Budget Battles
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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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Trump Lashes Out, Vows to Appeal Guilty Verdict
Donald Trump today vowed to appeal his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments made to silence an adult film star’s story about a sexual encounter...
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After the Capitol Attack: What Happens Next
The fallout from Wednesday’s chaos at the Capitol continued Thursday — and will likely be felt for some time. Here are the top developments: Congress certifies election, Trump says he will leave:...
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How Do We Respond to the Trump Insurrection?
Today, January 6, 2021, is a date which will live in infamy, to borrow President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s words after Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941. Only today’s horrifying attack on American...
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Here’s How to Tell If John Kelly Really Has the White House Under Control
By Rob GarverPresident Trump’s decision to replace former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus with retired Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, until recently the head of the Department of Homeland Security, is...
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US Seen as Major Global Threat Along with ISIS, Climate Change: Pew Poll
A new Pew Research Center poll of nearly 42,000 people across 38 countries found the threat of climate change is nearly as great as terrorism from ISIS. Sixty-two percent of those polled said that...
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If Demographics Is Destiny, 80 Million Millennials Will Decide America’s Future
By Liz PeekIt wasn’t James Comey that torpedoed Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid. It wasn’t Jeremy Corbyn who upset Teresa May. It wasn’t fed-up workers who gave the National Front their best-ever showing in...
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Time for Trump to Face It: From Now on, Every Week Is ‘Russia Week’
By Rob GarverThe Trump administration’s efforts to keep Russian interference in last year’s election out of the headlines are being overwhelmed by events, as another week ostensibly dedicated to a different issue...
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As Puerto Rico Votes on Statehood, Economic Distress Looms Large
By Leslie Picker, CNBCSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The question of "status," whether Puerto Rico should be admitted as a U.S. state, remain a commonwealth or seek sovereignty — has been an undercurrent of every major policy...
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Democrats May Be Blowing Their Best Chance for a Big Win Against the GOP
By Eric PianinDemocrats are improving their standing on the issues nationally, but the party is holding back on spending in a key congressional race in Georgia.
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The Fight Over the 2020 Census Could Determine Which Party Controls Congress
By Jay L. Zagorsky, The ConversationJohn H. Thompson, the director of the U.S. Census Bureau, just resigned amid a funding fight over the 2020 Census . Since it comes at the same time that the president fired the director of the FBI ,...
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10 Things You Should Know About Peter Thiel
By Suman BhattacharyyaWhen 150 Silicon Valley executives penned an open letter warning of the dangers of a Donald Trump presidency, one big name wasn’t on that list: libertarian billionaire PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel...
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On the Streets of Cleveland, Capitalism Is the RNC’s Real Winner
By Rob GarverIn this city currently overflowing with Communists, Corporatists, Socialists, and Anarchists, all competing to get their messages across, the one ideology that is winning hands-down on the streets of...
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Here’s Why Mark Cuban Went From Trump Supporter to #NeverTrump
By Jethro Nededog, Business InsiderTech billionaire and "Shark Tank" host Mark Cuban used to support Donald Trump's presidential run, but he has since changed his mind. On Wednesday's "Late Show," host Stephen Colbert asked Cuban why...
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$733 Million and the Texas-Mexico Border Still Isn’t Secure
By Ciro ScottiAbout 2,000 miles from the Republican National Convention in Cleveland is the original focal point of the Trump Campaign – the porous U.S. border with Mexico. But the man with a plan to build a wall...
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13 Things You Should Know About Ivanka Trump
By Emily Shah, The Fiscal TimesOn the final night of the Republican National Convention, the presidential nominee is almost always introduced by his wife. Not Donald Trump. Before he formally accepts the Republican presidential...