Articles filed under Politics
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The Army is trying to find criminal conduct among immigrant recruits, email showsSep 19, 2018 1:00 am - The lawsuits and public pressure made it clear: The Army had a problem. In August, it reversed its decision to expel dozens of immigrant recruits who were seeking expedi...
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Is there a Kavanaugh doppelganger?Sep 19, 2018 1:00 am - By Kathleen Parker In one of Brett Kavanaugh's responses to allegations that he sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl when he was in high school, a charge he has denied ...
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Anderson Cooper accuses Donald Trump Jr. of 'tweeting lies' with old hurricane photoSep 18, 2018 1:00 am - Anderson Cooper spent the last 10 minutes of his show on Monday night responding to a critic: the president's son. On Sunda>, Donald Trump Jr. tweeted out a photo of Co...
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Anita Hill's claims echo in allegation against Kavanaugh. Three decades later, will anything be different?Sep 17, 2018 1:00 am - In a prologue to their 1994 book, "Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas," journalists Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson wrote of how "unresolved the conflict" rema...
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Why my faith in America is still strongSep 16, 2018 1:00 am - It's so easy these days to despair about the future of our country. It feels like half the people I run into just want to pull the covers over their heads and ignore the...
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Kavanaugh is better than his senatorial accusersSep 16, 2018 1:00 am - A surefire ideological Kool-Aid test? Those who think Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was wounded during his hearings have heavily imbibed. Democratic senators on...
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Book review: Bob Woodward's 'Fear' is a meticulous, frightening look inside the Trump White HouseSep 14, 2018 12:30 pm - "Fear: Trump in the White House" by Bob Woodward; Simon & Schuster; 420 pages It's hard to imagine a more disturbing portrait of a president than the one Bob Woodwa...
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Winners and losers of the 2018 primary seasonSep 14, 2018 1:00 am - With Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's win in New York on Thursday against liberal challenger Cynthia Nixon. the nearly yearlong 2018 primary season is, finally, over. We s...
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The threat to democracy - from the leftSep 14, 2018 1:00 am - For several years now, scholars have argued that the world is experiencing a "democratic recession." They have noted that the movement of countries toward democracy has ...
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Bill Daley to join crowded Chicago mayor's raceSep 14, 2018 1:00 am - Former Commerce Secretary Bill Daley is planning to announce on Monday that he is running for mayor, seeking the office once held by his brother and father. "He's defini...