Credit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 02:45:06 +0000
President Donald Trump agreed to a deal Friday to reopen the government for three weeks, backing down from his demand that Congress give him money for his border wall before federal agencies get back to work.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 02:45:06 +0000
President Donald Trump agreed to a deal Friday to reopen the government for three weeks, backing down from his demand that Congress give him money for his border wall before federal agencies get back to work.
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Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 04:51:49 +0000
WASHINGTON – In a high-stakes case of dare and double-dare, Speaker Nancy Pelosi served notice Wednesday that President Donald Trump won’t be allowed to deliver his State of the Union…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 13:29:08 +0000
President Donald Trump and Democrats are trading blame for the partial government shutdown but doing little substantive talking with each other as the disruption in federal services and public employees’ pay slogs into another weekend.
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The next mayor of Chicago will take over a city that is deeply divided by race and class, a decadeslong problem that critics say only grew more pronounced during Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s two terms in office.
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Sen. John McCain’s death in office has handed Arizona’s governor an empty Senbate seat to give out — and a difficult political puzzle to solve before he does.
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Read moreWASHINGTON — US senator John McCain, a celebrated war hero known for reaching across the aisle in an increasingly divided America, died Saturday following a battle with brain cancer. He was 81. “Senator John Sidney McCain III died at 4:28 p.m. on August 25, 2018. With the senator when he passed were his wife Cindy and their family,” his […]
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Last Friday, Maine Democrat Zak Ringelstein wasn’t ready to consider himself a formal member of the Democratic Socialists of America, even if he appreciated the organization’s values and endorsement in his bid to become a United States senator. Three days later, he told The Associated Press that was ready to become the only major-party Senate candidate in the nation to be a dues-paying democratic socialist.
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Howard Schultz, who built a small Seattle coffee chain into the global powerhouse Starbucks, announced Monday he was retiring from the company, fueling speculation he may seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.
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