Update: Roger Stone has formally apologized to the court for his earlier actions. In a filed statement, Stone wrote: “Please inform the Court that the photograph and comment today was improper and should not have been posted. I had no intention of disrespecting the Court and humbly apologize to the …
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Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has never shied away from correcting her detractors, and in a late-night tweetstorm, the congresswoman addressed recent conspiracy theories that she has a poor credit score and history of evictions. “The right has gotten increasingly desperate [with] spreading targeted rumors about me lately,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter …
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This is a State of the Union unlike any other. First, the government shutdown prompted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to ask President Trump to reschedule his annual address to Congress. Trump then sent a blustery letter, insisting Pelosi stick to the original plan: “It would be so very sad for …
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Four women volunteers were found guilty of misdemeanors in federal court for leaving food and water in the Arizona desert for migrants coming to the United States by walking across the border. The volunteers are affiliated with No More Deaths, ahumanitarian aid group. According to No More Deaths,155 migrants have …
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Climate deniers want you to believe otherwise, but the basic physics of climate science is as solid as the basic physics of gravity (or maybe even more solid, since the graviton, the elementary particle that mediates the force of gravity, still has not been detected). But there are plenty of …
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California Senator Kamala Harris remained coy about her presidential hopes on Thursday’s Late Show, but the Democrat did tease the possibility of a 2020 run. “Many people who put out books two years before a presidential election do so to introduce themselves in a broad way to the American people,” …
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As Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen travels to the border in the wake of two children dying in Customs and Border Patrol’s custody, President Donald Trump is tweeting from the White House that Democrats are to blame for the deaths. (True to form, he is also blaming Democrats and Nancy …
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A Texas judge ruled on Saturday to strike down all aspects of the Affordable Care Act, deeming it unconstitutional and putting Democrats’ and former President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare legislation in peril. If the ruling by the Republican-appointed judge stands, it would remove coverage for pre-existing conditions and “essential health …
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A day after a televised confrontation with President Trump underscored why she’s the only woman for the job, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) appears to be a lock to return as the Speaker of the House in January. Many of the leaders of an insurgency to deny her the gavel reversed …
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Appearing on CNN’sState of the Union Sunday morning, incoming House Judiciary Chair Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), who would be in charge of any impeachment hearings, made clear that if the allegations in the Michael Cohen sentencing memo are true,“They would be impeachable offenses.” On Friday, Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller and …
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