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House divided: Vote temporarily halted after Pelosi calls Trump comments ‘racist’ on the floor — The resolution would rap Trump for racist tweets, but Collins said denigrating the president violates House rules. He moved to have Pelosi's remarks stricken.
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House Condemns Trump's Attack on Four Congresswomen as Racist — WASHINGTON — The House voted on Tuesday to condemn as racist President Trump's attacks against four congresswomen of color, but only after the debate over the president's language devolved into a bitterly partisan brawl …
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Trump's new impeachment problem — President Trump's racist tweets had an unintended consequence: They gave House Democrats a new rationale for impeachment. — Why it matters: This has the potential to fundamentally change the conversation around impeachment, which has so far mostly focused …
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Trump feeds his voters another scam, wrapped in racist packaging
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Floor fight erupts as Pelosi speaks ahead of vote to condemn Trump's ‘racist’ comments
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A divided House votes for resolution condemning Trump's racist remarks
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Kellyanne Conway Snaps Back at Reporter: 'What's Your Ethnicity?' — “My ethnicity is not relevant to the question I'm asking you,” the reporter replied. — When White House reporter Andrew Feinberg posed a question to Kellyanne Conway on Tuesday about the president's racist tweets …
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What Would It Cost for Republicans to Condemn Trump? — Anything you will have to do eventually, you should do immediately. — This is the passage that struck me most in the George Conway piece everyone is talking about: … What is it, exactly, that we want from elected Republicans?
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The American Right Defines Patriotism As Complacency About Racism
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Scaramucci: Trump ‘turning into’ a racist
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Why Donald Trump is thrilled about this fight with the ‘Squad’
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A Racist in the White House
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House condemns Trump's Twitter attacks against congresswomen
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Kellyanne Conway just said something that should stun you
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Planned Parenthood Ousts President, Seeking a More Political Approach — Planned Parenthood on Tuesday removed its president after less than a year in the job, seeking new leadership at a time when abortion rights have come under increasing attack from statehouses and Republicans in Washington.
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Head of Planned Parenthood forced out after eight months — The president of Planned Parenthood was forced out of her job Tuesday in a dispute over the direction of the the nation's largest women's reproductive rights organization amid growing political and legal challenges to abortion.
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EXCLUSIVE: Former Trump Aide Jason Miller Admits to Hiring Prostitutes in 2015 and 2017 — Republican operative Jason Miller, the former communications chief for the Trump campaign and transition team, said he hired numerous prostitutes and visited “hand job” massage parlors as recently …
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Mark Sanford, SC Republican, former US Rep considers presidential run against Trump — Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina congressman ousted from office after President Donald Trump urged voters to reject him, is considering a run for president. — Sanford, in an exclusive interview Tuesday …
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A Judge Has Banned Roger Stone From Posting Anything On Instagram, Facebook, Or Twitter — WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Tuesday issued an order prohibiting Roger Stone, a longtime ally and adviser of President Donald Trump, from posting anything on Instagram, Facebook …
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Judge finds longtime Trump confidante Roger Stone in violation of gag order
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Caller Wants to Nominate a “Normal” Republican Instead of Trump — RUSH: Let's grab Douglas on line 4, San Diego. Douglas, it's great to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello. — CALLER: Well, thanks. It's wonderful to be here. Of course, I often... I listen to your show.


Ex-CNN commentator at progressive summit: Major news outlets are ‘Zionist orgs’ — PHILADELPHIA — Former CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill claimed that news outlets like NBC and ABC were “Zionist organizations” that produced “Zionist content,” during a panel on Friday at the annual Netroots Nation summit held …
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Eric Garner's Death Will Not Lead to Federal Charges for N.Y.P.D. Officer — The decision came five years after Mr. Garner's dying words — “I can't breathe” — became a rallying cry. — The Justice Department will not bring federal charges against a New York City police officer in the death …
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William Barr steps in to make sure the NYPD cop who killed Eric Garner won't be prosecuted
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Jeffrey Epstein Abused Victims While Serving Time in Florida, Accuser's Lawyer Says — Attorney Brad Edwards says a new accuser has come forward to say Epstein took advantage of work release to prey on young women. — An attorney representing Jeffrey Epstein accusers said Tuesday that at least …
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‘Go back’? Trump's grandfather's German hometown has a different message for the U.S. president — BERLIN — When it became clear Donald Trump would be the Republican nominee for president in 2016, the German village of Kallstadt suddenly became a destination for journalists and tourists curious about the unlikely candidate's roots.


Trump's threat to investigate Google isn't based on evidence. It's based on Fox News. — Trump at the White House on Monday. — Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images — How Peter Thiel's Google conspiracy theory made its way from Fox & Friends to the White House.
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Peter Thiel Says Elizabeth Warren Is Most ‘Dangerous’ Candidate
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In 2020 Democratic Fund-Raising, Five Candidates Stand Out — Five Democratic presidential candidates raised a combined $96 million from individual donors in the last three months — about three-quarters of the total fund-raising by the entire Democratic field, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission on Monday.
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The 25 Most Influential People on the Internet — For our fifth annual roundup of the most influential people on the Internet, TIME evaluated contenders by looking at their global impact on social media and their overall ability to drive news. Here's who made this year's unranked list.


Republican support for Trump rises after racially charged tweets: Reuters/Ipsos poll — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Support for U.S. President Donald Trump increased slightly among Republicans after he lashed out on Twitter over the weekend in a racially charged attack on four minority Democratic congresswomen …


Steve Scalise says House Republicans didn't disrespect Obama's position. Let's go to the tape. — House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) made quite an assertion Tuesday about how Republicans treated President Barack Obama while he was in office. — “We had disagreements with a lot …
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I have served in the Air Force and in Congress. People still tell me to ‘go back’ to China. — Ted Lieu, a Democrat, is a U.S. representative from California. — I served on active duty in the U.S. Air Force and currently serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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An Asylum Officer Said She Won't Enforce “Immoral” Asylum Standards At The US-Mexico Border — At least one asylum officer won't enforce a new regulation that ended asylum protections for hundreds of thousands of Central Americans and other immigrants, calling the change “illegal” and “immoral.”


A Border Patrol Agent Reveals What It's Really Like to Guard Migrant Children — With the agency under fire for holding children in deplorable conditions and over racist and misogynistic Facebook posts, one agent speaks about what it's like to do his job. “Somewhere down the line people just accepted what's going on as normal.”


Judge Decides Neo-Nazi Owes Woman Over $14M After ‘Storming’ Her Family — A federal judge in Montana decided Monday that Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin owes real estate agent Tanya Gersh more than $14 million after rallying other white supremacists on his site to inundate her and her family with a barrage of threats and vitriol.
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Donald Trump's ‘Go Back’ Slur All Too Familiar To Minority Members Of Congress — White lawmakers, however, acknowledged that people generally assumed they were American. — WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump insists he wasn't being racist when he told four minority congresswomen who've …
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