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In a 14-1 City Council vote, the nation’s second-largest city approved an increase from $9 an hour over five years, and gave the push to raise wages across the country a major lift.
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Sanders introduced legislation that would eliminate undergraduate tuition at public colleges and expand work-study programs to help students at private universities.
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GOP presidential hopeful pokes fun at Clinton for avoiding the media.
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When Hillary is your strongest candidate you know you have a problem.
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“It is time to begin a vigorous analysis of our conduct of trade,” Sen. Jeff Sessions says. “Do our policies and TPP concede too much to our mercantilist competitor allies?”
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The administration issued a report Monday saying that in order to rebuild trust between police and their communities, the federal government should stop enlisting state and local police in most immigration enforcement, setting up another challenge as President Obama tries to please immigrant rights advocates while carrying out deportations.
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Some residents who earn income elsewhere will get a refund, and they and others will pay less going forward.
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On Game of Thrones, the rape of a fictional character prompted real American Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) to say that she had had enough of this horrific treatment of women on HBO.
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Vanita Gupta, head of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, has told a lawyers group in Colorado that slavery and Jim Crow helped fuel the Ferguson and Baltimore riots.The last few days have seen a number of fanciful stories with the Obama administration seemingly questioning the authority of local police.
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The city has a long history of bloodshed. And it’s only gotten worse since the recent upheaval.
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This is simply amazing. We kind of suspected that there was something else going on behind the Ferguson protests, but only now do we have absolute evidence that there were shady organizations PAYIN...
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The American mainstream media is filled to the brim with liars, frauds, partisans, cheats, plagiarists, and those who tolerate, defend and enable all of them. There is no American institution -- not the NFL, not the tobacco companies, not any corporation or enterprise regularly targeted by the media -- that engages in anywhere near the amount of fraud and dishonesty that serially oozes from Our Media Overlords.
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"The strategy that the president has laid has enjoyed periods of progress,” Earnest added. "Are we going to light our hair on fire every time there's a setback?"
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Companies and coalitions aligned with her past positions on the trade legislation ponied up more than $2 million of the nearly $12 million in speaking fees Clinton hauled in between January 2014 and this March, weeks before she declared her candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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A Columbia student who carried a mattress around campus to protest the university’s lack of action against a student she says raped her graduated on Tuesday -- mattress and all. Emma Sulkowicz, wit...
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For years, they laughed at him. They’re not laughing anymore.
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About the Course Have you ever asked yourself why, despite more than ten years of efforts –involving, among other things, the loss of thousands of lives in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, well-over a...
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The 'black spider' letters show that Charles is a good sort of prince
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The last month has seen considerable attention given to foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation as possible evidence of corruption in the State Department under Hillary Clinton's direction. However, an investigation from the Washington Examiner finds that paired Clinton Foundation donations and State Department lobbying were common among Fortune 100 companies as well:
While exactly half of the [Fortune 100] corporations appeared to have lobbied the State Department between 2009 and 2012, according to lobbying disclosures from the Center for Responsive Politics, foundation records show 55 of the firms donated to the charity.
Roughly 65 percent of foundation donors among the Fortune 100 also spent money on lobbying the State Department. [...] Just 14 of the 45 companies that did not give to the charity lobbied the agency during that same time. [Washington Examiner]
The companies that both donated and lobbied are a who's who of big business:
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As the Examiner report concludes, this pattern suggests that major corporations might have viewed the Clinton Foundation as a viable backchannel to favorable lobbying outcomes. Bonnie Kristian
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House Republicans are publicly pressuring IRS Commissioner Koskinen to investigate Hillary Clinton’s Clinton Foundation tax status.
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Moms Demand Says Waco Shootout Show Danger Of Open Carry, Gov. Abbott Points Out Open Carry Not Even Legal Yet
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Georgia Right to Life should consider its bullying ways before it finds itself buried under the weight of its own cynicism.
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The political left is alive and well in Britain, but kind of blue in England
