Russia‘s alleged interference in the 2016 election is examined in the new trailer for Agents of Chaos, Alex Gibney’s two-part HBO documentary out September 23rd. Ahead of the upcoming 2020 election, the film aims to interpret what really happened in 2016, untangling all the conspiracies, confusion and public reaction. In …
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Jimmy Kimmel joked about President Donald Trump‘s Twitter feud with Twitter after the social media site flagged one of his missives about voter fraud with a fact-check disclaimer. Trump sent out the tweet in question on Tuesday, claiming without any evidence that mail-in ballots — which are being touted as …
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Trevor Noah tried to get to the bottom of President Donald Trump‘s latest obsession, “Obamagate,” on The Daily Show Tuesday. In the days since the Justice Department unexpectedly dropped the charges against former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, who pled guilty to lying to the FBI during the Mueller investigation, …
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Sherrod Brown has always defied easy categorization. A Yale graduate from a well-off family, he became a state representative in Ohio at the age of 21 and spent his free time in local union halls, absorbing the stories of auto and steelworkers. In the 1990s and 2000s, when Bill Clinton …
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A new ad that attempts to capitalize on President’s Trump’s laissez-faire handling of the coronavirus crisis by using his own words against him seems to be a sure-fire strategy, but will it prove effective? The digital ad artfully pulls together clips of the president lying about the state of the …
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In an ironic twist, due to the growing number of coronavirus cases in the U.S., health officials in Mexico are considering border restrictions for Americans looking to enter their country. On Friday, Mexico’s Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell told reporters that the spread of the coronavirus coming from the U.S. …
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With the goal of calming Americans’ fears, President Trump used a national address to blame the spread of coronavirus on the European Union and offered little help to Americans beyond economic assistance. Trump said in a Wednesday evening speech from the Oval Office that he is “marshaling the full power …
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In a classic Friday night news dump, President Trump announced that he is replacing the acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney with Republican North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows. Mulvaney held the position for 14 months and will now serve as the U.S. special envoy for Northern Ireland. Meadows, …
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WASHINGTON — Presidential debates moderated by cable-news personalities tend to produce the same, tired questions over and over: Candidate A, why Candidate B is wrong/unprepared/ill-equipped to lead the country? Followed, inevitably, by: Candidate Y, how do you respond to Candidate X? Or there’s the perennial classic: Are you going to …
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Almost $16 billion of the $20 billion that was allocated for disaster recovery for Puerto Rico following two hurricanes in 2017 was finally released this week by the Trump administration. According to NPR, the Department of Housing and Urban Development had withheld funds, claiming concerns of alleged mismanagement and corruption. …
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