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The latest Employment Situation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows weekly employee earnings have grown $75 since tax reform passed, well short of the $4,000 to $9,000 annual increases projected by President Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). During the three months...

WASHINGTON The Justice Department special counsel has evidence that Michael Cohen secretly made a late-summer trip to Prague during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Confirmation of the trip would lend credence to a retired British spy’s report...

China said it is rolling out new tariffs on meat, fruit, wine and other products from the United States as retaliation against taxes approved by President Donald Trump on imported steel and aluminum. The Chinese finance ministry said in a statement that the new tariffs will take force on...

Lost 13 major advertisers after taunting Parkland survivor David Hogg. Bad idea.

Sherman mentioned that there are a lot of liberal forums available for those not happy with the right wing bias here. It's true. And I don't post on any of them. The only one I actually know of now,is democratic underground. I've been to some, and stayed a while. But I've noticed that...

Trump’s China Policy Has a Flaw: It Makes China the Winner President Trump’s announcement last week that the United States would impose a battery of tariffs against as much as $60 billion worth of Chinese goods while restricting Chinese investments in American technology companies has set policy...

Protecting Mueller and his investigation—particularly at the very moment of its maximum vulnerability—could not be more crucial. History suggests a way forward. On April 30, 1973, with evidence of White House complicity in the Watergate cover-up mounting, President Richard Nixon announced the...

The Jared time bomb Federal investigators are scrutinizing whether any of Jared Kushner’s business discussions with foreigners during the presidential transition later shaped White House policies in ways designed to either benefit or retaliate against those he spoke with, according to...

Under the previous administration, there was a heavy emphasis on deporting dangerous criminals who were here illegally. The majority of deportations and removals involved illegal aliens who had been convicted or arrested for serious crimes. The new policy has been to place emphasis on those...

On one of his trips home to Kallstadt, Friedrich married the girl next door, Elizabeth, and took her to New York. Elizabeth, however, was homesick, and in 1904 the family returned to Kallstadt. Friedrich “worked, for a year, to get his citizenship back” from the German authorities, according to...

Actually it is the president who abandoned the DACA kids. He was offered a deal by Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) — money for the border wall in exchange for DACA relief — but senior policy adviser Stephen Miller and Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, along with Sen. Tom Cotton...

One schools superintendent has a novel way to keep his students safe from school shooters: arming them with rocks. David Helsel, superintendent of a school district in northeast Pennsylvania, explained his plan to a legislative education committee last week, drawing a flurry of local media...

NRA finally pushed it too far, it seems. The march comes in the immediate wake of further disappointment. Congress this week is wrapping up work on a massive spending bill that includes only a few modest fixes to the national gun-buying background-check system – essentially closing the door...

On Tuesday, in preparation for his phone call with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, President Trump was given a briefing paper directing him to condemn Russia’s poisoning of a double agent on British soil and NOT to congratulate Putin on his rigged election. (“DO NOT CONGRATULATE,” read the...

Former Playboy model Karen McDougal told CNN in an exclusive interview Thursday night that Donald Trump tried to pay her after having sex during their alleged 10-month affair more than a decade ago. “After we had been intimate, he tried to pay me, and I actually didn’t know how to take that,”...

https://vimeo.com/105194051 Stopped here a couple of years ago. Pizza's pretty good. The pizzaria is pretty weird. Why "Bombfire?" When they wrote the sign, they misspelled "bonfire."

Imagine standing up to give a speech in front of a critical audience. As you do your best to wax eloquent, someone in the room uses a clicker to conspicuously count your every stumble, hesitation, um and uh; once you’ve finished, this person loudly announces how many of these blemishes have...

Congress dealt a blow to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s school choice agenda in a tentative spending bill released late Wednesday, rejecting her attempt to spend more than $1 billion promoting choice-friendly policies and private school vouchers. DeVos had sought to cut Education Department...