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Doctors Who Treat Gunshot Wounds Are Taking On The NRA
A recent clash with the NRA has shown some doctors who treat gunshot victims a way to heal their own trauma: through activism against gun violence.
Daily Archives: Wed, May 15th, 2019
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Rachel Maddow Nails Mitch McConnell For Alabama Abortion Ban
Rachel Maddow showed how Alabama’s abortion ban bill goes back to Mitch McConnell’s blocking of Obama Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland.
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Trump Is Refusing To Brief The Senate On Iran Plan
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) said that the Trump administration is refusing to provide a briefing to Senators on their Iran intelligence.
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Trump Deems Himself A King Who Is Above Congress And The Courts
Rep. Jamie Raskin described the White House’s legal theory of Trump’s power is that he is a king who is above the courts and Congress.
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Kamala Harris Is Sick Of Being Asked About Being Biden’s Running Mate
Sen. Kamala Harris is a presidential candidate in her own right and is tired of people asking her about running as Joe Biden’s running mate.
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Migrants sleep on ground, rig awnings at Texas Border Patrol station
Reuters photos taken on Wednesday show adults and children outside the U.S. Border Patrol station for migrants in McAllen, Texas, sleeping on the ground and rigging up makeshift awnings with reflective blankets to shelter from the sun.
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Despite heavy opposition Trump administration opens up Minnesota wilderness area to copper mining
The U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday renewed two long-mothballed leases near the Boundary Waters Wilderness area in Minnesota, a key step in opening up the popular wilderness and recreation area to copper mining despite heavy opposition from local and national conservation groups.
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Pentagon awards $646 million contract for a ‘replacement’ border wall in Arizona
President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to transfer funds to help build a border wall after he failed to secure funding from Congress.
Last week, the Pentagon said acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan had approved the transfer of $1.5 billion from the department to build more than 80 miles (130 km) of barriers on the border.
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Trump Tax Cut Kills 23,000 Jobs At AT&T As Calls Grow For Investigation
AT&T cut more than 23,000 jobs and slashed investment after getting a $21 billion tax cut from Donald Trump and the Republicans.
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House Democrats Move To Stop Trump From Stealing Wall Money
The House Armed Services Committee has introduced a bill that would stop Trump from taking money away from military construction to pay for his wall.
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Women were there for you; Will you be there for us?
Stand up for women like you stand up for any other cause: We are real, we are right here, and we are in a crisis heretofore unseen.
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White Voters Flee Trump As Biden Leads By 11 In Pennsylvania
A new Quinnipiac University Poll of Pennsylvania shows former vice president Joe Biden leading Trump 53%-42% in a state that the president must win. According to the Quinnipiac Poll:
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ACLU, Planned Parenthood file lawsuit challenging Ohio anti-abortion law
The American Civil Liberties Union, its Ohio branch and Planned Parenthood on Wednesday filed a lawsuit challenging an Ohio law that they say could ban abortion as early as six weeks into a woman’s pregnancy.
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U.S. abortion-rights activists vow to challenge landmark Alabama attack on women’s liberty
Leana Wen, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said her group would challenge the measure in court if it took effect.
“We have no choice. For us, this is about our patients’ lives,” Wen told reporters on a conference call. “We have to file lawsuits. We are talking about the rights for generations to come.”
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US Allies Defy Trump On Starting A New War With Iran
US allies are rejecting the Trump administration’s claims of an increased Iranian threat while pointing out that the aggression is coming from Trump, not Iran.
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Mnuchin’s Defense Of Hiding Trump’s Tax Returns Collapses At Hearing
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) exposed Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s defense of hiding Trump’s tax returns as bogus during a Senate hearing.
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Republican Alabama governor mulling nation’s strictest abortion law
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey on Wednesday was mulling whether to sign the United States’ strictest abortion law, part of a multistate effort to get the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider women’s constitutional right to abortion.
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Jerry Nadler Drops The Boom And Calls Trump A Criminal
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) said that impeachment may be unavoidable because Trump has committed crimes while in office.
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Trump’s Mueller Problem Gets Worse As Voters Want Him To Testify
By a margin of 56%-19%, a new poll shows that voters across the political spectrum want special counsel Robert Mueller to testify.
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Joe Biden Is Soundly Beating Trump In His Own Poll
Trump’s own internal polling shows former vice president Joe Biden beating him across the country, and is fueling his 2020 panic.
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Kamala Harris to promise ban on imports of some high-powered guns
Senator Kamala Harris will announce on Wednesday that if elected president she will prohibit imports of some high-powered guns into the United States.
