Month: September 2020

Less than a week into his 2020 presidential bid, Joe BidenJoe BidenHillicon Valley: Biden calls on Facebook to change political speech rules | Dems demand hearings after Georgia election chaos | Microsoft stops selling facial recognition tech to police Trump finalizing executive order calling on police to use ‘force with compassion’ The Hill’s Campaign Report: […]

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With an impeachment vote in the U.S. House of Representatives looming for Wednesday and the U.S. Senate preparing to decide President Donald Trump’s future intensifying in the U.S. Senate, the battle lines were made clear Monday as Democrats in both chambers—and outside voices clamoring for the president’s removal from office—spoke out about the need to […]

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Defenders of ocean habitats celebrated Friday after a federal court upheld a lower court ruling defending the right of the U.S. executive branch to set aside marine areas as national monuments. Citing the authority found under the Antiquities Act of 1906 to establish marine national monuments, the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of […]

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Even as President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday night that “all is well” with regard to Iranian strikes at a U.S. military base in Iraq, angry and frustrated progressives hit back at the U.S. leader’s reckless drive to war. “The American people do not want a war with Iran,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) told a presidential […]

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Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg joined thousands of protesters on the streets of Lausanne, Switzerland Friday ahead a summit for the world’s business and political leaders in Davos that kicks off Tuesday. Thunberg, whose solo protests outside the Swedish Parliament in 2018 sparked the global Fridays for Future movement, is among a group of […]

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In an interview with the New York Times for the newspaper’s 2020 Democratic presidential candidate endorsement, Sen. Bernie Sanders spoke about how President Donald Trump has weaponized racism to appeal to many Americans who sense that the political and media establishments have abandoned them in 2016 to win support. After Sanders spoke at length about Trump’s efforts to […]

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Former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenHillicon Valley: Biden calls on Facebook to change political speech rules | Dems demand hearings after Georgia election chaos | Microsoft stops selling facial recognition tech to police Trump finalizing executive order calling on police to use ‘force with compassion’ The Hill’s Campaign Report: Biden campaign goes on offensive against […]

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Four 2020 Democratic candidates have not yet qualified for the party’s official debates as of Monday, according to The New York Times. The Times reports that Reps. Eric SwalwellEric Michael SwalwellNASCAR bans display of Confederate flag from events and properties Gloves come off as Democrats fight for House seat in California Grenell says intelligence community working to declassify Flynn-Kislyak […]

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Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) attempted to appeal to voters with his best “dad joke” Tuesday shortly after becoming the latest Democrat to jump into the 2020 presidential primary race. “So, mama buffalo is dropping baby buffalo off at school, and you know what he says?” Bullock asked during a campaign stop in Helena, Mt. “Bye, son,” he […]

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