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Graham backs down on Syria after lunch with Trump
Sen. Lindsey Graham backed away Sunday from his criticisms of President Trump's decision to withdraw from Syria, telling reporters that Trump shared "some things I didn't know" during a lunch at the White House that "make me feel a lot better about where we're headed in Syria."
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Departure of Trump’s GOP critics in Senate leaves a void
The president's prominent GOP critics on Capitol Hill are close to completing their Senate careers, raising the question of who — if anyone — will take their place as willing to publicly criticize Trump.
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Predictions: Trump goes, unexpected candidate emerges in 2019
In the coming year, Trump will alienate even GOP senators and Fox News, and a surprising Democratic presidential candidate will step forth.
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Trump is “amoral” and has “no conscience,” says Harry Reid
The veteran Democrat and former Senate leader Harry Reid said President Donald Trump was “amoral” and had “no conscience.” “Trump is an interesting person,” Reid, who was Nevada senator for 20 years until 2017 and was both Democrat minority and majority leader during that time, told The New York Times in an interview published today. “He is not immoral but is amoral. Amoral is when you shoot someone in the head, it doesn’t make a difference. No conscience.
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US economy added 312,000 jobs in December, blowing past expectations
U.S. employers added 312,000 jobs in December, blowing past Wall Street’s expectations for an increase of 177,000 jobs, even on the heels of a tumultuous month for the markets that saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 post their worst performance since the Great Depression. The unemployment rate rose to 3.9 percent, while the labor force participation rate also rose slightly to 63.1 percent from 62.9 percent during the month. Average hourly earnings meanwhile rose by 11 cents to $27.48. Over the year, average hourly earnings have increased by a total of 84 cents, or about 3.2 percent.
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Bipartisan Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United Introduced
On Thursday, the first day of the 116th Congress, Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL), Congressman Jim McGovern (D-MA), Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD), and Congressman John Katko (R-NY) introduced a bipartisan constitutional amendment to get big money out of politics and restore democratic power to the American people.
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Trump threatens national emergency to secure funding for border wall
US President Donald Trump is considering declaring a national emergency to get a wall built on the southern border of the US.
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24 Things Nobody Does Better Than Trump (According To Trump)
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Trump EPA Moves To Shield Info on Asbestos Imports and Use From Public
The Trump administration has denied a petition by a coalition of environmental groups calling for increased reporting of asbestos importation and use by U.S. manufacturers – despite a sharp rise in asbestos imports into U.S. ports. The petition asked the Environmental Protection Agency to use its authority under the Toxic Substances Control Act, or TSCA, to require importers and users of asbestos and asbestos-containing products to report on their activities and disclose these reports to the public.
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Report: AT&T plans layoffs despite claiming tax cut would create 7,000 jobs
AT&T is reportedly planning a significant round of layoffs, despite receiving a large tax break and various regulatory favors such as the repeal of net neutrality rules. Motherboard reported the pending layoffs yesterday, saying it obtained the information from AT&T internal documents and an anonymous AT&T source. "A source at AT&T who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak publicly told Motherboard...
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'Bye-Bye': Trump Walks Out Of White House Meeting With Democrats About Shutdown
President Trump abruptly halted spending talks at the White House on Wednesday, after congressional Democrats again rejected his demand for a $5.7 billion border wall. On Twitter, Trump dismissed the negotiations as a "total waste of time," as a partial government shutdown stretched into its 19th day. He added, "I said bye-bye, nothing else works!"
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F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia
The investigation, whose fate is unclear, led counterintelligence investigators to consider an explosive question: whether the president’s actions constituted a possible threat to national security.
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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Drops Watchmen Fire in Response to Criticism
House Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) won the race for New York’s 14th congressional district by leading with her democratic socialist politics and running on a progressive platform advocating for an increased marginal tax rate on the wealthy and universal healthcare. Much to the surprise of her new colleagues on Capitol Hill, Ocasio-Cortez has not backed down on pushing for these ideas. And she’s using some nerdy quotes to do it.
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Report: Trump Directed Cohen to Lie About Moscow Deal—and Mueller’s Got the Evidence
Trump is said to have been so heavily involved in the Trump Tower project in Moscow during the campaign he was ready to go meet with Putin to move things along.
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US exit from NATO
Last year, US President Donald Trump suggested a move tantamount to destroying NATO: the withdrawal of the United States. over the course of 2018, Mr. Trump several times privately said he wanted to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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Donald Trump ordered opinion polls be rigged, former 'fixer' says
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, says he paid a firm to manipulate online polling data at the direction of and for the sole benefit of the future President.
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Trump is a slapstick genius for the comically disastrous way he runs the country
“The Play That Goes Wrong,” a British slapstick comedy, finished a short run at the Kennedy Center this month, so most Washingtonians didn’t get to see its characters stepping on each other, getting struck by falling objects and stymied by stuck doors, forgetting their lines, missing their cues, and eventually having the whole set fall down around them.
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BuzzFeed’s stumble is highest-profile misstep at a time when press is under greatest scrutiny
BuzzFeed News’s apparently mistaken story about Michael Cohen and President Trump is the highest-profile misstep yet for a news organization during a period of heightened and intense scrutiny of the press, as the special counsel’s office issued a thorough rebuke of the website’s story published Thursday. Reporters at the Guardian, CNN, McClatchy News and other outlets have published disputed, suspect or uncorroborated stories about Trump and the investigation swirling around him since special counsel Robert S. Mueller III began his probe 21 months ago.
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The average salary at the FBI is $37,000
About 800,000 US federal workers aren't getting paid. They don't make as much as you might think.
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Why There’s No Liberal Federalist Society
The legal left has a money problem, a history problem and—maybe worst of all—a big-idea problem.
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