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Trump is attempting a coup in plain sight
A few years ago, there was a boom of articles called “If it happened there,” imagining how the American press would cover this or that story if it happened in another country. How would we cover the government shutdown if it happened in another country? The Ferguson protests? The Oregon militia siege? George Floyd’s killing? Mike Bloomberg?
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The US has turned its back on skilled migrants, giving Australia an opening
The outgoing Trump administration presided over one of the most dramatic tightenings in US immigration policy since the 1930s. Along with declining fertility, this saw US population growth fall to its lowest rate in a century, even before the onset of the pandemic.
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Review: Barack Obama's memoir is a masterful lament over the fragility of hope
"A Promised Land," out Tuesday in a worldwide release, eloquently and ruefully documents the first two and a half years of Obama's presidency.
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Trump asked for options for attacking Iran last week, but held off
President Donald Trump, with two months left in office, last week asked for options on attacking Iran's main nuclear site, but ultimately decided against taking the dramatic step, a U.S. official said on Monday.
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Can America Restore the Rule of Law Without Prosecuting Trump?
Donald Trump’s potential criminal liability is the key to understanding his presidency. When he leaves office, it will present the country with a historic dilemma.
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Biden to enlist Agriculture, Transportation agencies in climate fight
President-elect Joe Biden is eyeing the departments of Agriculture and Transportation as key partners for achieving his climate goals, exciting progressives by broadening efforts beyond traditional environmental agencies. Biden’s climate plan calls for harnessing the power of agriculture to capture and store carbon while innovating to reduce its own footprint. In the transportation sector, he’s called for a massive investment in transit and elective vehicle infrastructure to reduce reliance on gas-powered vehicles.
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Julian Assange: Three myths destroyed by defence witness statements
Witness statements towards the journalistic integrity of Julian Assange have been heard in court, debunking various myths in the process.
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MAGA Truthers Make Desperate Last Stand at Miami Church Vigil
On Wednesday night, Alberto Delgado strolled onto the stage of Alpha & Omega, the Miami-area Evangelical megachurch where he serves as senior pastor, and promised nearly 200 MAGA diehards that Donald Trump would serve another term as president. Despite an avalanche of court rulings rejecting Trump’s fact-free claims of voter fraud, Delgado—a snow-haired, natty-dressed preacher with a baritone voice and who serves as a religious adviser to Trump—assured his flock that the fight for the White House was just getting started.
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Bette Midler urges people to ignore Trump in scathing open letter: "Face it! You lost!"
Bette Midler has tweeted a scathing open letter directing at Donald Trump, mocking the president's refusal to concede and urging people to ignore him. The Hocus Pocus star is famously not a fan of the Trump administration, often tweeting her disdain for the president—and she did not hold back in her latest tirade on Twitter.
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Nevada becomes first state to protect same-sex marriage in its constitution
Nevada — home to Las Vegas, the self-proclaimed wedding capital of the world — has enshrined the right to marriage equality in its constitution.
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US formally withdraws from Open Skies Treaty that bolstered European security
The US on Sunday formally exited the decades-old Open Skies Treaty, some six months after President Donald Trump first announced the decision, according to the State Department.
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How Trump Sold Failure to 70 Million People
The president convinced many voters that his response to the pandemic was not a disaster. The psychology of medical fraud is simple, timeless, and tragic.
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Obamas producing comedy series about chaos of Trump administration
Series to ask if government is a dirty word or a trusted institution
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Michigan certifies Biden win; a setback for Trump challenge
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan election officials on Monday certified Democrat Joe Biden’s 154,000-vote victory in the state, another setback for President Donald Trump in his futile effort to...
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"The system was rigged": Fox News host Tucker Carlson claims "presidential election was not fair"
On Fox News Monday, Tucker Carlson — who just a few days previously criticized President Donald Trump's attorney for refusing to provide evidence for voter fraud conspiracy theories — attacked the entire voting process as unfair.
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Twitter will begin warning you a tweet is misleading even if you're just liking it
It may continue slowing down the spread of misinformation.
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Trump pardons former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI
Flynn later sought to withdraw his plea and the Justice Department tried to dismiss the case.
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Appeals court deals Trump-Giuliani Pennsylvania lawsuit yet another blow
A federal appeals court Friday rejected the Trump campaign's effort to revive its lawsuit claiming that Pennsylvania officials conducted the election in a way that discriminated against those who voted for President Donald Trump. "Calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here," said a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, based in Philadelphia.
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‘Mini desk. Tiny hands. Small soul’: Trump mocked for giving speech at little table
For a US president obsessed by size – his hands, his wealth, his crowds – Donald Trump made something of a bold U-turn on Thursday night by addressing the country from a desk seemingly designed for a leprechaun.
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Trump supporter who gave $2.5m to fight election fraud wants money back
Businessman Fredric Eshelman sues pro-Trump ‘election ethics’ group citing ‘disappointing results’ of effort to expose cheating
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