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A Slippery, $39 Billion Slope: New Data Analysis Makes Case for Trade, Not Aid
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The U.S. Chamber crunched the numbers to determine how much it would cost American taxpayers to extend the same relative level of financial aid the administration has proposed for farmers to other...
Payment due: Pacific islands in the red as debts to China mount
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WELLINGTON/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Just over a decade ago, deadly riots in the capital of Tonga, Nuku’alofa, destroyed much of the small Pacific nation’s central business and government districts. Out...
Trump blasts media as 'unhinged' and 'crazy'
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8 years ago
President Donald Trump blasted the media as "unhinged" and "crazy" on Tuesday morning, adding that news organizations ruin the lives of "innocent" people as he continues his long-running battle...
WATCH: Ocasio-Cortez Supporters Asked To Explain How We'll Pay For 'All That Free Stuff'
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July 27, 2018 After her upset victory in the Democratic primary over incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley last month, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been touted as "the future" of the Democratic Party,...
Trump Administration Mulls a Unilateral Tax Cut for the Rich
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8 years ago
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering bypassing Congress to grant a $100 billion tax cut mainly to the wealthy, a legally tenuous maneuver that would cut capital gains taxation and...
Feds Examining Suspicious Money Movements Linked to Russian Maria Butina, associates
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8 years ago
NATIONAL SECURITY Feds examining suspicious money movements linked to Russian Maria Butina, associates BY PETER STONE AND GREG GORDON July 30, 2018 11:38 AM Updated July 30, 2018 03:46...
STATEMENT OF RYAN GOODMAN PROFESSOR OF LAW, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW AND CO-EDITORIN-CHIEF OF JUST SECURITY
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CONCERNING ELECTION INTERFERENCE: ENSURING LAW ENFORCEMENT IS EQUIPPED TO TARGET THOSE SEEKING TO DO HARM BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY UNITED STATES SENATE JUNE 12, 2018 RED BOX RULES....
Sen. Cruz Defends Alex Jones Against 30-Day Facebook Suspension
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Sen. Cruz Defends Alex Jones Against 30-Day Facebook Suspension https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/ashley-rae-goldenberg/2018/07/30/sen-cruz-defends-alex-jones-against-30-day-facebook...
2 dead in Carr fire as 37,000 flee 'terrifying' tornadoes of flame
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REDDING — A wildfire that roared with little warning into a Northern California city claimed two lives as thousands of people scrambled to escape before the walls of flames descended from forested...
Congressman Cites Western Journal as Example of Facebook Censoring Conservative Sites
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Arizona Republican Rep. Andy Biggs cited The Western Journal during an interview on Fox News on Wednesday as an example of Facebook continuing to censor conservative sites. On Tuesday, the House...
Plane said to carry war remains lands at US base
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UPDATE: PYEONGTAEK, South Korea — PYEONGTAEK, South Korea (AP) — A U.S. military plane has returned from North Korea and landed at Osan Air Base in South Korea after reportedly picking up the...
Trump was so excited about the dirt his campaign was going to receive from Russia two days later that he couldn’t help but brag about it in public that night.
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8 years ago
Trump was so excited about the dirt his campaign was going to receive from Russia two days later that he couldn’t help but brag about it in public that night....
NY Times Publisher to Trump: Your Language Is ‘Not Just Divisive but Increasingly Dangerous’
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8 years ago
Politics NY Times Publisher to Trump: Your Language Is ‘Not Just Divisive but Increasingly Dangerous’ Rosemary Rossi, The Wrap 20 hours ago NY Times Publisher to...
A Bombshell May Be Coming In The Russia Investigation - Witness To Tell Mueller That Trump Knew Of Trump Tower Meeting In Advance
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8 years ago
A Bombshell May Be Coming In The Russia Investigation - Witness To Tell Mueller That Trump Knew Of Trump Tower Meeting In Advance CNN is reporting that Michael Cohen will say that he was present...
The gang just as vicious as MS-13 but without the notoriety: Savage Trinitarios return to the spotlight after years in the shadows
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A ‘Wall of Grief’ mural marks the spot where a 15-year-old Bronx boy, who wanted to be a detective when he grew up, fell victim last month to a New York City drug gang with a long history of...
What, Us Socialists? Dems Try To Deny What Their Party Is Fast Becoming
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8 years ago
Political Parties: Democrats have been very busy lately trying to tell the public that theirs is not an extremist socialist party. But the public sees through the smoke screen. Just a third now...
California city OKs jail time for defying plastic straw ban
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Sippers, beware. A California coastal city has become the latest municipality to ban plastic straws, enacting what is potentially the strictest plastic prohibition in the country. Santa...
Epistocracy: a political theorist’s case for letting only the informed vote
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8 years ago
A political theorist’s provocative idea for how to fix democracy. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his wife, Melania Trump, cast their votes on Election Day at PS 59 on...
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