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Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) uses GOP members of Congress’ own words to highlight the hypocrisy of their criticism against FBI Agent Peter Strzok.
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A mere 72 hours after the Chinese government agreed to put a half-billion dollars into an Indonesian project that will personally enrich Donald Trump, the president ordered a bailout for a Chinese-government-owned cellphone maker.
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J.D. Scholten, the Democrat who nearly defeated Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) in 2018, announced Monday that he will again seek to challenge the white nationalist congressman.
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Once upon a time, Republicans didn't want a president under FBI investigation ➡️ by @RiegerReport
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Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) remained steadfast on the House floor while playing heart-wrenching audio of detained children separated from their parents, despite fierce opposition from the chamber's presiding officer.
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Ilhan Omar, the Minnesota congresswoman targeted by Donald Trump, became a U.S. citizen in 2000, six years before the first lady did.
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"Any senator who accepts cash" from Trump before the impeachment trial is "guilty of accepting a bribe and should go to the slammer," declared Richard Painter.
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Tara Reade is one of eight women to accuse Biden of inappropriate touching.
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George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, and three other prominent Republicans have launched a new campaign aimed at ensuring Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election.
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Buttigieg wonders "why an evangelical Christian like Mike Pence wants to be on a ticket with a president caught with a porn star."
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"For as much money as he takes from the NRA, you’d think Ted Cruz would have some idea of how to stick to his guns."
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BREAKING: Supreme Court legalizes gay marriage http://t.co/988Eib3ykH http://t.co/EkVJ3P1m0J
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“We hope today is one step forward to respecting and understanding each and every one as a valuable person,” BTS vocalist V said.
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"If he keeps lying like he has been every day on stuff this important, all of us should stop broadcasting it," said the MSNBC host.
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Ex-union president calls Trump a "con man" and a "liar" as Carrier lays off 215 more Indiana workers
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"The U.S. response is a catastrophe that is on track to cost hundreds of thousands of lives," Maddow tweeted after the president thanked her.
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Mary Elizabeth Taylor, one of the highest-ranking Black officials in the administration, said Trump's actions “cut sharply against my core values."
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BREAKING: Warren has a coronavirus plan, but it's not part of her presidential agenda. It's what she wants the federal government to do right now.
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After working for years in the Trump Organization, she apparently couldn't remember Allen Weisselberg has been the company's chief financial officer for decades.
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The daughter of a man born a slave opened the National Museum of African American History
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"His goddamned tweets and lying, oh my God," Maryanne Trump Barry told niece Mary Trump in secret recordings, The Washington Post reported.
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Trump administration hasn't decided whether to accept Harvey help from Mexico
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Artists engaged in a symbolic gesture of resistance that countless Iranian women have braved after Mahsa Amini's death.
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“If you stay in the Republican Party, you have to pay homage to Trump and I don’t do that. I don’t pray to any man," said Houston immigration lawyer Jacob Monty.
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“No one should waste their breath on the men in makeup at Fox when Rupert Murdoch is responsible for everything that they say and do," said the MSNBC anchor.
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The stuff of nightmares. #debate
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Juli Briskman, who famously flipped off Trump's motorcade while riding her bicycle, just won a Virginia election.
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Bernie Sanders introduces bill ending federal marijuana ban
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ICE to deport Arizona father whose 5-year-old son is battling cancer
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“I will not be lectured about what our military needs by a five-deferment draft dodger.”
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In nominating her, two Swedish lawmakers said the 17-year-old “has worked hard to make politicians open their eyes to the climate crisis.”
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Trevor Noah, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon and James Corden celebrated the Electoral College's confirmation of Joe Biden's election win.
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The clip came from Larry David's MAGA-centric episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
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"Trump talks a good game, but he's not on our side," says the ad. "Never has been, never will be."
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BREAKING: A federal judge cited the coronavirus pandemic in blocking the measure.
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For a former president to appeal to the Russian leader for political help amid the "atrocities" in Ukraine is "completely unacceptable," the GOP governor said.
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Republican leaders in Congress will reportedly attend church with Biden instead of witnessing Trump's formal send-off at Joint Base Andrews.
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"As much as I’m a strong Republican and I love my party, it’s the country that has to come first," the former New Jersey governor said.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday that Canadians are no longer "permitted to buy, sell, transport, import or use military-grade, assault weapons."
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Sally Yates has been nominated for JFK Profile In Courage award
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Legendary Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein called on the media to stop giving Trump "a microphone when we know that his methodology is to engage and manipulate us on the basis of lying, propaganda and agitprop.”
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Trump gripes that he so preferred Chris Wallace's dad, Mike, to the Fox News host. Chris has quipped that "one of us has a daddy problem, and it's not me."
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Trump’s leadership is “a threat to the rule of law in our country," the GOP former prosecutors wrote in an open letter slamming the president.
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George Conway's Lincoln Project released a new ad that demands impartiality during Trump's Senate impeachment trial.
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Lara Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle are each receiving $15,000 per month through the campaign manager’s private company, GOP sources said, to dodge FEC rules.
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Kellyanne Conway's husband says impeachment wasn't the distraction from coronavirus, Trump was.
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Former FBI Director James Comey revealed that he's kept awake at night by the possibility that he helped Trump secure the 2016 election.
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Dan Coats slams "all-out assault" on democracy.
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Steve Scalise will speak at anti-gay group's forum months after lesbian cop saved his life
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is weighing whether to vote for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. As she considers her decision, protections for Alaska Natives might be even more of a factor than abortion rights.
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"Sarah Cooper is being mean to me! I don’t like it when girls are mean to me!" mocks one Twitter wag.
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People Are Calling Out The Contrast Between Media Coverage Of Kate Middleton And Meghan Markle
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The son of the Trump Organization's chief financial officer works at a real estate investment trust that made the loans, reports The Wall Street Journal.
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No, we are not kidding. Donald Trump is using eight goats to categorize part of his Bedminster, New Jersey golf club as a “farm” so he can pay less in property taxes.
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The message — flying over the Florida fairgrounds where Trump was speechifying —was funded by the progressive PAC MeidasTouch.
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Jacob Chansley, who was "smitten" with Trump, believes he was following the former president's orders when he stormed the Capitol, according to his attorney.
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Stephen Colbert mocked Sen. Lindsey Graham after he made an unusual threat to Democrats on calling witnesses for the impeachment of former President Donald Trump.
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A total of 34 people were arrested by U.S. Capitol Police at the protest, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Alma Adams.
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BREAKING: Rick Bright, the recently ousted government vaccine official, will testify before Congress that the Trump administration was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic and that the U.S. may soon face its “darkest winter in modern history."
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Obama finally went after Trump and it was 🔥🔥🔥
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Patti Davis, the daughter of the late President Ronald Reagan, said her father ― had he lived to witness Donald Trump’s presidency ― would be “horrified” by the state of the U.S. and the Republican Party today.
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Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers and Jimmy Kimmel nailed the president's hypocrisy.
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Sen. Susan Collins told Politico that she is “sad” that her support for Brett Kavanaugh could cost her votes in her upcoming election.
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Michael Cohen and John Bolton said they suspect Trump could have more classified documents stored in Bedminster, New Jersey, and elsewhere.
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Bernie Sanders says it's "time to shut down" Pennsylvania family immigrant detention center
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Mitch McConnell says he hopes Democrats in Congress can show bipartisanship after taking the House. But the Senate majority leader has never been one to reach across the aisle.
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Hillary Clinton's supporters don't want her to shut up
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Obama: "Let's face it Fox, you'll miss me when I'm gone. It'll be harder to convince the American people that Hillary was born in Kenya."
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George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, wrote a scathing editorial about the president, calling his recent statements "racist to the core."
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“Putting politics aside, wouldn’t they want to know the truth of what happened on January 6?” Gladys Sicknick told Politico.
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Georgia Republican Andrew Clyde's gaslighting on the insurrection was transformed into a tour company spot on Stephen Colbert's "Late Show."
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"Antiracist Baby" is a No. 1 bestseller on Amazon a day after the GOP senator railed against it during Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing.
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A report shows that Black women’s support for the Biden-Harris ticket and Democrats in down-ballot races was greater than among any other group of women voters.
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For the first time in 16 years, The Fresno Bee is withdrawing its support for GOP incumbent Devin Nunes.
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Democratic governors are planning to invest at least $20 million dollars this year in gubernatorial races that could determine which party has control over drawing electoral boundaries in 2021.
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David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network put the president on notice over his response to the growing crisis.
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Kellyanne Conway crumbles under the weight of her own lies
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"Did you think, Lara, that the rules that applied to everybody else in that hall didn't apply to you?" the Fox News host asked.
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New Zealand's prime minister and lawmakers fired back after Trump claimed there was a "big surge" of the coronavirus in the country.
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Obama exits the Oval Office for the last time. Per tradition, he left behind a note for Trump on the Resolute Desk. (📷: Getty)
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Fox News repeatedly cropped out President Donald Trump from a photo of him and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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BREAKING: As the president spoke, police deployed tear gas and flash-bangs against protesters outside the White House demanding justice for George Floyd.
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Senate Democrats call for probe of Trump administration's refusal to obey court orders
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“Prepare to watch the NRA boast about getting higher donations. Prepare to see students rise up and be called ‘civil terrorists’ and ‘crisis actors.’ Prepare for the right-wing media to attack the survivors.”
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Two men killed at a protest for Jacob Blake were a father and a skater who tried to disarm the shooter. A third injured man was a volunteer medic.
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The former president has a long history of making offensive and insulting comments about military members, despite never serving himself.
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"He cannot understand selflessness because he is selfish. He cannot conceive of courage because he is a coward."
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has an amendment that would stop the Colombian government from spraying coca crops with harmful chemicals.
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He also asked Trump to “do more toxic rallies” and bring Pruitt along.
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Goodyear has a more than 120-year history in Ohio, a battleground state in the presidential election.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar wants to build $1.2 trillion of new public housing bill as the most ambitious piece of Green New Deal legislation to date. It's the marquee proposal in a wave of progressive housing bills coming out this year.
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A video apparently meant to smear Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — by showing she can dance — had the opposite effect.
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