Welcome back from the long weekend. If you’re just now tuning back into the news, there’s a lot to catch up on. Here are five of the biggest stories you might’ve missed over the Labor Day weekend. At least five people are dead as Hurricane Dorian pummels the Bahamas The …
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In August alone, the Trump administration laid out plans to make it more difficult for legal immigrants to use social services, eliminate limits on how long families can be detained at the border, and stop providing flu vaccines to migrants held in border detention facilitiesThe administration was proud enough of …
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Climate advocate Jay Inslee may have dropped out of the Democratic primary, but it doesn’t appear like the controversial issue of [checks notes] saving humanity from an environmental apocalypse is going to fall out of focus. On Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) released arguably the most ambitious proposal yet to …
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Chris Cuomo, the CNN anchor and real son of a governor (as well as brother to New York’s current one), has left little ambiguity about the promised consequences of calling him “Fredo.” Cuomo, 49, was approached and insulted earlier this week by a flock of doofuses, who per the video, …
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On Friday, the Washington Post published a report about how President Donald Trump relies on anitinerant construction crew that includes undocumented immigrants to work on many of his resort properties. The Post spoke with two former employees of the construction crew that operates under Trump’s company, Mobile Payroll Construction LLC, …
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President Trump on Friday morning gloated that the Baltimore home of House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) had been burglarized. Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor who in December stepped down as Trump’s U.N. ambassador, did not approve. “This is so unnecessary,” she tweeted, along with a rolling-eyes …
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Robert Mueller’s testimony before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees dominated the news cycle Wednesday, offering five-plus hours of testimony that marked the former special counsel’s first significant public appearance. But as Mueller testified on Wednesday, the rest of the world continued to turn. Here’s some of what happened: Puerto …
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Author Stephen King knows a thing or two about horrifying, terrifying, chilling, and even creepy subject matter. So, for him to say that something or someone is scarier than his work should make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. In a new video from NowThis News …
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SALEM, ORE. — Massive logging trucks circled the streets around the capitol, flying American flags in their truck beds and blasting horns, as hundreds of right-wing protesters rallied in support of Oregon’s fugitive GOP senators, whose week-long walkout appears to have killed the state’s ambitious cap-and-trade climate legislation. The rally …
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Joe Biden has refused to apologize for remarks in which he praised the “civility” of an arch-segregationist Mississippi senator he used to collaborate with. He has called on the critics of his remarks, in particular 2020 rival Cory Booker, to make amends, instead. “Cory should apologize. He knows better,” Biden …
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