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The Trump administration has told lawmakers that it wants $18 billion over the next decade for the initial phase of a Mexico border wall, laying out for the first time a detailed financial blueprint for the president's signature campaign promise. The money would pay for 316 miles of new fencing and reinforce another 407 miles where barriers are already in place, according to cost estimates sent to senators Friday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
If you are about Trumped out after this week, here are a few things going on outside the Beltway. Even as the East Coast groans in a deep freeze, the West is warmer than usual.
So what has happened to the four men who Merkin specifically holds up as unjustly convicted without due process, these innocent souls sacrificed to the Reckoning? They've lost their jobs. Three of them were fired following formal investigations into their behavior; Franken, whose former office does not have a reasonably functioning investigatory arm, voluntarily left following eight separate accusations.
He gives instances to imply that BJP is promoting sectarian violence, artistic intolerance, rewriting history and imposing public morality. At the outset, Varma must decide whether he is a "fringe" or "mainstream" of BJP.
The recently passed Tax Plan presumably has as its core it cutting middle class taxes. It seems, however, that it does not do that and its framers have almost stopped pretending it does.
Identity Politics has responded with outrage against People Magazine's choice of white male country singer Blake Shelton as "sexiest man in the world." According to adherents of Identity Politics, the choice indicates that People Magazine is itself racist and part of the white supremacy movement to elevate white people above people of color.
Only three days after stories first began to surface about his alleged conduct four decades ago, the Anniston Star's former publisher and chairman of its parent company resigned today. In a statement released to the Anniston Star, H. Brandt Ayers stepped down as chairman of Consolidated Publishing.
The takeaway from the latest revelations is that a lot of Republicans who knew better have colluded-and still collude-to cover up Trump's unfitness for office. The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter.
Trump's legal threats represent an assault not just on Michael Wolff's book but on the basic premise of the US Constitution. President Donald Trump delivers a message during the daily briefing hosted by White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on January 4, 2018.
More than half a dozen of the more skilled White House staff are contemplating imminent departures. Many leaving are quite fearful about the next chapter of the Trump presidency.
This secret was revealed earlier this week, when Carlson's show had a segment on 'Major Websites Running Bigoted Articles' and chose to spotlight The Root. And, in that spotlight, each of the articles he referenced as examples of this hate were articles I wrote - including "White People Need To Be Better People" and "We Need a Reset Button or Something For White People."
A malnourished Rohingya Muslim refugee boy cries as mothers feed high calorie peanut paste to their malnourished children at a field clinic. Myanmar is officially on the State Department's list of countries that violate religious freedoms , as hundreds of thousands of Rohingya continue to struggle for survival in over-crowded refugee camps, with their numbers about to swell by nearly 50,000.
Most Americans recently polled reportedly seem to hold favorable opinions about America's corporations. 1 If true, it means that most Americans don't know what I know and what they need to know.
President Trump on Wednesday abruptly shut down a White House commission he had charged with investigating voter fraud, ending a brief quest for evidence of election theft that generated lawsuits, outrage and some scholarly testimony, but no real evidence that American elections are corrupt. Mr. Trump did not acknowledge the commission's inability to find evidence of fraud, but cast the closing as a result of continuing legal challenges.
Each year Dispatches From the Edge gives awards to individuals, companies and governments that make reading the news a daily adventure. Here are the awards for 2017.
It isn't as if infrastructure expenditure is generally pure. There's always some grifter money to go around. The Trump infrastructure plan is basically add 50% more grift for the banksters . Huzzah.
Please note that President Stupid was blocked from competing in this year's awards because no one wanted to write one single word remembering him for posterity. That is all.
A 67-year-old Slidell man [in Louisiana] who served as a go-between for an international team of scammers running a "Nigerian prince" email scheme has been arrested after an 18-month investigation. Michael Neu, who is neither Nigerian nor a prince, has been charged with 269 counts of wire fraud and money laundering.
I'll probably get clipped for saying this - I may even deserve it! - but after reading Kerry Howley's NYMag profile, I think Reality Winner and Heather Heyer would've been friends. "Not every leaker is an ideological combatant like Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning.
America is a dying nation, sinking under the weight of greed and a lust for power from those who put profit above patriotism and politics above the Constitution. Americans wake up this morning, many nursing hangovers they probably deserve, and find that not a damn thing changes overnight.