‘Dumb’ and ‘lazy’ – Trump lashes back at Tillerson criticism President Donald Trump, never known for taking criticism lying down, responded to unkind words from his former secretary of state Rex Tillerson on Friday by calling Tillerson “dumb as a rock” and “lazy as hell.” During a rare public appearance in Houston on Thursday evening, […]
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Hookworm Infestation In Alabama
Scientists think Alabama’s sewage problem has caused a tropical parasite. ”The state has done little about it.” LOWNDES COUNTY, Alabama — On one of the first cool days in October, Catherine Flowers parked her SUV in front of a beige-paneled mobile home with aqua window shutters. She got out and hugged its owner, 63-year-old Alabama […]
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Trump Bribes Farmers Again
Trump offering farmers extra $4.9 billion in trade relief The Trump administration announced Monday a second and “final” round of trade aid for farmers and ranchers burned by retaliatory tariffs, including roughly $4.9 billion in additional direct payments for certain commodity producers. The second batch of trade relief payments is President Donald Trump’s latest effort […]
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DNC Perez At War
DNC Chair Tom Perez goes to war with state parties ‘I don’t know how you put the genie back in the bottle at this point,’ said one Democratic state chairman. Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez launched an attack on his own party’s state organizations Saturday with a long and angry email over the future […]
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Western States Drought
US states to meet deadline on Colorado River drought plan With drought entering a second decade and reservoirs continuing to shrink, seven Southwestern U.S. states that depend on the overtaxed Colorado River for crop irrigation and drinking water had been expected to ink a crucial share-the-pain contingency plan by the end of 2018. They’re not […]
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GOP Tax Cut Layoff Workers
US Companies claimed the GOP tax bill would ‘boost jobs.’ Now they’re laying off employees In the lead-up to the enactment of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act, Donald Trump’s massive tax cut that mostly benefited rich people and big corporations, a coalition of powerful business interests formed with one major priority in mind: slashing […]
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Greenhouse Gas Exploding
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accelerated in 2018 Greenhouse gas emissions worldwide are growing at an accelerating pace this year, researchers said Wednesday, putting the world on track to face some of the most severe consequences of global warming sooner than expected. Scientists described the quickening rate of carbon dioxide emissions in stark terms, comparing it to […]
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PreExisting Condition Under Attack
The Trump administration unveils a stealth attack on people with preexisting conditions Trump administration officials apparently are prepared to go to their graves insisting that they did everything possible to protect Americans with preexisting medical conditions, even as they pull out the stops to undermine those protections. The latest example of this subterfuge came in […]
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Saudi’s Used Vets For Trump
We were just used to give Trump money’: Veterans say the Saudi regime ‘duped’ them to funnel funds to the president’s business empire In a detailed new report Wednesday, journalists David Fahrenthold and Jonathan O’Connell at the Washington Post showed how the Saudi regime used a veterans group to dump hundreds of thousands of dollars […]
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Trump Illegal Workers
Trump Resort Workers Speak Out A Guatemalan living in the U.S. illegally who says she faced abusive working conditions as a maid at Donald Trump’s New Jersey golf club doesn’t regret speaking out, even though she might lose her job and be deported. Victorina Morales told The Associated Press in an interview Friday that she can’t […]