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WASHINGTON – The bitter and increasingly tight contest between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden turned on a handful of battlegrounds such as Pennsylvania and Michigan, dashing hopes for a decisive victory for either candidate.Trump was projected to win the critical states of Florida and Texas while the Dem... | 0 |
Sen. Bernie Sanders. | Nick Wagner/Austin American-Statesman via AP LAS VEGAS – Moderate Democrats watched in horror as Bernie Sanders soared to a landslide victory in Nevada. It wasn't the win that was surprising — it was the walloping Sanders gave his opponents, his ability to dominate among Latino voters, and the mo... | 0 |
Federal law enforcement officials have arrested two members of the Proud Boys, a rightwing nationalist extremist group, for their role in the attack on the US Capitol on 6 January.The riot is now the subject of a second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, who is accused of inciting the rightwing mob at a rally that imme... | 0 |
The Supreme Court said Monday that it will hear a challenge to the Trump administration's use of Pentagon money to build the southern border wall and also its appeal of a ruling that blocked a policy sending asylum applicants to Mexico while they wait for their appeals to be heard.A federal appeals court ruled in June ... | 0 |
Opinion|The President on Inequalityhttps://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/05/opinion/the-president-on-inequality.htmlEditorialDec. 4, 2013The issues that have obsessed Washington for the last few months — the government shutdown, the broken health care website, the unrelentingly bitter tone of a stalemated Congress — mean ver... | 0 |
President Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrive for a group photograph at the Group of Seven summit on June 7 near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. (Carl Court/Getty Images) KRUN, Germany — Before he sat down with the leaders of the seven largest industrialized democracies here Sunday, President Obama met w... | 0 |
As part of his new effort to focus on school safety in response to the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, President Trump has returned to an old punching bag: his predecessor. Trump's school safety commission will investigate an Obama policy originally meant to help minority students avoid disciplin... | 0 |
The administration on Wednesday outlined a $1 trillion plan, which includes $500 billion in cash payments to individual Americans and $300 billion toward helping small businesses, as well as $50 billion for airlines and $150 billion for other affected sectors.Trump’s hastily crafted stimulus, which has won early suppor... | 0 |
May 6, 2021 / 11:42 AM / MoneyWatch Vaccine access could soon expand to kids Vaccine access could soon expand to kids 07:34 Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine is 96% effective i... | 0 |
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Sunday a spate of sexual assault scandals surrounding the military shows enlisted women are "putting up with way too much crap."
"I want to salute the women who serve and are putting up with way too much crap," the military prosecutor, said on "Fox News Sunday." "This needs to end. Whe... | 0 |
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Barack Obama’s pivot to Asia has been widely praised. But many critics wish that he would infuse the policy with greater substance and energy. In fact, the administration has the opportunity to fill in one of the great missing pieces of that policy — a strategic relationship with the continent’s second most populous co... | 0 |
Updated Tuesday at 1:15 p.m. President Barack Obama announced a handful of new executive actions on Tuesday, aiming to better the mental health care and economic livelihood of military veterans.The actions are intended to help give veterans "quality health care," and "every opportunity to pursue the American Dream," wh... | 0 |
New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang arrives to an early voting site before casting his vote in June. | John Minchillo/AP Photo Former presidential and New York mayoral candidate Andrew Yang is set to launch a third party next month, according to two people familiar with the matter. Yang is expected to start the... | 0 |
U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Wednesday issued a new policy that will reshape the way schools and universities respond to complaints of sexual misconduct, bolstering the rights of the accused and narrowing the scope of cases colleges are required to investigate. "We released a final rule that recognizes we c... | 0 |
President Trump and China finally agreed to a partial trade deal on Friday, putting the 21-month trade war between the world’s two largest economies on pause — for now.Trump’s White House rushed to characterize it as “amazing” and “historic.” Top Chinese officials held a rare news conference to emphasize this deal was ... | 0 |
WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) ― The Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of a Native American elk hunter, citing an 1868 treaty between his tribe and the U.S. government as it revived his legal challenge to a conviction for hunting out of season in Bighorn National Forest in Wyoming.In a 5-4 ruling, the high court sid... | 0 |
On Sunday night, Texas Gov. Rick Perry tweeted this image out from his personal @governorperry Twitter account accompanied by the text "A2":A tweet just went out from my account that was unauthorized. I do not condone the tweet and I have taken it down.
— Rick Perry (@GovernorPerry) September 1, 2014The woman in the pi... | 0 |
If you’re familiar with the navel-gazing internecine squabbles of the US national media, you probably know that Bari Weiss, the millennial conservative writer who for years attracted controversy and online consternation for her opinion columns, recently quit the New York Times, saying that the newspaper was insufficien... | 0 |
The TV WatchStepping Out of a Husband’s Shadow, and Perhaps Overshadowing HimAug. 29, 2012She may be too good.Ann Romney is so gifted at politics, she may actually make her husband look a little bad. Their personality gap — her ease, his discomfort — has been evident in most of the many joint interviews they have given... | 0 |
President Obama has directed the Defense Department to strengthen its non-nuclear capabilities. President Barack Obama called Wednesday for “peace with justice” as he proposed reducing U.S. nuclear arsenals by as much as one-third in a wide-ranging call for action delivered on the eastern side of Berlin’s Brandenburg G... | 0 |
(CNN)The Supreme Court on Thursday said two provisions of an Arizona voting law that restrict how ballots can be cast do not violate the historic Voting Rights Act that bars regulations that result in racial discrimination. The ruling will limit the ability of minorities to challenge state laws in the future that they ... | 0 |
Atkinson will leave his job in 30 days, Trump told the House and Senate Intelligence committees, and he has been placed on administrative leave effective immediately, according to a congressional source.Trump did not name a permanent successor. "As is the case with regard to other positions where I, as President, have ... | 0 |
Story highlightsPresident Obama gives address on climate change at United Nations on TuesdayU.N. secretary-general is hosting world leaders at a one-day climate change summitThe Obama administration unveiled a climate change action plan in 2013President Barack Obama told a United Nations meeting on Tuesday that polluti... | 0 |
Credit...T.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York TimesSept. 21, 2018WASHINGTON — The deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, suggested last year that he secretly record President Trump in the White House to expose the chaos consuming the administration, and he discussed recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amend... | 0 |
WASHINGTON — Coming off an appearance on the global stage, and facing more problems on the investigative front, President Trump is preparing a State of the Union address designed to outline his vision of a safer and stronger United States, officials said.While touting the tax cuts he signed into law last year, Trump wi... | 0 |
Lawmakers in both parties sharply criticized President Donald Trump on Thursday for planning to declare a national emergency to build his long-promised border wall."Declaring a national emergency would be a lawless act, a gross abuse of the power of the presidency and a desperate attempt to distract from the fact that ... | 0 |
WASHINGTON — Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear pulled off an apparent upset Tuesday night over Republican Gov. Matt Bevin, dealing a blow to President Donald Trump, NBC News projects.And Democrats flipped both chambers of the Virginia state Legislature, giving the party complete control of the commonwealth for the... | 0 |
WASHINGTON -- A batch of new polls from two key battleground states produced some of the largest leads yet for President Barack Obama, drawing criticism from the campaign of Republican nominee Mitt Romney.In Ohio and Florida, the new surveys from The Washington Post and the polling partnership of CBS News, The New York... | 0 |
DOJ's inspector general has finished a draft report tied to the 2016 election.The Justice Department's internal watchdog has concluded that James Comey defied authority at times during his tenure as FBI director, according to sources familiar with a draft report on the matter.One source told ABC News that the draft rep... | 0 |
Credit...Ross D. Franklin/Associated PressMarch 18, 2016PHOENIX — When Donald J. Trump campaigns in Arizona, he talks up the endorsements he has received from Jan Brewer, the former governor who signed some of the nation’s toughest immigration laws, and Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose aggressive pursuit of illegal immigrants... | 0 |
Facebook has failed on civil rights. On Wednesday, after two years of work, the social media giant finally released the results of its independent audit, a wide-ranging report on the state of civil rights on Facebook, from hate speech to advertising to algorithmic bias. The auditors found that the company simply hasn’t... | 0 |
WASHINGTON — Democrats in the Senate are trying this week to convince their Republican colleagues that updated voting rights legislation is necessary, but the bill they are bringing forward is unlikely to pass. The For the People Act, which passed in the House largely along party lines in March, is unlikely to pass the... | 0 |
Story highlightsHouse Republicans, President Obama still far apart on budget priorities, GOP leaders say "He did himself some good," Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin saysObama offered "just a bunch of platitudes," Georgia congressman says Some in the Republican caucus think Obama should have reached out long agoPresident Ba... | 0 |
The National Hurricane Center said Friday that the storm’s center had been “hugging the coast” in Florida as it continued toward Georgia and South Carolina and warned of a surge of up to nine feet that could cause dangerous flooding.Late Friday night, the hurricane center said “strong winds and storm surge” were also s... | 0 |
VideotranscripttranscriptClinton Calls Trump Threat to DemocracyHillary Clinton’s comments came as Donald J. Trump has repeatedly declined to say that he would accept the results of the presidential election.N/AHillary Clinton’s comments came as Donald J. Trump has repeatedly declined to say that he would accept the re... | 0 |
Jan. 31, 2013WASHINGTON — The Senate gave final approval on Thursday to legislation suspending the statutory debt ceiling until May, officially turning Congress’s attention to the next budget showdown: $1 trillion in across-the-board military and domestic spending cuts set to begin on March 1.The 64-to-34 vote ended fo... | 0 |
Judge Throws Out 2 Antitrust Cases Against FacebookThe decisions were a major blow to attempts to rein in Big Tech. The judge said one of the complaints, from the Federal Trade Commission, lacked facts and gave the agency 30 days to refile it.Credit...Jim Wilson/The New York TimesPublished June 28, 2021Updated Oct. 4, ... | 0 |
New York (CNN Business)The US economy in the summer recovered much of the historically enormous ground it lost in the spring, expanding at the fastest rate on record in the third quarter, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.Still, the recovery remains incomplete. The economic crisis that Covid-19 brought on is fa... | 0 |
The news and images from the conflict between a stunningly militarized police force and peaceful community protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, were horrifying Wednesday night, even before reporters from the Washington Post and Huffington Post were arrested, and MSNBC’s Trymaine Lee was tear-gassed and terrorized.
Let’s b... | 0 |
ATLANTA (AP) — Sen. Kelly Loeffler repeatedly refused to acknowledge that President Donald Trump lost reelection in November, as she debated her Democratic opponent, Rev. Raphael Warnock, ahead of twin Georgia runoff elections that will determine which party controls the Senate.Asked specifically about President-elect ... | 0 |
Credit...Brian Blanco/European Pressphoto AgencyAug. 10, 2013ORLANDO, Fla. — President Obama on Saturday assured thousands of disabled veterans meeting here that while the war in Afghanistan was ending, like the one in Iraq before it, the work of helping the wounded warriors of those conflicts “has only just begun.”Mr.... | 0 |
A fight over a Manhattan grand jury subpoena could yield a major decision on presidential power. Credit...Anna Moneymaker/The New York TimesNov. 14, 2019WASHINGTON — President Trump asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to bar his accounting firm from turning over eight years of his tax returns to Manhattan prosecutors.T... | 0 |
FeatureIt can be deeply painful to be reminded that the traditions one loves are exclusionary to othersChristmas is (finally) upon us. After months of red-and-green evergreen decorations in every store, and an increasingly unbroken stream of Santa-centric pop songs in every public place, the annual American onslaught r... | 0 |
Let’s eliminate money problems from the admissions equation for qualified students.Nov. 18, 2018Credit...Andrew Mangum for The New York TimesMichael R. BloombergMr. Bloomberg is the founder of Bloomberg LP and served as mayor of New York, 2002-2013.Here’s a simple idea I bet most Americans agree with: No qualified high... | 0 |
Confusion reigned on Thursday over a possible debate between Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.After kicking off a media frenzy by accepting an offer to debate Sanders, Trump changed his mind at least twice in the same day when pressed about whether he was serious about the prospect. Addressing reporters on Thursday in h... | 0 |
President Trump, shown here at the White House on Tuesday, has blocked critics on Twitter.(Alex Brandon / Associated Press) A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that President Trump violated the 1st Amendment by blocking some critics from access to his Twitter feed. The decision by the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court o... | 0 |
President Barack Obama gave a statement Thursday after the White House announced U.S. drone strikes had killed innocent American and Italian hostages in Pakistan, saying he takes full responsibility for the operation."I profoundly regret what happened," Obama said, apologizing to the families of the deceased.A statemen... | 0 |
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, beginning to venture out on the campaign trail, went to Pittsburgh on Monday to deliver a searing rebuke to President Trump. “This president long ago forfeited any moral leadership in this country. He can’t stop the violence — because for years he has fomented it,” Biden decla... | 0 |
President Barack Obama called the Islamic State's execution of Abdul-Rahman Kassig, an American hostage also known as Peter, "pure evil" on Sunday.Obama released the statement after the White House confirmed that an ISIS video showing Kassig's murder was authentic. Below is Obama's full statement:Today we offer our pra... | 0 |
Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s chief strategist, reportedly believes that war is coming soon. (Jim Lo Scalzo/European Pressphoto Agency) The headlines this month have been alarming. “Steve Bannon’s obsession with a dark theory of history should be worrisome” (Business Insider). “Steve Bannon Believes The Apocaly... | 0 |
VideotranscripttranscriptThird Democratic Debate HighlightsHillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley had heated exchanges on issues such as foreign policy on Saturday in Manchester, N.H., during the third Democratic presidential debate.N/AHillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley had heated exchange... | 0 |
WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department has opened an investigation into whether bank records belonging to President Trump's private lawyer were illegally leaked to a lawyer for porn actress Stormy Daniels.Those records show that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen took payments from corporations — including telecom giant AT&T and... | 0 |
Story highlightsTrump called for a special prosecutor to investigate Clinton; earlier Monday, he said it should be shut downBill Clinton says his family's charitable foundation will alter how it works if Hillary Clinton wins (CNN)Hillary Clinton leads in the polls nationally and in key battleground states, but the floo... | 0 |
(Illustration by Mark Ward /For The Washington Post) In the future, Americans — assuming there are any left — will look back at 2016 and remark: “What the HELL?” They will have a point. Over the past few decades, we here at the Year in Review have reviewed some pretty disturbing years. For example, there was 2000, whe... | 0 |
WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's comments about sexual harassment allegations in her party's own ranks touched off a fierce blowback not only from Republicans, but also from progressives, who said they feared it muddled the Democrats' message on misconduct by putting politics ahead of protecting women.... | 0 |
Washington (CNN)A growing number of Republicans are openly scoffing at President Donald Trump's handling of national security issues, with the Senate's number two Republican bashing Trump's criticism on Wednesday of the heads of the US intelligence community ahead of a vote on a measure disapproving Trump's Middle East... | 0 |
The remaining part of the partially collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building falls on 4 July, 2021 (Getty)The remaining structure left behind after the Miami building collapse has been brought down by demolition crews using explosives, after warnings that a tropical storm could render the site unsafe.Re... | 0 |
A husband and wife who were caught on video brandishing firearms at protesters outside their St. Louis home have turned their rifle over to police after a search warrant was executed.Authorities went to Mark and Patricia McCloskey's home Friday amid an ongoing investigation into the incident.The couple went viral last ... | 0 |
(CNN Business)Amazon wasted no time to reach out to newly installed US President Joe Biden about prioritizing its essential workers in his administration's vaccine distribution plans. In a letter sent to Biden Wednesday, Amazon (AMZN) executive Dave Clark wrote that the company "stands ready to assist" in vaccinating 1... | 0 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — “This is how I’m going to die, defending this entrance,” Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell recalled thinking, testifying Tuesday at the emotional opening hearing of the congressional panel investigating the violent Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.Gonell told House investigators he could feel himself... | 0 |
June 4, 2020 / 10:15 AM / CBS News George Floyd, the Minnesota man who died after an officer arresting him pressed his knee onto his neck, died by homicide, according to the results of two autopsies released on Monday — one by the county medical examiner and the other by independent pathologists comm... | 0 |
New York (CNN Business)Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday filed proposed class-action lawsuits targeting Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter and its CEO Jack Dorsey, as well as YouTube and its parent company's CEO Sundar Pichai, in a Hail Mary move after being removed from their platforms. Courts h... | 0 |
Trevor Hughes, Rick Jervis, Jonathan Shorman and William M. WelchPresident Obama declares a major disaster in OklahomaAt least 24 people -- nine of them children -- are killed and more than 200 injured after tornado levels Moore%2C Okla.National Weather Service estimates winds approached 200 mph9 year old girl identifi... | 0 |
The Week in Patriarchy is a weekly roundup of what’s happening in the world of feminism and sexism. If you’re not already receiving it by email, make sure to subscribe.Why are sexual assault and misbehaviour allegations against Biden being ignored?Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has been acc... | 0 |
Credit...Franck Robichon/EPA, via ShutterstockJune 9, 2019FUKUOKA, Japan — Global finance leaders meeting in Japan this weekend said they were increasingly worried that the trade dispute between the United States and China, which shows no signs of abating, could propel the world economy into a crisis.The sense of gloom... | 0 |
Rubio's support is crucial for the Gang of Eight's success. Sen. Marco Rubio issued an Easter morning statement saying he is “encouraged” by progress in talks on immigration reform but added: “Reports that the bipartisan group of eight senators have agreed on a legislative proposal are premature.” The headline of his ... | 0 |
Credit...David Zalubowski/Associated PressOct. 14, 2014WASHINGTON — After countless dire emails and months of fading bravado, national Democrats in recent days have signaled with their money what they have been loath to acknowledge out loud: They will not win back the House and they will most likely lose additional sea... | 0 |
Washington (CNN)With the Russia investigation over, there's a new conflict consuming Washington: Attorney General William Barr versus special counsel Robert Mueller.The tension between the two men -- Barr, the public face of the Justice Department, and Mueller, an outwardly silent figure who's spoken publicly only thro... | 0 |
Days before she tested positive for COVID-19 in early April, Tanya Beckford was already worried about dying because of the conditions in the Connecticut nursing home where she has worked for 23 years. She wasn’t feeling well and says she and her co-workers, facing a shortage of masks, gloves and gowns, had started wear... | 0 |
On the morning of March 11th, 2004, ten bombs exploded during the morning commute at Madrid’s Atocha train station. One hundred and ninety-two people were murdered and over 2,000 injured. Three days later, the government of Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar lost power in an election that swung suddenly to the Socialist P... | 0 |
During the 2016 presidential campaign, one candidate famously claimed that drug companies were “getting away with murder”—using armies of lobbyists to influence Congress and artificially inflating drug prices.But a lot can change in two years. That candidate was Donald Trump, who aggravated fellow Republicans on the tr... | 0 |
“A new Rasmussen poll just came out just a very short while ago, and it has our approval rating at 55 percent and going up.”Trump has a tendency to focus only on polls that are good for him. Rasmussen has a right-leaning bias and earns a C+ grade from FiveThirtyEight.com. Other polls show Trump with significantly lower... | 0 |
Janet Napolitano, who as President Obama’s homeland security secretary has one of the broadest and most challenging portfolios of any Cabinet member, announced Friday that she is stepping down to become president of the University of California system. Napolitano has been a central figure in the debates over immigratio... | 0 |
President Donald Trump on Thursday issued “a full pardon” to Dinesh D’Souza, a conservative activist and provocateur who regularly peddles conspiracy theories.D’Souza pleaded guilty in 2014 to violating campaign finance laws with an illegal donation to a GOP Senate candidate.Trump announced the pardon in a tweet, claim... | 0 |
Consider him the elephant not in the room, simultaneously absent from this picture and looming over it.Donald Trump did not attend Saturday’s funeral of Barbara Bush in Houston, Texas. Reporters were told that was because Trump generously wanted to spare the mourning Bush family the “disruptions due to added security” ... | 0 |
Donald Trump unleashed an early-morning tirade against former Miss Universe winner Alicia Machado on Twitter. | AP Photo
The Republican nominee loses all impulse control, and unleashes a violent Twitter rant against his Miss Universe nemesis.
While Hillary Clinton is riding high after the first presidential debate, D... | 0 |
The Israeli air force has destroyed a tower block in Gaza City housing the offices of the Associated Press and Al Jazeera in what has widely been decried as an attack on press freedom.The airstrikes on Saturday – the sixth consecutive day of hostilities between Israel and Hamas – came roughly an hour after the Israeli ... | 0 |
The Philadelphia Inquirer's executive editor is stepping down after his newspaper ran a headline reading "Buildings Matter, Too" that garnered widespread backlash. June 12 will be the last day for the newspaper’s top editor, Stan Wischnowski, CNN reported, citing a memo shared with the Inquirer’s staff. His replacemen... | 0 |
Politics|State Department Proposes January Release of Hillary Clinton Emailshttps://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/us/politics/state-department-proposes-january-release-of-clinton-emails.htmlMay 19, 2015More than 50,000 pages of emails from Hillary Rodham Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state might not be made public unti... | 0 |
PoliticsBiden Keeps Up Pressure On Putin To Pull Back Russian Troops, End Ukraine CrisisRussian President Vladimir Putin has suggested there may be a diplomatic solution to the predicament he created.S.V. DateU.S. NewsU.S. Skater Vincent Zhou Recalls Most ‘Difficult’ Moment From COVID Isolation At OlympicsThe 21-year-o... | 0 |
Monica Lewinsky speaks onstage during The Hollywood Reporter's Power 100 Women In Entertainment at Milk Studios on December 5, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Jesse Grant/Getty Images for The Hollywood R) Monica Lewinsky is having a déjà vu day. The former White House intern was incredulous Friday amid revelatio... | 0 |
"I'm excited to join @CNN to help shed light on the election and the candidates' experiences," Yang wrote in a tweet following the announcement. "Learned a lot these past months and am glad to contribute to the public discussion."He'll appear on the network in his new capacity later Wednesday, he added. Yang, a busines... | 0 |
The latest White House fence jumper has been charged with assault of two police dogs and making threats, officials said Thursday, and has had previous run-ins with law enforcement at the executive mansion and elsewhere.Dominic Adesanya, 23, of Bel Air, Md., is currently in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service for j... | 0 |
Trump Steps Up Attacks on Mail Vote, Making False Claims About FraudPresident Trump initially said he might withhold federal funding for Michigan and Nevada if the states moved forward in expanding vote by mail, though he later backed off that threat.Credit...Megan Jelinger/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesPublished ... | 0 |
Credit...Adrees Latif/ReutersAug. 21, 2014FERGUSON, Mo. — Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the Missouri National Guard to begin a withdrawal from this small city on Thursday, signaling that the authorities believed they had largely restored order after nearly two weeks of unrest set off by the police shooting of an unarmed, 18-y... | 0 |
Syria took a break on Tuesday from its gruesome six-year civil war to announce plans to sign the Paris climate agreement, leaving the United States as the only country to reject the emissions-cutting deal. The announcement came at the 23rd Conference of the Parties in Bonn, Germany, the world’s biggest climate conferen... | 0 |
FUJAIRAH, United Arab Emirates — A U.S. drone was shot down in international airspace above the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, U.S. Central Command said, contradicting a claim by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard that it had struck the aircraft after it entered Iranian airspace.The news comes amid rising tensions in the region... | 0 |
The reaction signals a widening rift among Western allies over China. French officials accused President Biden of acting like his predecessor.Credit...Ludovic Marin/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesPublished Sept. 16, 2021Updated Nov. 9, 2021PARIS — President Biden’s announcement of a deal to help Australia deploy nu... | 0 |
Establishment Republicans initially reacted with horror. But Trump’s 36-second off-script jeremiad proved a key turning point toward victory for the polarizing nominee, White House officials and Kavanaugh allies said, turbocharging momentum behind Kavanaugh just as his fate appeared most in doubt. Tuesday evening in So... | 0 |
WASHINGTON ― Lawmakers on Capitol Hill broadly agreed on Tuesday that something should be done about young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and who will eventually lose deportation protections if Congress does not step in to help them. But Republicans are already placing conditions on their supp... | 0 |
Ezra KleinAug. 26, 2021Credit...Bryan Denton for The New York TimesIn 2005, two of my colleagues at The American Prospect, Sam Rosenfeld and Matt Yglesias, wrote an essay I think about often. It was called “The Incompetence Dodge,” and it argued that American policymakers and pundits routinely try to rescue the reputat... | 0 |
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office released an analysis on the minimum wageA %2410.10 hike could lift 900%2C000 workers out of poverty%2C but cost 500%2C000 jobsDemocrats say the CBO projections can be unreliableWASHINGTON — President Obama's call to raise the federal minimum wage could help lift 900,000 work... | 0 |
WASHINGTON – Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh spoke to Fox News in an interview aired Monday night on "The Story with Martha MacCallum," following allegations of sexual misconduct by two women.Sitting next to his wife, Ashley Estes Kavanaugh, the nominee flatly refuted the accusations as he sought to defend himsel... | 0 |
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden criticized Russia in his first visit to the State Department on Thursday, part of the new leader's effort to reverse the foreign policy posture of his predecessor."I made it clear to President Putin in a manner very different from my predecessor that the days of the United States rollin... | 0 |
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is exploring "mechanisms" to revoke security clearances for former U.S. officials who have criticized him for his handling of the Russia investigation and his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Monday.Sanders said the ad... | 0 |
The lawsuit, brought by 18 Republican-led states, could severely disrupt the country’s $3.5 trillion health care system. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images
health care The lawsuit could jeopardize health care coverage for more than 20 million people insured through the 2010 health care law.
Obamacare’s future will once again ... | 0 |
It looks like President Trump got his point across.The Justice Department has decided to back off its earlier recommendation that Trump's longtime adviser Roger Stone receive a sentencing of seven to nine years following his seven-count conviction last year for lying to Congress, witness tampering, and obstructing a Ho... | 0 |
Police: Boston bombings suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev is in custody.
His brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed earlier Friday.
Police: Events began after store robbery, fatal shooting of MIT police officer Thursday night.
Police believe brothers were involved in officer's death; transit officer also wounded during overnigh... | 0 |
Story highlightsPeter Bergen: Romney sought to draw clear line between his and Obama's foreign policyHe says Romney's problem is Obama set a tough line with drone war, bin Laden missionRomney made sense on idea of tying Egypt aid to democracy, fulfilling peace treaty, he saysBergen: Romney trying to create illusion of ... | 0 |
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