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In revering Trump, the religious right has laid bare its hypocrisy
The annual anachronism known as the National Prayer Breakfast attracted its usual array of clergy, military, and political leaders in Washington on 7 February. Most prominent of all, of course, was Donald Trump, who used the de facto pulpit to call for outlawing abortion, among other positions dear to the Religious Right. Yet the presidential comment that most typified all that has gone morally haywire with the supposedly moral majority came when Trump praised the “abolition of civil rights”. You can consider that statement an innocent, if embarrassing, misreading of the Teleprompter. Or you can hear it as a Freudian slip.
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Trump mocks Klobuchar's wintry announcement. Her answer: 'I wonder how your hair would fare in a blizzard?'
While he has often targeted Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, President Donald Trump hadn’t publicly commented until Sunday about any of his other potential Democratic challengers in the 2020 election.
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Trump offers socialism for the rich, capitalism for everyone else
It’s the wealthiest Americans who are getting something for nothing, writes Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor
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Republicans Keep Admitting Everything They Said About Obama Was a Lie
White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney confesses the GOP Congress refused to give Obama any successes.
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Trump demands California return $3.5 billion in funds for state's 'disaster' bullet train project
President Donald Trump late Wednesday demanded California return the $3.5 billion it received from the federal government for a "disaster" high-speed rail project.
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McConnell says Trump will sign spending bill and declare national emergency
It's still unknown whether Trump will sign the bill.
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President’s pastor Robert Jeffress says evangelicals who don’t back Trump are ‘spineless morons’
The evangelical adviser to Donald Trump has blasted conservative Christians who do not support the president. Pastor of Dallas' First Baptist Church, Robert Jeffress, is very public in his backing of Trump, even saying last month in support of his southern border policy that “heaven itself is going to have a wall around it.” In an interview on the Todd Starnes Radio Show on Tuesday, Jeffress rebuked fellow evangelicals who did not share his enthusiasm for Trump.
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Trump Declares National Emergency to Build Border Wall
The president’s decision diverts money from military construction projects, bypassing Congress but triggering a clash over the constitutional balance of power.
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Trump’s National Emergency Is Great News for Future President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
The president’s latest decision will backfire on conservatives.
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4 winners and 4 losers from the funding bill and emergency declaration
Trump’s national emergency declaration starts a new fight — but it also resolves the spending battle of the past few months.
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It's official: Trump's policies deter EPA staff from enforcing the law
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released an annual report Feb. 8 on its enforcement activities in fiscal 2018. After wading through a bushel full of cherry-picked case studies and a basket of bureaucratic happy talk, the report paints a dismal picture of decline in a crucially important EPA program.
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Will Trump win his legal fight over the wall?
History does not bode well for Trump's opponents, says Jonathan Turley, professor of law.
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'Saturday Night Live' Spoofs the National Emergency Declaration, and Earns a Rebuke From President Trump
"Those numbers are faker than this emergency"
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Hurd says 1,000 Texas farmers could have land seized to build Trump's border wall
Texas Rep. Will Hurd, the sole Republican representing a congressional district along the southern border, said more than 1,000 farmers in his state are at risk of having their land seized by the federal government to facilitate the construction of President Trump's long-promised wall. "In the great state of Texas, we care about a little thing called private property, and there's going to be over 1,000 ranchers and farmers potentially impacted if the government comes in and takes their land," Hurd said on "Face the Nation" Sunday.
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House Opens Inquiry Into Proposed U.S. Nuclear Venture in Saudi Arabia
House Democrats say a proposed nuclear power venture in Saudi Arabia could expose conflicts of interests in the Trump administration and possible violations of law.
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Trump's trade war is prompting farmers to put off big ticket purchases, and it's another sign of the pain the tariffs are causing (DE)
American farmers are tangibly deferring equipment purchases as a result of the ongoing trade war between the US and China, Deere & Co says. As the prolonged trade war between the US and China continues, American farmers are tangibly deferring equipment purchases, according to agriculture machinery manufacturer Deere & Co. Trade frictions "have weighed on market sentiment and caused farmers to become more cautious about making major purchases, " Deere CEO Samuel Allen said Friday in his company's first-quarter earnings release, adding that its results were hurt by customer concerns over tariffs and trade policies.
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Donald Trump's ancestral brothel gets a new lease on life
Trump's great-grandfather threw up the Arctic Hotel as a watering hole and flesh pot for those headed to the gold fields. Now Parks Canada is overseeing its restoration.
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Trump wants 6G internet “as soon as possible”
5G may be one of the biggest internet buzzwords around, but Donald Trump is already over it. Instead, Trump has moved on to 6G. The president announced in a pair of tweets this morning that he’d like to see 6G in the United States alongside 5G “as soon as possible.” It’s not entirely clear what spurred Trump’s sudden tweets in support of next-gen cellular communications standards. Perhaps Fox & Friends mentioned the announcement of Samsung’s new Galaxy S10 5G, and Trump was dismayed that Verizon had no live 5G network on which the device could actually function in the United States yet.
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ISIS bride Hoda Muthana's family files lawsuit against Trump
The father of a woman who traveled from her home in Alabama to marry an Islamic State fighter filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump's administration as part of an effort to get her and his 18-month-old grandson returned to the United States.
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Trump extends deadline for Chinese tariffs set to begin on March 1, citing progress on trade talks
The United States is planning to delay a menu of additional Chinese tariffs that were scheduled to begin on March 1, President Donald Trump announced on Sunday, as the world's two largest economies hash out a definitive end to a wide ranging trade dispute. In a series of posts on Twitter, Trump cited "substantial progress" in bilateral talks between the U.S. and China. As a result, the president said he would suspend the new levies that would have taken place as early as Friday, but did not articulate a new deadline.
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