On Election Day 2016, Rachel Crooks went to bed without watching the results. A friend texted her in the middle of the night. “It was something ambiguous, maybe just the word ‘sigh,’ ” Crooks says. “I knew what it meant, but I didn’t want to believe it.” Weeks earlier, Crooks had …
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President Trump’s carousel of preoccupations has once again spun back around to the border wall. This time, he’s going global. On Tuesday, Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell claimed that Trump suggested building a wall across the 3,000-mile-long Sahara Desert to prevent African migrants from making their way into Europe.“You need …
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WASHINGTON —Don McGahn, the Trump White House’s top lawyer and unassuming architect of the president’s mission to dismantle huge swaths of federal government, is planning to quit this fall. President Trump announced the news Wednesday morning in a tweet, saying McGahn would leave “shortly after the confirmation (hopefully) of Judge …
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If the Trump presidency’s festering pile of scandals, corruption and human rights abuses has even a glimmer of a silver lining,it’s that his surprise victory has inspired a wealth of people outside of the political mainstream to run for office. Nevada brothel owner Dennis Hof and Glenn Jacobs, also known …
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On June 28th, five staffers of Annapolis, Maryland’s Capital Gazettenewspaper were killed by an assailant wielding a legally purchased 12-gauge shotgun. Less than a week later, the paper’s surviving staff marched in the city’s Fourth of July parade. Their participation was announced in an article published Wednesday morning. “Normally, we …
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Today marks the one-year anniversary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s appointment to investigate a possible connection between the Trump campaign and Russian meddling in the 2016 election. So far, the investigation has yielded eight indictments against 22 individuals and businesses. Campaign aide Rick Gates, former foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos …
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Many are still reeling from the allegations against (former) New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, and now it appears that Donald Trump and Michael Cohen knew about the claims all the way back in 2013 – right around the time the former AG filed a lawsuit against the future president. …
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Earlier this week, Donald Trump‘s loose-lipped lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, made it clear that the president reimbursed his fixer, Michael Cohen, for the $130,000 Cohen paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her pre-election silence about an alleged affair with Trump. The money in question, Giuliani told the …
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The as-yet-unstoppable force of the Trump presidency and the as-yet-immovable object of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation came a little closer to each other Tuesday night. A meeting between Trump and Mueller has long loomed as a potential inflection point for the investigation, and the Washington Postreportsthat Mueller brought …
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It’s sure to go down as one of the iconic images in our history: first-generation Cuban-American Emma González, brown-skinned and bald-pated and queer, standing silent and tearful, mournful and proud, bringing the March for Our Lives in D.C. to a hush at first puzzling, then immeasurably profound. For the liberal-minded …
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