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President of Brazil Causes Uproar After Saying Holocaust Can be ‘Forgiven But Not Forgotten’
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MEDIAITE.COM › President of Brazil Causes Uproar After Saying Holocaust Can be ‘Forgiven But Not Forgotten’ TAMAR AUBER APRIL 14, 2019 The far-right president of...
Comparing presidential administrations by arrests and convictions: A warning for Trump appointees
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As Obama’s administration winds to a close, that remains true. Not one criminal indictment for anyone in the Obama administration over the entire eight years of his tenure. In fact, it is the...
Why having so many 'acting' leaders in the Trump administration could be problematic
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Experts warn of a “substitute teacher effect.” Even Republican lawmakers have voiced concern about a leadership void at critical agencies. But the President Donald Trump appears in no rush...
Brooklyn measles outbreak: How a glossy booklet spread anti-vaccine messages in Orthodox Jewish communities
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By Brandy Zadrozny As New York officials declared a public health emergency in parts of Brooklyn this week, establishing mandatory vaccinations in an effort to stop the city’s worst...
Conservatives Derail Congress' White Nationalism Hearing, Declare 'All Hate Speech' Matters
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Conservatives Derail Congress' White Nationalism Hearing, Declare 'All Hate Speech' Matters Andy Campbell, HuffPost Tue, Apr 9 4:09 PM EDT At a white nationalist...
Attorney General Says He Thinks ‘Spying Did Occur’ on Trump Campaign
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In his testimony before Congress, Attorney General William P. Barr said that he believed President Trump’s 2016 campaign was spied on by the government and that he wanted to ensure that there was...
Man accused of abandoning pet fish has animal cruelty charges dropped
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By Associated Press WILMINGTON, N.C. — Charges have been dropped against a North Carolina man accused of leaving his pet fish behind without food when he was evicted. New Hanover County District...
Some on Mueller’s Team See Their Findings as More Damaging for Trump Than Barr Revealed
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nytimes.com Some on Mueller’s Team See Their Findings as More Damaging for Trump Than Barr Revealed Attorney General William P. Barr has shown hints of frustration with how the rollout...
A Texas bill would make it possible to put women to death for having abortions
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Men and women, young and old, native Texans and immigrants, they rose to ask lawmakers to protect life, describing a “genocide” and foreseeing the arrival of “God’s wrath.” The act of public...
Texas advances bill that could make abortions punishable by death
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A total abortion ban criminalizing the procedure and classifying it as a homicide cleared a committee Tuesday and will now be debated at the Texas House of Representatives. If House Bill...
Trump disavows past enthusiasm for WikiLeaks after Assange’s arrest
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President Donald Trump declared on Thursday that "I know nothing about WikiLeaks" after its disheveled founder Julian Assange was hauled out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to face...
Waters tries to pin student debt crisis on banks
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Then, Waters turned the questions on the bank executives, asking what they intended to do about the student debt crisis: “What are you guys doing to help us with the student loan debt? Who...
'Gardening while black' lawsuit defendant hires white supremacist attorney
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'Gardening while black' lawsuit defendant hires white supremacist attorney Posted By Tom Perkins on Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 10:26 am Image via Twitter White supremacist Richard...
TAXES Twice as many companies paying zero taxes under Trump tax plan
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How will the right run cowardly away from this article? This story was published in partnership with NBC News. INTRODUCTION Taxpayers are scrambling to make last-minute payments due to...
Lawmakers Just Confronted the IRS Over Tax Audits That Target the Poor
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Ho Hum just another article the right will run away from Over the past six months, ProPublica has detailed the myriad ways the IRS has been gutted and how that has impacted its ability...
Nunes sending eight criminal referrals to Attorney General William Barr
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California Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday he was planning to send eight criminal referrals to Attorney General William Barr as soon as this...
The Daily Caller’s doxxing of Sleeping Giants was a dick move
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The Daily Caller — a right-wing news site founded by Tucker Carlson — today published an article doxxing one of the people behind Sleeping Giants, a social media campaign asking...
Wheaton scholars pen first 'Origins' college textbook bridging the Bible to ‘mainline science’
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BALTIMORE — Wheaton College professors have penned what is believed to be the first college-level textbook outlining mainstream scientific theories on origins of life and how they fit within a...
Ex-Dem staffer pleads guilty to 'doxxing' McConnell, others in GOP during Kavanaugh hearings
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A former House Democratic staffer pleaded guilty Friday to five federal offenses related to posting online the personal information of five Republican senators, including Senate...
HOW RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS STALK, DOX, AND HARASS THEIR ENEMIES
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CHAT LOGS OBTAINED from message boards used by neo-Nazis and other far-right groups show a concerted effort to compile private information on leftist enemies and circulate the data to...
Trump administration wants to build a wall around Burning Man
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Donald Trump's main policy initiative involves building a pointless wall across miles of empty desert. So perhaps it should come as no surprise that one local chapter of his administration has...
How Breitbart Unleashes Hate Mobs to Threaten, Dox, and Troll Trump Critics
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Conservative essayist Bethany S. Mandel, who has been awash in a deluge of social media abuse since she began denouncing Donald Trump, finally purchased a handgun over the weekend. “It’s a .22...
Nunes files $150M lawsuit against McClatchy, alleging conspiracy to derail Clinton, Russia probes
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House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes filed a $150 million lawsuit in Virginia state court against The McClatchy Company and others on Monday, alleging that one of the news...
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