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Tucker Carlson's top writer resigns after secretly posting racist and sexist remarks in online forum
Editor's note: This article quotes racist, homophobic and sexist language, much of which has not been censored.
Rep. Elissa Slotkin - Campaign Finance Summary
Fundraising profile for Rep. Elissa Slotkin - Michigan District 08
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Here’s her Open Secrets page ...
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Elissa Slotkin Is Sounding the Alarm. Will Democrats Listen?
She helped win Congress for the Democrats in 2018. Now she has a warning for her party.
Trump’s Impeachment Revenge: Alexander Vindman Is Bullied Into Retiring
The Army lieutenant colonel’s patriotism cost him his career.
Supreme Court gives Native Americans jurisdiction over eastern half of Oklahoma
Legal authority over virtually half of Oklahoma – home to 1.8 million residents and including Tulsa, its second-largest city – was at issue.
Health official: Trump rally 'likely' source of virus surge
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — President Donald Trump's campaign rally in Tulsa that drew thousands of people in late June, along with large protests that accompanied it, “likely contributed" to a dramatic...
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The president of the United States is a COVID-19 super spreader apnews.com/ad96548245e186… pic.twitter.com/asRKRAGRSn
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Trump campaign considers displaying statues at future rallies: Sources
A potential new addition to President Trump’s future rallies: statues.
Texas GOP convention will happen in person — but Republican leaders will speak via video
As the state has seen a surge in coronavirus cases, calls have been growing over the past week for the party to cancel its Houston event.
New July 2020 Electoral College Ratings
This election is looking more like a Democratic tsunami than simply a Blue wave. President Trump, mired in some of the lowest job approval ratings of his presidency, is trailing Biden by significant margins in key battleground states like...
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This quote from @amyewalter’s latest has me thinking about public opinion polling on the Vietnam and Iraq wars ... which followed a similar trajectory cookpolitical.com/analysis/natio… pic.twitter.com/pRKRBBNzbv
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Partisanship Drives Latest Shift in Race Relations Attitudes | Monmouth University Polling Institute
Majority hopeful that movement will have a positive impact
Florida hospital ICUs near Miami, Orlando and Tampa have hit capacity
The coronavirus pandemic has brought countries to a standstill. In many places, as countries reopen, Covid-19 cases are on the rise. Follow here for the latest.
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So Kristi Noem says she takes COVID-19 very seriously and then makes an absolutely bogus statement about his the disease is transmitted amp.cnn.com/cnn/world/live… pic.twitter.com/sGMgvecFbE
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Trump administration formally withdraws US from WHO
The White House has officially withdrawn the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO), a senior administration official confirmed Tuesday, breaking ties with a global public health body in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
A Letter on Justice and Open Debate | Harper's Magazine
The below letter will be appearing in the Letters section of the magazine’s October issue. We welcome responses at [email protected] Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are...
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The responses to this letter are much more interesting than the letter itself - the unending “whack-a-mole Whataboutism” intended to obscure the fact that liberal efforts to stifle debate and uncomfortable ideas is a real phenomenon
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White woman who called police on Black bird watcher in Central Park faces false report charge
Video of Amy Cooper calling 911 to allege that a Black man was threatening her after he asked her to leash her dog drew widespread outrage.
Medical examiner: Teen who died from COVID-19 attended large church event days before death
Carsyn Davis, who died on June 23, is one of the youngest people in Florida to die from the virus.
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17-year old girl with autoimmune disorder attends church gathering where there is no social distancing and no mask wearing ... two weeks later she died of COVID-19
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On a book entitled "Lolita" - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Scott has posted a couple of things referencing John Hockenberry’s appalling Harper’s essay (Breaking news: Ian Buruma’s decision to let serial sexual abuser Jian Ghomeshi publish a similarly appalling not-mea culpa in the NYRB has apparently cost...
America, we have a problem - The Boston Globe
Taking stock on the Fourth of July.
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This July 4th is not an opportunity for celebration but rather a recommitment to our founding ideals
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ICYMI: Americans like to say there’s is the greatest country in the world. How can anyone still believe that today?
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'We need to live with it': White House readies new message for the nation on coronavirus
The effort to craft a clearer response comes after months of Trump downplaying the health crisis and mixed signals from the administration.
Coronavirus is surging in Florida -- and so is anxiety over Trump's chances with senior voters
John Dudley, a retired banker, proudly cast his ballot for Donald Trump in 2016, excited at the prospect of sending an entrepreneur to the White House on a pledge to change Washington.