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ABC issues apology for misleading quote about Sean Spicer: ‘We are fixing the piece’

A mangled quote by ABC News about White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s job performance forced the network to apologize late Tuesday. Complaints by former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer regarding the way “Nightline” represented his opinions prompted him to defend President Trump’s attacks on the media. The network said it would fix a […]

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GOP retreat veers off message amid questions about Trump’s plan on voter fraud, torture

PHILADELPHIA — Congressional Republicans opened their retreat in Philadelphia with lofty plans to address tax and health policy issues, but swiftly slipped off message, thanks to President Donald Trump’s latest announcements Wednesday. Trump’s decision to investigate unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud and the administration’s apparent interest in reviewing the ban on enhanced interrogation techniques were

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Mexico braces itself for Trump presidency as wall starts to go up

President Donald Trump has promised more concrete and razor wire on the US-Mexico border. He wants to physically isolate the two countries, by extending walls like the one in Ciudad Jaurez, built between 2007 and 2010, under the Bush and Obama mandates. Under #Nafta #US exports to #Mexico have multiplied by six reaching $263 billion

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Why Trump’s wall with Mexico is so popular, and why it won’t work

By David Cook Martín, Professor of Sociology and Assistant Vice President of Global Education, Grinnell College. Donald Trump tweeted on Jan. 6 that “any money spent on building the Great Wall (for the sake of speed), will be paid back by Mexico later.” The Economist reports that 40 countries have built fences since the fall

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Donald Trump eviscerates Obama’s immigration policy in two executive orders

With a couple strokes of his pen, President Trump wiped out almost all of President Obama’s immigration policies Wednesday, laying the groundwork for his own border wall, unleashing immigration agents to enforce the law and punishing sanctuary cities who try to thwart his deportation surge. Left untouched, for now, is the 2012 deportation amnesty for

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While Trump calls for investigation into voter fraud, his campaign chief registered in two states

MIAMI — President Donald Trump has called for a national investigation into voter fraud, including people who registered to vote in two states — despite the fact that his campaign chief registered in both Florida in New York. The voter registration of Stephen Bannon drew a complaint during the campaign from a group that opposed

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Trump Senior Staff Have Private RNC Email Accounts

Senior Trump administration staffers including Kellyanne Conway, Jared Kushner, Sean Spicer and Steve Bannon have active accounts on a Republican National Committee email system, Newsweek has learned. The system (rnchq.org) is the same one the Bush administration was accused of using to evade transparency rules after claiming to have “lost” 22 million emails. Related: The

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UN blasts Israel’s ‘unilateral actions’

The United Nations on Tuesday denounced Israel”s approval of new homes in Judea and Samaria, saying that “unilateral actions” are an obstacle to peace based on a two-state solution. Earlier on Tuesday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman announced the approval of 2,500 housing units in Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria,

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Israeli-born Natalie Portman nominated for Oscar

Israeli-born actress Natalie Portman was announced on Tuesday as one of the nominees for this year”s Oscars. Portman was named in the best actress category for her performance in “Jackie”, a biographical drama which follows Jackie Kennedy in the aftermath of the 1963 assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy. Portman, who was born

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Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates calls on Trump administration to stand up to all of Russia’s ‘meddling and bullying’

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wants the Trump administration to “push back” against Russia. “I would like to see more criticism and pushback of [Russian president Vladimir] Putin and Putin’s behavior,” says Gates, who met with Donald Trump in early December. “I told the president-elect,” says Gates, “that the administration — when it comes to

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These are the mandates Trump’s administration is putting on the EPA

According to the Associated Press, President Trump has placed a media freeze on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), prohibiting them from sending out press releases, posting on social media, creating new blog posts or posting new content to their website. RELATED: Trump spent the weekend behaving like a fool—he also implemented some pretty great policies

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