President Donald Trump told reportersfollowing a rally in Nevada on Saturday that he planned to pull out of a more than 30-year nuclear arms pact with Russia. The president said not only has Russia not lived up to their end of the 1987 agreement, he claimed the deal has also …
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The inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security has released a special review of the Trump administration’s “Zero Tolerance Policy” that separated more than 2,600 migrant children from their parents earlier this year. The report — “Initial Observations Regarding Family Separation Issues Under the Zero Tolerance Policy” — is …
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WASHINGTON —Can a judge issue a subpoena for a sitting president in a criminal investigation? Can a president be indicted by a grand jury? Can a commander-in-chief pardon himself? These questions speak to the issue of executive power, and they’re more important than ever given the legal troubles and disregard …
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WASHINGTON —In the first trial to come out of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, a jury in northern Virginia convicted Paul Manafort, the former chairman of President Trump’s presidential campaign, of eight counts that include bank fraud and filing false tax returns. Federal district Judge T.S. Ellis III said that …
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The 2018 midterms are less than 100 days away, which means Americans are about to start seeing a lot of campaign commercials, if they aren’t already.While Democrats have tried to appeal to the working class, the go-to strategy for Republican candidates has been to pander to President Trump’s base. Brian …
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Despite a busy schedule of outrage-quelling following Monday’s face-palm press conference with Vladimir Putin, President Trump on Wednesday managed to weigh in on next Tuesday’s Republican primary runoff for Georgia governor. Though the state’s primary was held in May, leading Republican vote-getter Casey Cagle failed to receive 50 percent of …
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We were going to end up here eventually. A major story involving subjugated people of color was bound to become a conversation about offending privileged white folks. Chief White House bigot Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen – who is seemingly both a family separation skeptic and the …
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In January, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a 43-year-old Polish doctor named Lukasz Niec shortly after he saw his stepdaughter off to school. Niec was a legal resident of the United States, where he had lived since age five. He had a green card, a family and …
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The Inspector General of the Department of Justice has issued a long-awaited report on the actions taken by the FBI and DOJ in the lead-up to the 2016 election. The report is voluminous – more than 560 pages – and includes juicy details. Some are maddening and historically important, others …
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This week, Kanye West, who endorsed Donald Trump in 2016, but didn’t vote, confirmed his support of the president. He took pictures in a (Trump-signed) MAGA hat, and even tweeted support for conservative political pundit Candace Owens and Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic who’s perhaps less well known …
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