The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) delayed flights into New York City’s LaGuardia Airport, Newark’s Liberty International Airport and Philadelphia International Airport on Friday due to a lack of air traffic controllers, CNBC reports. Air traffic controllers have been working without pay due to the lengthy government shutdown. The FAA issued …
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Fifty-seven-year-old screenwriter and West Wing creatorAaron Sorkin is telling the Democratic party to “stop acting like young people” and grow up while also lauding the fact that young people are being elected. “I really like the new crop of young people who were just elected to Congress. They now need …
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On Friday night, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) told CNN’s Van Jones that she plans to run for president and that a formal announcement is forthcoming. “There is one main issue that is central to the rest, and that is the issue of war and peace,” the 37-year-old Iraq War veteran …
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WASHINGTON — As Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s Russia investigation continues into 2019, anticipation builds around several questions, most notably: What will Mueller’s final report say? And will it ever see the light of day outside the halls of the Justice Department? The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the top lawyer …
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Tom Steyer, the California billionaire and champion of impeaching president Trump, will not run for president of the United States.Speaking from Des Moines, Iowa, on Wednesday, Steyer revealed: “I am not running for president at this time.” He insisted he will instead be “dedicating 100 percent of my time, effort …
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The government has been operating under a partial shutdown since December 21st, depriving 800,000 federal employees of their entire paychecks. Meanwhile, hundreds of senior Trump appointees are getting $10,000 raises, the Washington Post reported on Friday. This was an accident. Maybe.In 2013, Congress passed a law capping the salaries of …
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WASHINGTON — Jay Inslee, the Democratic governor of Washington state, has moved closer to entering the 2020 presidential race. And he’s betting on the idea that Americans care enough about the existential threat of our time — climate change — to elect a president with a laser-like, almost singular focus …
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TheCenters for Disease Control and Prevention recently released new data regarding gun deaths in the United States. It’s not good. According to the CDC’s WONDER database, 39,773 people died from gun violence in the United States in 2017. Adjusted for age, that comes out to 12.2 out of every 100,000 …
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Democratic California Sen. Kamala Harris will decide whether she will run for president in 2020 over the Christmas holiday. Calling it a “very serious decision,” Harris revealed her thinking in an interview this weekend at Know Your Value conference in San Francisco, NBC News reported. “Over the holiday, I will …
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A Blue Wave has broken Republican control of Congress. Democrats have secured morethan two dozen seats toreclaim the House of Representatives for the first time since 2010. Armed with subpoena power, Democrats are now in position to put a critical check on President Trump, holding him accountable to both the …
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