Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has been under some heat of late, from fellow candidates and media alike, for not disclosing details about his time working for a consulting firm a decade ago. Buttigieg claimed a nondisclosure agreement he’d signed kept him silent on the matter. On Monday that changed. …
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President Donald Trump once again used a racist term when going after Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). “You have to vote for me. You have no choice. You’re not going to vote for Pocahontas I can tell you that,” Trump told Jewish voters during an event for the …
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Hillary Clinton may not be running for president in 2020 (. . . we think), but she’s been plenty busy this campaign season promoting her new book, The Book of Gutsy Women, which she co-authored with her daughter, Chelsea. (Also: feuding with Tulsi Gabbard. She’s been doing that, too.) On …
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Republicans have derided much of the House impeachment inquiry testimony as hearsay. But on Thursday Democrats called a witness with first-hand testimony about president Trump’s demands for dirt from Ukraine. David Holmes, a career foreign service officer who serves as political counselor at the U.S. embassy in Ukraine, told impeachment …
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Senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren came to the defense of songstress Taylor Swift, who is engaged in a bitter battle with her former record label headed by Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta over ownership and rights to her old albums. Swift released a statement earlier this week saying the …
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Audible gasps are said to have rippled across the room as Bill Taylor, the United States’ top diplomat in Ukraine, delivered a 15-page opening statement to House impeachment investigators on Tuesday. Taylor described in detail, with the help of contemporaneous notes, extensive efforts to leverage hundreds of millions of dollars …
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Daryl Morey did the right thing — at first. In a Friday night tweet that he has since deleted, the Houston Rockets general manager expressed support for the legions of protesters who have taken to the streets of Hong Kong. The demonstrations started as a protest against a new Chinese …
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It now appears as though the “perfect” call President Donald Trump made to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky needs a fall guy, and outgoing Energy Secretary Rick Perry may just be that man. According to a report on Saturday, a source told Axios that the president told House Republicans during a …
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WASHINGTON — President Trump and his army of far-right supporters wasted little time coalescing around a theory to try to discredit the intelligence officer who blew the whistle on Trump’s efforts to get Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election. Promoted by House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Sen. Lindsey …
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President Trump has claimed repeatedly that his July 25th call with Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky was totally innocuous. “The conversation, by the way, was absolutely perfect,” he told reporters on Sunday.“It was a beautiful, warm, nice conversation.” A written record of the conversation allegedly at the center of a whistleblower …
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