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Trump Uses Attacks To Justify Counter-Productive Anti-Muslim Policies

«You’ve known my plans all along and I’ve been proven to be right,» Trump said Wednesday.

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(ANALYSIS) — President-elect Donald Trump's plans for a Muslim ban or registry are still on the table, he suggested Wednesday afternoon, implying that the deadly attacks this week in Turkey and Berlin validated such discriminatory policies. Speaking to reporters outside his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida he said that "what's going on

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Trump Children Attend Father’s Meeting With Top Tech Execs

«How can Trump’s kids run his business and yet be privy to presidential meetings…… damn corrupt!!»

Jon Queally
Por Jon Queally
Ivanka and Eric Trump are seen at a meeting of technology leaders in the Trump Organization conference room at Trump Tower in New York, NY, USA on December 14, 2016. Credit: Albin Lohr-Jones / Pool via CNP /MediaPunch/IPX

Despite consistent demands that Donald Trump create clear firewalls between the involvement of his family, the operation of his business empire, and his new responsibility as a public servant, the president-elect on Wednesday invited three of his grown children—Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric—to attend a high-profile meeting with some of the nation's

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Republican Protester Says He Was Nearly Killed After Trump Says ‘Take Him Out’

Secret Service whisk candidate off stage as supporters create scare by attacking lone anti-Trump Republican at Nevada rally

Jon Queally
Por Jon Queally
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Laconia Middle School, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016, in Laconia, N.H.

So who nearly killed whom in Reno, Nevada on Saturday night? A fracas at a Donald Trump rally captured on live television Saturday night saw the Republican candidate whisked off the stage by Secret Service agents and left those watching perplexed by what happened in the front rows as police in military gear appeared on the scene with one man

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Court Rules UK Mass Spying Was Unlawfully Conducted For Nearly Two Decades

The decision has been called a ‘long overdue indictment’ of government’s bulk collection of citizens’ private information

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Por Jon Queally
GCHQ

In what rights campaigners heralded as a "significant" reproach to government overreach, a British court which oversees the nation's  intelligence and clandestine services ruled Monday that mass surveillance by agencies—including the bulk collection of private data from unwitting citizens and residents—was unlawfully conducted for nearly two

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Trump Jr. Says Dad Can’t Release Tax Returns Because Media Is Biased

‘I mean, look at what happened to Matt Lauer.’

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Por Jon Queally
Donald Trump, Jr. at day 2 of The 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.

Donald Trump Jr. has offered a new reason for why his father is refusing to release his tax returns saying that allowing the American people to see the details of his financial dealings would lead to a wave of media interest and "detract" from his core messaging. Though Trump has consistently said that an ongoing federal audit is the reason he

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Dems Oust DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Clinton Immediately Hires Her

«It’s very sad. Because he’s a very good person. I’ve always found him to be just a very, very good person.»

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Por Jon Queally
DNC Chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., speaks during a Florida delegation breakfast, Monday, July 25, 2016, in Philadelphia, during the first day of the Democratic National Convention.

Though many progressives immediately responded by saying her ouster would not be enough to undo the damage her leadership has done, Democratic National Committee Chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced her resignation on Sunday afternoon, saying she would relinquish her post immediately following the party's national convention which begins

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Clinton Inflames Progressive Base With Choice Of Tim Kaine As Vice President

«If Clinton has reached out to Bernie supporters, it appears that she has done so to stick triangulating thumbs in their eyes.»

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Por Jon Queally
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va.,participate in a rally at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Va., Thursday, July 14, 2016.

Reactions among progressives on social media were equally unforgiving and filled with warnings about what the decision portends: Hillary Clinton's Friday night announcement of Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia as her vice-presidential running mate stirred immediate disappointment and outrage among the progressive wing of her party and the army of

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