Two nuggets of information from the federal government last week paint a stark portrait of failed government policies toward migration. Despite President Donald Trump’s heavy-handed approach — belligerence, threats, tariffs and mass detentions designed to dissuade would-be immigrants from trying to cross the border and enter the United States — apprehensions exceeded 144,000 people at […]
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Lone Republican who supports impeachment quits Freedom Caucus
Michigan Rep. Justin Amash has quit an influential caucus of House conservatives.
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Ramesh Ponnuru: Biden’s flip on abortion funding hurts him and his party
Maybe Joe Biden had to flip on the question of taxpayer funding for abortion in order to win the Democratic presidential nomination. All of his rivals supported that funding, and the party has become more and more aggressive on abortion. Where the 1990s Democratic platforms said abortion should be “safe, legal and rare,” the 2016 […]
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Trump says U.S., Mexico have reached deal on trade, migration
The president tweets that the tariffs scheduled to take effect Monday have been ‘indefinitely suspended.’
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Our View: D-Day shows how to fight climate change
If the world had responded to the Nazis the way we are responding to global warming, Hitler would have won.
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Maine native drafts ‘articles of impeachment’ in New York Times
Ian Prasad Philbrick, a 2012 graduate of Greely High School, based his interactive opinion piece on the templates from Nixon’s impeachment in 1974 and Clinton’s in 1998.
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Maine Voices: Don’t expect Trump to accept spineless compromise with China
His decades-long support for tariffs means that the trade war with Beijing won’t end before 2021.
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Trump attacks Mueller, says he would have brought charges if he had evidence
The president in tweets also seemingly acknowledged for the first time that Russia had helped him win in 2016.
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In first public remarks, Mueller says report does not exonerate Trump
Special Counsel Robert Mueller says federal rules prevented his team from considering charges against a sitting president.
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Trump moves to escalate investigation of intelligence agencies
The president directs the U.S. intelligence community to ‘quickly and fully cooperate’ with Attorney General William Barr’s investigation of the origins of the multi-year probe of whether his 2016 campaign colluded with Russia.