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Breaking News President, EPA Damage

Friday, April 6, 2018

The Lowdown: Barely keeping up with his own headlines, President Trump said he’s considering another $100 billion worth of tariffs on China; he didn’t know anything about the Stormy Daniels deal; he wants 2,000-4000 troops on the border until his …

Troops on the Border, Trump Not a Target

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

The Wrap: Troops on the border, tariffs on the Chinese, first Mueller sentencing, but Trump is not a target … yet. Shooting at YouTube. It was all in a day. On Guard: President Trump announced that he wants to guard …

The Trump Slump, Immigration Crackdown

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

  The Trump Slump: The stock market took a nose dive yesterday on fears and confusion over President Trump’s fight with Amazon and his plans for tariffs on foreign imports. The markets that rose on optimism that Trump would be …

Tough Environment, Customer Complaint

Sunday, April 1, 2018

Tough Environment: The latest Trump administration official under the ethics microscope is Scott Pruitt, the head of the EPA who doesn’t really believe in protecting the environment. ABC News reported that Pruitt had a sweetheart rental deal for a room …

Shot in the Back, Widow Acquitted

Saturday, March 31, 2018

The Police Beat: A private autopsy has fed outrage over the fatal police shooting this week of an unarmed black man in Sacramento, Calif. The autopsy commissioned by the family of 22-year-old Stephon Clark found that he had been shot …

In Touch With Russians, VA Secy. Fired

Thursday, March 29, 2018

Legal Briefs: Trump campaign aide Rick Gates had repeated contacts in the closing weeks of the 2016 election with someone connected to Russian intelligence services, according to a filing by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Gates identified the person, referred to …

Trump Ejects Russians, Stormy Sues Again

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Get Out: President Trump ordered 60 Russian diplomats out of the US, joining western allies in punishing Russia for a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy and his daughter in England. The “diplomats” are all believed to be …

Stormy Says She Was Threatened

Monday, March 26, 2018

Stormy Out There: In an interview with Anderson Cooper on “60 Minutes” last night, porn actress Stormy Daniels said she kept quiet for years about a brief affair with Donald Trump because she was physically afraid. She said she was …

World March on Gun Violence

Sunday, March 25, 2018

The March: The turnout was in the hundreds of thousands of people yesterday in Washington, DC and in cities large and small across the country in marches to protest gun violence and call for stricter gun control. In Washington, the demonstration …

Fast Signing and Furious, March Day

Saturday, March 24, 2018

Big Talk: The NY Times headline says, “Trump Heads South, Leaving Washington Reeling.” At the end of a week of staff and legal shakeups, a CNN interview with a former mistress, and a tumbling stock market, President Trump threatened to …