Trump calls for war on Mexican drug cartels
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Crisis At The Border: The Collection Of DNA Samples From Migrants
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Crisis At The Border: The Collection Of DNA Samples From Migrants On October 21st, 2019, the Department of Justice issued a proposal that would permit the collection of DNA samples from migrants detained at the southern U.S. border. The biometric … Read More
Iran says it will fuel centrifuges
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In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani, center, attends a ceremony to inaugurate Azadi Innovation Factory in Pardis technology park in west of Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. … Read More
German, US armies strive for ‘integrated’ operations by 2027
U.S. Army and German Bundeswehr officers address journalists during the Allied Spirit X international military exercise near Hohenfels, Germany, in April 2019. (Lennart Preiss/Getty Images) COLOGNE, Germany — The chiefs of staff of the armies of the United States and … Read More
China’s Trade War Retaliation Against Trump’s Rural Base Boomerangs
A farmer plows his fields in the small northeastern agricultural town of Eaton, Colorado, on Feb. 10, 2017. With a population of just over 5,000 residents, 71% of the town’s registered voters cast their ballots in support of President Donald … Read More
Ukraine is getting its turn in the impeachment proceedings and Democrats should be worried about it
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It may have taken a few years, but the national media are finally getting around to sort of, kind of asking questions about what Ukraine did to try to help Hillary Clinton win in 2016. Both CNN and BuzzFeed reported … Read More
Cornyn: No quid pro quo in Trump’s actions, but wouldn’t be impeachable if there were
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Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said on Monday that he didn’t see an example of quid pro quo during the conversation between President Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, but argued that even if there was, it wouldn’t warrant removing the president from office. Cornyn, … Read More
Dems already have enough evidence to impeach Trump — and don’t care about White House defying subpoenas
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Although four White House officials have blown off congressional subpoenas to testify before the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry, House Democrats reportedly aren’t sweating it. Politico reports that House investigators believe they have already compiled enough damning evidence against the president … Read More
Trump loses appeal in New York tax case, must hand over returns
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A federal appeals court ruled Monday that President Donald Trump’s tax returns must be turned over to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, who had subpoenaed the documents from Trump’s accounting firm as part of an investigation into the pre-election payoffs to two women who … Read More
Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 1 November 2019
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Greetings from Tyler, We got through the world’s Halloween observance without incident. Maybe they’ll start removing the spider webs and flashing inflatables from the neighborhood yards, and the skeletons from the entries of every dollar store. Not that we’re frightened … Read More