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CNN sues President Trump and White House for banning reporter Jim Acosta
The lawsuit comes less than a week after the White House announced it would suspend Acosta's "hard pass" in the wake of the reporter's fiery exchange with Trump at a news conference Wednesday.
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Trump, stung by midterms and nervous about Mueller, retreats from traditional presidential duties
President Trump, brooding over midterm losses and the Mueller probe, has cancelled a number of events that presidents normally attend, including a visit to Arlington National Cemetery. Behind the scenes, he has lashed out at aides, from low level press assistants to senior officials.
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Trump Just Blurted Out, Unprompted, That He Installed His Pet Attorney General Over the Russia Probe
If you wait long enough, the president will tell you outright that he did the shady thing.
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Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis
Russian meddling, data sharing, hate speech — the social network faced one scandal after another. This is how Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg responded.
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Trump administration's reported effort to 'barter' a US resident to convince Turkey to ramp down Khashoggi probe stuns foreign-policy veterans
The White House's reported effort to extradite Fethullah Gulen sheds light on President Trump's efforts to ease rising tensions with Turkey.
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QAnon’s true believers are devastated as the conspiracy theory goes down in flames
The Republican midterm loss and the firing of Jeff Sessions blew up the narrative of the QAnon conspiracy theory
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Judge orders White House to return Jim Acosta's press pass
CNN's Jim Acosta will return to his post at the White House on Friday following a court ruling that forced the Trump administration to reinstate his press pass.
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Missing former Guantanamo inmates are 'worst nightmare' for U.S. officials: reporter
When U.S. President Donald Trump signed the order to keep Guantanamo Bay open, he shut down the State Department office responsible for closing it and resettling released detainees. That office, called the Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure, was also responsible for tracking inmates already released. Now several have gone missing.
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Trump’s Border Stunt Is a Profound Betrayal of Our Military
The president used America’s military not against any real threat but as toy soldiers, with the intent of manipulating a domestic midterm election.
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Fox News Barely Covers Ivanka Trump Private Emails After Destroying Hillary
'Fox & Friends' covered Ivanka Trump's private emails for about 25 seconds.
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The Great National Circus: Punch-Ups in the Senate
Eric Foner reviews "The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War" by Joanne Freeman.
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Want to Know Where Intersectional Queer Radicalism Is Thriving? Look to Appalachia
Big coastal cities don’t have a monopoly on truly progressive organizing. By Leigh Ann Carey.
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Donald Trump Is An Accessory To Jamal Khashoggi's Murder
That Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman "ordered this atrocity is beyond serious doubt."
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This Thanksgiving, I’m Grateful for Donald Trump, America’s Most Honest President
There’s a case to be made that Donald Trump is simultaneously the biggest liar in U.S. political history and its greatest truth-teller.
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Tech Billionaires Can't Seem to Stop Funding Racist Republicans
The 2018 midterm elections still aren't over, mainly because of a runoff in Mississippi, but also a little bit because we're actually in purgatory. The race between Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democrat Mike Espy would likely have received little national attention if Hyde-Smith weren't so hell-bent on aping Donald Trump; unfortunately for her, not everyone has his knack for getting away with racist and violent rhetoric.
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Donald Trump pulled out of planned Mueller team meeting after receiving list of questions
The White House legal team reportedly torpedoed the meeting after hearing the planned scope of the interview.
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Trump's half-baked offshore drilling plan is not safe
President Trump’s plan to open California’s iconic coast to unsafe oil and gas drilling is unfolding minute-by-minute. First, he and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke proposed opening the largest swath of our country’s offshore drilling reserves ever offered to oil companies. Then, they proposed rolling back critical safety measures in place to prevent oil spill disasters.
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Here's how Republicans hijacked a bill designed to 'Help America Vote' — and used it to block people from voting
GOP voter suppression is the best answer to significant discrepancies between exit polls and actual vote counts. There’s a fascinating history to what Joe Madison calls “James Crow, Esq., voting suppression”—and that history tells us what we can do to solve the problem of Republicans using the Help America Vote Act to block people from voting in largely Democratic areas.It started with the 2000 election “debacle” in Florida.
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The Indictment of Julian Assange Is a Threat to Press Freedom
"I love WikiLeaks!” candidate Trump proclaimed in 2016. Now Julian Assange has learned what Donald’s love is worth: a sealed criminal indictment. If the consequences for the First Amendment weren’t so sobering, it would be a savage cosmic joke. First, Assange—convinced the Obama administration would snatch him up if given half a chance—sentences himself to indefinite confinement in the Ecuadorean embassy in London. Then, believing Hillary Rodham Clinton is a “sadistic sociopath,”...
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Trump at bay: failure looms as Democrats load 'subpoena cannon'
There was sunshine, palm trees and the endless expanse of ocean. There was golf with Jack Nicklaus, the most successful player of all time. There was a dinner that included stone crab, oysters, jumbo shrimp and clams; turkey, beef tenderloin, lamb and salmon; Chilean sea bass, red snapper and braised short ribs. But as Donald Trump spent Thanksgiving at his opulent Mar-a-Lago estate – or “the southern White House”, as he called it in a teleconference with the military...
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