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Jun 05 2020
News
Hong Kong
“Thousands of people in Hong Kong defied a police ban Thursday evening, breaking through barricades to hold a candlelight vigil on the 31st anniversary of China’s crushing of a democracy movement centered on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square… Earlier Thursday, the Hong Kong legislature passed a law making it a crime to disrespect China’s national anthem.” (AP News)
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The Flip SideSep 13 2015
News
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says his message will win in Iowa, despite polls
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he is ready to “wreak havoc on Washington” by taking on special interests with his union-busting style, even as he has plummeted to the bottom of the GOP primary pack in Iowa, a key state in the Midwesterner’s path to the presidential nomination.
Mr. Walker, who in two months has fallen from 18 percent to 3 percent in Quinnipiac University polling among
Washington TimesMar 07 2013
Opinion
Paul Move Leaves Democrats At A Loss To Explain Absence
WASHINGTON -- While many Senate Democrats said Sen Rand Paul R-Ky raised legitimate concerns about the Obama administration s drone program during his epic filibuster of John Brennan s nomination as CIA director most of them were unable to explain why they didn t join him on the Senate floor Sen Ron Wyden D-Ore was the only Democrat to join Paul and 14 other Republicans in a 13-hour
HuffPostJun 06 2019
News
Trump Pressures Mexico as Second Day of Border Talks Begin
U.S. has threatened to impose tariffs starting Monday if no deal is reached on slowing migrant crossings
President Trump said Thursday that progress was being made in border-security talks between Mexican and U.S. officials, but warned that Mexico must “step up to the plate” if it wants to head off tariffs planned for next week on $350 billion in imports.
Officials were set to
Wall Street Journal (News)Mar 05 2013
News
How (Maybe) to Reach Elusive Big Deal
As Laurel and Hardy might say, this is another fine mess Washington has gotten us into.
The country remains in great need of a "big deal," a comprehensive budget fix that starts to curb spending on the entitlement programs that are poised to really drive up the deficit, while also overhauling the nation's tax code to make it more economically efficient and internationally competitive.
Wall Street Journal (News)Jun 04 2020
News
Trump Threatens to Deploy Military Against Rioters
This Abridge News topic aggregates four unique arguments on different sides of the debate. Here are the quick facts to get you started:
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In a Monday speech from the White House Rose Garden, President Trump recommended governors send in the National Guard "in sufficient numbers that we dominate the streets" to combat "the riots and lawlessness that Abridge NewsJun 05 2019
News
Former US Ambassadors to Mexico Beg Trump: 'Delink' Trade, Migration
A group of former U.S. ambassadors to Mexico representing both Republican and Democratic presidents have banded together to urge President Donald Trump to treat trade and migration as separate issues, the diplomats wrote in an article.
The article is signed by all six living ex-U.S. ambassadors to Mexico who spanned the presidencies of George H.W. Bush in the late 1980s to Barack Obama
Newsmax (News)Apr 20 2015
News
Japan, U.S. 'Close' To Major Deal
The prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, said Monday that his country is nearing a major trade agreement with the United States, according to an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
Abe told the Journal that he hopes to come to an understanding with President Barack Obama when he visits Washington at the end of the month as part of a 12-country summit.
"We think that an
NPR (Online News)Feb 25 2013
News
The Gun Debate: Gun crime prosecutions on decline, amid call for more laws
In radio and billboard ads across the country, the federal government is telling potential gun buyers "don't lie for the other guy." The campaign message is intended to stop those with clean criminal records from buying firearms for felons who legally can't buy guns on their own. The message underscores the full-court press in Washington to adopt sweeping new gun control laws, from universal
Fox News DigitalAug 15 2019
News
Suspect surrenders after shooting six police officers in hours-long Philadelphia standoff
A suspect surrendered just after midnight after shooting six police officers in a north Philadelphia neighborhood Wednesday evening, igniting a standoff that dragged on for hours in what authorities called a hostage situation.
The suspect is Maurice Hill, a 36-year-old Philadelphia resident with a history of gun convictions, his former lawyer, Shaka Johnson, told The Washington Post.
Washington Post