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- The slowly written Mueller report that’s sitting in plain sight
Friday - 02/22/2019 - 10:52 AMThe 300-odd pages of indictments and information documents make up much of what any report would say anyway.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sarah Sanders says White House confident about Mueller report, that Trump had no reason to collude with Russia
Friday - 02/22/2019 - 09:38 AMDuring a television appearance, Sanders said Trump didn’t need help from Russia in 2016 because he was the “infinitely better” candidate.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - District’s VA Medical Center in bottom 10 percent of agency hospitals
Friday - 02/22/2019 - 07:00 AMThe latest report from the inspector general is enough for District Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) to declare she is "fed up.” She plans to call for congressional hearings into the facility, which has been dogged by difficulties for years.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Health 202: HHS head Azar will take a victory lap on drug prices in speech today
Friday - 02/22/2019 - 08:30 AMBut the war has not been won.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Power Up: Democrats are unafraid to inhale in 2020's Pot Primary
Friday - 02/22/2019 - 06:13 AMThe electorate has changed on federal legalization.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - IRS analyst charged with leaking financial documents on Michael Cohen
Thursday - 02/21/2019 - 08:01 PMThe case is the second in recent months in which a government employee has been charged with the crime of disclosing such material.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hogan blasts RNC for ‘unprecedented’ steps to shield Trump from a primary
Thursday - 02/21/2019 - 08:15 PM“It’s not the way we should be going about our politics,” the two-term Republican governor told Politico.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pence promotes ‘opportunity zones’ as Trump faces criticism over race and policies to aid the poor
Thursday - 02/21/2019 - 05:34 PMPence was accompanied on his trip by Tim Scott (R-S.C.) — the lone black Republican senator who has been critical of Trump at times.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Judge: Prosecutors’ deal with Jeffrey Epstein in molestation case violated law, misled victims
Thursday - 02/21/2019 - 06:02 PMThe ruling is sharply critical of how prosecutors, including future Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, handled a non-prosecution agreement with billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee wore Confederate uniform in 1980 yearbook photo: report
Thursday - 02/21/2019 - 05:13 PMLee, who won election in November, said in a statement to the Tennessean that he regretted wearing the uniform at an “Old South” party while a student at Auburn University.
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- House Democrats set Tuesday vote on overturning Trump emergency declaration
Friday - 02/22/2019 - 11:02 AMThe House is expected to pass the measure rejecting the president’s bid to beef up border wall funding, but its prospects in the GOP-controlled Senate remain uncertain.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Daily 202: Will supporting reparations become a new litmus test for Democrats in 2020?
Friday - 02/22/2019 - 10:05 AMFour presidential candidates have now expressed openness to the idea.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Energy 202: Oregon pushes sweeping climate bill after Democrats win big in 2018
Friday - 02/22/2019 - 08:10 AMIts emissions were already low. Democrats want them even lower.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Technology 202: Trump's call for '6G' becomes a punchline in Silicon Valley
Friday - 02/22/2019 - 08:45 AMIt was a missed opportunity for White House to tout work on 5G.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump’s repeated claim that China is paying ‘billions’ in tariffs to the Treasury
Friday - 02/22/2019 - 03:00 AMOver and over, President Trump says the Treasury is earning "billions" from tariffs. But Americans, not China, pay the tariffs and so far, it's a net loser for the government.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Smollett case shows political risk of rapid response
Thursday - 02/21/2019 - 07:29 PMDemocratic candidates who voiced support for actor are taking a more cautious stand.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Republicans blast Cummings over ‘irresponsible’ claims regarding Trump ethics disclosure
Thursday - 02/21/2019 - 07:00 PMThe partisan accusations, which relate to payments to an adult-film actress, have surfaced early in the new congressional session.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Trailer: Why Democrats are preaching about 'the dignity of work'
Thursday - 02/21/2019 - 05:37 PMIn this edition: What candidates are talking about when they talk about "the dignity of work," New Hampshire voters' second choice and drama in North Carolina's 9th district.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Residents of another Manhattan building vote to remove ‘Trump Place’ name
Thursday - 02/21/2019 - 04:41 PMIn 2016, there were six “Trump Place” buildings on the Upper West Side. Soon, there will be one.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Republicans would least like their kids to marry a transgender person. For Democrats? A Republican.
Thursday - 02/21/2019 - 02:40 PMA new poll reinforces the stark differences between parties.
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- Roger Stone takes the stand — and much ridiculousness ensues
Friday - 02/22/2019 - 10:56 AMStone's shifting arguments didn't convince the judge, and it's not difficult to see why.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In this dystopian novel, the Wall gets built — and the emergency is real.
Friday - 02/22/2019 - 07:00 AMJohn Lanchester’s “The Wall” is a nightmare vision of a near-future Britain.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Cybersecurity 202: California wants to let political candidates use campaign cash to secure their devices
Friday - 02/22/2019 - 07:38 AMThe bill could be a model for other states.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - China and Russia have deep financial ties to Venezuela. Here’s what’s at stake.
Friday - 02/22/2019 - 06:00 AMIt's a tale of two creditors – each with distinct foreign policy goals.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump says Hoda Muthana can’t come back to the U.S. after leaving to join the Islamic State. Should we think of her as a child s
Friday - 02/22/2019 - 05:00 AMFemale foreign combatants are treated differently from men.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Rep. Bobby L. Rush: Jussie Smollett ‘has made it harder for real victims to be believed’
Thursday - 02/21/2019 - 07:53 PMRush, who had called for a hate crimes investigation into the alleged attack, said Thursday he was “beyond disappointed and extremely infuriated” by the actor’s behavior.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Senate Democrats weigh ditching the comfortable old shoe approach to recruiting candidates
Thursday - 02/21/2019 - 06:53 PMSome Democrats are searching for candidates with a fresh face and interesting backgrounds that are short on legislative voting records.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A federal election will be rerun because of fraud. Republicans aren’t talking about it much.
Thursday - 02/21/2019 - 05:51 PMIt's probably the first such do-over in American history.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Roger Stone’s dirty tricks just caught up with him
Thursday - 02/21/2019 - 04:34 PMA judge rebuked Stone on Thursday for a suggestive social media post about her. And Stone's past made it difficult to give him the benefit of the doubt.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - N.C. board declares a new election in contested House race after the GOP candidate admitted misspeaking under oath
Thursday - 02/21/2019 - 04:00 PMMark Harris’s testimony came the day after his son, a federal prosecutor, testified about the warnings he offered his father in phone calls and emails that he believed a political operative had broken the law in a previous election.
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