Despite President Trump's tough-on-immigration rhetoric, there were around 177,000 fewer deportations this year than in 2009, Obama's first year in office. That number is lower than any year during Obama's presidency, according to Immigration and Customs ...[
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In a rare divergence from Saudi Arabia, U.S. President Donald Trump called on the kingdom to end its blockade on Yemen, citing human rights.
The blockade in Yemen that has accompanied the Saudi-led coalition’s intervention in Yemen’s war has restricte ...[
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If this Trump tax plan passes, Americans making $60,000 will still be paying over four times more of their income in payroll taxes than Americans who make $1 million... How much did your paychecks total last year? You know the answer, of course. So does t ...[
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The absolute majority of the Global South now has definitive proof; Washington simply cannot be trusted to keep its promises related to any major geopolitical deal. The possibility of a nuclear agreement – or any agreement – between Washington and Pyo ...[
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Earlier this month, The Intercept published a cache of internal emails exchanged between Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in Texas in February, while the first mass raids of the Trump administration were underway.
The redacted emails, obtaine ...[
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It has been nearly three weeks since The Nation pushed an explosive memo from the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity into mainstream consciousness with an article detailing the evidence that the DNC leaks last year could not have been the resul ...[
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Most of the Donald’s tweets amount to street brawling with his political enemies, but occasionally one of them slices through Imperial Washington’s sanctimonious cant. Indeed, Monday evening’s 140 characters of solid cut right to the bone:
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In Washington DC, post-electoral stress disorder has generated a hysteria still amply manifest after eight months: the âRussian candidateâ impeachment campaign implies that any contact with any Russian by anyone with any connection to Donald Tru ...[
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"Today in Amman [capital of Jordan] Russian, American and Jordanian experts… agreed on a memorandum of understanding to create a de-escalation zone," he said, revealing that the ceasefire will be observed in the regions of Daraa, Quneitra and Sweida. "T ...[
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WIKILEAKS FOUNDER JULIAN ASSANGE is hitting back at Trump’s CIA director Mike Pompeo following a speech last week in which Pompeo accused WikiLeaks of being a “hostile nonstate intelligence agency” operating outside of the protections of the First A ...[
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New reports about Russian communications with the US call into question the US's official line on the chemical attack.
Two new revelations contradict the Trump administration's line on the April 4 attack. A former US official knowledgeable about the episo ...[
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