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ABC Cancels Roseanne
ABC on Tuesday canceled Roseanne , the popular reboot of the 1990s sitcom, after the show's biggest star, Roseanne Barr, posted a racist "joke" on Twitter in reference to former Obama administration official Valerie Jarrett, who is black...
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over 3 years ago
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Court Rules Trump cannot Block Twitter Users
Federal district court Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald has ruled that President Trump can't block people from his Twitter feed, because it amounts to viewpoint discrimination, which violates the First Amendment. The ruling marked a victory for the Knight...
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over 4 years ago
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New York Times Claims to Have Mueller's List of Questions for Trump
The New York Times reported yesterday that it had obtained a list of at least four dozen questions that Special Counsel Robert Mueller wants to ask President Trump for his investigation into ties between Trump's campaign and Russia, and possible obstruction...
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over 4 years ago
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Comey's Book Set for Release
In his new memoir, "A Higher Loyalty," James Comey calls President Trump " unethical, and untethered to truth ," and says Trump gave him "flashbacks to my earlier career as a prosecutor against the mob." The big question...
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over 4 years ago
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Trump Goes after DACA and NAFTA on Twitter
In a series of tweets on late in the weekend, President Trump again called for an end to the Democratic filibuster and said there will be no deal with Democrats on DACA. Trump has proposed and rejected all kinds of offers related to the program . However...
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over 4 years ago
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Did Trump Just Threaten to Beat Up Joe Biden?
President Donald Trump has challenged former Vice President Joe Biden to a fist fight, and he thinks he’s going to win . Perhaps it was an inevitable response to Biden’s comments on Tuesday , when he said: “If [he and Trump] were in...
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over 4 years ago
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Trump, School Shooting, and Russia
President Trump today said the FBI was so busy looking into collusion claims it “missed” warning signs before the rampage . Trump called it “very sad” through a tweet that the FBI “missed all of the many signals sent out...
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over 4 years ago
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Trump Attorney Paid Stormy Daniels
Michael Cohen, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, told The New York Times today that he personally paid $130,000 to a porn actress, Stormy Daniels , who claimed to have had an affair with Trump. Daniels received the apparent hush money just before Election...
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over 4 years ago
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Former White House Insider Dishes on Trump
Omarosa Manigault-Newman, the reality TV star and former Trump White House aide, says Americans should be “worried” if Vice President Mike Pence became commander-in-chief. “ We would be begging for days of Trump back if Pence became...
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over 4 years ago
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Brzezinski Shuts Off Wolf on Morning Joe
MSNBC co-host Mika Brzezinski cut off an interview with Michael Wolff on Morning Joe this morning , after the Fire and Fury author said he never suggested that U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley had an affair with President Donald Trump. To that denial, Brzezinski...
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over 4 years ago
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New Book Draws Trump's Ire
The fire and fury over Fire and Fury , the book that allegedly contains bombshell information about Team Trump , is growing. After excerpts exposed some distressing claims from insiders, the President's lawyers fired off cease and desist letters to...
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over 4 years ago
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Moore Accuser Admits to Altering Yearbook Signature
Roy Moore accuser Beverly Young Nelson admitted to ABC earlier today that she added the date and place to Moore’s signature in her 1977 yearbook. “To a sweeter more beautiful girl I could not say Merry Christmas. Christmas 1977. Love, Roy...
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over 4 years ago
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Trump Mentions Pocahontas during Native American Veteran Ceremony
President Trump once again referred to Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas” —this time, during an event honoring Native American veterans. “You’re very, very special people. You were here long before any of...
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over 4 years ago
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Fake Stories about Moore
Right-wing activism organization Project Veritas, known for its highly edited hidden-camera stings on liberals, seems to have gotten its most recent sting operation exposed by The Washington Post . An apparent employee or associate of the group attempted...
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over 4 years ago
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Scaramucci Battling Tufts
Former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci called criticism of his threatened lawsuit against a Tufts University campus newspaper “baby-ish.” Scaramucci said he threatened to sue a student and the newspaper for publishing...
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over 4 years ago
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Twitter Bans Ads from Russia
Twitter announced today that it would ban ads from all accounts owned by Russia Today and Sputnik , effective immediately. “This decision was based on the retrospective work we’ve been doing around the 2016 U.S. election and the U.S. intelligence...
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over 4 years ago
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Trump Unhappy with Flake Farewell Address
Immediately following Republican Sen. Jeff Flake’s powerful retirement speech , the White House said the remarks were beneath the Senate. In his 20-minute address from the Senate floor, Flake announced he will not seek re-election in 2018, and railed...
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over 4 years ago
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Bannon Makes 2020 Trump Prediction
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon lashed out yesterday at Senate Republicans who haven’t defended President Trump against criticism and declared that Trump would win a landslide re-election victory in 2020. Speaking at the Values...
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over 4 years ago
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Trump Turns on NBC News
President Trump tweeted yesterday that NBC News should have its broadcasting license revoked because of its report that he asked advisers in July about dramatically expanding the U.S. nuclear arsenal. “Fake @NBCNews made up a story that I wanted...
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over 4 years ago
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Twitter Removes Candidate Ad...Then Changes Course
Twitter reversed its decision today to censor an advertisement from pro-life Republican Marsha Blackburn that referenced “baby body parts.” Twitter initially said the ad was “inflammatory,” but early today the company released...
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over 4 years ago
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Corker-Trump Feud Brewing
President Trump today went scorched-earth against Senator Bob Corker (Republican-TN), saying the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman “ didn’t have the guts to run” for re-election . “Senator Bob Corker ‘begged’...
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over 4 years ago
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Trump vs. the NFL
Yesterday morning, senior officials in the Trump administration were strafing the Sunday political talk shows, forced to mount full-throated defenses of the president’s prolonged campaign of hate-tweeting the National Football League and its players...
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over 4 years ago
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Mr. Trump Goes to the UN
President Trump has delivered two addresses this week to members of the United Nations that have raised questions domestically and abroad. To begin, on Tuesday, the President spoke to the full membership and highlighted concerns with North Korea. As the...
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over 4 years ago
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Cruz Twitter Feed in Trouble
Republican Senator Ted Cruz told reporters today that the @SexuallPosts porn tweet liked by his Twitter account overnight was a mistake by a staffer on his team . “There are a number of people on the team that have access to the account, and it...
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over 4 years ago
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Palin's Lawsuit against The New York Times Dismissed
A Manhattan federal judge threw out former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s lawsuit against The New York Times today . Palin sued the newspaper for defamation earlier this year over an editorial that tied an ad featuring crosshairs denoting anti-gun...
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