During a news conference on Saturday in Osaka, Japan, President Donald Trump once again made his ignorance and lack of curiosity embarrassingly clear. When asked about Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s recent opinion that Western-style liberalism had “become obsolete,” Trump responded as though Putin was speaking about liberals in America’s West …
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The number of Americans who support the start of impeachment hearings now for President Donald Trump is up 10 percentage points since May, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. The increase is due to a surge in support from Democrats. Forty-eight percent of Democrats want hearings to …
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Jon Stewart has largely stayed out of the public eye since stepping down from The Daily Show in 2015. But he hasn’t been shy about advocating for 9/11 survivors and first responders, many of whom are still sick and injured nearly 20 years after the terror attack. On Tuesday, Stewart …
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President Trump is an ambitious man. So ambitious, in fact, that his plans often extend beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. They’ve done so with Space Force, his proposed sixth branch of the military that would oversee American war-fighting efforts in space. They’ve also done so with his drive to return to …
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Back in 1994, then-Senator Joe Biden wrote a letter to a constituent who had contacted his office with a request. “Please don’t force me to pay for abortions against my conscience,” he said. Biden assured the man he understood, promising that any position he would take on abortion in the …
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Kim Jong-un is a brutal, murderous dictator who starves his own people and once blew up one of his generals with an anti-aircraft gun for falling asleep in a meeting. But as the saying goes, love is blind, and President Trump has done nothing but heap praise on North Korea‘s …
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President Trump didn’t have a lot to say following Robert’s Mueller’s big statement on Wednesday. Though the now-former special counsel explained that his office did not “have confidence the president did not commit a crime” and that Justice Department guidelines precluded a potential presidential indictment, Trump responded only with a …
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Last month, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) formally requested six years of President Trump’s tax returns from the IRS. Federal law holds that the the IRS, which is overseen by the Treasury Department, must comply with the request. But Trump maintained that his administration would not …
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Attorney General William Barr is scheduled to appear before the House Judiciary committee on Thursday to discuss the Mueller report, but Barr and committee chair Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) are currently sparring in the press about the conditions of his testimony. Barr has threatened not to show up to the …
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On Friday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren made it abundantly clear what she thinks should happen now that the redacted version of the Mueller report has been released—”impeachment proceedings against the President of the United States” should begin. The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate first took to Twitter to make her thoughts known: …
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