Articles filed under Politics
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Analysis: Cellphone spying has lawmakers worried. But they don't know how to stop it.Jun 30, 2018 1:00 am - Washington is nervous about cellphone spying. There's no doubt about that. The problem is, no one knows quite what to do about it. Recent reports that surveillance devic...
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Inside Facebook and Twitter's secret meetings with Trump aides and conservative leadersJun 30, 2018 1:00 am - Twitter and Facebook are scrambling to assuage conservative leaders who have sounded alarms - and sought to rile voters - with accusations that the country's tech giants...
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Court case uncovers targeting of journalist in SyriaJun 29, 2018 1:00 am - While newspapers across the nation struggle to find space for foreign news, a strange story involving the death of a famous war correspondent six years ago in Syria is p...
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Kennedy's retirement offers Trump a path to uniting his partyJun 29, 2018 1:00 am - Luck - pure, dumb luck - is an underestimated advantage in politics, and Donald Trump is one lucky man. He ran for the Republican nomination against a fractured field, i...
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Slusher: It's not always so easy to know what is, is not newsJun 28, 2018 1:00 am - It could be said this week that if you want to understand news, you would consider Jimmy Fallon. Here's what happened: In 2016, the late-night comedian playfully tousled...
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Will Trump waste another chance to build the wall?Jun 28, 2018 1:00 am - Building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border was Donald Trump's premier campaign promise, and he is running out of chances to keep it. Trump has been president for nearly a...
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A congressman, the president and a political cartoon that isn't funnyJun 27, 2018 1:00 am - If I were a cartoonist ..., I would often say to my friend Doug Marlette, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist who died 11 years ago. He'd listen patiently as...
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Supreme Court deals big setback to labor unions in Illinois caseJun 27, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that government workers can't be forced to contribute to labor unions that represent them in collective bargaining, d...
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Harley-Davidson: Can the quintessential American brand ride out Trump's tweet storms?Jun 27, 2018 1:00 am - Go hunting for the Harley-Davidson origin story, you'll end up in the black smoke and workshop tinkering of the early 1900s. But the true jumpoff point for understanding...
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Outside the Red Hen, America ventsJun 27, 2018 1:00 am - LEXINGTON, Va. - America broke out Tuesday afternoon in this small Shenandoah Valley town. Four days after the owner of the Red Hen restaurant stirred national debate by...