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Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden pledged to probe the Trump administration’s coronavirus loan programs if he’s elected this year. The former vice president said he would tap an inspector general on his first day in office to review “every stimulus loan given to any big company or political insider.” He was apparently referring to efforts …
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Which politician insisted SNL should pay for their kid’s braces? Which SNL impression sent a political figure into therapy? In public, most politicians pretend their Saturday Night Live impressions, which can be downright brutal, don’t bother them. Several presidents have even publicly appeared with their SNL doppelgängers, including George H.W. Bush and Gerald Ford. But in private, …
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As Covid Brings New Repression, Democracies Must Push Back. That authoritarian regimes around the world are exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to tighten their grip on power is not surprising. Unfortunately, a number of democratic and semi-democratic governments are doing the same thing. Left unchecked, the combined actions could result in terrible damage to democracy and …
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If you look back at presidential electoral maps from the past century, it paints a visual picture of how massive political shifts can occur in relatively short periods of time, even if things often feel set in stone in the present moment. California was a red state until 1992, for example, while Texas went blue …
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Dear Twitterverse: Tara Reid wants everyone to stop confusing her with Tara Reade. Ever since Reade, a former staffer to Joe Biden, publicly accused the presidential candidate of sexual assault, Reid — as in the “Sharknado” and “American Pie” star — has seen her Twitter timeline inundated with threats, nastiness and snarky comments from people …
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President Trump is entering a new phase of coronavirus management that will likely determine whether he is reelected, as he embarks on his first major post-pandemic travel, encouraging states to reopen economies shuttered by quarantines. One of the questions he faces is whether the country can return to something like normal without sacrificing the hard-fought …
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China officially denied President Trump’s assertion on Wednesday that it wants Joe Biden to defeat him in November. But read between the lines, and a very different picture emerges. Take what the highly influential editor of China’s state-controlled Global Times newspaper is saying. Hu Xijin is a mouthpiece, adviser, and sounding board for the regime. …
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Last week, The Hill reported that Joe Biden would be announcing a vice presidential “selection committee” panel by May 1st, which would mark the official kick off of the presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee’s VP vetting process. Biden has made it clear that he will pick a woman running mate so as to stave off …
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After admitting that he’s never voted before, musician Kanye West is certain that he’ll be casting his first ballot in the 2020 presidential election for none other than 45 himself, President Donald Trump. In a new GQ cover story, the “Jesus Is King” artist, 42, said that he won’t allow his past fear of criticism …
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Rose McGowan has slammed fellow #MeToo advocate Alyssa Milano for endorsing 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden after he was recently accused of sexual assault by a former staffer. “You are a fraud,” McGowan, 46, tweeted the former “Charmed” star. “This is about holding the media accountable. You go after Trump & Kavanaugh saying Believe …
Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden pledged to probe the Trump administration’s coronavirus loan programs if he’s elected this year. The former vice president said he would tap an inspector general on his first day in office to review “every stimulus loan given to any big company or political insider.” He was apparently referring to efforts …
