This article was originally published by Grist, and is republished here as part of an ongoing collaboration. Xavier Becerra, the first Latino attorney general of California, has been a thorn in the Trump administration’s side since President Donald Trump moved into the White House nearly four years ago. Becerra and …
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The premier of the Canadian province of Manitoba, Brian Pallister, got choked up as he pleaded with fellow citizens not to gather together during the coming holidays due to the potential spread of coronavirus. During a Thursday news conference, Pallister ridiculed virus deniers and spoke emotionally to Manitobans about the …
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WASHINGTON — The parents of murdered Democratic Party staffer Seth Rich have settled their blockbuster lawsuit against Fox News just as key figures inside the network, including hosts Sean Hannity and Lou Dobbs, were slated to potentially give testimony in the case. Joel and Mary Rich said in a statement …
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As Covid-19 spreads throughout the United States at an alarming rate — a million cases in the last six days — Dr. Anthony Fauci delivered some dark news on CNN’s State of the Union. Fauci said that a recent University of Washington model projection that estimated the country could see …
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With the hasty, hypocritical business of Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation to the Supreme Court completed, the Republican-led Senate has gone into recess for the next two weeks — meaning there will be no action on a new economic relief bill before the election. The move by majority leader Mitch McConnell …
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Donald Trump added controversy to the September law enforcement killing of antifa activist and murder suspect Michael Reinoehl, by alleging the U.S. Marshals “didn’t want to arrest him” and proudly declaring, “We got him.” Trump’s remarks came during a rally Thursday in Greenville, North Carolina. “We sent in the U.S. …
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WASHINGTON — Picture this: It’s the day after the election. Hordes of lawyers, journalists, and campaign operatives descend on Philadelphia and Harrisburg in the all-important battleground state of Pennsylvania. There, they spend days closely monitoring a dragged-out vote-counting process and preparing legal challenges to the final election result. In this …
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump‘s positive test for Covid-19 has triggered a public-health crisis at the highest levels of American government and set the stage for a vast contact tracing effort to understand how the president and First Lady Melania Trump got infected and to whom they might have spread …
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A Supreme Court seat has opened in an election year, and you’ll never guess who is strongly in favor of filling it — all of the people who were against it last time. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his Republican colleagues would like to fill the vacancy created by …
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Elizabeth Neumann voted for Donald Trump in 2016, and she recently served as Assistant Secretary for Threat Prevention and Security Policy at the Department of Homeland Security. Neumann is now speaking out against Trump as a “racist” and a danger to America. In a new video, she implicates Trump’s rhetoric …
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