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Justice to convene meeting on whether social media companies are 'intentionally stifling' free speech

Justice to convene meeting on whether social media companies are 'intentionally stifling' free speech

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has scheduled a meeting with state attorneys general in September to discuss a “growing concern” that tech companies may be “intentionally stifling” the free flow of ideas on their platforms  Read more

Our Divided Nation Is United on Energy Independence

Our Divided Nation Is United on Energy Independence

There is one issue that unites America like no other: the pursuit of genuine energy independence  Read more

12 House Republicans call on Trump to declassify Russia probe FISA documents

12 House Republicans call on Trump to declassify Russia probe FISA documents

A dozen Republican members of Congress on Thursday called on President Trump to declassify key documents related to the FBI's probe of Russian actions during the 2016 presidential election, including an application for a renewed surveillance warrant against former Trump campaign aide Carter Page  Read more

An Open Letter to the NYT’s Anonymous Senior Trump Administration Official

An Open Letter to the NYT’s Anonymous Senior Trump Administration Official

For the good of the nation, you must identify yourself and back up your claims about the president with hard evidence  Read more

White House says wages rising faster than government reporting

White House says wages rising faster than government reporting

Wages for U.S. workers are improving more than the government is reporting due to flawed measures of inflation, the White House said Wednesday  Read more

GOP leaders to Trump: Don't shut down government over wall funding right before midterm elections

GOP leaders to Trump: Don't shut down government over wall funding right before midterm elections

GOP congressional leaders will head to the White House Wednesday afternoon to persuade President Donald Trump not to shut down the government over funding for his border wall right before the midterm elections  Read more

North Carolina Can Use Gerrymandered Map In November, Court Rules
  • NPR
  • 09/05/2018 12:00 AM

North Carolina Can Use Gerrymandered Map In November, Court Rules

Judges in North Carolina on Tuesday said that despite declaring the state's electoral map to be unconstitutionally gerrymandered for partisan reasons, there wasn't enough time for the map to be redrawn before midterm elections in November  Read more

Kavanaugh: Roe Is ‘Important Precedent of the Supreme Court’

Kavanaugh: Roe Is ‘Important Precedent of the Supreme Court’

Judge Brett Kavanaugh faced his first full day of questioning from members of Congress on many controversial issues as his confirmation hearings continued on Wednesday  Read more

Anonymous Trump Administration Official Claims Staffers Are Working to 'Thwart' the President

Anonymous Trump Administration Official Claims Staffers Are Working to 'Thwart' the President

An anonymous “senior official in the Trump administration” is claiming to be part of a network of appointees and others who are working to thwart President Donald Trump from inside his own White House  Read more

Republican senator slams Trump's DOJ attack: US 'not some banana republic'

Republican senator slams Trump's DOJ attack: US 'not some banana republic'

Republican Sen. Ben Sasse (Neb.) rebuked President Trump's latest attack against the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday, warning Trump that the United States "is not some banana republic."  Read more

McCaskill, Hawley Race to Cover Their Bases in Missouri

McCaskill, Hawley Race to Cover Their Bases in Missouri

Vulnerable Democrat walks trickier tightrope than Republican challenger  Read more

Trouble for Trump? Poll shows midterm election edge for Democrats and female candidates

Trouble for Trump? Poll shows midterm election edge for Democrats and female candidates

The political landscape for the midterm elections favors Democrats in general and female candidates in particular, a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds, raising the prospect of significant perils for President Donald Trump with the next Congress  Read more

Former U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl will be John McCain's successor in the U.S. Senate

Former U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl will be John McCain's successor in the U.S. Senate

Gov. Doug Ducey on Tuesday chose Jon Kyl, once one of the most powerful Republicans in the U.S. Senate, to succeed the late Sen. John McCain  Read more

The Kavanaugh Hearings: Spectacle, and Civics Lesson

The Kavanaugh Hearings: Spectacle, and Civics Lesson

As the Senate Judiciary Committee begins its four-day hearing on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, it should be interesting. The committee is closely split between 11 Republicans and 10 Democrats  Read more

U.S. Cuts $300 Million In Aid To Pakistan; Says It's Failing To Fight Militants
  • NPR
  • 09/02/2018 12:00 AM

U.S. Cuts $300 Million In Aid To Pakistan; Says It's Failing To Fight Militants

In the latest blow to already fragile ties between the United States and Pakistan, the Defense Department said on Saturday it has suspended $300 million in funding to Islamabad over what it calls the government's failure to take action against terrorists  Read more

Trump blasts FBI, DOJ over report on Carter Page surveillance warrants

Trump blasts FBI, DOJ over report on Carter Page surveillance warrants

President Trump slammed officials at the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) on Saturday over a report from a conservative watchdog group about the warrants to surveil former Trump campaign aide Carter Page  Read more

How Trump Survives

How Trump Survives

The president benefits from the economy — and from his enemies  Read more

Labor force has much to like this year

Labor force has much to like this year

LABOR Day, while technically a union-centered holiday, is more broadly observed as a day to celebrate American workers and the economic dynamism of the United States. Past presidents understood that  Read more