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New Report Reveals Trump White House Taking ‘Marching Orders’ From CEOs

‘One of every five of the corporate executives who met with the Trump administration within the first 100 days represented the banking or financial sector.’

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Goldman Sachs COO Gary Cohn talks on the phone as he waits for the start of a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Since his inauguration, President Donald Trump has met with at least 190 corporate executives, not including phone calls with heads of banks or his numerous Wall Street appointees, the watchdog group Public Citizen reported Monday in a new analysis. And since the November election itself, he's met with at least 224. "One of every five of the

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Nationwide #TaxMarch Rallies Planned To Demand Trump ‘Stops Hiding’

‘President Trump has broken his promise to release his taxes raising doubts and casting shadows over countless actions taken by his administration.’

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Marching protesters hold up a sign demanding that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump release his tax returns, in Miami on Sept. 16. (AP/Lynne Sladky)

Tens of thousands of people are expected to take part in more than 100 Tax Marches on Saturday to demand President Donald Trump release his taxes and to highlight the need for increased minimum wage. As many have pointed out, every president since the 1960s has released their tax returns, while Trump himself promised to do so on the campaign

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Report: Carbon Levels Could Hit Pre-Human, ‘Palms In The Arctic’ State By Mid-Century

If fossil fuel use continues unabated, atmosphere could revert «to values of CO2 not seen since the early Eocene (50 million years ago),» new report finds.

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Current carbon dioxide levels are unprecedented in human history and could reach a level unseen in millennia if their rates continue at this pace, a new report out Tuesday warns. Research published in Nature Communications finds that if fossil fuel use continues unabated, the atmosphere could revert "to values of CO2 not seen since the early

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Congressional Budget Office: 24 Million People Would Lose Coverage Under TrumpCare

The highly-anticipated report on GOP’s Obamacare replacement plan finds 14 million people would lose coverage in the first two years alone.

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Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price speaks outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 13, 2017, after Congress' nonpartisan budget analysts reported that millions people would lose coverage next year under the House bill dismantling former President Barack Obama's health care law. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Monday released its score of the GOP's plan to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, projecting that 14 million people would lose coverage by 2018 if the Republican bill is implemented. And that number would rise to 24 million by 2026. Additionally, the plan would lead to higher

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Hawaii Files First Lawsuit Against Muslim Ban 2.0

«It’s disenfranchising people who are not of the majority race or majority religion. It puts them in a place that smears their culture or a religion that is not accepted by everyone else. And that’s wrong»

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Hawaii Attorney General Doug Chin speaks at a news conference in Honolulu announcing the state of Hawaii has filed a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's revised travel ban. Feb. 3, 2017, (AP/Audrey McAvoy)

(REPORT) --- Hawaii filed the first legal challenge to President Donald Trump's revised travel ban on Tuesday, asking a judge to temporarily block his executive order the day after it was signed. The court filing from the office of Hawaii Attorney General Doug Chin argues that the ban—which blocks travelers from six majority-Muslim countries

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Poll: Majority Of Americans Support Call For Special Prosecutor

A new poll shows widespread support for an independent prosecutor to operate the probe into the Trump team’s Russia ties.

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Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. holds a thumb drive during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, with petitions calling for the Senate to reject Attorney General-designate Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

(REPORT) --- A majority of Americans want a special prosecutor to investigate the Trump campaign's alleged ties to Russia, according to a new poll (pdf) out Monday. The poll by CNN/ORC finds that about two-thirds of Americans support that call, and 55 percent say they are at least somewhat concerned by reports that President Donald Trump's team

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Muslims And Jews ‘Unite Against Hatred’ After Another Jewish Cemetery Is Vandalized

Muslim activists rally to donate funds, assist in cleanup after Jewish grave site in Pennsylvania desecrated.

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Rabbi Joshua Bolton of the University of Pennsylvania's Hillel center surveys damaged headstones at Mount Carmel Cemetery on Monday, Feb. 27, 2017, in Philadelphia. More than 100 headstones have been vandalized at the Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia, damage discovered less than a week after similar vandalism in Missouri, authorities said. (AP/Jacqueline Larma)

(REPORT) --- Muslim activists rallied again to help repair another Jewish cemetery vandalized over the weekend, this time in Pennsylvania, where at least 100 gravestones were toppled. The president of the Philadelphia chapter of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA visited the Mount Carmel Cemetery in the northeast part of the city on Sunday and

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