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The Same Twitter Bots That Helped Trump Tried to Sink Macron, Researcher Says
Emilio Ferrara analyzed pro-Trump bots during the 2016 election and found a link to anti-Macron bots in 2017.
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Republican Lawmakers Buy Health Insurance Stocks as Repeal Effort Moves Forward
Just as the House Republican bill to slash much of the Affordable Care Act moved forward, some lawmakers started trading health care stocks.
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Congress Must Reclaim War-Making Authority
The House Appropriations Committee unexpectedly passed an amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations bill last week that would repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) passed by Congress in 2001 after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. If this effort to revoke the AUMF proves successful, the repeal would effectively limit Donald Trump's ability to use military force against North Korea, Iran and elsewhere.
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Trump Administration Backs Texas Voter ID Law in Court
The Trump administration says Texas has scrubbed its voter ID law of any potential discrimination and wants a judge who once compared the measure to a “poll tax” on minorities and the poor to resist further action. That stance from the U.S. Justice Department, filed in court Wednesday, continues a reversal from Washington over what critics call one of the most restrictive voter ID laws in the nation. Under former President Barack Obama, the federal government joined minority rights groups in suing Texas over measure passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature in 2011.
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The Trump Administration’s Own Data Says Obamacare Isn’t Imploding
President Trump and other Republicans have said repeatedly that one reason they have to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act is that the law is failing: Healthy people are abandoning the insurance marketplaces set up by the law, driving up costs and leading yet more people to drop insurance — a so-called “death spiral.” Many health insurance experts, however, have argued that those fears are overblown, and they recently got support from an unlikely source: the Trump administration itself.
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Trump’s Son Met With Russian Lawyer After Being Promised Damaging Information on Clinton
Donald Trump Jr. is said to have arranged the meeting with the Kremlin-linked lawyer during the campaign after he was told he would be provided with details about Hillary Clinton.
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The Jim Crow Law Stopping African Americans From Voting in 2017
President Trump’s sham “Presidential Commission on Election Integrity”—which has received nearly universal opposition from voting rights advocates and state officials—follows the same template that conservative, regressive politicians have followed since the end of the Civil War to undermine American democracy. They seek to manipulate the language of liberty to conceal their true intentions and skew the electoral process in their favor, more often than not facilitating racial oppression in the process.
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Mike Pence says he touched NASA equipment on a dare
The US Vice President placed his hands on a piece of the Orion spacecraft while on a tour at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, despite a sign that forbade it
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Trump Jr. Was Told in Email of Russian Effort to Aid Campaign
The president’s son was told in an email that the Russian government wanted to help Donald J. Trump’s election bid last year.
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Trump’s Big Political Asset Is Supporters Who Believe Any Negative News Is Fake
GOP “base” voters have long regarded the media as “biased” allies of their enemies. It’s taken Trump to convince them any bad news is just made up.
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Why Single-Payer Health Care Saves Money
The system would probably mean higher taxes, but overall costs for most people would be much lower.
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House Democrats want to know why a major Russian money-laundering case was abruptly settled
Democrats sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking why the Department of Justice decided to settle a major money-laundering case.
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The Trump White House is a confederacy of dingbats
When a scandal breaks in Washington, what we often discover is not a finely constructed conspiracy with multiple moving parts and a sinister genius pulling the strings, but stunning overconfidence and outright buffoonery. The question that often comes up is “How the hell were they dumb enough to think they could get away with that?” That happens even when you’re talking about very smart people (Richard Nixon, after all, was extremely smart).
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Trump Tower Russia meeting: At least eight people in the room
The June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort included at least eight people.
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Fox News is trying to normalize collusion
The network is entering dangerous territory to defend Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian attorney.
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The Obama Foundation is Accepting Millions in Corporate Donations, Even Though the President Spent Years Criticizing Them
Donors have included Microsoft and Exelon.
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Six Months In, Trump Is Historically Unpopular
President Trump’s popularity has not improved since he took office.
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Latest health care bill collapses
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was handed devastating news Monday evening just hours after the Senate was gaveled back into session: Two more defections on his health care bill.
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Jeff Sessions wants police to take more cash from American citizens
His predecessor, Eric Holder, had curtailed the practice.
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John McCain Has Been Diagnosed With Brain Cancer
Medical officials found a brain tumor known as glioblastoma.
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