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Social media is rotting democracy from within
How social platforms enable far-right politicians’ campaigns to undermine democracy.
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US flight delays amid federal shutdown
Departures from a number of US airports are said to be affected because of air control shortages.
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Donald Trump Doesn’t Know How Grocery Stores Work
The president apparently thinks we all still live in 1950’s Brooklyn. Or Little House on the Prairie.
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Trump agrees to end shutdown without getting wall funding
President Trump said Friday he will back a short-term funding bill to reopen the government that does not include funds to construct a wall along the southern border, bowing to mounting pressure fueled by growing disruption due to the lengthy shut.
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IRS will need at least a year to recover from government shutdown, watchdog tells Congress
The Internal Revenue Service has told lawmakers it would return from the government shutdown buried in millions of unanswered taxpayer letters, weeks behind schedule on training for workers and in need of hiring thousands of new employees for this tax filing season, according to two House aides.
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‘We've dug ourselves a really deep hole’ – David Neiwert on the rise of the far right
Neiwert has reported on the US far right for decades and watched as the conservative movement has steadily adopted its outlook and ideas
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U.S. Intelligence Chiefs Contradict Trump on North Korea and Iran
North Korea is “unlikely to give up” its nuclear stockpiles and Iran is not developing nuclear weapons, an intelligence assessment says, challenging the president’s assertions.
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Adulterer Trump approves of forcing public schools to teach Bible classes to improve morality
North Dakota State Representative Aaron McWilliams has introduced a bill that would require high schools to teach a Bible class instead of the required semester of civics. The law would not distinguish between teaching the course as “literature” or religious studies. The bill is seen as a gift to evangelical Christians who have attempted to use similar laws to push anti-LGBTQ, misogynistic, and xenophobic religious teachings to children.
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Mitch McConnell Admits He's Against High Voter Turnout Because He Suspects People Will Vote for Democrats
He openly mocked the idea of an Election Day holiday on the Senate floor and called it a "power grab" by Democrats.
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A Former Pastor Of Trump's Church Says He Never Saw Him There
President Donald Trump gave Bible literacy legislation a shout-out on Monday with a tweet praising states that are “starting to make a turn back” to an unspecified time when public schools apparently relished in Bible study. As The Washington Post’s Mark Chancy noted, there was no such time in American history. And as Trump’s former pastor noted, in any case, the president can’t exactly speak with much authority on the subject.
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Mueller says Russians are altering evidence from special counsel’s investigation to discredit the probe
Russians have obtained evidence from special counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiry into Moscow’s interference in US politics and altered it in a bid to discredit the probe, federal prosecutors have claimed. The files were shared with attorneys working for Concord Management and Consulting, a Russian company that allegedly funded hacking operations by Russia’s Internet Research Agency (IRA), they said in a court filing.
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With Democrats in charge, Colorado now backs clean air rule
Colorado’s new attorney general said Wednesday the state will withdraw from a lawsuit challenging one of the Obama administration’s biggest climate change initiatives. Democrat Phil Weiser’s announcement signaled a reversal from his predecessor, Republican Cynthia Coffman, who signed Colorado on to a multistate lawsuit seeking to roll back the Clean Power Plan. “Instead, we’ll be on the side supporting it,” Weiser said.
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Trump Lost the Shutdown, But At Least God Made Him President, and He’s Building That Wall
In the days since his shutdown humiliation, Trump has holed up watching cable news and tweeting his alternative reality.
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1 remarkable number for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
A year ago at this time, almost no one outside of New York City -- and even lots of people inside New York City -- had ever heard the name Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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Trump Inaugural Committee Ordered to Hand Over Documents to Federal Investigators
Prosecutors in Manhattan demanded documents about the committee’s donors, including whether it received illegal foreign donations.
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Secret Files Show How Trump Moscow Talks Unfolded While Trump Heaped Praise On Putin
Ahead of Michael Cohen’s testimony, read the original paper trail behind the campaign to build Europe’s tallest tower in Moscow — and how it played out alongside Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
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Trump's economy is a train wreck waiting to happen
Trump's economic policies juiced growth up temporarily, but the stimulus is already winding down, growth is slowing and the budget deficit is ballooning, writes Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics.
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Is the “Populist” Tide Retreating?
Strong support for immigration and globalization in the US sits uneasily with the view that “populism” is a problem. In fact, the term remains vague and explains too little – particularly now, when support for the political forces it attempts to describe seems to be on the wane.
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Russian-Style Kleptocracy Is Infiltrating America
When the U.S.S.R. collapsed, Washington bet on the global spread of democratic capitalist values—and lost.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is preparing for New York's establishment Dems to eliminate her district
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is preparing for New York's establishment Dems to eliminate her district
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