9/26/2018

ISRAEL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @WhiteHouse: Earlier today, President Trump participated in a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister @netanyahu of Israel. ???? https://t…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 26, 2018 2:23 pm […]

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9/26/2018

ECONOMY/FEDERAL RESERVE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [9-26-18] said he was not happy about the Federal Reserve’s decision earlier in the day to raise its benchmark interest rate, but added the increase was a result of a strong economy. ‘We’re doing great as a country. Unfortunately they just raised interest rates because we […]

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9/26/2018

FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/FOREIGN POLICY/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “Foreign leaders came to President Donald Trump’s hometown of New York this week. But they refused to show the U.S. president the fealty that he’s come to expect from Republican lawmakers, conservative groups and even businesses. Over three days at the United Nations’ annual meeting, heads of state and […]

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9/26/2018

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “RT @newtgingrich: President Trump’s United Nations speech today is a remarkable outline of the power of patriotism, the importance of natio…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 26, 2018 12:28 pm […]

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9/26/2018

CHINA/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “China is actually placing propaganda ads in the Des Moines Register and other papers, made to look like news. That’s because we are beating them on Trade, opening markets, and the farmers will make a fortune when this is over! https://t.co/ppdvTX7oz1“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 26, 2018 12:26 pm […]

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9/25/2018

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “’Remarks by President Trump to the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly’ ➡️https://t.co/Oshhko61zY https://t.co/Fm8LSse417″ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 25, 2018 12:19 pm […]

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9/26/2018

LEGAL/NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Avenatti is a third rate lawyer who is good at making false accusations, like he did on me and like he is now doing on Judge Brett Kavanaugh. He is just looking for attention and doesn’t want people to look at his past record and relationships – a total low-life!” –Donald […]

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9/26/2018

CHINA/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “President Donald Trump, elaborating on his charge at the United Nations that Beijing is meddling in U.S. elections, said in a Twitter post on Wednesday [9-26-18] that China placed ‘propaganda ads’ made to look like news articles in an Iowa newspaper. ‘China is actually placing propaganda ads in the Des Moines Register […]

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9/26/2018

CHINA/ECONOMY/FEDERAL RESERVE/NAFTA/TARIFFS/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Federal Reserve is poised to raise interest rates Wednesday [9-26-18] for the third time this year as the economy powers ahead, but beyond that the central bank’s outlook has been thrown into confusion by President Donald Trump’s trade battles. For months, top Fed officials such as Chairman Jerome Powell […]

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9/26/2018

CHINA/ELECTION/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday [9-26-18] there was ‘plenty of evidence’ of China trying to meddle in the upcoming U.S. elections and that Beijing wanted him to lose because he had confronted China on trade issues. Asked about his charge of Chinese election meddling in his remarks at the […]

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9/26/2018

ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Consumer confidence hits an 18 year high, close to breaking the all-time record. A big jump from last 8 years. People are excited about the USA again! We are getting Bigger and Richer and Stronger. WAY MORE TO GO!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 26, 2018 5:54 am […]

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9/26/2018

NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “Rambling and often incoherent, President Trump made his UN press conference mainly about himself and not about defending his Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. He raised the canard that ‘four or five women who got paid a lot of money’ accused him of sexual harassment and implied that he could determine […]

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9/26/2018

IRAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “Laughter during U.S. President Donald Trump’s speech to the U.N. General Assembly was a sign of the United States’ isolation, the head of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) said on Wednesday [9-26-18], Fars News reported. Some delegates at the General Assembly on Tuesday [9-25-18] laughed and muttered when Trump, in a speech, […]

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9/26/2018

CHINA/EU/FRANCE/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “US President Donald Trump was ‘ranting and venting on trade’ to French President Emmanuel Macron during their bilateral meeting Monday [9-24-18] evening, according to a senior diplomatic source. Trump lambasted the European Union for its trade policies, saying it was worse than China — a complaint that the US president made […]

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9/25/2018

NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday [9-25-18] questioned the credibility of the second woman to accuse Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, saying she admitted she was drunk at a party where the alleged behavior occurred. The woman, Deborah Ramirez, accused Kavanaugh in an article published in the New […]

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9/25/2018

ECONOMY/IRAN/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Hassan Rouhani of Iran, visiting the United States for the first time since President Trump exited the 2015 Iran nuclear accord, said Monday [9-24-18] that the only way his country would consider new talks with Washington is for Mr. Trump to reverse himself and honor the agreement. Speaking to a group […]

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9/25/2018

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After a long weekend spent wondering if he should resign or would be fired, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein still has his job — for now. President Donald Trump gave Rosenstein a three-day reprieve pending their face-to-face White House showdown on Thursday [9-27-18]. That’s when the man who oversees the […]

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9/25/2018

FRANCE/IRAN/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “Gone is the shoulder squeezing, the affectionate dandruff-brushing — and French President Emmanuel Macron’s hope that he could use his unlikely friendship with Donald Trump to rein in the American president’s more incendiary instincts. When the two men met Monday [9-24-18] in New York, they shook hands lightly and got down to […]

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9/25/2018

GOP/NOMINATION/SENATE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump assailed the latest woman to accuse Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, saying on Tuesday that she ‘has nothing’ because she was ‘messed up’ at the time, even as a key Republican senator urged colleagues to take the accusations seriously. With pressure rising in advance of a make-or-break […]

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9/25/2018

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Latest on President Donald Trump and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein (all times local): 10:30 a.m. President Donald Trump says at the United Nations that he’ll be meeting with his embattled deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein on Thursday [9-27-18]. ‘Today,’ he says, ‘I’m doing other things.’ Trump […]

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9/25/2018

NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN/WOMEN: “Just after 8 a.m. on Monday [9-24-18], President Trump set off from Trump Tower for his annual week on the diplomatic stage at the United Nations General Assembly. By the time he walked into the General Assembly building 10 minutes later for a session on the illicit global drug trade, domestic […]

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9/25/2018

FBI/NEW YORK/POLICE/SECRET SERVICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “Most of the world’s leaders are descending on New York City this week for the annual United Nations General Assembly, but only one of them has a residence atop Trump Tower. President Trump returned Sunday to his hometown, a place that starting last year became roiled with protests that choked […]

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9/25/2018

ANDREW MCCABE/DEMS/FBI/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Republicans have begun the process to subpoena the Justice Department for the memos written by former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe that reportedly detail the explosive comments reportedly made by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein last year about President Donald Trump, according to a Democratic aide. House […]

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9/25/2018

DEMS/NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democrats are playing a high level CON GAME in their vicious effort to destroy a fine person. It is called the politics of destruction. Behind the scene the Dems are laughing. Pray for Brett Kavanaugh and his family!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 25, 2018 9:55 pm […]

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9/25/2018

GOP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “We’re now a little more than 36 hours from the face-to-face meeting between President Donald Trump and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Since Monday [9-24-18] morning — when rumors spread like wildfire that Rosenstein was on his way to resign to chief of staff John Kelly — the […]

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9/25/2018

JOE BIDEN/JOHN MCCAIN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Vice President Joe Biden at an event Tuesday [9-25-18] labeled President Donald Trump’s response to Sen. John McCain’s death as ‘almost un-American’…Trump was criticized for his reaction to McCain’s passing, which initially was marked with only a tweet expressing sympathies to the McCain family. The flag atop the White […]

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9/25/2018

GOP/NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump sought to discredit one of the women accusing Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct by saying she was ‘messed up’ and ‘drunk’ at the time of the alleged incident. He also said he believes Democrats are masterminding ‘a con game’ against his Supreme Court nominee. Trump paused before […]

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9/25/2018

GOP/NOMINATION/SENATE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As the Senate prepares for Thursday’s [9-27-18] blockbuster hearing to decide the fate of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, a key player has been missing from efforts to lobby undecided GOP senators — President Donald Trump. More than a dozen Republican senators said in interviews Tuesday [9-25-18] that they haven’t heard […]

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9/25/2018

FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “President Trump thrust his commitment to an ‘America First’ foreign policy back onto the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday [9-25-18]. But in his second address on this diplomatic stage, he sounded as eager to claim credit for his achievements after 20 months in office, as he was to disrupt […]

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9/25/2018

ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Consumer confidence rose in September, notching its highest level in about 18 years. The Consumer Board’s index rose to 138.4 this month from 134.7 in August…’ https://t.co/ZbxjnrRvAX“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 25, 2018 3:27 pm […]

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9/25/2018

IRAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “President Hassan Rouhani of Iran said on Tuesday [9-25-18] that the United States under Donald Trump is exhibiting a ‘Nazi disposition’ as it adopts a more unilateral worldview and reimposes a slew of sanctions on the Islamist government in Tehran. Speaking before world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly, Rouhani didn’t […]

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9/25/2018

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “’Remarks by President Trump at a Luncheon Hosted by the Secretary-General of the United Nations’ https://t.co/ShHaLmoSDL https://t.co/k62KGgD8j6“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 25, 2018 2:28 pm […]

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9/25/2018

DEMS/NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [9-25-18] lambasted Deborah Ramirez, the second woman to accuse Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of wrongdoing, saying ‘she was totally inebriated’ and ‘all messed up’ when the alleged incident occurred and that Democrats were playing a ‘con game’ by taking such accusations seriously. Ramirez told the […]

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9/25/2018

DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VA: “David Hansen tried to get the words out. ‘I lost my health care,’ he began to say, his voice unexpectedly cracking, barely audible in the din of a people-packed and sweltering warehouse in Nicholasville, Kentucky. At 59, a US Navy veteran and registered Republican, Hansen lowered his head, unable to look at […]

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9/25/2018

DEMS/NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday [9-25-18] questioned the credibility of the second woman to accuse Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, saying she admitted she was drunk at a party where the alleged behavior occurred. The woman, Deborah Ramirez, accused Kavanaugh in an article published in the […]

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9/25/2018

SOUTH AMERICA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VENEZUELA: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday [9-25-18] called the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro a brutal regime and said the situation in the South American country was unacceptable. U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday called the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro a brutal regime and said the situation in […]

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9/25/2018

IRAN/NUCLEAR/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “President Donald Trump said Tuesday [9-25-18] that he will not meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani this week while the two are in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, but he nonetheless said the Iranian leader was probably ‘an absolutely lovely man’…Rouhani, in an interview with NBC News that aired […]

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9/25/2018

FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/IRAN/MIKE POMPEO/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “President Donald Trump’s visit to the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week has been … confused. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo advertised that Trump would like to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, and then Trump claimed (implausibly) to have turned down Rouhani’s request for a […]

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9/25/2018

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “Will be speaking at the United Nations this morning. Our country is much stronger and much richer than it was when I took office less than two years ago. We are also MUCH safer!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 25, 2018 8:14 am […]

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9/25/2018

CLINTONS/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Ken Starr would love to hear from Donald Trump. He thinks he could help. The former independent counsel whose investigation into President Bill Clinton led to Clinton’s impeachment says President Trump has enough to be worried about that he’ll need good lawyers around him as he decides whether to sit […]

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9/25/2018

IRAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday [9-25-18] the Iranians have no choice but to change before a meeting with him can occur, but he looks forward to having a great relationship in the future. Speaking before he was due to address the U.N. General Assembly, Trump said: ‘I’m not meeting with […]

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9/25/2018

IRAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Despite requests, I have no plans to meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Maybe someday in the future. I am sure he is an absolutely lovely man!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 25, 2018 5:53 am […]

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9/25/2018

CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “This week, Canada’s leaders have a big choice to make: whether to go along with the new North American Free Trade Agreement negotiated between the Trump administration and Mexico. President Donald Trump is demanding that Canada accept new rules on everything from cross-border investment to dairy to autos. In anticipation, the Canadian […]

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9/25/2018

CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A day after winning the Mexican presidential election, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took a congratulatory call from U.S. President Donald Trump. But Trump had something more important on his mind: Would Mexico’s new president consider a bilateral trade deal? Lopez Obrador responded he would be ‘open to the possibility’ in the absence […]

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9/25/2018

IRAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “U.S. President Donald Trump, in New York to attend the U.N. General Assembly, on Tuesday [9-25-18] said has no plans to meet Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani but signaled he was open to a possible future meeting. ‘Despite requests, I have no plans to meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Maybe someday in the […]

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9/25/2018

FRANCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a fiery rebuke of US policies under President Donald Trump at the UN General Assembly Tuesday [9-25-18], signaling that he is ready to take up the mantle of global leadership usually assumed by a US leader. At times directly referring to the US, Macron rapped the Trump […]

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9/24/2018

CONGRESS/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump on Monday [9-24-18] urged voters and congressional Republicans gripped by Brett Kavanaugh’s dramatic Supreme Court fight to keep their eyes on the clash that will play out across battleground states in November. ‘REMEMBER THE MIDTERMS!’ Trump tweeted late Monday evening, following a day that saw the White House […]

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9/24/2018

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s SUV pulled into the White House complex shortly before 11 a.m. — about 20 minutes after the first headline blared the dramatic news. Rosenstein was scheduled to meet with chief of staff John Kelly before attending a previously scheduled national security meeting with other senior officials […]

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9/24/2018

NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “At first, the Sunday [9-23-18] night publication of a New Yorker article detailing a new allegation of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh looked like a disaster for the White House. But by Monday [9-24-18] afternoon, President Donald Trump’s aides and allies argued it was not only survivable, […]

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9/24/2018

CHINA/DRUGS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “One man will dominate proceedings at the United Nations General Assembly this week: Donald Trump. But the man who has become, in more ways than ever, the most important man in U.N. politics—Chinese President Xi Jinping—won’t be there. While Trump is set to spend three days lecturing other leaders on issues from […]

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9/24/2018

NOMINATION/RALLY/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “As the fate of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, his Supreme Court nominee, teetered over a sexual assault allegation from decades ago, President Trump vented his frustration about his own party’s unwillingness to aggressively hit back. Speaking to thousands of supporters at a rally in Missouri on Friday [9-23-18], Mr. Trump recounted […]

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9/24/2018

CIA/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The C.I.A. director said on Monday [9-24-18] that the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, will not give up his nuclear weapons easily, seeing them as crucial leverage to preserve his government. In rare public remarks, Gina Haspel, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, said that North Korea has spent decades […]

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9/24/2018

DEMS/GOP/NOMINATION/SENATE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump on Monday [9-24-18] said the sexual misconduct allegations against Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, which are slowing proceedings on his nomination to be the newest Supreme Court justice, could be one of the ‘single most unfair, unjust things to happen to a candidate for anything.’ The president said he continues […]

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9/24/2018

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, headed to the White House on Monday [9-24-18] morning, he was ready to resign and convinced — wrongly, it turned out — that President Trump was about to fire him. Top Justice Department aides scrambled to draft a statement about who would […]

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9/24/2018

HUMAN RIGHTS/MILITARY/MUSLIMS/MYANMAR/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “The State Department on Monday [9-24-18] quietly released the results of its investigation into Myanmar’s military campaign against Rohingya Muslims, detailing a slew of atrocities but stopping short of calling the crackdown either a ‘genocide’ or ‘crimes against humanity’ — two designations that carry legal ramifications. The department posted its report […]

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8/24/2018

CONGRESS/DEMS/GOP/INTELLIGENCE/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democratic lawmakers on Monday [9-24-18] renewed their calls for Republicans in Congress to pass legislation to protect special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference amid heightened uncertainty over Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s fate in the Trump administration. Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate […]

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9/24/2018

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “More than Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s job will be on the line when he meets with President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday [9-27-18]. Also in the balance will be the fate of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. The ouster of Rosenstein — who serves […]

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9/24/2018

MIKE POMPEO/NIKKI HALEY/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “President Donald Trump will express a desire for other nations ‘to exert their sovereignty to solve challenges’ and to listen ‘to what America can do to help’ when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly later this week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday [9-24-18]. Pompeo and Ambassador […]

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9/24/2018

SECRET SERVICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The latest version of the heavily armored U.S. presidential limousine known as ‘The Beast’ is making its debut in New York City this week. The custom-built Cadillac produced by General Motors Co (GM.N) appeared for the first time in public on Sunday [9-23-18] — along with an identical version that travels […]

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9/24/2018

GOP/NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, a Republican golden boy with insider connections, had seemed so inevitable that in May 2016 when then-candidate Donald Trump released his first list of Supreme Court possibilities, journalists and political commentators seized on the absence of Kavanaugh’s name. The list ‘omits two of the […]

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9/24/2018

MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/SUMMIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “President Donald Trump, arriving at the United Nations on Monday [9-24-18] morning, said he and Kim Jong Un will meet for a second time ‘quite soon’…Diplomacy between the US and North Korea has continued in fits and starts since Trump met with Kim in Singapore in June, with Trump most […]

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9/24/2018

DRUGS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Remarks by President Trump at ‘Global Call to Action on the World Drug Problem’ Event’ #UNGA ➡️https://t.co/kvUZegWdlH https://t.co/BGdrQeZuId“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 24, 2018 9:17 am […]

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9/24/2018

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @SCEMD: Now is the time to put safety first above everything else. Evacuate to a shelter if you need to, take your pets with you. Your l…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 24, 2018 9:13 am […]

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9/24/2018

CHINA/ECONOMY/ELECTION/GOP/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s trade battles are already triggering economic warnings — and rising danger for Republicans just ahead of the midterm elections. As fresh U.S. tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports take effect Monday [9-24-18], surveys show consumers growing increasingly worried about higher prices this fall. Giant retailers such as […]

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9/24/2018

NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “President Donald Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton brought a prop to the UN General Assembly to underscore the Trump administration’s primary theme: the US stands on its own. Bolton waved a copy of the Constitution, a little booklet meant to symbolize the message of sovereignty US officials will hammer home […]

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9/23/2018

IRAN/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “When President Trump made his first visit to the United Nations last year, he ridiculed North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, as a suicidal ‘rocket man’ and threatened to ‘totally destroy’ his country. He also vowed to rip up the Iran nuclear deal, which he called an ’embarrassment to the United States.’ […]

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9/23/2018

JAPAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Prime Minster @AbeShinzo is coming up to Trump Tower for dinner but, most importantly, he just had a great landslide victory in Japan. I will congratulate him on behalf of the American people!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 23, 2018 5:48 pm […]

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9/23/2018

JAPAN/MILITARY/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Going to New York. Will be with Prime Minister Abe of Japan tonight, talking Military and Trade. We have done much to help Japan, would like to see more of a reciprocal relationship. It will all work out!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 23, 2018 3:52 pm […]

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9/21/2018

RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @dcexaminer: ‘We are standing up for your values,’ Trump said closing his rally in Springfield, Missouri. ‘We are standing up for our na…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 21, 2018 10:11 pm […]

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9/21/2018

RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @juliehdavis: For 2nd night in row at Trump rally (tonite in Springfield, last nite in Las Vegas), crowd spontaneously breaks into cheer…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 21, 2018 10:09 pm  […]

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9/21/2018

CABINET/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump vowed Friday [9-21-18] night to eradicate a ‘lingering stench’ at the Justice Department, hours after it was reported that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein discussed wearing a ‘wire’ to record conversations with Trump and recruiting Cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him from […]

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9/21/2018

POLICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A man who threatened to shoot President Donald Trump has been captured in Ohio, a law enforcement official told CNN Friday [9-21-18]. Shawn Richard Christy, 27, of McAdoo, Pennsylvania, had been on the run since June after a federal warrant was taken out that accused him of posting threats on Facebook against […]

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9/21/2018

CABINET/FBI/INTELLIGENCE/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, suggested last year that he secretly record President Trump in the White House to expose the chaos consuming the administration, and he discussed recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Mr. Trump from office for being unfit. Mr. Rosenstein […]

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