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Obama attacks 'crazy stuff' from Trump
Former US President Barack Obama has launched a stinging attack on Donald Trump and the "crazy stuff that is coming out of this White House". "This is not normal, these are extraordinary times and they are dangerous times," Mr Obama told students at the University of Illinois. He called for "a restoration of honesty and decency and lawfulness in our government".
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Trump says good relations with Japan 'will end when I tell them how much they have to pay:' WSJ
U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested to The Wall Street Journal that he will take on Japan next in his fight to cut trade deficits with U.S. trading partners, according to a column carried on the paper's online edition Thursday. Citing a phone call he received from Trump, James Freeman, a columnist for the paper, wrote that the president "described his good relations with the Japanese leadership, but then added: 'Of course that will end as soon as I tell them how much they have to pay.'
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Trump Says He’s Preparing Tariffs on Further $267 Billion in Chinese Imports
President Trump said Friday that tariffs on another $267 billion in Chinese goods are ready to go and could be rolled out on short notice, reinforcing earlier threats and signaling no end in sight for the growing trade dispute. Speaking aboard Air Force One en route to Fargo, N.D., Mr. Trump said the tariffs would be in addition to the $200 billion in tariffs on Chinese goods the administration has been preparing, which he said will “take place very soon, depending on what happens.”
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Trump Wants to Polygraph His Own Staff. That’s Nuts.
Let’s make one thing absolutely clear: The polygraph is not a lie-detector test.
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How ‘Plaid Shirt Guy’ Got Prime Seating at a Trump Rally
Images of Tyler Linfesty behind President Trump at a rally looking incredulous during his speech gained widespread attention. But how did he end up in such a prominent seat?
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Donald Trump’s God-Talk Is Actually Turning America Off Religion
Perhaps the only subject Donald Trump likes to talk about as much as the almighty self is, well, Almighty God. Need proof? At a White House “state-like dinner” for evangelical leaders in late August, President Trump spoke about “the glory of God” and the “power of prayer,” while promising that he would ensure America would “forever proudly remain one nation under God.”
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Russia-linked professor who promised Trump campaign 'dirt' on Hillary Clinton 'may be deceased', court told
Joseph Mifsud held meetings with Donald Trump's jailed former foreign policy adviser
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California Tries New Tack on Gun Violence: Ammunition Control
The state already has some of the strictest gun control legislation. Now it's pushing to limit the unfettered sale of ammunition.
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Nike sales defy Kaepernick backlash
Critics of Nike's use of Colin Kaepernick in its ad campaign wanted consumers to boycott the brand.
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Trump Administration Wants to Make It Easier to Release Methane Into Air
The Trump administration, taking its third major step this year to roll back federal efforts to fight climate change, is preparing to make it significantly easier for energy companies to release methane into the atmosphere. Methane, which is among the most powerful greenhouse gases, routinely leaks from oil and gas wells, and energy companies have long said that the rules requiring them to test for emissions were costly and burdensome.
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Trump reportedly exploded at his ex-lawyer after he heard Mueller was looking into his relationship with Deutsche Bank: 'This is bulls---!'
Trump exploded at his former lawyer, John Dowd, after reading news reports that said special counsel Robert Mueller had subpoenaed records from Deutsche Bank, journalist Bob Woodward reported in his upcoming book, "Fear: Trump in the White House," which Business Insider obtained and reviewed.
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Tribes: Trump illegally approved oil pipeline from Canada
Native American tribes in Montana and South Dakota sued the Trump administration on Monday, claiming it approved an oil pipeline from Canada without considering potential damage to cultural sites from spills and construction. Attorneys for the Rosebud Sioux tribe and Fort Belknap Indian Reservation asked U.S. District Judge Brian Morris in Great Falls, Montana, to rescind the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, issued last year by the U.S. State Department.
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The US has spent $1.5 trillion on war since Sept 11 attacks
The collective wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria have cost U.S. taxpayers more than $1.5 trillion, according to a Defense Department report.
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A Series Of Suspicious Money Transfers Followed The Trump Tower Meeting
Investigators are focused on two bursts of banking activity — one shortly after the June 2016 meeting, the other immediately after the presidential election.
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Time Lapse Talk 31Abe Lincoln to Donald Trump
Abe I was a businessman too. After the Civil War, I wanted the army to go to California, to mine gold and reduce the national debt.
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America’s Slide Toward Autocracy
Twenty-one months into the Trump presidency, how far has the country rolled down the road to autocracy? It’s been such a distracting drive—so many crazy moments!—who can keep an eye on the odometer? Yet measuring the distance traveled is vital. As Abraham Lincoln superbly said in his “house divided” speech: “If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.”
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Trump says Puerto Rico death toll inflated by Democrats: '3000 people did not die'
President Trump on Thursday accused Democrats, without evidence, of inflating the 3,000-person death count from last year's hurricanes in Puerto Rico in order “to make me look bad.”
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“Trump Believes There’s a Coup”: The President Is Seeing Enemies Everywhere
With Anonymous still on the loose and the “administrative state” unchecked, the last person Trump trusts is Stephen Miller.
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Judge: Manafort agreed to cooperate 'fully and truthfully' with Mueller
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has agreed to cooperate “fully and truthfully” with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, Judge Amy Berman Jackson said in federal court .
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Trump Doubles Down on Puerto Rico Conspiracy Theory
President Trump late Friday renewed his claim that Puerto Rico’s death toll from Hurricane Maria was doctored, even after receiving widespread criticism for casting doubt on the deaths of nearly 3,000 people. Citing a Washington Post report that mentioned the fact that Puerto Rican officials initially told Trump only 16 people had died in the hurricane, the president questioned how the death toll then climbed to 64. “Then, like magic, ‘3000 PEOPLE KILLED,’” he tweeted.
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