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This could 'end very badly': Trump officials warn on mortgage finance
The U.S. housing finance system is worse off today than it was on the cusp of the 2008 financial crisis, Republican lawmakers and Trump administration officials warned on Tuesday. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-controlled enterprises that stand behind half the country's mortgages, are way too undercapitalized, and lending standards have actually deteriorated since the housing crash, the officials said.
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'Morally Bankrupt and a Black Mark on America': Trump Condemned for Refusing to Grant Protected Status to Bahamian Hurricane Victims
Reports late Wednesday that the Trump administration will not offer Temporary Protected Status to Bahamians displaced by Hurricane Dorian drew outrage from lawmakers and rights advocates, who condemned the decision as an inhumane denial of secure refuge to victims of one of the most powerful and devastating storms in recorded history.
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Facial recognition tech is a problem. Here’s how the Democratic candidates plan to tackle it.
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White House Describes Saudi Oil Attack as “Their 9/11”
Fifteen of the 19 hijackers on September 11, 2001, were Saudi citizens.
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Trump’s communications with foreign leader are part of whistleblower complaint that spurred standoff between spy chief and Congress, former officials say
The president’s interaction with the foreign leader included a “promise” that prompted an intelligence official to file a formal whistleblower complaint, the officials said.
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Risking food safety, USDA plans to let slaughterhouses self-police
USDA should not be allowed to play politics with the safety of the American food supply and workers’ lives.
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Griswold: Postal union withdrawal could affect voters overseas, including military
The United States is on a course to withdraw from the Universal Postal Union, an international body that regulates postage rates between countries, and Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold is imploring President Donald Trump to reverse that decision because it will likely disenfranchise military and overseas voters.
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Missing piece to the Ukraine puzzle: State Department's overture to Rudy Giuliani
Giuliani didn't initiate contact with a Ukrainian presidential adviser — the U.S. State Department did, and asked him to help.
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Trump to snub climate summit for religious freedom meeting at UN
Donald Trump is set to attend the United Nations headquarters during Monday’s key summit on the climate crisis – but will be there to take part in a meeting on religious freedom instead. A senior UN official confirmed to the Guardian that the White House has booked one of the large conference rooms in the New York headquarters on Monday so that the president can address a gathering on religious freedom.
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The Saudi Crown Prince Plans to Make Us Forget About the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi Before the US Election
The hideous cruelty of the murder and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by a Saudi death squad almost a year ago still jumps from the pages of the latest apparent transcript of the conversation between his killers as they wait for him to arrive at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
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Pelosi Announces Formal Impeachment Inquiry Into President Trump
"The president must be held accountable," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday. "No one is above the law."
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Facebook promises not to stop politicians’ lies & hate
Facebook confirms it won’t fact check politicians’ speech or block their content if it’s newsworthy even if it violates the site’s hate-speech rules or other policies.
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Stressed out: Americans making themselves sick over politics
New Nebraska U-led research reports nearly 40% of Americans say politics is stressing them out, and one in five are losing sleep. The study published in PLOS ONE Sept. 25.
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Is Andrew Yang the Doomer Candidate?
Andrew Yang’s climate fatalism during Wednesday’s debate seemed to reflect a strange, esoteric nihilism taking root in the internet’s weirder corners.
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Google faces scrutiny from Congress, DOJ over plans to encrypt DNS
Officials are concerned encrypted DNS might give Google an unfair advantage.
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Andrew Yang proposes that your digital data be considered personal property
“Data generated by each individual needs to be owned by them, with certain rights conveyed that will allow them to know how it’s used and protect it.”
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Greta Thunberg tells Yahoo News: Powerful men like Trump 'want to silence' young climate activists
Teenage Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg believes that world leaders like President Trump have begun attacking the youth movement she has helped mobilize because they realize it is “making an impact,” she said in an exclusive interview with Yahoo News.
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Internal Email Shows GitHub Plans to Renew ICE Contract
Even though GitHub leadership and others oppose ICE’s child separation policy, an internal email suggests GitHub won’t stop ICE from renewing a contract with the tech company.
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Is Amazon Unstoppable?
Politicians want to rein in the retail giant. But Jeff Bezos, the master of cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back.
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California set to end private prisons and immigrant detention camps
America's largest state prison system is moving to quit the practice of far...
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