Former vice president Joe Biden still leads the pack of Democratic contenders for their party’s nomination in a new CNN/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll of likely Iowa caucus participants, but Biden’s opponents are also gaining ground. Twenty-four percent of respondents said they support Biden, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) comes in …
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Senator Elizabeth Warren, played brilliantly as always by Kate McKinnon, stopped bySaturday Night Live’sWeekend Update desk on Saturday night. “You’ve rolled out some ambitious new plans,” host Colin Jost remarked to the candidate. “Yeah, I guess, you know, I’m setting myself apart from other candidates by saying what I’m gonna …
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Ben Stiller and Star Jones are among the moderators who will lead conversations with Bill and Hillary Clinton on their upcoming speaking tour. “An Evening With President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton” kicks off April 11th at the Beacon Theatre in New York City, where …
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In a deposition stemming from a lawsuit filed by parents of Sandy Hook victims, conspiracy theorist and Infowars host Alex Jones claimed an imbalanced mental state caused him to claim the Newtown, Conn. massacre of elementary school children was a government-led conspiracy. In the video released on Friday, Jones said …
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On Sunday, Attorney General William Barr released a four-page letter summarizing Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on his investigation into the Trump campaign’s relationship with Russia. While Barr writes that Mueller found no evidence of collusion, the document’s language is ambiguous and offers little clarity on what exactly the special …
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For decades, scientists and journalists have been ringing the alarm on climate change, but few forced people to sit up and take notice like New York Magazine’s David Wallace-Wells, whose alarming article “The Uninhabitable Earth” caused a bit of an uproar in climate and environmentalist circles when it was published …
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WASHINGTON — Paul Manafort, the disgraced Republican operative and former Trump campaign chairman, arrived in a courtroom in northern Virginia on Thursday in a wheelchair and wearing a green jumpsuit and staring down the possibility of spending the rest of his life behind bars. In the end, he got off …
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During a Republican celebratory event at the West Virginia capitol on Friday hostilities rose after a poster was displayed that pictured Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) along with an image of the fiery World Trade Center on 9/11. The poster was displayed in the capitol’s rotunda during a Republican event called …
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The family of Nicholas Sandmann, the Covington Catholic High School student who was filmed staring down a Native American protester in Washington, D.C., last month, is suing the Washington Post for its coverage of the incident. The suit, which seeks $250 million in damages, accuses the Postof “targeting and bullying” …
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President Trump on Friday morning signed a national emergency declaration in order to build a wall along America’s southern border. He announced the news during a press conference in the Rose Garden at the White House. “I’m going to be signing a national emergency and it’s been signed many times …
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