Month: August 2019

Click:cnc prototyping More than half of the House Democratic caucus supports opening an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. The number of House Democrats calling for an impeachment inquiry reached 118 with the support of Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Calif.) on Friday, and now includes more than half of the 235-person Democratic caucus. (Other news outlets have […]

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At least 17 million people were removed from the voter rolls between the 2016 election and the 2018 midterms, according to a new report published by the Brennan Center for Justice this week.  The study updated an in-depth 2018 analysis on voter purges and offered further evidence that certain places continued to more aggressively remove […]

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The daughter of former President Ronald Reagan published an op-ed in The Washington Post on Thursday condemning her late father’s recently uncovered racist remarks and asking the public to forgive him. “There is no defense, no rationalization, no suitable explanation for what my father said on that taped phone conversation,” Patti Davis wrote about the […]

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The Justice Department has decided not to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey over memos he wrote about his meetings with President Donald Trump and later shared with a friend, according to reports from CNN, The Washington Post and NBC News. People familiar with the Justice Department’s investigation into Comey’s memos told The New York […]

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WASHINGTON ― After years of decrying deficits and debt, the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a massive $2.7 trillion budget plan, 67-28, that will suspend the debt ceiling for two years and increase spending to both domestic and military programs. Thirty Republicans ― a majority of the GOP conference ― joined nearly every Democrat […]

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WASHINGTON ― Nearly three years after first promising to fix or replace a decaying and dangerous bridge across the Ohio River, President Donald Trump returns to Cincinnati on Thursday ― with the critical bridge unfixed, still decaying and still dangerous. Trump is to hold a reelection rally at the U.S. Bank Arena ― barely a […]

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) shared photos of herself and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) together in Ghana on Thursday, using the opportunity to fire back at President Donald Trump’s recent racist remarks against congresswomen of color. Pelosi “didn’t just make arrangements to send me back, she went back with me,” Omar, who was born in […]

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The Senate confirmed Trump nominee Kelly Knight Craft on Wednesday as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell tweeted about Craft’s confirmation, calling the Trump pick an “impressive nominee.” Craft fills a seven-month vacancy in an important diplomatic role, replacing Nikki Haley, who departed in December. Jonathan Cohen has been […]

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday continued his insult campaign against Baltimore, calling Maryland’s largest city “worse than Honduras.” “Baltimore happens to be about the worst case,” Trump told The Washington Post. “If you look at it statistically, it’s like, the number of shootings, the number of crimes, the number of everything — this morning I heard […]

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