Though President Trump’s recent executive ordercalled for an end to migrant family separations, it didn’t address what the administration plans to do about the more than 2,000 children who have already been taken from their parents as a result of the “zero tolerance” immigration policy enacted last month. The government …
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Update, 6:10 p.m. ET: Sen. Ted Cruz announced he plans to introduce legislation this week mandating that families be kept together while their immigration cases are resolved. The separation of immigrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border is spiraling into a national crisis of policy and conscience, and the leading voices …
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Update:The White House has released a second statement about the event. *** One of the unique perks to winning a major national sports title used to be traveling to the White House to meet the president. This hasn’t been the case since Trump took office, though, and what used to …
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Jay-Z suggests that President Trump’s bigotry can galvanize voter turnout and create a new generation of activists while speaking with David Letterman in an upcoming episode of the former late night-host’s Netflix show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction. Letterman kicks off the political portion of the interview with a …
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Not even their wives want to see Joe Biden and Donald Trump measure dicks. Every time that men like them go off about how they’d beat each other up in a physical fight, it is a reminder of why we need more women in office. Their particular brand of pugilistic …
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“False flag” allegations in the aftermath of mass shootings have become something of an Alex Jones franchise. His conspiracy theories about the massacres at Tucson, Arizona; Aurora, Colorado; andNewtown, Connecticut were broadcast on terrestrial radio, streamed on Jones’ website, and, most importantly from an audience standpoint, chopped into bits for …
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Former White House chief strategistSteve Bannon,who served as the executive chairman of Breitbart News Network since 2012, will step down, according to theNew York Times. “Steve is a valued part of our legacy, and we will always be grateful for his contributions, and what he has helped us to accomplish,” …
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Like a hurricane or a trip to the frontlines of a war, seeing an oil spill up close is something you never forget. In 2010, a few days after the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico that sent 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf, I boarded …
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Lawmakers, law enforcement officials and the nation’s health care community are cheering President Trump’s move Thursday to officially designate the nation’s opioid crisis a public health emergency, even as many of them openly wonder if he has gone far enough. The action – a 90-day declaration that Trump could then …
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Taran Killam’s experience working with Donald Trump when the then-presidential candidate hosted Saturday Night Live in November 2015 was “rough,” to say the least. “It was not enjoyable at the time and something that only grows more embarrassing and shameful as time goes on,” the former SNL cast member said …
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