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The US Senate is about to undertake a long evening session of votes in the first step towards a repeal of the Affordable Care Act , better known as Obamacare. The Senate will vote on well over 100 amendments to a budgetary resolution in what is called a "vote-a-rama."
Unfortunately, Jacobin is increasing the number of articles it publishes that effectively take right-wing cultural critiques of liberals and apply them from the nominal left. First we had the evils of Meryl Streep .
And the chaos and intrigue that surrounds our soon-to-be 45th president will undoubtedly follow him into the White House. As he often does, Trump took on the news media.
One rather queer aspect of the Donald Trump phenomenon is that people so expect to be offended by his paroxysms of intolerance that they haven't noticed there's one group the president-elect has never scapegoated, attacked, or belittled: LGBT Americans. Trump's reserve on gay matters, coming from a politician so promiscuous with his vituperation, represents a welcome watershed in LGBT history.
There is a lot of false rhetoric being tossed around about fake news today, which is a pity because, although it is new, "fake news" is an important term that means something specific, a term worth keeping alive if it has not already been rendered meaningless . At other points during the 50-minute exchange, he dismissed allegations aired by CNN and BuzzFeed that Russia had gathered compromising personal material on him and had cultivated and supported him throughout the campaign, as "fake news".
A portion of 'The View' was pre-empted by Donald Trump's press conference today, but what didn't air nationally revealed that the co-hosts had some clever words for the president-elect. " He's been showered with allegations ," Whoopi Goldberg joked of the report.
Sen. Tom Cotton was accused of casual racism on Wednesday after he compared Sen. Corey Booker to a fictional character named "T-Bone." At a Senate confirmation hearing for Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions, Booker testified that the Alabama Republican's record on civil rights was disqualifying.
In this Jan. 10, 2017, photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., accompanied by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. For decades, congressional Republicans have pushed to slash the budget and reduce the size of the federal government, especially during the eight years Democratic President Barack Obama was in office.
Cronan has been named the first recipient of the NCAA's new Pat Su... A suspect who is the focus of a manhunt following the fatal shooting of an Orlando police officer has a lengthy criminal record dating back two decades, and authorities had been searching for him in the weeks... The niece and supervisor of a murder suspect were arrested for allegedly helping him evade capture before the fatal shooting of an Orlando police officer.
Many Democrats applauded, while Republicans offered a degree of support for the project. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, who had pushed for free tuition at all state colleges during his presidential campaign, endorsed the project by appearing next to the governor when he announced the plan at LaGuardia Community College on Jan. 3. A spokesman for the Republican majority on New York's state Senate said Republicans have long supported lowering the costs of college education for middle-class families.
Any effort to revive the long-dormant nuclear waste dump at Nevada's Yucca Mountain is doomed to fail because the project lacks support from elected officials in the state, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said Wednesday. A 30-year fight over where to store the country's nuclear waste has convinced him that "a consent-based approach is the only way we're going to get across the finish line," Moniz said.
A statue of Patrick A. McCarran of Nevada, left, stands next to ones of Roger Williams of Rhode Island and John Hanson of Maryland near the entrance to the Senate floor on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sen. Aaron Ford, second from left, speaks during a news conference discussing benefits for employment at the stadium project Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016, at the Urban Chamber of Commerce.
A suspect who is the focus of a manhunt following the fatal shooting of an Orlando police officer has a lengthy criminal record dating back two decades, and authorities had been searching for him in the weeks... The niece and supervisor of a murder suspect were arrested for allegedly helping him evade capture before the fatal shooting of an Orlando police officer.
US President Barack Obama wipes away tears while speaking during his farewell address at McCormick Place in Chicago, on Tuesday evening. - AP Photo It's good to be home.
Trump prepares to face down the media over alleged Russia hotel sex dossier in the first press conference since his November election win It was me: Sworn Trump enemy John McCain admits HE handed smear dossier to FBI - as details surface of document's bizarre journey from British former spy and diplomat Trump was NEVER briefed on dirty dossier and NEVER shown it by intelligence chiefs: Officials reveal FBI and CIA have found 'no link' between president-elect and Kremlin as he furiously denies 'fake news' British government comes under pressure to explain alleged roles of shadowy 'former MI6 agent and British ambassador' in putting discredited Trump 'Russian blackmail' dossier in front of FBI and US politicians Depraved sex acts in a Moscow hotel room, World Cup dodgy deals and a five-year campaign to support Trump: The outlandish - and unverified - claims made in the dirty dossier ... (more)
The head of one of the largest African-American civil rights organization told Congress on Wednesday that Sen. Jeff Sessions is "unfit to serve" as attorney general as a 1986 letter from the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., surfaced strongly expressing opposition to the Alabama senator. Cornell Brooks, the head of the NAACP, said the organization "firmly believes" that Sessions is unfit to serve as attorney general in the incoming Trump administration.
No US president or president-elect has spoken to a Taiwanese leader since Donald Trump The existence of a compromising Russian dossier on President-elect Donald Trump has been confirmed by multiple sources, BBC Washington Correspondent Paul Wood revealed on Wednesday. On Tuesday, BuzzFeed published memos prepared by a former British intelligence officer which detail explosive information that Russians could use to compromise Trump.
Sen. Marco Rubio asked Rex Tillerson point-blank whether Vladimir Putin was a war criminal - and Donald Trump's pick for secretary of state blinked. "I would not use that term," said Tillerson, the longtime chief executive of Exxon Mobil who was awarded the Kremlin's Order of Friendship in 2013 .
The findings indicates that people in Europe, the US and Australia find right-wing politicians better looking than those on the left. Research suggests that people in Europe, the US and Australia find right-wing politicians, such as Donald Trump, better looking than those on the left, such as Barack Obama The researchers suggest that being better looking makes you more likely to earn more, and that richer people are typically more opposed to policies favoured by the left, such as progressive taxes and welfare programmes.