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Fox News contributor Tomi Lahren says seeing migrants get hit with tear gas was the "highlight" of her Thanksgiving
Border agents used the gas on migrants who tried to rush the border on Sunday in Tijuana.
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Our climate reality will catch up to us, no matter how hard Trump tries to bury the evidence
IF YOU did not hear about the major new federal climate change report, the Trump administration will be pleased. The report was released the day after Thanksgiving — when many people were distracted — probably because it contradicts practically everything President Trump has said and done on global warming. The Fourth National Climate Assessment is yet another reminder that reality will catch up to the United States, no matter how much the president tries to ignore and deny it.
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Michael Cohen pleads guilty to lying during Russia probe
Michael Cohen pleaded guilty on Thursday to fresh charges that he lied to Congress about a real-estate deal with the Russians that he was trying to broker on behalf of President Trump
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Former President George H.W. Bush Dies At 94
The patriarch of a political dynasty, Bush was the last World War II vet to serve in the Oval Office. His son George W. called him "one of the greatest one-term presidents in the nation's history."
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Never, Ever Forget The Guardian/Politico Psyop Against WikiLeaks
For the first few hours after any new “bombshell” Russiagate story comes out, my social media notifications always light up with poorly written posts by liberal establishment loyalists saying things like “HAHAHA @caitoz this proves you wrong now will you FINALLY stop denying Russian collusion???” Then, when people start actually analyzing that story and noting that it comes nowhere remotely close to proving that Donald Trump colluded...
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Cambridge Analytica Used Fashion Tastes to Identify Right-Wing Voters
Christopher Wylie, who helped found the voter-profiling firm, said that clothing preferences had been key to helping “Steve Bannon build his insurgency.”
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Mattis: Russia tried to interfere in 2018 midterms
Defense Secretary James Mattis said Saturday that Russian operatives attempted to interfere in the 2018 midterm elections, apparently confirming for the first time that Moscow attempted to meddle in last month's elections. Mattis spoke of the relationship between the Trump administration and Russian President Vladimir Putin during an interview Saturday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California.
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Trump, Looking Beyond GM, Seeks to End All Electric Car Tax Credits, Kudlow Says
President Trump’s top economic adviser said the administration is looking to eliminate subsidies on electric cars, a move that could hamper the auto industry’s push to broaden the market for battery-powered vehicles. “As a matter of our policy, we want to end all those subsidies,” Lawrence Kudlow said on Monday. “And by the way, other subsidies imposed during the Obama administration—renewables, etc. We are a free market.”
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‘Just a lot of alarmism’: Trump’s skepticism of climate science is echoed across GOP
Sen.-elect Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee said falsely in the lead-up to her campaign that the Earth has started to cool, and argued inaccurately that scientists have not reached a consensus on climate change. In Florida, which has been pummeled by hurricanes, Sen.-elect Rick Scott has acknowledged rising and warmer seas could be harmful to his state but won’t attribute it to human activity.
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The End of Privacy Began in the 1960s
Choices that Congress made decades ago allowed tech giants to become as powerful as they are.
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Prosecutors recommend 'substantial' prison time for ex-Trump lawyer Cohen
Federal prosecutors in New York on Friday recommended that Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney, receive “substantial” prison time for several federal crimes, despite his cooperation with ongoing law enforcement
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Don Jr. is laying low due to looming Mueller indictment, but still picking fights with Ocasio-Cortez
"It's definitely a 'very, very large brain' idea to troll a member of a body that will have subpoena power in a month."
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Comey Tells House Panel He Suspected Giuliani Was Leaking FBI Information to Media
Former FBI director James Comey told members of Congress this week that he was concerned officials in the bureau’s New York field office had leaked sensitive information to prominent Trump supporter Rudy Giuliani in the closing days of the 2016 presidential campaign. Speaking on Capitol Hill at a closed-door deposition, Mr. Comey said that he ordered a leak probe after Mr. Giuliani made public statements that indicated he had inside knowledge...
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The Wooing of Jared Kushner: How the Saudis Got a Friend in the White House
Senior American officials were worried. Since the early months of the Trump administration, Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and Middle East adviser, had been having private, informal conversations with Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the favorite son of Saudi Arabia’s king. Given Mr. Kushner’s political inexperience, the private exchanges could make him susceptible to Saudi manipulation, said three former senior American officials.
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Trump's Nominee for Attorney General Wants to Impose Christian Rule
Looks like Brett Kavanaugh isn't the only Trump nominee who likes to reveal the extent of his sycophancy and the paucity of his moral imagination in obscure legal journals! On Sunday The Daily Beast dug up an essay in the The Catholic Lawyer written by William Barr, the guy Trump nominated to replace Jeff Sessions as Attorney General. In the essay, Barr argues that the government should impose “a transcendent moral order with objective standards of right and wrong that…
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Constitution rules out immunity for sitting presidents
Our country’s governing document makes good on the promise that no one is above the law.
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Google's CEO explains why a picture of Donald Trump comes up when you search for 'idiot'
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, and amid questions on competitive dominance, Chinese censorship, and privacy, Republicans on the committee have focused on allegations of conservative bias. They allege that Google's search results are biased and that Democrats who work at the search giant choose liberal websites over conservative views for prime placement on Google services like search.
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Michael Cohen Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison Following Plea That Implicated Trump
The onetime fixer for Trump has admitted that not only did he commit financial crimes but also that Trump directed him to arrange hush-money payments to two women. Cohen also says he lied to Congress.
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Trump administration to strip pollution protections, harming vital wildlife
The Trump administration is planning to strip Obama-era pollution protections from thousands of US streams and millions of acres of wetlands, in a move environmentalists warn will harm vital wildlife and could allow pollution into drinking water. The federal government plans to scale back the list of waterways for which land users are required to obtain permits to be able to pollute, according to a description of the proposal by officials before text was made available.
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Intelligence officials 'extraordinarily frustrated' at Trump's refusal to pay attention during briefings
US president allegedly continues to reject advice on matters of foreign policy from spy agencies
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