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Trump Admits To Making Up Trade Deficit In Talks With Canadian Prime Minister
NPR - Wed Mar 14, 2018
In audio of a closed-door fundraiser obtained by the Washington Post and NBC News, President Trump boasts to donors that he "had no idea" whether he was correct when he insisted to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that the US has a trade deficit with Canada. More»

Rex Tillerson: a rocky road with Trump that ended with a surprise firing
The Guardian - Mon Mar 12, 2018
Rex Tillersons last significant act as secretary of state was characteristically out of tune with the White House. More»

Sam Nunberg on Mueller, His Media Spree, and His Message for Trump
New York Magazine - Mon Mar 5, 2018
At 11:30 on Monday night, Sam Nunberg returned a call from New York. More»

Trump officials fight eviction with fisticuffs from Panama hotel they manage
Associated Press - Sun Feb 25, 2018
PANAMA CITY, Florida - One of President Donald Trumps family businesses is battling an effort to physically evict its team of executives from a luxury hotel in Panama where they manage operations, and police have been called to keep the peace, The Associated Press has learned. More»

Illinois governor demonstrates diversity by drinking chocolate milk
Fox News - Thu Feb 22, 2018
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner illustrated his commitment to workplace diversity in the state Wednesday -- by drinking a glass of chocolate milk. More»

NRA Leader Warns Conservatives Of 'Socialist Wave' In Wake Of Shooting
NPR - Wed Feb 21, 2018
Just over a week after 17 people were killed at Parkland, Florida, high school, National Rifle Association executive vice president and CEO Wayne LaPierre gave a fiery, defiant speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, on Thursday at the National Harbor in Maryland. More»

GOP lawmaker claims women are inferior: 'a lesser cut of meat'
Patheos - Thu Feb 15, 2018
Bible based misogyny: South Carolina State Senator Thomas Corbin insults a female colleague, claiming women are "a lesser cut of meat" because the Bible teaches Eve was created from Adams rib. More»

Trump refuses to read the Presidential Daily Brief - and it's 'hampering his ability to respond to crises'
Raw Story - Thu Feb 8, 2018
Donald Trump "declines to participate" in reading the Presidential Daily Brief, breaking from his previous seven predecessors and potentially "hampering his ability to reposed to crises," the Washington Post reports. More»

Russians penetrated U.S. voter systems, top U.S. official says
NBC - Wed Feb 7, 2018
The US official in charge of protecting American elections from hacking says the Russians successfully penetrated the voter registration rolls of several US states prior to the 2016 presidential election. More»

Lawyer for Senior White House Official Predicts Robert Mueller Will Indict Trump Within Months
AlterNet - Thu Feb 1, 2018
According to two lawyers who have clients who have been swept up in special counsel Robert Muellers investigation into the Donald Trump administration, they believe that the president may be indicted for obstruction of justice within the next few months. More»

Steve Bannon subpoenaed to testify in Mueller's Russia investigation
The Guardian - Mon Jan 15, 2018
The House intelligence committee will on Tuesday question Steve Bannon, the one-time confidant to Donald Trump. More»

Trump Attacks Protections For Immigrants From 'Shithole' Countries In Oval Office Meeting
Washington Post - Wed Jan 10, 2018
President Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers Thursday in the Oval Office when they floated restoring protections for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as part of a bipartisan immigration deal, according to two people briefed on the meeting. More»

CDC to hold briefing on preparations for nuclear war
New York Daily News - Thu Jan 4, 2018
The CDCs got some handy tips on what to do in the case of a nuclear blast. More»

Trump lawyers try to halt book's release as White House fights to contain firestorm
The Guardian - Wed Jan 3, 2018
Lawyers for Donald Trump moved on Thursday to try to shut down the explosive new book which has exposed chaos behind the scenes at the White House. More»

Words banned at CDC were also banned at other HHS agencies
The Hill - Sat Dec 16, 2017
Multiple agencies in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have reportedly been told by the Trump administration that they cannot use certain phrases in official documents. More»

CDC Gets List Of Forbidden Words
Washington Post - Fri Dec 15, 2017
ATLANTA, Georgia - The Trump administration is prohibiting officials at the nations top public health agency from using a list of seven words or phrases - including "fetus" and "transgender" - in any official documents being prepared for next years budget. More»

Michael Flynn 'prepared to testify against Donald Trump' over Russia links
The Telegraph - Thu Nov 30, 2017
Donald Trump was dragged into the FBIs investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election for the first time om Friday night. More»

Trump Administration Is Mulling A Pitch For A Private Spy Network
BuzzFeed - Thu Nov 30, 2017
WASHINGTON - The White House and CIA have been considering a package of secret proposals to allow former US intelligence officers to run privatized covert actions, intelligence gathering, and propaganda missions, according to three sources whove been briefed on or have direct knowledge of the proposals. More»

Rick Perry: 'Righteous' fossil fuels help prevent sexual assaults
Raw Story - Wed Nov 1, 2017
Secretary of Energy Rick Perry said on Thursday that bringing fossil fuels to the developing world will prevent sexual assaults because rapes are less difficult in the dark. More»

GOP Senator: Millionaires Deserve The Tax Breaks Because Poor People "Create Nothing"
ShareBlue Media - Wed Nov 1, 2017
The Republican tax scheme to give handouts to billionaires and corporations at the expense of millions of working families is increasingly unpopular - so much so that the GOP delayed the release of their draft bill. More»

Manafort indicted on 12 counts, surrenders to FBI
The Hill - Sun Oct 29, 2017
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is being charged with 12 counts, including conspiracy against the United States, in the first indictment to come from the investigation of special counsel Robert Mueller. More»

Congressional candidate claims she was abducted by aliens, can communicate extraterrestrials
New York Daily News - Sun Oct 15, 2017
A politician in Miami, who is running to replace Republican Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen when she retires, claims that she was once taken aboard a spaceship by aliens where they discussed a number of topics. More»

Tom Price Resigns As Health And Human Services Secretary
Huffington Post - Fri Sep 29, 2017
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price has resigned his post just a week into a growing scandal over his frequent use of chartered and military flights that cost American taxpayers more than $1 million. More»

Koch network 'piggy banks' closed until Republicans pass health and tax reform
The Guardian - Tue Sep 19, 2017
At a weekend donor retreat attended by at least 18 elected officials, the Koch brothers warned that time is running out to push their agenda, most notably healthcare and tax reform, through Congress. More»

Georgia GOPer warns black attorney she 'may go missing' if she tries to remove Confederate monument
Raw Story - Tue Aug 29, 2017
A Republican member of the Georgia House of Representatives issued a veiled threat of lynching to a black former colleague who expressed anti-Confederate memorial sentiments on his Facebook. More»

Trump: I pardoned Joe Arpaio during Hurricane Harvey because 'the ratings would be higher'
Dead State - Mon Aug 28, 2017
This past Friday, President Trump pardoned former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in the wake of his July conviction for defying a court order to stop illegally profiling members his towns Hispanic community. More»

A Professor Of German History Explains The True Horror Of Trump's Response To Charlottesville
Raw Story - Tue Aug 15, 2017
As a scholar of modern German history, Ive been working on a study of antisemitism in Germany and the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. More»

Texas Governor Signs Controversial 'Rape Insurance' Abortion Coverage Into Law
Think Progress - Mon Aug 14, 2017
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) signed a bill Tuesday afternoon, approved by the Senate over the weekend, that would prohibit all insurance companies from covering non-life threatening abortion care in standard health plans. More»

Georgia Pumps Taxpayer Money into Anti-Choice Fake Clinics
Rewire - Mon Aug 14, 2017
Georgia is funneling millions in state funds to anti-choice organizations that attempt to prevent people from seeking abortion care. More»

Justice Department Says Rights Law Doesn't Protect Gays
New York Times - Wed Jul 26, 2017
The Justice Department has filed court papers arguing that a major federal civil rights law does not protect employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation, taking a stand against a decision reached under President Barack Obama. More»

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