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Jun 12 2019
News
Centrist Democrats are back. But these are not your father’s Blue Dogs.
When Mikie Sherrill first ran into the congressional Blue Dog coalition in 2018, she wasn’t sure it would be the place for her.
She knew the caucus focused on fiscal and national defense issues, which she – a Democrat then running for a GOP-held seat in northern New Jersey – cared deeply about. But she also knew it had been founded by a group of white Democratic congressmen, most from
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Mar 29 2021
Opinion
America’s Immigration Amnesia
In the early 2000s, Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas were accustomed to encountering a few hundred children attempting to cross the American border alone each month. Some hoped to sneak into the country unnoticed; others readily presented themselves to officials in order to request asylum. The agents would transport the children, who were exhausted, dehydrated, and
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Dec 18 2016
News
Sen. Lindsey Graham accuses ‘weak’ Obama of letting Russia pull off pre-election hack
President Obama’s admission Friday that he asked Vladimir Putin in September to halt Russia’s cyber attacks prompted a rebuke by Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, who said the comment shows how “weak” the outgoing executive’s handling of the Kremlin has been.
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Jul 10 2015
News
FBI: Breakdown in background check system allowed Dylann Roof to buy gun
Dylann Roof, who is accused of killing nine people at a church in South Carolina three weeks ago, was only able to purchase the gun used in the attack because of lapses in the FBI’s background-check system, FBI Director James B. Comey said Friday.
Comey said that Roof should have been prevented from buying the .45-caliber weapon used in a shooting that authorities have said was
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Jul 24 2020
News
US consulate: China orders US consulate closure in tit-for-tat move
China has ordered the closure of the US consulate in the south-western city of Chengdu, in a tit-for-tat escalation between the two countries.
China said the move was a "necessary response" to the US, which ordered China to close its consulate in Houston earlier this week.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the US decision was taken because China was "stealing" intellectual
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Mar 03 2021
Analysis
The Human Cost of Open-ish Borders
A horrific crash happened Tuesday in southern California when an SUV pulled out in front of a truck and got T-boned. Crashes happen every day, of course. What makes this one especially notable is that 25 people were in the SUV — twenty-five people in a Ford Expedition, adults and children, 13 of whom were killed. Most of the dead were Mexicans. The driver was, in all likelihood, smuggling
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Nov 19 2019
Headline Roundup
Buttigieg Surges In Iowa, Fizzles in Other States
2020 Presidential candidate mayor Pete Buttigieg (D - South Bend, IN) has surged recently in primary polls in Iowa and New Hampshire, among the first states where primary votes are cast. Buttigieg has now opened up a ten-point lead in New Hampshire over senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT). However, in South Carolina, another early primary state, he's polling
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Feb 18 2017
Opinion
OPINION: Are Liberals Helping Trump?
Jeffrey Medford, a small-business owner in South Carolina, voted reluctantly for Donald Trump. As a conservative, he felt the need to choose the Republican. But some things are making him feel uncomfortable — parts of Mr. Trump’s travel ban, for example, and the recurring theme of his apparent affinity for Russia.
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Jan 27 2020
News
Biden and Sanders are breaking away from the pack of candidates among Democrats nationwide, Washington Post-ABC News poll finds
Former vice president Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), whose candidacies embody competing wings of the Democratic Party, have emerged as the leaders in the contest for their party’s presidential nomination, according to a Washington Post-ABC News national poll.
The findings come little more than a week before the first votes of the 2020 campaign will be cast in Iowa’s precinct
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