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Steve Bannon subpoenaed to testify in Mueller's Russia investigation
The Guardian - Mon Jan 15, 2018
The House intelligence committee will on Tuesday question Steve Bannon, the one-time confidant to Donald Trump. More»

Trump Attacks Protections For Immigrants From 'Shithole' Countries In Oval Office Meeting
Washington Post - Wed Jan 10, 2018
President Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers Thursday in the Oval Office when they floated restoring protections for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as part of a bipartisan immigration deal, according to two people briefed on the meeting. More»

CDC to hold briefing on preparations for nuclear war
New York Daily News - Thu Jan 4, 2018
The CDCs got some handy tips on what to do in the case of a nuclear blast. More»

Trump lawyers try to halt book's release as White House fights to contain firestorm
The Guardian - Wed Jan 3, 2018
Lawyers for Donald Trump moved on Thursday to try to shut down the explosive new book which has exposed chaos behind the scenes at the White House. More»

Words banned at CDC were also banned at other HHS agencies
The Hill - Sat Dec 16, 2017
Multiple agencies in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have reportedly been told by the Trump administration that they cannot use certain phrases in official documents. More»

CDC Gets List Of Forbidden Words
Washington Post - Fri Dec 15, 2017
ATLANTA, Georgia - The Trump administration is prohibiting officials at the nations top public health agency from using a list of seven words or phrases - including "fetus" and "transgender" - in any official documents being prepared for next years budget. More»

Michael Flynn 'prepared to testify against Donald Trump' over Russia links
The Telegraph - Thu Nov 30, 2017
Donald Trump was dragged into the FBIs investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election for the first time om Friday night. More»

Trump Administration Is Mulling A Pitch For A Private Spy Network
BuzzFeed - Thu Nov 30, 2017
WASHINGTON - The White House and CIA have been considering a package of secret proposals to allow former US intelligence officers to run privatized covert actions, intelligence gathering, and propaganda missions, according to three sources whove been briefed on or have direct knowledge of the proposals. More»

Rick Perry: 'Righteous' fossil fuels help prevent sexual assaults
Raw Story - Wed Nov 1, 2017
Secretary of Energy Rick Perry said on Thursday that bringing fossil fuels to the developing world will prevent sexual assaults because rapes are less difficult in the dark. More»

GOP Senator: Millionaires Deserve The Tax Breaks Because Poor People "Create Nothing"
ShareBlue Media - Wed Nov 1, 2017
The Republican tax scheme to give handouts to billionaires and corporations at the expense of millions of working families is increasingly unpopular - so much so that the GOP delayed the release of their draft bill. More»

Manafort indicted on 12 counts, surrenders to FBI
The Hill - Sun Oct 29, 2017
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is being charged with 12 counts, including conspiracy against the United States, in the first indictment to come from the investigation of special counsel Robert Mueller. More»

Congressional candidate claims she was abducted by aliens, can communicate extraterrestrials
New York Daily News - Sun Oct 15, 2017
A politician in Miami, who is running to replace Republican Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen when she retires, claims that she was once taken aboard a spaceship by aliens where they discussed a number of topics. More»

Tom Price Resigns As Health And Human Services Secretary
Huffington Post - Fri Sep 29, 2017
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price has resigned his post just a week into a growing scandal over his frequent use of chartered and military flights that cost American taxpayers more than $1 million. More»

Koch network 'piggy banks' closed until Republicans pass health and tax reform
The Guardian - Tue Sep 19, 2017
At a weekend donor retreat attended by at least 18 elected officials, the Koch brothers warned that time is running out to push their agenda, most notably healthcare and tax reform, through Congress. More»

Georgia GOPer warns black attorney she 'may go missing' if she tries to remove Confederate monument
Raw Story - Tue Aug 29, 2017
A Republican member of the Georgia House of Representatives issued a veiled threat of lynching to a black former colleague who expressed anti-Confederate memorial sentiments on his Facebook. More»

Trump: I pardoned Joe Arpaio during Hurricane Harvey because 'the ratings would be higher'
Dead State - Mon Aug 28, 2017
This past Friday, President Trump pardoned former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in the wake of his July conviction for defying a court order to stop illegally profiling members his towns Hispanic community. More»

A Professor Of German History Explains The True Horror Of Trump's Response To Charlottesville
Raw Story - Tue Aug 15, 2017
As a scholar of modern German history, Ive been working on a study of antisemitism in Germany and the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. More»

Texas Governor Signs Controversial 'Rape Insurance' Abortion Coverage Into Law
Think Progress - Mon Aug 14, 2017
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) signed a bill Tuesday afternoon, approved by the Senate over the weekend, that would prohibit all insurance companies from covering non-life threatening abortion care in standard health plans. More»

Georgia Pumps Taxpayer Money into Anti-Choice Fake Clinics
Rewire - Mon Aug 14, 2017
Georgia is funneling millions in state funds to anti-choice organizations that attempt to prevent people from seeking abortion care. More»

Justice Department Says Rights Law Doesn't Protect Gays
New York Times - Wed Jul 26, 2017
The Justice Department has filed court papers arguing that a major federal civil rights law does not protect employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation, taking a stand against a decision reached under President Barack Obama. More»

Boy Scouts apologise for Trump's speech
BBC - Wed Jul 26, 2017
GLEN JEAN, West Virginia - The chief scout of the Boy Scouts of America has apologised for the remarks made by President Donald Trump at the groups national event this week. More»

Anthony Scaramucci Called Me to Unload About White House Leakers, Reince Priebus, and Steve Bannon
New Yorker - Wed Jul 26, 2017
He started by threatening to fire the entire White House communications staff. It escalated from there. More»

From 'Fake Media' To Clinton, Trump Brings Political Attacks To The Scout Jamboree
Washington Post - Mon Jul 24, 2017
GLEN JEAN, West Virginia - Ahead of President Trumps appearance Monday at the National Scout Jamboree in West Virginia, the troops were offered some advice on the gatherings official blog: Fully hydrate. More»

GOP Operative Who Tried To Get Clinton Emails From Hackers Committed Suicide
New York Daily News - Wed Jul 12, 2017
The GOP operative who admitted reaching out to Russian hackers for Hillary Clintons emails killed himself days after opening up to a reporter. More»

Many Troubling, Unanswered Questions about Voting Machinery in Georgia House Run Off
Alternet - Sun Jul 2, 2017
The results from Georgias sixth district congressional race are odd. More»

Georgia Voter Records Exposed On Internet
Associated Press - Tue Jun 20, 2017
A new report says that a security failure left Georgias 6.7 million voter records and other sensitive files exposed to hackers, and may have been left unpatched for months. More»

Congressman, others shot during baseball practice near D.C.
Washington Post - Tue Jun 13, 2017
The Republican lawmakers and their aides had nearly finished batting practice at an Alexandria park Wednesday when they heard a single crack through the sticky early-morning air. More»

Leaked NSA docs show vote hacking issues raised by the Green Party recount were real
Raw Story - Wed Jun 7, 2017
The Greens were right during 2016s presidential recounts when they pressed states to allow computer security experts to examine their election computing systems for evidence of possible hacking. More»

Trump Wants To Start Charging Stores To Accept Food Stamps
CNBC - Tue Jun 6, 2017
The White House proposal to overhaul the US food stamp program - and the deep cuts it would make to benefits for the poorest households - has sparked public outrage on both sides of the aisle. More»

Georgia GOP Candidate For U.S. House: 'I Do Not Support A Livable Wage'
Huffington Post - Tue Jun 6, 2017
GEORGIA - Karen Handel, the Republican candidate for Georgias 6th Congressional District, said Tuesday that she does "not support a livable wage". More»

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