The mass murder of 50 worshippers inside two Christchurch, New Zealand, mosques could not deter President Trump from his appointed rounds. On Friday, he did not consider postponing or even de-emphasizing a ceremony in the Oval Office marking his first veto, rejecting the Congressional block on his dubious national emergency …
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President Trump has some bold thoughts on airplane technology. “Airplanes are becoming far too complex to fly,” the president tweeted Tuesday morning. “Pilots are no longer needed, but rather computer scientists from MIT. I see it all the time in many products. Always seeking to go one unnecessary step further, …
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Hillary Clinton will not seek a rematch with Donald Trump. The popular-vote winner from 2016 told reporters for News 12, a Hudson Valley station in New York, that she is not a going to be a candidate in 2020: “I’m not running,” Clinton said — but quickly added: “I’m going …
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Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) launched his presidential campaign with a rally in Brooklyn, where he was born and raised in a rent-controlled apartment by his mother and immigrant father. In a speech delivered at Brooklyn College, where he was a student for a year, Sanders emphasized his personal story, a …
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President Trump will meet with Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Wednesday. It will be the second time Trump has met with the North Korean dictator since taking office, the first coming last June when the two leaders convened in Singapore. Trump emerged from that summit speaking breathlessly about the …
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Republicans pride themselves on fiscal responsibility. Or at least they used to. Since President Trump found his way into the party’s bloodstream, conservative lawmakers have only been able to pay lip service to the crisis, which is growing worse despite a robust economy. On Tuesday, the Treasury Department reported that …
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Presidential pardon power has always been political. But few presidents have wielded it to reward heroes of a political base like Donald Trump, who has pardoned the ranchers who set off the Malheur Occupation, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Dick Cheney’s henchman Scooter Libby. Today, the pardon power …
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Michael Cohen is going to testify before Congress whether he wants to or not. A day after President Trump’s former attorney and “fixer” postponed plans to testify before Congress voluntarily on February 7th, the Senate Intelligence Committee issued a subpoena that will effectively force Cohen to testify next month. Though …
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Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump‘s former lawyer and fixer, was sentenced to 36 months in prison for campaign finance violations on Wednesday morning. Cohen admitted to orchestrating hush money payments to two women who had affairs with his former boss. The money, which Cohen told prosecutors was delivered at Trump’s …
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President Trump will attend George H.W. Bush’s funeral Wednesday at Washington National Cathedral. The family wants to keep things cordial. The Washington Post reported Monday that in inviting Trump to the funeral this summer, the Bush family gave the president assurances that the service would be devoid of anti-Trump sentiments.“The …
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