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House Democrats Demand Immediate Investigation of Trump After Release of Comey Memo
After news broke Tuesday of a memo by former FBI Director James Comey detailing President Donald Trump’s attempt to get him to stop the federal investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn, House Democrats issued a demand for an immediate investigation into the president, the U.S. attorney general and top White House aides. All…
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#Flint: Thousands of Children to Receive Food Aid to Limit Lead Exposure, but Not Those Who Left City
Thousands of children in the city of Flint, Mich., will receive additional money for nutritional foods that can help limit the effects of lead exposure, but those whose families left the city amid the water-contamination crisis are no longer eligible for the subsidy, even though they may still suffer the effects of lead poisoning. Among…
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Comey Memo Reveals Trump Asked Him to End Flynn Investigation
At a February meeting in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump asked then-FBI Director James Comey to end the federal investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn and his ties to Russia, and shortly after the meeting, Comey documented the details of Trump’s request in a memo, which he later shared with senior FBI…
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Immigration Agent Tries to Question 4th-Grader, Gets Turned Away by School Officials
If you needed any further proof of how low the agents of this administration will sink to carry out its dictator’s mandates, a federal immigration agent showed up at an elementary school in Queens, N.Y., to question a fourth-grade student Thursday. A New York City spokesman told CBS New York that the incident happened at…
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Donald Trump Has a Big Mouth, Reveals Highly Classified Information to Russian Ambassador, Foreign Minister
Your president has a big mouth and apparently couldn’t hold water if he were a rain cloud. According to a report published Monday, Donald Trump revealed highly classified information during his meeting last week at the White House with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador, and his disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on…
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Donald Trump Will Light Up the White House in Blue to Support Police Who Face ‘Unfair Defamation and Vilification’
President Donald Trump believes that his fellow politicians are not as supportive to police as they should be, and he said Monday that officers on the beat are subject to “unfair defamation and vilification” that have made their jobs more dangerous. Trump spoke at an annual memorial for officers slain in the line of duty,…
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‘Mamas Day’ Celebrates Marginalized Women Because Mamahood Is Not One Size Fits All
Each year, beginning in the middle of April and rolling all the way up to the second Sunday in May, we are inundated with idealized images of motherhood to go along with the hallmark (or Hallmark) holiday in which we are to celebrate the woman who brought us into the world and raised us to…
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Trump Threatens to End White House Press Briefings Because His Staff Can’t Keep Their Stories Straight
Things got pretty testy Friday morning when President Donald Trump threatened to end all daily White House press briefings because “it is not possible” for his staff to speak with “perfect accuracy” to the American public. Yes, you read that correctly. The Washington Post reports that Trump made his comments after the reasons he gave…
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#Flint: As Mich. Gov. Snyder Signs $100,000,000 in Aid Into Law, Residents Warned Water Filters Harbor Bacteria
It has been more than three years since the residents of Flint, Mich., have had clean water. The city had to jump through hoops to get the $100 million in federal aid promised to it, and now residents are being told to run the water in their faucets longer to cut down on bacteria growth…
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Former L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison for Obstructing Federal Investigation
Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca was sentenced to three years in prison Friday, bringing to an end the ongoing corruption scandal that has plagued the county sheriff’s department for the last six years and putting the final nail in the coffin of Baca’s career in law enforcement. Although Baca asked to remain free…
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