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[ September 19, 2017 ] Trump Will Face Bannon and Breitbart in Alabama Administration
[ September 19, 2017 ] UN Chief Condemns North Korea Threat, Prods U.S. on Climate Deal Administration
[ September 19, 2017 ] Hurricane Maria Regains Category 5 Status Administration
[ September 19, 2017 ] Senate Republicans Consider Trillion-Dollar-Plus Tax Cut for Budget Administration
[ September 19, 2017 ] President Trump to Push Nationalist Policy at UN Administration

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Senate Republicans Consider Trillion-Dollar-Plus Tax Cut for Budget

Senate Republicans are thinking of drafting a budget that would allow up to $1.5 trillion in tax cuts over the next decade, The Wall Street Journal reports based on people familiar with the discussions. If [...]
Administration

President Trump to Push Nationalist Policy at UN

President Donald Trump’s debut speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday will portray a foreign policy full of nationalism and sovereignty and secured by “America First” principles, according to a senior White House official, The [...]
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Non-partisan Group to Inform Americans on Russia Security Threat

A new non-partisan group was created to aim to inform Americans about the security threat that Russia is posing with the ongoing meddling in U.S. affairs. The Committee to Investigate Russia intends to “help Americans recognize [...]
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Trump Administration Rejects Study Showing Positive Impact of Refugees

Trump administration officials, that were pressured by the White House to draft a report for reducing the number of refugees allowed into the United States next year, have rejected a Department of Health and Human [...]
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Former Trump Campaign Chair Paul Manafort Wiretapped by U.S. Investigators, Report Says

Former Donald Trump head of campaign Paul Manafort was wiretapped by the U.S. government investigators before and after the 2016 presidential election, Fox News informs based on a report by CNN. The wiretapping was authorized [...]

U.S. Retail Sales Suffer Major Drop in August

September 15, 2017

U.S. retail sales dropped unexpectedly last month, possibly due to the Hurricane Harvey impact, on the purchase of motor vehicles, which suggests a moderate consumer spending in the third quarter. The Commerce Department informed on [...]
Conservative Groups Step up Tax Reform Push

September 14, 2017
Trump: U.S. ‘Should Do Everything Possible to Match’ China’s Business Tax

September 14, 2017
Mnuchin Cast Doubts over Trump’s Corporate Tax Rate

September 13, 2017

Trump Will Face Bannon and Breitbart in Alabama

September 19, 2017

U.S. President Donald Trump will face with his former White House chief strategist, Stephen Bannon in Alabama, The Hill Reports. Bannon and other Trump loyalists are furiously pushing for Roy Moore, the conservative that will oppose [...]
UN Chief Condemns North Korea Threat, Prods U.S. on Climate Deal

September 19, 2017
Hurricane Maria Regains Category 5 Status

September 19, 2017

Trump’s Tweets About London Bombing Anger British Leaders

September 16, 2017

U.S. President Donald Trump has used the terrorist attack in London on Friday to promote his hard-line policies, and in the process, he blamed British police that they had information about the alleged terrorists and still failed [...]
U.S., International Community Scramble for Response to North Korea’s Nuclear Ambitions

September 16, 2017
U.S. Imposes Visa Sanctions on Four Countries

September 14, 2017

Intel Director Criticizes Former Officials for Comments on Trump

September 14, 2017

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats on Wednesday called it “troubling” to hear outside officials criticize the White House’s approach to intelligence, The Hill reports. In a speech at the Billington CyberSecurity Summit in Washington, [...]
Facebook Undermines Own Efforts to Fight Fake News

September 7, 2017
CIA Tech Leader Says AI Can Be ‘Process No One Understands’

September 7, 2017

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