Politics
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#TrumpMeltdown: House GOP Worries About Lack of Controls as the Donald Becomes Increasingly Combative on Impeach Probe
As Democrats’ determination to continue its impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump becomes more evident each day, Trump has begun to look and sound increasingly unhinged, including a meltdown Wednesday that made for a trending hashtag on Twitter. The Trump White House’s lack of a “playbook” about how to respond to his impeachment woes has House…
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Could This Be the End of the Bernie Sanders Presidential Campaign?
Bernie Sanders—the 78-year-old three-term senator from Vermont who is the longest serving independent member of Congress in American history (he also served in the House of Representatives for 16 years)—was hospitalized after experiencing “chest discomfort” during a campaign event Tuesday evening. According to the New York Times, Jeff Weaver, a longtime adviser to Sanders, read…
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Report: Trump Wanted to Shoot, Electrocute and Use Alligators on Migrants at Mexican Border
One of the things I find most fascinating about stupid people is the unseen machinations of their minds. When they commit acts of numbskullery, I always wonder about the things they didn’t do. Did Jussie Smollett consider a story about being abducted by racist, homophobic aliens before he devised the post-Subway sandwich MAGA kidnapping idea?…
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Kamala Harris Takes Twitter to Task Over Trump Tweets: 'We Need a Civil Society, Not Civil War'
On Tuesday night, as the president tweeted about impeachment efforts—likening an inquiry into his self-made Ukraine scandal to a “coup”—Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) called on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to put a stop to Trump’s increasingly toxic nonsense. Reaching out to Dorsey via Twitter and with a letter distributed by her presidential campaign, Harris called…
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Elizabeth Warren Is Officially a Frontrunner—Except Among Black South Carolina Voters
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren certainly appears to be living some version of “hot nerd fall.” New polls show the presidential hopeful, who’s branded herself as the candidate with a detailed plan for everything, surging ahead of contenders in three key primary contests: Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada. In Iowa and New Hampshire, Vox notes, Warren…
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House Dems to Trump Lawyer Giuliani: Give It Up, Rudy!
Rudy Giuliani never seems to be one who’s at a loss for words, and now House Democrats are demanding he tell all by sharing key documents with lawmakers as part of its impeachment probe. On Monday, the House Intelligence Committee issued a subpoena to Giuliani as part of its impeachment inquiry into Giuliani’s client Donald…
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Oops! He Did It Again? Trump Reportedly Pressured a 2nd Country—Australia—to Help Him Out of a Jam
Donald Trump, at the urging of his top law enforcement official, Attorney General William Barr, pressured Australia’s prime minister to help him debunk the report on 2016 election shenanigans done by special counsel Robert Mueller. That’s according to the New York Times, which cites sources telling the news site that Trump made the ask during…
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Cory Booker Raises Enough Money to Continue White House Bid
Of all the candidates vying for the Democratic nomination for president, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey may be the best-educated. He has three solid debate performances under his belt with no real slip-ups. His past is relatively scandal-free, and sources say that Cory Booker’s drug dealer friend would kick Joe Biden’s thugged-out homeboy’s ass…
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Mississippi Police Shot a Bullet Into the Back of His Head. A City Attorney Is Arguing It Doesn’t Matter Since He’s Not a Citizen
Mississippi police should have never been at Ismael Lopez’s door. But in executing a warrant for a man wanted for domestic assault in July 2017, police went to the wrong address, arriving at Lopez’s home instead of the suspect’s. Lopez would not survive the encounter with police, who never announced themselves at the door. He…