Within a matter of months, almost half of the judges on the powerful 11th circuit court of appeals will have been appointed by President Trump. On Thursday, Judge Stanley Marcus, a Clinton appointee, announced he will take senior status on the federal appeals court in Atlanta. Marcus’s decision, first reported …
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President Donald Trump wants to bring new meaning to the term bomb cyclone. According to reporting by Axios, Trump has suggested multiple times to Homeland Security and national security staff that the United States should drop a nuclear bomb on hurricanes to change their path and deter them from hitting …
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When he escalated trade hostilities with China in 2018, president Trump famously declared “trade wars are good and easy to win.” American consumers may disagree. The trade taxes Trump has levied on Chinese goods are already costing American families $600 a year, and that total is set to jump to …
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Immigration officials on Wednesday raided a series of food-processing plants in Mississippi, arresting 680 suspected undocumented immigrants. It could be the biggest workplace immigration enforcement action in a single state, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s acting director Matthew Albence told the Associated Press.Children of the immigrants were left behind without …
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WASHINGTON — When I paid a visit back in June to the campaign headquarters of Democratic presidential contender Andrew Yang, the candidate and his team were riding high. He’d qualified for the first and second DNC debates. The Yang Gang, his fervent online following, was growing by the day. What …
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In calling for an investigation into Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) on Tuesday, President Trump made it four straight days of bashing the House Oversight Committee chairman. Driving the president’s vitriol is, among other things, the fact that Cummings’ committee is investigating potential misconduct by Trump and his administration. It’s understandable …
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I told Cory Booker’s team before our arranged meeting time in San Diego that a black man who is running for president of the United States, standing six-foot-two, would stand out anywhere. But this is Comic-Con, and Comic-Con tells me that I am overconfident. The hotel lobby where we need …
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Democratic presidential candidate Senator Cory Booker told Chuck Todd on Meet the Press Sunday that fellow candidate Joe Biden has shown “an inability to talk candidly about the mistakes he made” regarding race. Todd asked Booker about Biden’s “hoodie” comments that Booker had taken issue with on Twitter earlier this …
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In an interview that aired on Sunday’s Meet the Press, President Donald Trump was asked by host Chuck Todd why the president turns a blind eye to the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and human rights abuses, while overruling congress and allowing more arms sales to Saudi Arabia. …
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President Trump announced on Thursday that Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be leaving the White House at the end of June. “After 3 1/2 years, our wonderful Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be leaving the White House at the end of the month and going home to the Great State …
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