expensive governor’s race in history. Reynolds was appointed governor after former Gov. Terry Branstad (R) became the U.S. ambassador to China. ADVERTISEMENT But she had never run for governor before and faced a tough challenge from Fred […]

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OTTAWA — Pro-gun activists marched in Ottawa on Saturday to contest what they describe as the “injustice and ineffectiveness” of the federal government’s assault weapon ban. The Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights is behind the outdoor event on Parliament Hill, dubbed an “integrity march,” to advocate for the rights of its members. The organization, which […]

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