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In "The Federalist," Publius writes of “new” and “improved” “principles” of the “science of politics,” and he urges his countrymen to abandon the classical teachings concerning the possibilities of republican government over an extensive territory... (essay by George W. Carey)
#279702
The Mexican national accused of murdering college student Mollie Tibbetts in Iowa last month lived in the United States illegally for several years -- and worked for a farm that used Social Security Administration data in part to vet potential employees, according to officials there.
#279703
"The president has not, at least up to now, committed any impeachable offenses."
#279704
Lanny Davis was on TV all day yesterday, but one thing that didn't make it into many press reports was the older story about what Michael Cohen can reveal with
#279705
"There’s no reason. He didn’t collude with the Russians, he didn’t obstruct justice."
#279706
Is it a sign of the times? Someone rejiggered a giant DOT light-up billboard in Brooklyn to say “F–k Trump.” The sign, which has been sitting on the corner of Eagle Street and McGuinness Boulevard …
#279707
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke of Texas has said that in younger days he was twice arrested in his hometown of El Paso--once, he says, for leaping a campus fence and the other time for driving while intoxicated.
Readers have asked us whether the third-term congressman challenging Republican Sen. Ted Cruz has a criminal history. We decided to fact-check mention of the arrests in a 2012 TV ad that also was screenshot for an April 2017 Texas Tribune news story.
In the ad, sponsored by then-U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-El Paso, text next to what looks like O'Rourke's mugshot states that the "facts" are that O'Rourke has a "criminal record" including burglary and DWI.
#279708
Warren’s statement following the news about Tibbett’s murder is illustrative of the infuriating nature of the immigration debate in this country.
#279709
Federal prosecutors in New York granted immunity to publisher David Pecker in exchange for information in the investigation into hush-money payments by Trump attorney Michael Cohen.
#279710
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) both backed President Trump on Thursday and said he deserves an Attorney General he has faith in. The top key GOP Senators said they will both back President Trump if he fires AG Sessions after the 2018 midterm elections. Senate Judiciary Chairman …
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#279712
The state was flipped red by Donald Trump in 2016
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#279714
The Department of Homeland Security is expected to introduce a rule that would rescind work authorizations for the spouses and under-21 children of H-1B visa holders. The news comes from a court filing in a lawsuit challenging a 2015 Obama rule allowing spouses and children, who hold H-4 visas, to apply for employment authorization documents (EADs). Researchers estimate 100,000 H-4 visa holders will lose EADs under the rule.
#279715
Michael Cohen's lawyer made a major revelation during a CNN interview on Wednesday night, saying that his client "does not" have any information that then-candidate Donald Trump knew in advance about the Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer.
#279716
The entire Russian collusion gag was invented to assuage the potty pantsuit's embarrassment
#279717
President Trump's immigration goals of better paying jobs for Americans and and national security for the country mirror President Eisenhower's.
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Plus: Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell and Nicolle Wallace score their second-best Nielsen numbers of all time
#279719
By 58% to 36%, Americans say it is more important that the U.S. continue efforts to improve relations with Russia rather than take strong diplomatic and economic steps against it.
#279720
Allowing three states to impose an amendment to the Constitution that even proponents admitted died in 1982 is a moral fraud and a constitutional farce.
#279721
Go ahead and play your word games and tell me about the cruelty of borders, the kindness of sanctuary cities and the political wisdom of abolishing ICE. And then tell me about Mollie Tibbetts.
#279722
It pays to become a Trump nemesis.
#279723
Gov. Phil Murphy has vowed to make New Jersey a national model for gun control. This is his newest step.
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Mr. Pecker is close to President Trump and Michael D. Cohen, his former lawyer, and had been integral to a campaign effort to help protect Mr. Trump from embarrassing stories about women.
#279725
On Wednesday evening, CNN’s Chris Cuomo dedicated part of his show to discuss Mollie Tibbetts. Tibbetts was a young college student at the University of Iowa who was allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant. Her death has been politicized by both sides in the fight over immigration policy.
