Minnesota’s lonely island of electoral blue in the midst of Donald Trump’s upper Midwest Republican bloodbath was on the minds of nearly everyone inside Duluth’s Amsoil Arena Wednesday night. Every speaker, including President Trump, referred to it, though perhaps no one quite as dramatically as state GOP chairwoman Jennifer Carnahan, …
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It wasn’t so long ago that all seemed strangely rosy between the United States and North Korea. After exchanging threats, President Trump and Kim Jong-un agreed to meet in Singapore to discuss a peace agreement. The former announced he would dismantle a nuclear test site, which Trump called a “very …
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Update:New York prosecutors moved quickly on Thursday morning and cited Trump’s Fox & Friends comments about his relationship with attorney Michael Cohenas a reason to “expedite review” of material seized from the recent raid on Cohen’s offices, according to CNN’s Jim Sciutto. Original post below. *** President Trump called into …
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It started as a typical April morning in Caledonia, Wisconsin – 40 degrees, partly cloudy, rain in the forecast. Randy Bryce rolled out of bed and flicked on his TV. “I was getting ready to go in the bathroom and take a shower and then I saw the caption: ‘Insiders …
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We know that America has executed innocent men. Carlos DeLuna was innocent of murder when he was put to death by lethal injection in 1989. Cameron Todd Willingham was innocent of murder when he was given a lethal-drug cocktail in 2004. Both men were executed in the Huntsville Unit of …
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In January, the Republican governor of Kansas, Sam Brownback, announced he was leaving office for a position as Donald Trump’s Ambassador-at-Large of International Religious Freedom. Since first taking office in 2011, Brownback has become a national hero for small government, pursuing a “red state model” built on massive tax cuts …
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In January, Jeff Bezos announced that he would donate $33 million to help 1000 people go to college. This week, shortly after Amazon posted a $2 billion quarterly profit to end 2017, his company announced hundreds of layoffs at its headquarters. Meanwhile the 20 finalist cities for Amazon HQ2 are …
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Just when it looked like the seven-year war in Syria might be nearing its end, Turkey has invaded the northwestern province of Afrin. The target of the invasion is the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, the Kurdish militia that, with American military backing, recently defeated ISIS in Raqqa. President Trump …
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Chelsea Manning, the transgender former Army analyst and whistleblower who spent seven years in prison after leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, filed paperwork to run for U.S. Senate in her “home state” of Maryland, according to the Federal Elections Commission. Manning would vie for the nomination and seat currently occupied …
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One of the central planks of President Trump’s plan to Make America Great Again has always been his not-at-all-disguised plan to lock up more black and brown people. From the moment he announced his campaign by calling Mexicans rapists who bring drugs and crime to this country to his ongoing …
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