Taliban The deadliest attack of the year in Kabul bodes poorly for the US-Taliban dealVox - Zeeshan AleemA suicide-bomb blast killed at least 63 people at a wedding party in Kabul on Saturday night, and injured 182 more. It was the most lethal attack in Afghanistan’s capital this year, and it comes at a time:
Media Industry Trump Offers In-Depth Explanation For Empty Seats at Rally: ‘You Had a Big Flag’mediaite.com - Aidan McLaughlin President Donald Trump complained about coverage of his rally latest rally during a gaggle with reporters on Sunday, insisting the venue was “packed” …
Russia Probe Lindsey Graham on IG investigation into Russia probe: I want the American people to see what happenedFox NewsSouth Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says he believes Inspector General Horowitz's report is going to be ugly and damning regarding the DOJ's handling of the Russia probe. South Carolina Republican
Larry Kudlow White House pushes back against recession fears, defends trade warCNBC - Spencer Kimball President Donald Trump said Sunday he doesn't see a recession on the horizon after a volatile week for markets. "I don't think we're having a …
Russia Russian site launches smear campaign against CNN's Clarissa WardCNNCNN's Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward is being targeted by a Russian propaganda outfit for her months-long investigation uncovering Putin's secret private army in the Central African Republic.
Slavery The 1619 Project details the legacy of slavery in Americapbs.org - PBS NewsHour Today, the New York Times published the print edition of the 1619 Project. The name marks this month's 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first …
Liberal View Trump’s disastrous trade war has wiped out his polling advantage on the economyThinkProgress - Joe Romm A new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll has bad news for President Trump on the economy. To start, his net approval rating on the economy is down to a mere …
U.S. Economy On a week where the American economy shuddered, Trump tweeted from vacationMSNBC - Kasie DC President Trump’s playbook looks much the same as it did in 2016: a no-apologies, scorched earth campaign. But with the economy teetering, will it be …
U.S. Politics 'Look At Trump's Twitter': Right-Wing Extremists Declare Victory After Trump Sides With Them Once Againcrooksandliars.com - Heather Following another rally from the far right extremist group, the Proud Boys, where they were greatly outnumbered by the anti-fascists in Portland, …
Tim Cook Trump says Tim Cook made a ‘compelling argument’ that tariffs would impact Apple’s ability to compete against Samsung9to5Mac - Benjamin MayoThe President and Apple CEO Tim Cook met for dinner on Friday night. In an interview with reporters, Donald Trump said the pair discussed the impact of tariffs on Apple’s business. Cook reportedly argued
Liberal View Why are Trump's political donors so ashamed to be publicly known?dailykos.com - Laurence Lewis for Daily Kos Donald Trump likes to believe he’s the most popular politician in the history of the universe, just as he likes to think the women he pays for sex …
Barack Obama While At A Golf Course For The 210th Time, Trump Claims Obama Didn't Do His Job As Presidentpoliticususa.com - Jason Easley On his way back from 210th visit as president to one of his golf courses, Donald Trump claimed that Obama didn’t do his job as president. Trump said, …
Recession Trump advisers are scrambling to sell the idea that a recession isn’t going to happenVox - Zeeshan AleemAfter a week of serious warnings about the threat of a recession and the emergence of indicators signaling a coming economic downturn, the White House is scrambling to convince the public that the economy
White Nationalism Poll Shows Trump Has Turned GOP Into The White Nationalist Partypoliticususa.com - Jason Easley Concern about white nationalism has plummeted to being 52 points less that Democrats under Donald Trump. Democrats have long been more likely than …
Trump Tower Sunday shows ignore report that Trump may have committed bank fraudmediamatters.org - Written by Zachary Pleat Sunday news shows of four of the major broadcast networks and CNN ignored new reporting from The Washington Post which detailed how President Donald …
Stephen Miller ‘Mental midget’ Stephen Miller absolutely demolished in MSNBC blast at Trump’s ‘misfit’ advisersrawstory.com - Tom Boggioni Given the opportunity to discuss two profiles on White House adviser Stephen Miller — published by the Washington Post and the New York Times late …
U.S. Politics 'I'm not happy with it': Trump hits Fox News over poll resultsPOLITICO - By BIANCA QUILANTANPresident Donald Trump on Sunday slammed his preferred news network over recent unfavorable poll results, saying: “There’s something going on at Fox [News], I’ll tell you right now. And I'm not happy it.”
Greenland Kudlow on Greenland: Trump ‘Knows a Thing or Two About Buying Real Estate’ and Wants to Take a Lookmediaite.com - josh-feldman White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow appeared on Fox News Sunday this morning to dismiss concerns of a recession and say, “We should not be afraid …
Planned Parenthood 9th Circuit greenlights 'gag' rule on abortion-referral funding while backers and foes duke it outdailykos.com - Meteor Blades The gag rule is one element in a 46-year-old-long war by forced-birthers to control women’s sexuality by undermining access to legal abortion. And …
Politics America’s Exclusionary Past and Present and the Judgment of HistoryThe New Yorker - Michael LuoOn February 28, 1882, Senator John Franklin Miller, a Republican from California, introduced a bill to bar Chinese laborers from entering the United States. Miller had been a brigadier general in the Army.
French Wine Trump says French wine may face ‘100 percent tariff’ in response to tax on US tech firms: reportFox News - Dom CalicchioHow serious is President Trump about firing back at France over its new tax on U.S. technology? Maybe as much as 100 percent. During his visit to New York’s Hamptons for a fundraiser Aug. 9, the president
Anthony Scaramucci Anthony Scaramucci: Trump Is ‘Losing It Mentally’ and Won’t Even Finished the 2020 Campaignsmirkingchimp.com While President Donald Trump continues to have many cheerleaders on the right — from Attorney General William Barr to Sen. Lindsey Graham to Fox …
Trump’s economic record is one big conThe Washington Post - By Jennifer RubinPresident Trump came into office promising some fabulous yet unspecified health-care plan to replace the Affordable Care Act. No plan existed; every plan Republicans came up with managed to reduce the
Medicare Koch-backed study finds ‘Medicare for All’ would save U.S. trillions – ThinkProgressThinkProgress - Addy Baird A single-payer Medicare for All system would reduce the amount the U.S. spends on health care by more than $2 trillion, a Koch brothers-funded study …
Greenland Trump says he's still interested in buying Greenland. Denmark says it's not for sale.NBC News - Allan Smith"I strongly hope that this is not meant seriously," the Danish prime minister told local media. President Donald Trump confirmed on Sunday that he's "interested" in buying Greenland. The only problem?
Imran KhanUS slashes financial aid to Pakistan by nearly $440 million; Imran Khan informed about decision three weeks before WashingtonFirstpost - Asian News International Washington: In another jolt to Pakistan, the United States slashed the aid to the cash-strapped nation by nearly $440 million, bringing down its …
World News The nuclear arms race is back … and ever more dangerous nowThe Guardian - Simon TisdallImagine the uproar if the entire populations of York, Portsmouth or Swindon were suddenly exposed to three times the permissible level of penetrating gamma radiation, or what the nuclear physicist Ernest
Taliban How Trump trips up his own Afghan peace effortsPOLITICO - By WESLEY MORGAN'Why would the Taliban give up anything in exchange for something the president has already said he wants to do?' asks one critic. President Donald Trump’s efforts to end the U.S. war in Afghanistan keep
Sanctions Trump wields sanctions hammer; experts wonder to what endAssociated Press - By MATTHEW LEE, AP Diplomatic WriterThe Trump administration is aggressively pursuing economic sanctions as a primary foreign policy tool to an extent unseen in decades, or perhaps ever. Many are questioning the results even as officials
