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- Only one person attended Rep. Steve King's Iowa forum
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 02:02 PMCNN's Briana Keilar speaks to Jessica Birch, the only person to attend Rep.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Point: Why the 2020 election is already very different
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 07:30 PMThe 2020 election isn't for another 442 days.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pete Buttigieg well received by religious black voters, but he's still struggling in South Carolina
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 01:37 PMPete Buttigieg is used to applause.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Fact-checking Trump's vague claims about US background checks
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 05:20 PMWhen it comes to tightening gun control laws, President Donald Trump has been consistently vague on what measures he supports, especially regarding background checks.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - President Obama's high school basketball jersey nets $120,000 at auction
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 12:08 PMPresident Barack Obama's game-worn high school basketball jersey went up for auction in Dallas over the weekend.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - California raises standard required for use of deadly police force
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 04:12 PMCalifornia's Democratic governor on Monday approved one of the the strictest police deadly force measures in the country, which says officers in the state can only use lethal force if it would prevent a suspect from killing or harming the officer or another person.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Lawmakers slam Trump and Netanyahu at emotional news conference following scrapped Israel trip
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 06:56 PMThe first two Muslim women in Congress sharply criticized President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after a trip to visit Israel and the Palestinian territories was canceled once the two lawmakers were denied entry for supporting a boycott of Israel.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nuclear monitoring stations went mysteriously quiet after Russian missile facility explosion
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 01:16 PMTwo Russia-based nuclear monitoring stations that monitor radioactive particles in the atmosphere mysteriously went quiet after an August 8 explosion at a Russian missile testing facility, an explosion that has sparked confusion and concerns about possible increases in radiation levels, according to a spokesperson for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Point: If Trump ends another nuclear treaty, it will be the height of folly
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 12:01 PMDuring his first two and a half years in office, President Donald Trump and his administration have laid waste to numerous international agreements originally designed to strengthen US security, bolster US alliances, and constrain US adversaries.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - FEC chair says Trump's claim of election fraud 'undermines people's faith' in system
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 10:09 AMThe Democratic chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission said Monday that President Donald Trump "undermines people's faith" in the election system through his repeated claim that voter fraud cost him New Hampshire in 2016.
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- Adnan Syed's lawyers file petition for Supreme Court to take up 'Serial' case
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 07:25 PMLawyers for Adnan Syed, whose murder conviction was the focus of the first season of the popular "Serial" podcast, filed a petition Monday asking the Supreme Court to take up the case.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Jill Biden emphasizes electability in 2020 race: 'You've got to look at who's going to win this election'
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 09:37 PMFormer second lady Jill Biden made the case for her husband to be the Democratic presidential nominee Monday with a blunt assessment for how to beat President Donald Trump: "Electability."
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pence talks tough to China over Hong Kong protests as trade war continues
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 02:55 PMVice President Mike Pence said Monday that chances of a trade deal with China would diminish if Hong Kong's laws are violated, also criticizing the country's human rights violations as antithetical to American ideals.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Planned Parenthood drops federal funding over abortion-referral restriction
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 02:42 PMPlanned Parenthood announced Monday it will drop federal funding over the Trump administration's rule blocking the reproductive rights organization from talking to patients about abortion services.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'I have made mistakes': Elizabeth Warren apologizes, turns to policy talk at tribal forum
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 04:42 PMElizabeth Warren did not wait long to address the question that lingered over her visit to a Native American presidential candidate forum Monday in Iowa.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Marianne Williamson pledges to remove portrait of Andrew Jackson from the Oval Office
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 04:37 PMAuthor Marianne Williamson pledged Monday to remove a portrait of President Andrew Jackson from the Oval Office if elected president, calling the portrait's current placement "one of the greatest insults" to Native Americans.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How to avoid taking the bait when covering President Trump
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 10:34 AMDonald Trump passed a milestone with more than 12,000 lies and falsehoods during his presidency to date, according to The Washington Post. How can journalists cover this blizzard of lies without amplifying misinformation?More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Justice Dept. reiterates it believes federal employment discrimination law doesn't protect transgender workers
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 12:02 PMThe Trump administration reiterated to the Supreme Court on Friday that it does not believe that federal employment law that bans discrimination based on sex also encompasses discrimination based on transgender status.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Scaramucci says he's putting together coalition to stop Trump in 2020
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 08:24 AMAnthony Scaramucci, a former White House communications director who has recently withdrawn his support for President Donald Trump, said Monday that he is putting together a coalition of former Trump Cabinet officials to denounce the President ahead of the 2020 election.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WH trade adviser: Tariffs aren't hurting anybody here
Sunday - 08/18/2019 - 10:04 AMWhite House economic adviser Peter Navarro told CNN's Jake Tapper that President Donald Trump "has the backs of farmers" as farmers express their frustrations with the Trump administration's trade war with China.
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- Fact-checking Peter Navarro's claims that the yield curve is not inverted
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 07:25 PMOn Sunday, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro brushed off concerns of an impending recession.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Fact check: Trump falsely claims Google 'manipulated' millions of 2016 votes
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 08:54 PMIn a tweet on Monday, President Donald Trump made a sensational allegation about Google.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bureau of Prisons chief removed in wake of Jeffrey Epstein suicide
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 02:39 PMAttorney General William Barr removed the acting head of the Bureau of Prisons, the Justice Department said Monday, replacing the agency's top official in the wake of the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein earlier this month.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Fact-checking Trump's claims on economist recession warnings
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 03:21 PMDuring a question and answer session with reporters on Sunday, Washington Post White House bureau chief Philip Rucker told President Donald Trump that "a lot of economists say that you should be preparing for a recession."
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Mental health advocates say reopening institutions won't stop mass shootings
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 04:43 PMEver since mass shootings turned the national focus to gun violence two weeks ago, President Donald Trump has sought to blame anything but guns.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Justice Dept. again sides with Trump over House in personal financial records fight
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 03:18 PMThe Trump administration's Justice Department has again taken President Donald Trump's side in a fight between him -- as a private citizen -- and the US House of Representatives over subpoenas for his personal financial records.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 8 Democratic presidential candidates will participate in CNN climate town hall
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 09:33 AMNine Democratic candidates for president have qualified for next month's Climate Crisis Town Hall, which will air exclusively on CNN platforms, and eight of them have said they will participate.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - US tests ground launch cruise missile previously banned under INF
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 01:06 PMThe US military conducted a flight test of a conventional ground-launched cruise missile off the western coast of the US Sunday, a missile test that would have been previously banned under the now defunct Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, the Pentagon said Monday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Point: Donald Trump's latest conspiracy theory target? Fox News.
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 11:34 AMBefore he boarded Air Force One to fly back to Washington on Sunday afternoon, President Donald Trump was asked about a recent Fox News poll that showed him in serious trouble vis a vis the 2020 election.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump tests a materialistic message to voters
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 07:12 AMPresident Donald Trump is not waiting for the economy to go south amid growing fears of a recession to wage what could be the defining fight of the 2020 election.
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