Washington Post: Politics
- Fact-checking the bipartisan spinfest on Brett Kavanaugh’s time at the White House
Wednesday - 08/15/2018 - 03:00 AMRepublicans say millions of pages of Kavanaugh's White House records are irrelevant. Democrats say he gave incomplete testimony to Congress in 2006. We dug into their claims.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Huckabee Sanders apologizes for false statement about black employment
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 09:05 PMPresident Trump’s economics team is apologizing after press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders wrongly stated that Trump has created three times as many jobs for black workers as president Barack Obama did.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer concedes GOP primary to Trump ally Kris Kobach
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 09:09 PMElection was Aug. 7.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Democratic House candidate Kathy Manning airs TV ad saying she won’t back Pelosi for speaker
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 06:26 PMIn a year of Republican attack ads against Pelosi, the N.C. lawyer became the latest candidate to announce that she will not support Democrats’ longtime House leader.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - West Virginia’s efforts to impeach the state’s Supreme Court is just the latest in a worrisome trend
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 05:03 PMMore than a dozen states this year have considered 50 measures to curb state courts' power.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s stunning non-denial that Trump used the n-word
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 03:59 PMIt was crystal-clear exactly what was happening.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘Like a dog’: Trump has a long history of using canine insults to dehumanize enemies
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 02:20 PMTrump is the first president in more than a century not to have a dog, and his dislike for the pets shows in his frequent put-downs.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Florida candidate admits she faked her college diploma
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 11:47 AM"It was not my intent to deceive or mislead anyone,” Melissa Howard said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - When Trump faces a negative story, Fox News pivots to the economy
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 11:01 AMThe economy is doing well under President Trump. Fox News (really) wants you to know that.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Finance 202: Trump's trade spat with Turkey has little downside for the U.S.
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 08:35 AMThat could embolden his use of tariffs as a diplomatic strategy.
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- Twitter suspends far-right conspiratorial commentator Alex Jones
Wednesday - 08/15/2018 - 12:03 AMTwitter said Jones had posted a new show that violated the company's rules banning violent threats.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Roger Stone posts then deletes Nazi Space Force meme. He says he didn’t notice the swastikas.
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 08:35 PMThe image appears to have originated as an anti-Trump meme on websites such as 4chan and Reddit.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘He created Omarosa’: How Trump’s protegee turned his tactics against him
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 06:58 PMEx-aide Omarosa Manigault Newman’s book-tour allegations rattle the president and wreak havoc on the White House.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sarah Sanders’s bizarrely incorrect argument about how Trump is helping black Americans
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 04:37 PMMore black Americans are working now than in January 2017 — but Trump hasn't outperformed Obama on that metric by a long shot.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Don’t expect Russia to admit to election interference, Rand Paul says, lamenting ‘partisan hysteria’
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 03:50 PMSen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) held private meetings with Russian officials during his recent trip to Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The never-ending conspiracy theory about bots following Trump on Twitter
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 02:45 PMIt's not bots. It's new users.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Why it’s not unusual for Paul Manafort’s legal team not to call witnesses
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 01:26 PMPart showmanship, part risk aversion.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump campaign files arbitration action against Omarosa Manigault Newman
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 12:15 PMThe move comes as the former White House aide promotes a tell-all book.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump’s rationalization for calling women ‘dogs’ helped define his campaign
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 10:16 AMIn the first minutes of the first debate, Trump was asked to explain himself on the matter.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Energy 202: How to get Trump to sign climate legislation? Put it in a defense bill.
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 09:02 AMThe Pentagon is preparing for climate change, even if other agencies aren't.
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- Keith Ellison tells supporters he’ll ‘keep fighting’ and handle accusations ‘head on’
Wednesday - 08/15/2018 - 12:56 AMThe Minnesota Democrat ran 30 points past his closest rival in the Democratic primary for attorney general.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump accused Omarosa of breaching her NDA. Experts say she might prevail in court.
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 08:52 PMThe dispute over a nondisclosure agreement hinges on whether the former White House employee is viewed as a private citizen or government worker.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - With little fanfare, Trump and McConnell reshape the nation’s circuit courts
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 07:12 PMThe Republican-led Senate has installed 24 appellate court judges since January 2017 and is poised to confirm two more this week, a record for a president’s first two years.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - White House to Senate Democrats: Time running out on meeting with Kavanaugh
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 04:46 PMThe Supreme Court nominee will sit down with several Democrats this month, but the White House says his time is limited because he needs to prepare for confirmation hearings.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A fifth of those who approve of Trump’s job as president don’t like him personally
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 05:42 PMQuinnipiac University poll data reveals an interesting split.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Woman throws pair of stuffed lips at Sen. Doug Jones, heckles him for keeping open mind on Brett Kavanaugh
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 02:14 PMAt a Birmingham town hall, the Alabama senator was reportedly heckled for saying he’d keep an open mind on Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump’s response to Omarosa continues a pattern some find concerning
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 02:20 PMMany black women have long felt uniquely disrespected by President Trump.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The alleged Trump n-word tape is suddenly less hypothetical
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 12:16 PMAides have adjusted their denials, and CBS has released a tape of them apparently discussing it in which one says "he said it."
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump’s ‘dog’ tweet about Omarosa has no real, innocent explanation
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 09:36 AMTrump has been criticized for calling women "dogs" and other well-known sexist slurs before. He knew what he was doing.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hundreds of scholars have signed a statement defending the international institutions that Trump has attacked
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 07:45 AMThese institutions have produced unprecedented peace and prosperity.
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