When President Trump’s Treasury Department proposed lifting sanctions on companies tied to the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska in December Secretary Steven Mnuchin vowed that the firms would be forced to “significantly diminish Deripaska’s ownership and sever his control.” But, the New York Times is now reporting that Treasury’s promises were …
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Supervisors at theTrump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, provided fake green cards and Social Security numbers to undocumented employees, according to a report in theWashington Post. Anibal Romero, a lawyer representing five immigrants who were undocumented while working at the Trump property, told the newspaper that he turned …
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg had two cancerous nodules removed from her left lung on Friday, according to a statement released by the Supreme Court. The procedure took place at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, where doctors found no evidence of “any remaining disease” in Ginsburg’s lung or …
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Last week, President Trump’s ex-lawyer Michael Cohen admitted he lied to Congress more than a year ago when he claimed discussions about a possible Trump Tower in Moscow ceased in January 2016. (The talks continued through the Republican primary season, which ended in June 2016.) Cohen made the claims in …
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders called reporters to the White House on Tuesday for a rare press briefing. Though it was the only time this month the press secretary has held an on-camera briefing, she didn’t even answer questions for 15 minutes. Instead, Sanders ceded the bulk of the press conference to …
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In an interview between Fox News Sunday‘s Chris Wallace and President Donald Trump, topics ran the gamut from Trump’s relationship with the press to why he didn’t visit Arlington Cemetery on Veterans Day to the appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting Attorney General overseeing the Mueller investigation. Discussing CNN reporter …
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President Trump wants Tuesday’s midterm elections to be about immigration. The economy is doing well, but it’s complicated and boring. Health care, too, is a confusing issue, so much so for the president that during his final pre-election rally Monday night,he warned that Democrats would “obliterate Obamacare,” a piece of …
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Brian Kemp, Georgia Secretary of State and the Republican nominee for Georgia governor, expressed at a ticketed campaign event that his Democratic opponent Stacey Abrams’ voter turnout operation “continues to concern us, especially if everybody uses and exercises their right to vote,” according to audio obtained by Rolling Stone. An …
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) rolled out a highly-produced retort to Donald Trump’s “Pocahontas” attack on Monday morning. The five-and-a-half-minute video, which features interviews with Warren’s Republican family members in Oklahoma, her former employers and a MacArthur Genius Award-winning expert in DNA testing, seeks to put to rest questions the president …
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Two Democratic names emerged from the hearings to confirm Brett Kavanaugh as strong voices against the Trump Administration nominee: Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ). Now, both are laying groundwork in Iowa, looking ahead to a 2020 presidential run. Booker visited Iowa October 6th-9th and has drawn …
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