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Viral Video Shows Sinclair Forcing Local News to Recite Trumpian Propaganda

« It sickens me the way this company is encroaching upon trusted news brands in rural markets, » said one local reporter.

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Journalists and corporate watchdogs reacted with alarm when it was reported last month that the right-wing media giant Sinclair Broadcast Group was planning to force local news anchors to read from a script denouncing "fake" and "false" news stories in a distinctly Trumpian fashion. But this horror was amplified after Deadspin compiled a video

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Top Russian Official: US Meddling in Russian Presidential Election

Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the U.S. has a « rich tradition » of interfering in the elections of other nations.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, background center, speaks during a massive rally in his support as a presidential candidate at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia, March 3, 2018. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)

As U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election continues to intensify, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the state-run RIA news agency on Monday that the U.S. is actively attempting to interfere in his country's upcoming presidential election. "The Interfax news agency

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EPA Dissolves Program To Study Effects of Chemical Exposure on Children

« Finally America’s children will be allowed to choke on the freedom of a lighter regulatory burden. »

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What Pushed A Senior EPA Official To Resign In Protest?

As the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the leadership of Scott Pruitt moves to make it easier for big industry to dump dangerous chemicals into the nation's air and water, the agency announced late Monday that it is dissolving a program that funds studies on the effects of pollution and chemical exposure on America's children. Called

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Democracy Wins as Court Rules Against Gerrymandering in North Carolina

The historic ruling marks the first time a federal court has struck down a redistricting plan for partisan gerrymandering.

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In a ruling hailed as a major and historic "victory for democracy," a federal court on Tuesday deemed North Carolina's 2016 congressional map unconstitutional on the grounds that it was drawn to discriminate against Democratic voters—marking the first time a federal court has struck down a redistricting plan for partisan gerrymandering. Every

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Inspiring Speech, But Progressives Warn Against Folly of Oprah 2020 Calls

« Another clueless celebrity in possession of the nuclear codes? Another billionaire mogul who doesn’t like paying taxes in charge of the economy? And how would it be anything other than sheer hypocrisy for Democrats to offer an unqualified, inexperienced presidential candidate to the American electorate in 2020, given all that they said about Trump in 2016? »

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Progressives loved Oprah Winfrey's speech Sunday night at the Golden Globes award ceremony, calling it "rousing," "extraordinary," and "inspiring." But the idea that Oprah should run for president? "Bonkers." "Hollow." "A bad liberal revenge fantasy." The notion that Oprah, a widely beloved celebrity billionaire, would be the perfect foil to

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Kushner Under Fire for Receiving $30M From Israeli Firm While Shaping Middle East Policy

« While Mr. Kushner has sold parts of his business since taking a White House job last year, he still has stakes in most of the family empire—including the apartment buildings in and around Baltimore. »

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White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, speaks with Haim Saban, about the Trump administration's approach to the Middle East region at the Saban Forum in Washington, DC (Brookings Institute Twitter)

President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner is once more under intense scrutiny after new reporting revealed that his lucrative financial relationship with Israel has deepened even as his influence over U.S. Middle East policy—from his leading role in Trump's effort to "derail" a U.N. vote against Israel to his sway over

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Trump-Russia Probe ‘All About Money Laundering,’ Says Steve Bannon In Explosive New Book

Mueller’s investigation « goes through Deutsche Bank and all the Kushner sh*t, » Bannon says. « They’re going to go right through that. »

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Steve Bannon, President Trump's chief strategist attends a listening session with manufacturing CEOs in the State Dining Room of the White House. (Photo:Olivier Douliery/CNP /MediaPunch/IPX)

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has never been shy about his contempt for Jared Kushner and other members of President Donald Trump's cabinet. But in interviews conducted for a new book set to be released next week, Bannon opened up in a way that reportedly shocked the White House, attacking Trump's eldest son as "treasonous" and

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