South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott said that President Trump saw into the future while making his State of the Union speech on February 4th and claimed Trump referenced the coming financial collapse that would eventually hit America because of the coronavirus. “I think during his State of the Union …
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The captain of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, Brett Crozier, was dismissed by Navy higher-ups on Thursday — a move that was precipitated by Crozier sending a letter earlier this week to military leaders pleading for help with the outbreak of coronavirus cases onboard Crozier’s aircraft carrier. In the …
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A quarter of all tweets about the climate crisis are written by bots, and the majority of computer-generated posts on the issue are geared to deny climate science. The troubling finding comes by way of a yet-to-be-published study from Brown University that was obtained by The Guardian. “These findings suggest …
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WASHINGTON — The presidential campaign of Andrew Yang, the insurgent Democratic presidential contender, laid off 130 staffers on Wednesday and Thursday, several former staffers say, including on-the-ground canvassers and organizers who’d been working to prepare for upcoming primary elections in New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina. Several newly fired staffers …
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It feels like “election season” has “officially begun” several times at this point, but Tuesday night in Iowa marks the first opportunity candidates will have to put some actual, non-symbolic points on the board. The Iowa caucuses will set the tone for the remaining few months of the Democratic primary …
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The New York Times editorial board endorsed both Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Amy Klobuchar for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. The Times ended their endorsement, writing, “Ms. Klobuchar and Ms. Warren right now are the Democrats best equipped to lead that debate. May the best woman win.” They were …
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Republican congressman Doug Collins (R-Ga.) said Democrats pushing to give Congress a say over further military action against Iran “are in love with terrorists.” The top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee made the comments on Fox Business Network’s Lou Dobbs Tonight on Wednesday. Collins went on to accuse Democrats …
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told CNN’s Jake Tapper that President Donald Trump should not be impeached because Trump is dedicated to rooting out corruption, and his motives for holding up the military funding to Ukraine were centered around those concerns. In his response, however, Tapper schooled the congressman in the …
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Though Lindsey Graham has a history of advocating for Congress’ right to conduct oversight of the president, his fidelity to this particularly prickly section of the Constitution has its limits. As the House of Representatives has directed its investigative levers toward President Trump, few Republicans have cried foul as loudly …
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Fifty two percent of Americans support removing President Trump from office through impeachment, according to a new poll by Gallup. This is the highest level of support found for removing Trump since the Ukraine scandal broke. In fact, backing for Trump’s impeachment has far surpassed the public support for the …
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