President Trump is a con man. He conned people into giving to his now-defunct foundation only to use the donations for personal expenses.He conned people into spending more money than they could afford on the now-dissolved Trump University.He conned lenders into subsidizing his floundering real estate projects. The list goes …
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Last week, the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicted a boom in renewable energy, forecasting the power capacity for renewable sources will increase 50 percent over the next five years. One of the most fertile settings for an explosion in renewable power, the IEA revealed in a study released days later, …
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With a majority of House Democrats now supporting an impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump, the House Judiciary Committee is expected to vote on Wednesday on a resolution that would establish parameters and procedures for future hearings. According to Politico, the coming resolution was discussed by committee Democrats during a …
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Progressives and environmentalists have been clamoring for a climate debate among 2020 Democratic presidential candidates — seeking snappy, digestible back and forth between the candidates to gauge the differences in their approach to our gravest environmental challenge. Because the Democratic National Committee blocked that effort, banning issue-specific debates, Americans were …
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Rolling Stone is pleased to announce a launch this week of Useful Idiots, a news and politics podcast co-hosted by Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper. Useful Idiots is an iconoclastic take on the political podcast. Imagine a standard cable-news commentary show, and we’ll be shooting for its opposite. We’ll be …
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Health care spending makes up somewhere around a fifth of the U.S. economy. It affects every American, and is a life-or-death issue for millions of them every year. And here in the United States, where we spend more on care but die younger than in comparable countries, it’s a mess. …
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President Donald Trump announced via Twitter on Sunday that National Intelligence Director Dan Coats would be stepping down on Sunday and that conservative Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) would be nominated to take his place. “I am pleased to announce that highly respected Congressman John Ratcliffe of Texas will be nominated …
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One of the reasons House Democrats asked former special counsel Robert Mueller to testify before Congress on Wednesday was to present his finding to the American people in a format other than a dense, 448-page report. No member of Congress was able to accomplish this more effectively than House Intelligence …
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Labor Secretary Alex Acosta on Wednesday sought to recast his handling of the case of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, claiming he intervened to ensure a harsher sentence for Epstein and pointing fingers at other officials for being too lenient. Since Epstein was arrested on charges of trafficking dozens of …
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WASHINGTON — The saga of Elliott Broidy, the disgraced Republican donor, investor, and defense contractor, has taken yet another twist. The Associated Press broke the news Monday that a federal grand jury in New York is probing whether Broidy used his role as a vice chair of President Trump’s inauguration …
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