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Supreme Court Refuses to Block Construction of Obama Library in Chicago
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, denied the request to halt construction of the Obama presidential center.
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Meet the Obama White House Alum Working to Increase Access for Young Women in Politics
Deesha Dyer’s Black Girl 44 Scholarship provides financial assistance to young Black women interning in politics or public service.
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Decision 2020: Obama Makes Push for Young Voters
Former President Barack Obama will makes his first appearance on the campaign trail for Joe Biden Wednesday night as part of a push to appeal to young voters.
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First Volume of Barack Obama's Memoir Coming Nov. 17
The first volume of former President Barack Obama’s memoir is coming out Nov. 17, two weeks after Election Day
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Obama's Former Lead Secret Service Agent shares Insights on Protecting President Trump
Have you ever wondered what really goes on behind the scenes of protecting the President Of The United States? Well the author of ‘Becoming Bulletproof’ and former Secret Service Agent Evy Poumpouras is telling us. “Once I went to Africa, former first lady Michelle Obama was going to go to Tanzania and I went a month out in advance just…
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EPA Prosecutions of Polluters Approach Quarter-Century Lows
Criminal prosecution and convictions of polluters have fallen to quarter-century lows under the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency, deepening three years of overall enforcement declines, according to Justice Department statistics. And while the administration says it’s focusing on quality over quantity in pollution cases, using its enforcement resources to go after the biggest and worst offenders, an Associated Press analysis...
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US Angers Palestinians With Reversal on Israeli Settlements
The Trump administration on Monday said it no longer considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank to be a violation of international law, reversing four decades of American policy and further undermining the Palestinians’ effort to gain statehood. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the U.S. is repudiating the 1978 State Department legal opinion that held that civilian settlements...
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US Draws Fewer New Foreign Students for 3rd Straight Year
The number of foreign students coming to U.S. colleges and universities continued to fall last year, according to a new report, but the Trump administration says the drop should be blamed on high tuition costs and not students’ concerns over the nation’s political atmosphere. An annual report from the Institute of International Education found that the number of newly enrolled...
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Conflicting White House Accounts of 1st Trump-Zelenskiy Call
President Donald Trump released the rough transcript Friday of a congratulatory phone call he had with the incoming president of Ukraine, holding it out as evidence he did nothing wrong. Instead, the memorandum shows how White House descriptions of Trump’s communications with foreign leaders at times better reflect wishful thinking than the reality of the interactions. As the House opened...
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Key Moments From the Impeachment Hearing With Marie Yovanovitch
Watch some of the key moments from the second public impeachment hearing, where former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testified.
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Stefanik Presses Yovanovitch on Confirmation Prep Discussions About Bidens
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-New York, questions Marie Yovanovitch, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, on what the Obama administration prepped her on prior to her Senate confirmation hearings.
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Stefanik Presses Yovanovitch on Confirmation Prep Discussions About Bidens
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-New York, questions Marie Yovanovitch, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, on what the Obama administration prepped her on prior to her Senate confirmation hearings.
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UN Votes Overwhelmingly to Condemn US Embargo on Cuba
The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Thursday to condemn the American economic embargo of Cuba for the 28th year, rejecting U.S. criticism of human rights violations there and criticizing the Trump administration’s increasingly tough enforcement measures. The vote in the 193-member world body was 187-3 with the U.S., Israel and Brazil voting “no,” and Colombia and Ukraine abstaining. Last year,...
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Student Debt Soars as Borrowers Are Slow to Repay
Imagine a credit card bill that takes a decade or longer to pay off. Now imagine that you can’t get rid of it in a bankruptcy if your personal finances go off-track. Finally, imagine there are millions just like you, enough to attract the attention of presidential candidates. This is the $1.6 trillion world of federal student loans, next to...
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Trump Approves Plan to Cap Refugees at 18,000 in 2020
President Donald Trump has signed off on a plan that continues a dramatic drop in the number of refugees taken in by the U.S. to no more than 18,000 in fiscal year 2020. When the State Department first announced the plan in September religious and humanitarian groups sharply criticized the administration.
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Trump Approves Plan to Cap Refugees at 18,000 in 2020
President Donald Trump has signed off on a plan that continues a dramatic drop in the number of refugees taken in by the U.S. to no more than 18,000 in fiscal year 2020. When the State Department first announced the plan in September religious and humanitarian groups sharply criticized the administration.
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Will Warren's ‘Medicare for All' Plan Work? A Medicare Expert Says Yes
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s new plan that would fund “Medicare for All” really can work, said Donald Berwick, who ran Medicare and Medicaid in the Obama administration. He explains some of the details, like how health insurance would work, and why he thinks the plan should be taken seriously.
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DeVos Held in Contempt of Court in Loan Forgiveness Dispute
A federal judge has held Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in contempt of court for violating an order to stop collecting loans from thousands of former for-profit college students. U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim issued the ruling Thursday in San Francisco. She also fined the Education Department $100,000. Kim previously ordered DeVos to stop collecting federal loans from former Corinthian Colleges...
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2020 Democratic Candidates Pledge Support to LGBTQ Community
Addressing an LGBTQ community fearful that their gains in equality are slipping, Democratic presidential candidates on Thursday promised an aggressive agenda to end workplace discrimination, improve health care and ensure protections for people who face threats, or worse, because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. At a televised forum in downtown Los Angeles, rivals for the party’s nomination to...
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EPA Proposes Rewrite of Rules on Lead Contamination in Water
The Trump administration on Thursday proposed a rewrite of rules for dealing with lead pipes contaminating drinking water, but critics say the changes appear to give water systems decades more time to replace pipes leaching dangerous amounts of toxic lead. Contrary to regulatory rollbacks in many other environmental areas, the administration has called dealing with lead contamination in drinking water...