Month: <span>September 2020</span>

A draft executive order reported to be circulating within the Trump White House calls for keeping the notorious Guantánamo Bay prison open and allowing for individuals associated with the Islamic State (ISIS) to be sent there—a plan described by one expert as “toxic policy” and “a national security disaster.” “Guantánamo 2.0 would be a national…

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Activist and author Naomi Klein, whose 2007 book The Shock Doctrine gave rise to the idea that politicians will exploit crises to further grab power and push forward a “radical pro-corporate agenda,” as she put it, is now charged with monitoring the “shocks of the Trump era” from her new post with First Look Media’s…

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Friday, March 3, 2017 GOP members in the House are avoiding regular order by keeping their repeal plan for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) hidden from public view and it appears as though they are trying to ram through a vote on their bill before the cost of repeal can be objectively calculated by the…

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President Donald Trump was met with peaceful protesters in North Charleston, South Carolina on Friday as he gave a speech at a Boeing plant in his first visit to the state since winning its Republican presidential primary last year. Members of Indivisible Charleston, a local resistance group, rallied at the North Charleston Coliseum near the…

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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the Trump administration to obtain documents about the January raid in Yemen that ended with many civilians, and one Navy SEAL, dead. President Donald Trump called the operation a “success” despite the fact that he authorized it “without sufficient intelligence, ground support, or adequate backup preparations,” as Reuters…

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After a hot summer, the winter of 2020 is approaching. But for the fashion industry, the purchasing season for AW21 is already slowly beginning. Several trade fairs have announced that they will once again take place physically in January in combination with a digital presence. FashionUnited talks to trend forecaster Christine Boland about AW21 as…

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Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore’s campaign defended its candidate in the face of numerous sexual misconduct allegations and calls for him to step down, taking aim at the news media, Democrats and the GOP establishment in a press conference on Tuesday. “Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote GOP senator…

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Controversial GOP Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore says that the accusations against him are reminiscent of Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia’s efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election. CNN reported that at a campaign event Monday night, Moore said that politicians like his Democratic opponent, Doug…

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A longtime Texas broadcast journalist has resigned from his post to run for the House seat of a powerful GOP committee chairman, the reporter’s Dallas news outlet announced on Wednesday. Brett Shipp, the recipient of three Peabody Awards, will leave ABC affiliate WFAA after 22 years to run as a Democrat for Texas’s 32nd Congressional District,…

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President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE weighed in on one of Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore’s accusers on Friday after the woman said she made…

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