Listen to an audio version of this story below: Plumbers and Steamfitters Local Union 33 has a sculpture of two 20-foot wrenches emerging from the mud out by its pocked parking lot in Des Moines, Iowa. Inside, a public bathroom features a shower adorned with gone-gray towels and multiple containers …
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Lawyers who visited a migrant detention center in McAllen, Texas, forced Border Patrol to hospitalize four toddlers who were severely ill and not receiving medical attention, HuffPost reported. All of the children hospitalized were under the age of three and, according to the lawyers, were exhibiting symptoms of fever, cough, …
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Elizabeth Warren has jumped into second place nationally in a poll of the Democratic 2020 field. The Economist/YouGov survey shows her surge has come at the expense of Bernie Sanders, who now sits in third place. No surprise: The poll finds Joe Biden still comfortably in first place. But the …
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Bloomberg’s Jonathan Bernstein just published a new piece called, “Is Bernie Finished?” Citing Iowa poll numbers that show poor Sanders “essentially in a three person race for second” (he actually is in second, but whatever), its premise is that Bernie now rests “at the fringes of plausibility.” Worse, he could …
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What even is this world we are living in? British network Sky News promoted its upcoming coverage of President Donald Trump‘s visit to the United Kingdom with an ad featuring a giant baby balloon version of the president. In the ad, as an gigantic shadow looms over Britain, citizens look …
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Rep. Duncan S. Hunter (R-CA) told a crowd at a border event this weekend that while he served as a Marine, he took photos of the bodies of dead combatants. Hunter, who appeared at the event with his former congressman father, admitted to this while defending Special Warfare Operator Chief …
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On Friday night, after Moby told HBO’s Real Time host Bill Maher a story about how he rubbed his “flaccid penis” against Donald Trump at a party they both attended in 2001, the musician and the host demonstrated how they are coping with the insane political world of President Trump …
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In the fight to legalize pot, enthusiasts have largely pointed to the unjust demonization of the drug itself. Weed is no more harmful than alcohol, the argument goes, so why not tax it and regulate it the same way? That logic has carried the day in nearly a dozen pot-legal …
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President Trump’s vaunted negotiating prowess hasn’t been able to yield much from North Korea. Not only has the dictatorship failed to denuclearize, it reportedly wouldn’t agree to give up Otto Warmbier without the promise of a ransom. On Thursday, the Washington Post revealed that North Korea billed the United States …
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President Donald Trump‘s attorney Rudy Giuliani once again hit the Sunday morning shows to defend the embattled president and, like many times before, seemingly did more harm than good. But, at this point, one has to wonder if sending Rudy out to perform his carnival act is a weird strategy …
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