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President Trump has been telling voters that the US economy will leap back to life “like a rocket,” stronger than ever after its bout with the coronavirus. But there is a reason economics is called the “dismal science.” There are emerging signs that any recovery will fail to match the speed and severity of the …
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Nathan Sales speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington, November 14, 2019. The Trump administration on Monday applied an international terrorist designation to an ethno-nationalist group known as the Russian Imperialist Movement, marking the first time the U.S. has applied such a designation to a white supremacist organization. The State Department …
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George Papadopoulos exits the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., following his sentencing hearing, September 7, 2018. Former Trump-campaign adviser George Papadopoulos in October 2016 denied the campaign was involved in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee earlier that year, in a conversation with a confidential FBI source. The conversation has already been referenced …
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Senator Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) on Wednesday labeled President Trump a ‘drug-pusher’ for continually touting hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment for coronavirus. “The president keeps taking the stage and as opposed to what Dr. [Anthony] Fauci and medical health professionals are telling us, pushing this drug,” Harris said on The View. “He’s got to stop — …
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The director of the World Health Organization on Wednesday defended its handling of the coronavirus threat after president Trump and a number of U.S. lawmakers accused the group of demonstrating bias towards China, where the deadly outbreak originated. “Please don’t politicize this virus,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged at a briefing in Geneva. “The …
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Joe Exotic could be a step closer to clawing out of his cage. President Trump on Wednesday said he’ll examine a request for a pardon from Joe “Exotic” Maldonado-Passage, the star of the hugely popular Netflix series “Tiger King.” “I’ll take a look,” Trump told a Post reporter when asked about the case and his …
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Former “Bachelor” star Colton Underwood claims two controversial drugs heavily touted by President Donald Trump “saved” his life after he tested positive for coronavirus. The reality star, 28, told host Maria Menounos on her “Better Together” podcast on Tuesday that his doctor put him on two medications praised by the President in his daily press …
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A member of the National Guard holds a boy of a Honduran migrant after she and her children were stopped from crossing illegally into El Paso, Texas, United States, June 26, 2019. The Trump administration has deported nearly 400 migrant children intercepted at the U.S.-Mexico border over the past two weeks as part of new …
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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) is preparing a bipartisan letter to send to President Trump over the Friday-night firing of Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson. Grassley, a Trump ally who has an ongoing probe into the Department of Defense’s role in supporting Stefan Halper, who spied on the 2016 Trump campaign, …
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The White House is requesting an additional $251 billion for additional small business lending as part of the government’s coronavirus response, eliciting a counter from congressional Democrats asking for $125 billion in targeted aid for farmers, women, minorities, and veteran-owned businesses. “I’ll be asking Congress to provide an additional $250 billion for the paycheck protection, …
President Trump has been telling voters that the US economy will leap back to life “like a rocket,” stronger than ever after its bout with the coronavirus. But there is a reason economics is called the “dismal science.” There are emerging signs that any recovery will fail to match the speed and severity of the …
