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Senators introduce bill to end federal medical marijuana prohibition
United States Senators Rand Paul of Kentucky, Corey Booker of New Jersey and Kirsten Gillibrand from New York introduced a bill that would end the federal prohibition of medical marijuana and take steps to improve research.
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Donald Trump said his approval rating is higher than Obama's. Big mistake
Donald Trump has claimed his approval rating is higher than that of Barack Obama – despite the data he is referring to suggesting the opposite is true. “The new Rasmussen Poll, one of the most accurate in the 2016 election, just out with a Trump 50 per cent approval rating. That’s higher than O’s #’s!” he wrote in an early morning tweet.
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Trump criticized for tweeting about his approval ratings instead of tragic Navy accident
It's not the first time Trump has faced disapproval for this.
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Rick Perry’s plan to kill funding for wind and solar power
Energy Secretary Rick Perry is cooking up a case to stifle further federal support of renewable wind and solar energy. He’s ordered a dubiously sourced staff study that is aimed to paint renewables as an unreliable source for the nation’s electric grid."
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Trump Is Likely To Get Rid Of The Special Counsel, One Way Or Another
Trump is already well down the road toward executing a plan to get rid of the Special Counsel with deniability. He is setting the stage, and checking off the items on the to-do list. Claim that the investigation is a witch hunt. Check. Trash Rosenstein. Check. Let it be known that he is furious with Sessions. Check. Start a whispering campaign that Mueller, despite his gold-plated reputation, is a conflicted, political actor out to get Trump. Check. All of this begins the process of normalizing an upcoming act of blatant obstruction. If and when he does it, the public reaction will be furious.
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A pro-Trump group is using Obama's voice out of context in radio ad for Georgia's special election
An outside group that supports President Donald Trump is running a radio ad in Atlanta ahead of Georgia's special election Tuesday that takes the voice of former President Barack Obama out of context to make the argument that Democrats take black voters for granted.
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These Are the Best and Worst Countries to Be a Kid, and the U.S. Isn’t Even In the Top 20
You may think the U.S. ranks in the top five on the list; but think again. We’re not even in the top 20. The United States come in at 36, right below Bosnia and Herzegovina, and just barely squeezing into second-to-last place in the category for countries with, “Few children missing out on childhood.” The U.S. is a world leader in childhood poverty, as AlterNet has reported. At least 13 million U.S. kids live in food-insecure households, meaning they do not have access to nutritious foods on a regular basis, according to the latest statistics. While the U.S. has relatively strict child labor laws, the amount of oversight of labor in general
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198 million Americans hit by 'largest ever' voter records leak
Personal data on 198 million voters, including analytics data that suggests who a person is likely to vote for and why, was stored on an unsecured Amazon server.
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CNN Reporter: White House Doesn't Want Its 'Evasive Answers' On Tape
CNN’s senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta on Monday said the White House is barring recording equipment from its daily press...
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Georgia’s Special Election Comes to a Nail-Biting Finish
Jon Ossoff, a Democrat, and Karen Handel, a Republican, will face off Tuesday in the most expensive House campaign in history — and one of the most consequential since the 1970s.
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Georgia special election: Republican Karen Handel beats Jon Ossoff in runoff
An energized Republican base kept Ossoff from accumulating a significant lead among early voters and doomed the hopes of the anti-Trump activists
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Senate Health Care Bill Includes Deep Cuts to Medicaid
Senate Republican leaders released their bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and they want to hold a vote on the measure next week.
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Analysis | Trump’s bluff on White House tapes wasn’t just dishonest — it was also a failure
Trump admits he has no tapes of his conversations with James B. Comey, after six long weeks.
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Trump Indicates Tweet on Tapes Was Meant to Affect Comey Testimony
In an interview on “Fox & Friends,” the president also raised questions about the impartiality of the special counsel for the Russia investigation, Robert S. Mueller III.
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Trump’s Lies
We have catalogued nearly every outright lie the president has told publicly since taking the oath of office.
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Manufactured illiteracy and miseducation: A long process of decline led to President Donald Trump
A deep-rooted crisis in education, and a long cultural and political decline, is what got us here. There's hope!
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Why the Right Wing's War on Facts Is Driving the Divide in America
Forget red state vs. blue state. Now the line of separation runs between those who prefer facts to fantasy. In Stephen Colbert’s epic performance at the 2006 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner he ironically stated that “Reality has a well-known liberal bias.” .
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Contending With the Trump Regime's New Immigration Practices: A Dispatch From the Trenches
In his first 100 days in office, Donald Trump has coordinated an unprecedented crackdown on immigration, poured hundreds of millions of dollars into state attacks on undocumented immigrants and funded a brutal expansion of the US deportation infrastructure. The force and viciousness of this new immigration regime led even a federal court judge to remark on its inhumanity. In his opinion on one case, Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the Ninth Circuit Court wrote, "The government forces us to participate in ripping apart a family … three United States citizen children will now have to choose between their father and their country."
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Ralph Nader: The Democrats Are Unable to Defend the U.S. from the “Most Vicious” Republican Party in History
The legendary consumer advocate describes his decades-long perspective on what brought the Democratic Party to its current state of collapse.
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Why Dems can’t break through on Obamacare repeal
A Trump-obsessed media and the GOP’s secrecy and speed have stymied the left and put a sweeping conservative bill on the verge of Senate passage.
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