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Oprah at the Golden Globes: Is she running for president? She should! — Oprah Winfrey for president was something of a running theme throughout the Golden Globes on Sunday, beginning with Seth Meyers' opening monologue. He jokingly forbade Winfrey from considering the presidency.
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Sources: Oprah Winfrey ‘actively thinking’ about running for president — Oprah Winfrey in 96 seconds — Oprah Winfrey is “actively thinking” about running for president, two of her close friends told CNN Monday. — The two friends, who requested anonymity in order to speak freely …
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Oprah for President? Why Oprah Winfrey's Golden Globes Stump Speech Just Changed Everything … Oprah Winfrey, as she is wont to do, just gave the most galvanizing, inspiring, and possibly life-saving speech in awards show history. (And, as she has been wont to do lately …
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Meryl Streep just endorsed an Oprah Winfrey presidential run — BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — A year ago at the Golden Globes, Meryl Streep gave a lifetime achievement speech and took aim at an incoming U.S. president. — At the 2018 ceremony, Oprah Winfrey gave a lifetime achievement speech …
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Oprah Denies Presidential Ambition After Golden Globes Speech — Minutes after giving a rousing speech at the Golden Globes Awards that promised “a new day” for women, minorities and the downtrodden, Oprah Winfrey said she has no ambitions to run for president.
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Connie Britton Wears “Poverty Is Sexist” Shirt to 2018 Golden Globes: What It Means
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NBC slammed for ‘stunningly unprofessional’ tweet declaring Oprah Winfrey ‘our’ next president


Trump Administration Rules That Nearly 200,000 Salvadorans Must Leave, Officials Say — LOS ANGELES — Nearly 200,000 people from El Salvador who have been allowed to live in the United States for more than a decade must leave the country, two government officials familiar with the decision said on Monday.
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200,000 Salvadorans will be forced to leave the U.S. or face deportation as Trump administration ends immigration protection — The Department of Homeland Security will not renew the Temporary Protected Status designation that has allowed the Salvadorans to remain in the United States since at least 2001 …
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200,000 Salvadorans may be forced to leave the U.S. as Trump ends immigration protection — The Trump administration has canceled the provisional residency permits of about 200,000 Salvadorans who have lived in the country since at least 2001, leaving them vulnerable to deportation …
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Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen Announcement on Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador
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Trump is revoking 260,000 Salvadoran immigrants' permission to live in the United States
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Trump to end protected status for Salvadorans
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Initial talks underway about Trump interview in Mueller Russia probe — WASHINGTON — Anticipating that Special Counsel Robert Mueller will ask to interview President Donald Trump, the president's legal team is discussing a range of potential options for the format, including written responses …
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Scoop: Trump's secret, shrinking schedule — President Trump is starting his official day much later than he did in the early days of his presidency, often around 11am, and holding far fewer meetings, according to copies of his private schedule shown to Axios.
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Allow us to figure out just how much of your life is spent on Trump's ‘executive time’
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Stephen Miller had to be escorted off CNN's set after his interview with Jake Tapper went off the rails — Stephen Miller needed to be escorted off a CNN set on Sunday. — His appearance on “State of the Union” ended abruptly after host Jake Tapper pressed him on damaging claims about President Donald Trump.
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Stephen Miller escorted off set after heated CNN interview
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Top White House aide had to be escorted off CNN set after heated interview with Jake Tapper
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Bannon's Olive Branch Too Late for Angry Trump — Fallout continues from book portraying White House dysfunction — Trump gives aides a choice: you're with Bannon, or with me — Stephen Bannon's attempt to make amends for his comments trashing Donald Trump's family did little to tamp …
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We're still better off with Trump than Clinton — Now that Steve Bannon has carried his political jihad to its logical conclusion, martyrdom never looked so meaningless. A bright and talented man has sacrificed himself over nothing more significant than anger and vanity.
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Tom Steyer will plow $30 million into midterms, but won't run for office in 2018 — Democratic donor Tom Steyer, who has spent more than $100 million since 2016 on political campaigns, will forgo any run for office this year and focus instead on ending Republican control of the House of Representatives.
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Billionaire donor Steyer says he won't run for office in 2018
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Scene quiet before frenzy of big game, planned protests — ATLANTA (AP) — The scene was relatively quiet Monday morning around the stadium in downtown Atlanta where the College Football Playoff title game was set to be held. A light drizzle fell on some fans milling about, but there were no anti-Trump demonstrators in sight.
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iPhones and Children Are a Toxic Pair, Say Two Big Apple Investors — Two activist shareholders want Apple to develop tools and research effects on young people of smartphone overuse and addiction — The iPhone has made Apple Inc. AAPL 1.14% and Wall Street hundreds of billions of dollars.
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ACLU Says New Jersey Prisons' Banning of “The New Jim Crow” Is Unconstitutional — America's jails and prisons have long since banned and censored books that the institutions determined posed a material danger to the safety of inmates and employees. There is a logic, at least …
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This woman's mugshot got compliments, so she turned it into an ad for her business — When Shia Yearwood was arrested and charged with violating a domestic protective order in Mecklenburg County on Wednesday, it seemed like a rough start to the new year. — Shia Yearwood, 24 …
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