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31% Think U.S. Civil War Likely Soon
Most voters fear that political violence is coming from opponents of the president’s policies, just as they did in the second year of Barack Obama’s presidency, and nearly one-in-three think a civil war is next.
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Trump “Charity” Exposed as Elaborate Scheme to Make Golf Debts Go Away
New York prosecutors have accused the president and his kids of “persistently illegal conduct” related to the Donald J. Trump Foundation.
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Scott Pruitt Personally Involved in ‘Ratf*cking’ Ex-Aides Who He Feels Betrayed Him
On May 18, a top aide to Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt testified to a congressional committee that she had been tasked with procuring her boss a used mattress from the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. Just days after news of that testimony broke, the aide, Pruitt’s now former director of scheduling Millan Hupp, submitted her resignation. But even though Hupp was gone from the agency, Pruitt wasn’t done with her.
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When Late-Night TV Is the News
It’s been a particularly weird week for late-night television hosts. It is beyond old hat to say that the world feels fake right now. I’ve personally moved beyond the computer-simulation theory to being 99 percent sure we’re in the Seltzer-Freiberg parody movie of the real world. To wit, Trump’s IRS nominee was Girls Gone Wild auteur Joe Francis’s lawyer during his tax-evasion moment, and one of the strongest links in our diplomatic chain is Dennis Rodman — and that’s only because a Canadian hipster magazine bluffed its way into becoming a global news organization.
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Woman confronts Pruitt at restaurant, tells him to resign
A woman publicly confronted Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt while he was eating lunch on Monday and urged him to resign, according to video posted on Facebook. "EPA head Scott Pruitt was 3 tables away as I ate lunch with my child. I had to say something," Kristin Mink posted on Facebook with an accompanying video of her encounter with Pruitt. Minka, who is a schoolteacher according to her Facebook profile, lists off multiple scandals Pruitt has been ensnared in since becoming EPA chief, including the rental of a Capitol Hill condo owned by the wife of an influential lobbyist.
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Federal court says U.S. breaking its own rules on asylum seekers
A federal judge on Monday determined the U.S. government is violating its own rules regarding the treatment of people seeking asylum. Judge James Boasberg issued a preliminary injunction ordering the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to stop what opponents called the arbitrary detention of legitimate asylum seekers. The case in question continues, but the injunction opens up yet another legal front in the multi-directional battle being waged by the Trump administration over immigration.
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Fifth Circuit Says No, You Fucking May Not Strip Search A Classful Of Female Students To Find $50
The Fifth Circuit Appeals Court convened to write an opinion [PDF] the judges shouldn't have had to write. But then, of course, they had to because the lower court screwed everything up. The first paragraph sums up the issue -- and the appeals...
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Church places cage around baby Jesus statue in US immigration protest
A US church protesting the Trump administration's widely-condemned immigration policy has made a bold statement.
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Record Number Of Native Americans Running For Office In Midterms
Deb Haaland could be the first Native American woman to head to Congress. She's one of a record number of Native American candidates running for office this year.
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The US-China trade war is about to get real
After months of threats and skirmishes, the trade war between the United States and China is about to get serious. On Friday, the world's top two economies are due to exchange fire by hitting $34 billion of each other's exports with steep new tariffs, the first moves in what may become a devastating cycle of retaliation. The planned measures have already unsettled markets and provoked warnings from companies of damage to their bottom lines and higher prices for consumers.
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Trump Accepts the Resignation of Scott Pruitt, the E.P.A. Chief
Mr. Pruitt, a former Oklahoma attorney general, had been hailed by conservatives for his zealous deregulation, but could not overcome the stain of ethics questions.
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Scott Pruitt, Trump’s E.P.A. Chief, Resigns Under Cloud of Ethics Scandals
Mr. Pruitt, a former Oklahoma attorney general, had been hailed by conservatives for his zealous deregulation, but could not overcome the stain of ethics questions.
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US Army quietly discharging immigrant recruits
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Some immigrant U.S. Army reservists and recruits who enlisted in the military with a promised path to citizenship are being abruptly discharged.
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Trump Creates ‘Denaturalization’ Task Force to Pursue Deportation Against Thousands of U.S. Citizens
There’s government pork and then there’s just swine.
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Mueller hires more prosecutors as Russia probe moves forward: report
Special counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly hiring additional prosecutors to work on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Several current and former U.S. officials said Mueller is adding prosecutors from U.S. attorney’s offices and the Justice Department headquarters, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Officials added that this could be a sign that Mueller is prepared to step away from the probe and leave it in the hands of a larger team of prosecutors, officials said.
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GOP congressional candidate tells Parkland father to stop 'exploiting' his daughter's death
A Republican running for Congress told the father of a Parkland, Fla., school shooting victim on Friday to stop "exploiting" his daughter’s death by calling for gun control legislation.
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Jim Jordan and the Ohio State sexual abuse controversy, explained
Former athletes say Jim Jordan knew about sexual abuse at Ohio State when he was an assistant wrestling coach there years ago and did nothing.
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The U.S. deported this mother to Guatemala. It kept her 6-year-old son.
On May 5, Lourdes Marianela De Leon boarded a bus in Guatemala with Leo, her son. Lourdes, a single mother, was 27. Leo was 6. In pictures, they're always smiling together, mom with a dimple on her left cheek, son with a toothy grin. Their goal: to cross the U.S. border illegally with Leo and start a new life with relatives in New Jersey.
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Soy farmers say they're getting hurt in Trump's trade war with China
"The math is simple. You tax soybean exports at 25 percent, and you have serious damage to U.S. farmers," said one Iowa grower.
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North Korea Slams U.S. Talks As 'Regrettable' After Pompeo Called Them 'Productive'
The two countries had different takes on meetings intended to follow up on a denuclearization agreement signed last month by President Trump and Kim Jong Un.
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