05-31-2019
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A Record Number Of Migrant Families Are Showing Up At The Border Despite Trump's Crackdown On Immigration
Despite the Trump administration's efforts to crack down on the number of immigrants arriving at the nation's borders, officials said Tuesday more than 53,000 families were apprehended in March, the highest number recorded in a single month.The number was a significant spike from the 36,531 families apprehended in the month of February and the most
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05-30-2019
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Disney CEO Bob Iger Says Georgia's Abortion Ban Will Make It 'Very Difficult' To Work There
Walt Disney's CEO Bob Iger said the company would find it difficult to continuefilming in Georgia if the state's controversial abortion ban takes effect, Reuters reports.
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"I rather doubt we will," Iger said when asked if Disney would maintain their production there. "I think many people who work for us will not want to work there, and we will have to heed their wishes in that regard."Additional Reading
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05-29-2019
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Racial Prejudice Has Declined As A Reaction To Trump's Presidency, A New Study Suggests
Donald Trump began his campaign for the presidency by branding Mexicans as "rapists." He initially declined to denounce David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. One week after his 2017 inauguration, the president temporarily banned people from seven mostly Muslim countries from entering the United States. That summer, he said there were "very fine people" among torch-wielding white supremacists who descended on Charlottesville.
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05-28-2019
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Bill Barr's Declassification Kerfuffle
Last week, President Trump conferred on Attorney General Bill Barr the authority to declassify documents relevant to his inquiry into what we can collectively call "the Russia investigation." This includes not only "Crossfire Hurricane," the counterintelligence probe formally opened by the FBI in late July 2016, but all of the relevant investigative threads, including those pursued by other intelligence agencies - such as the CIA's collaborations with foreign intelligence services, beginning in 2015.
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05-24-2019
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Simpson: Give Undocumented Immigrants Permanent Green Card Status
Idaho 2nd District GOP Rep. Mike Simpson told the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce this week that undocumented non-citizens in the U.S. should receive permanent Green Card status as a solution to the country's immigration problems, writes Idaho Press reporter Riley Bunch. Simpson said it may seem like "rewarding people who came here illegally.
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05-23-2019
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Trump Says 'She's A Mess' After Pelosi Says Trump Family Needs To Stage 'Intervention'
A day after President Donald Trump walked out of a meeting with congressional Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appeared emboldened by the fracas Thursday morning, capitalizing on the showdown to move past her party's growing divisions regarding the prospect of impeaching the president.
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05-22-2019
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Does 'Impeach Trump' Amash Have Financial Interests In China?
Republican Representative from Michigan Justin Amash's calls for President Trump's impeachment may be motivated by his own financial interests in China, it has been revealed.In a lengthy Twitter thread on May 18th, the congressman said the Mueller Report revealed "President Trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment.
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05-21-2019
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Louisiana Governor Breaks With Democratic Party On Abortion
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Nearly three decades ago, when Democratic Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards’ wife was 20 weeks pregnant with their first child, a doctor discovered their daughter had spina bifida and encouraged an abortion. The Edwardses refused.
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