When Should We Label Something 'Terrorism'?
After the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, the word "terrorism" was everywhere. The attacks themselves were immediately labeled terrorism, and the U.S. multiplied its efforts to f ...
Posted Tuesday, September 28th 2021 at 11:26PM
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Republicans block debt limit measure, stopgap funding as government shutdown looms
Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic measure aimed at averting a government shutdown and raising the federal debt limit Monday evening, leaving Congress with j ...
Posted Monday, September 27th 2021 at 8:43PM
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Many Republicans are rallying around Trump's false claim that infrastructure deal is 'fake'
By Ben Werschkul
As the House of Representatives prepares to vote Thursday on the bipartisan infrastructure deal, many House Republicans who have lined up ...
Posted Monday, September 27th 2021 at 8:33PM
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Sidney Powell Drags Justice Samuel Alito and Supreme Court into January 6 Mess
By Khaleda Rahman
Attorney Sidney Powell has claimed the January 6 riot at the Capitol was intended to be used to give Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito time to stop ...
Posted Monday, September 27th 2021 at 8:03PM
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Donald Trump could be charged with multiple crimes over his attempts to overturn his loss in the state of Georgia, report says
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Donald Trump could be charged with crimes over Georgia election i ...
Posted Monday, September 27th 2021 at 8:20AM
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Arizona GOP-led recount confirms Biden won election; Trump lost votes
Ten months after Donald Trump lost his 2020 reelection bid in Arizona, supporters hired by Arizona Senate Republicans were preparing to deliver the results of an unprecedented p ...
Posted Saturday, September 25th 2021 at 9:27PM
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House Dems propose one of the largest tax increases ever to pay for Biden’s $3.5T spending bill
House Democrats on Monday proposed one of the largest tax increases in U.S. history to pay for President Biden’s $3.5 trillion expansion of the fed ...
Posted Friday, September 24th 2021 at 5:49PM
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Sham audit backfires on Arizona GOP, Biden won by a wider margin
Trump had told people the Arizona audit "could undo" the 2020 presidential election. That was bonkers at the time; it's much worse now.
By Steve Benen
There was never any reason ...
Posted Friday, September 24th 2021 at 9:21AM
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Trump's election lies would have died out without help from his lackeys
There are simply no remaining good faith disagreements about the result of the 2020 election.
By Steve Vladeck, MSNBC Opinion Columnist
The late American author Joanna R ...
Posted Friday, September 24th 2021 at 9:03AM
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REID: Good night.
All right, good evening. We begin THE REIDOUT tonight with a political party that is so nihilistic they`re literally willing to destroy the U.S. economy just to own the libs. Republicans are refusing to vote to increase the debt ...
Posted Friday, September 24th 2021 at 8:46AM
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The military can't legally save us from a president bent on using nukes
Military intervention between Trump and China wasn’t exactly legal, but it ultimately prevented nuclear war.
By Michael A. Cohen, MSNBC Opinion Columnist
Gen. Mark Mil ...
Posted Thursday, September 23rd 2021 at 10:15PM
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Nancy Pelosi says Democrats would be paying 'the Trump credit card' by raising the debt ceiling with the GOP
By Ayelet Sheffey and Joseph Zeballos-Roig
Nancy Pelosi said raising the debt limit would pay for the $7 trillion in debt incurred und ...
Posted Thursday, September 23rd 2021 at 7:16PM
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20 days of fantasy and failure: Inside Trump’s quest to overturn the election
By Philip Rucker, Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey and Amy Gardner
The facts were indisputable: President Trump had lost.
But Trump refused to see it that way. Sequeste ...
Posted Wednesday, September 22nd 2021 at 10:35AM
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